When it’s scorching hot, make Dayap-ade.

Yuppers, summer heat can be scorching hot and nasty. It can get into one’s high-blood system real quick. And tempers are wont to flare off faster than a Lapid’s Chicharon can pop and gurgle in the vinegar dip! It’s init ulo (hot head) month. If you don’t believe me, line up along Terminals at 3:00 pm for a ride. How many “Frownies” did you count in a minute?

The wonderful thing is that for every hot head reason to frown about, there are cool solutions. Make a dayap-ade. Here’s a real good recipe, kind O-C to do but worth every cooling sip and well-being rewarded. You will need a blender or an immersion blender. And space in your trusty refrigerator.

Stay cool Dayad ade (Good for 2 cups or more)

  • 1 cup “still” water
  • 3 Tbsp sugar
  • 2-3 pcs dayap or lime, seeded
  • 1 cups sparkling water; keep in the ref till ready to use.

Procedure

  • Boil the still water with the sugar and 1 dayap cut into rounds with the rind left on.
  • Transfer to a blender
  • Add the juice and flesh of the remaining dayap.
  • Use a spoon to carve out the pulp from the rind.
  • Re-use rind in other ways. **
  • Blender boiled sugar mix, dayap slices, juice and flesh till smooth.
  • Then strain thoroughly, pressing well to get all the juices.
  • Cool ion the ref ready to serve on the rocks.

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Cold Water is enough

When going to a picnic and you don’t have a cooler bag for the drinking water, keep it cool by wrapping the bottle in many layers of newspaper or a chilled damp kitchen towel. Park this under the shade of a tree or under the picnic table – any spot where the sun can’t hit.

Chilled water with a hint of sweet; Get some sugar cubes and rub these over sliced lemon half or kiwi half. Add 2 cubes to a pitcher of chilled cold water. No calories to worry about.

I like to cook

I know people who think Eve served the biblical apple merely because she was pinched for time and didn’t have to cook it.

I like to cook.Where did you learned to cook”? people ask, like there’s a cavern hidden deep under the city where we meet; a secret benevolent cabal of chefs, practicing the ancient rites of both spice mingling and time juggling. “In the kitchen,” I always reply. They eye me with suspicion and disbelief.

I like to cook. Cooking lets me unleash my creative energies. To me, recipes are just vague guidelines. I enjoy using institution to know whether I should add more garam masala, zest another lemon, grind an extra nutmeg or two. I enjoy it even more when I’m right.

Hey I like to cook. The inside is something too. Clearly some engineers spent a lot of time slaving over a hot drawing board. Because they’ve come up with things like seats as comfortable as any this seat as comfortable as any this seat has ever sat in. Something about “his points” being raised for the optimum driving position.

Eve the globe box, the oven of cars that turns chocolate to syrup, is different. It has its own air conditioning vent, so when the a/c is on, it’s cool in there.

Well, dinnertime’s coming, and I’m out of saffron. Usually I’d just try to make do, but now I feel like a quick zig to the store. You should see me behind the wheel now.

Woman, can cook.

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Wet Markets

So many times I skipped lunch, as I would have to sleep off my over indulgence, leaving my restaurant to the kitchen crew.

Wet markets (good ones I mean) are a chef’s paradise – to see the day’s catch, or fresh fruits and vegetables arrive in the middle of night, and for you to pick the best bargain. As a Brit, I am used to stick hygiene standards in the markets and shops; unfortunately, a high percentage of the Manila wet markets I have visited lack this, and thank God that the Asian Bird Virus has not hit us yet. I think this is due t luck than anything else. I hope our readers forgive me in my criticism, but I have high standards when it comes to hygiene, weather it is in kitchen, dining area or anywhere that food is stored or sold. But enough of that!

Hygiene tips in the kitchen

  1. Prevent cross contamination.
  2. Prepare raw meat using different utensils from those used to prepare salad or vegetables.
  3. Use a fridge thermometer to check that your fridge’s temperature is less that 5’C (41’F).
  4. Ensure that surfaces and utensils are cleaned with hot, soapy water.
  5. Remember to wash your hands with soap and water and dry them thoroughly before and after food preparation.

Problems (It’s okay to cry)

Sometimes, bad things suddenly happen to us,

It makes us lonely and sometimes even lose trust.

But that is wrong, we all must do what we must,

We should parry our opponents’ every thrust.

Problems are challenges, battles to be won,

We should never give up; face it like a lion!

During the times when we can’t stand on our own,

God is there to help us, we’re never alone.

Troubles come in different sorts and sizes;

Never worry, we won’t get them in excess.

His pains could be akin to riding buses,

And hers can be germane with her eyeglasses.

Whatever difficulties you are having,

Always remember, it could be a blessing,

For challenges make us strong and enduring;

Learns us that triumph is ours for the taking!

Now, you might reckon, “So it’s not such a lot,

So then, why am I feeling what I must not?”

Just bear this in your mind, despite what they got,

Even heroes hurt and bleed when they get cut.