What I two thousand-Ate...

Back again!

2008-01-28T21:05:00.001-08:00

Breakfast
Had a day off today. Decided to use my Christmas gift from the roomie: A toaster that poaches (or hard boils) eggs and heats up sausages. It was awesome and this was the result. A poached egg with chicken apple sausage on top of a whole wheat english muffin.

Strawberries that I dipped in sugar.

Lunch

Decided to skip lunch and go to church instead.

Dinner
I was going to cook ground turkey with vegetables but ended up steaming my vegetables separately and wanting to make spaghetti. Well I was too lazy to make the noodles so I decided to just make it like sloppy joes instead. So I toasted some whole wheat hamburger buns.

Steamed broccoli that I dipped in rice vinegar. And in the bottom was steamed sugar snap peas that reminded me of edamame. Yummy greens.

Weekend Hiatus

2008-01-26T21:03:00.000-08:00

Sorry folks didn't take pictures and don't really remember what I ate because I attended a friend's funeral and it was raining. But I started all over again on Monday.

TGIFriday!-

2008-01-25T20:53:00.000-08:00

Breakfast
To continue the sweet/salty craving I got instant oatmeal and popcorn. Yes, popcorn.

Lunch
Sweet apple chicken sausage on a whole wheat bun from trader joes. The sauce was ketchup, deli mustard, and relish all mixed together. Yum.

Dinner
Hung out with some friends after work at BJ's to enjoy some pizza and beer. Sorry for the blurry pictures. Someone was buzzed :). This was the buffalo wings we ate.

BBQ chicken pizza which was really good.

the lazyness is getting to me

2008-01-24T20:42:00.000-08:00

Breakfast
Instant oatmeal and Greek chocolate.

Snacked on some rice crackers provided by the roomie.

Lunch

Ate lunch out with a friend. Had sushi but I was too hungry and it was rainy so I got lazy to take pictures. But I had 2 rolls.

Dinner
Played basketball with the guys and went to IHOP afterward. I was craving something salty and sweet. So I got a belgian waffle sandwhich. Horrible I know but it was good. It had scrambled eggs and turkey sausage.

too much food

2008-01-23T23:11:00.001-08:00

breakfast
Bowl of maple brown sugar instant oatmeal and the left over lemon bar. off to a bad start

Lunch
We ordered Indian food for our free lunch wednesday today. Those 2 huge fried things were meat samosas. I could only eat one. Let's see there's nan with chicken tikka masala, some vegetable curry thing and fried vegetable pakoras that was a disappointment.

My coworker brought chocolate back from Greece. It was weird because it was like coconut grainy on the inside with a hard chocolate shell with hazelnuts.

A "Real" chocolate covered cherry. See this chocolate thing just won't go away.

Dinner
Bumped into some friends at church and decided to go to a buffet place in Foster City called Hokkaido. Apparently it's like Todai but better. And surprising it was. It's still buffet. Not a big fan of the buffet. There's lobster, cucumber, raddish, 3 muscles, green beans, general tso's chicken, and 5 pieces of sushi.

2 more pieces of nigiri, hot and sour soup, and 2 custard tart things.

I just ate too many things today. Must be good tomorrow or play extra hard during basketball. Peeezy!

Finally, all caught up

2008-01-22T00:48:00.000-08:00

Ok I have to confess I must've sneaked 2 of these chocolate things today. I'm bad I know.

Breakfast
Back to my great one bowl of apple cinnamon instant oatmeal. yum.

What the roomie won at the white elephant during our lab holiday lunch. Had to try it because she said it wasn't that good.

Lunch
Had lunch with my friends in South San Francisco at a Vietnamese restaurant. Super shady and hole in the wall but I had some pretty damn good Pho.

Dinner
Went to whole foods because it was close by to dance practice. Got the mango curry chicken on top of brown rice and a lemon bar. They only charged me for my brown rice (.66 cents) and the lemon bar was $1.99. But as you can see in the picture the real cost of the food. So I only payed like 2 bucks for my dinner. Woohoo!

There I'm all caught up on my entries now. I promise to be better with the pictures.

Happy Birthday Mom!

2008-01-21T00:35:00.000-08:00

Breakfast
More left over omelette with tomato, onion and eggplant op top of rice.

I'm totally craving chocolate. Milk chocolate macadamia nuts and Little Debbie swiss rolls.

Dinner
We decided to skip lunch so we could have a big dinner for my mom's birthday. We went to PF Chang's. We started off with chicken lettuce wraps, of course.

Wanton soup that tasted like a filipino dish called tinola.

Sorry for the poor quality the restaurant was dark. So starting from the left and going clockwise I had brown rice, oolong seabass, double pan fried noodles with chicken and pork, eggplant with ground chicken, and their version of honey walnut prawns.

For dessert we had (starting in the foreground) a great wall of chocolate, a lemon tart, and acarrot cake (that my mom took from the table while I was in the middle of taking the picture).

Vegas day 3

2008-01-20T00:30:00.000-08:00

By this time I was so tired and hung over and whatever that I was too lazy to take pictures of what I ate. Sorry.

Breakfast
We just had leftovers from what the boys made the previous night. Except for instead of rice I dipped bread in the afritada.

Lunch
Lunch was on the run since we ate a late breakfast and we had a plane to catch. I had a hamburger and fries from Ruby's Diner in the airport.

Dinner
I ate dinner in Berekeley with my sister. I got sushi. I had this roll called an energy roll that had unagi, yellow tail and masago in the middle. It was yumsters.

Vegas day 2

2008-01-19T00:24:00.000-08:00

So I was in vegas. I was inebriated part of the time and was too lazy to bust out with my phone to take pictures. But I do remember what I ate. I will try and fill in the blanks. Thanks for understanding.

Breakfast
I have the best guy friends. You wake up and they cook dinner in our resort room. A bowl of honey bunches of oats with almonds with a side of toast with scrambled eggs.

Lunch
I was in the process of getting a tattoo during lunch. Therefore I didn't want to take a picture of what I ate because I forgot because I was focused on my pain. Anyways I had a Jr. Whopper from Burger King and we all know what that looks like.

Dinner
We couldn't bare to eat another buffet so we figured we'd save money by having the boys cook for us again. We're spoiled I know. They cooked prime rib and afritada (chicken with a tomato broth). Things that required reheating were the rotisserie chicken and corn.

Vegas day 1

2008-01-18T00:11:00.000-08:00

Breakfast
Filipino style omelette: onion, tomato and eggplant with rice and banana ketchup.

Apples cut for me by my mama.

Lunch
Ate lunch on the run on my way to SFO. I got some hawaiian food. Chicken katsu with lots of rice. And a capri sun to drink.

Dinner
Comped by one of the newest hotels in vegas, the wynn, we ate buffet. I had 3 types of ceviche, prime rib with horseradish sauce, carrots with dill, green beans, and half a corn bread.

Then I had to try the king crab legs with 3 types of dip, melted butter (that came out of a vat), cocktail sauce, and tartar sauce. What can I say? I'm a saucy girl.

For dessert I had their homemade vanilla ice cream with sprinkles and some creme brulee.

getting ready for vacay

2008-01-17T23:58:00.000-08:00

Breakfast
A sweet apple chicken sausage from trader joes on a wheat hot dog bun with ketchup and a side of garden harvest tomato chips.

I've been craving chocolate lately. My boss brought in truffles that were covered in smushed oreos and covered with harden chocolate.

Lunch
Left over pollo asada super quesedilla from across the street (of my house). Still yummy the day after.

I'm telling you these chocolate things will be the end of my diet.

Dinner
I didn't really eat this much. I got greedy at my parents house. I only had the premade curry in a box with rice and left over short ribs from the local thai restaurant.

Disgustingly Full

2008-01-16T23:04:00.000-08:00

Breakfast
Cinnamon bun instant oatmeal!

The roomie offered me some crack laced flaxseed tortilla chips from Trader Joes.

Lunch
We had our lab holiday lunch at Chaya located downtown in the embarcadero. Yay for free lunch on the company! I started off with a Lychee Martini.

Took a sip of the roomie's Melbec.

Started to feel tipsy so had to eat some bread to "soak up" the alcohol.

A shot of sake thanks to the lab's resident alcoholic, jeff.

Appetizers to start off. Sushi!! I had 2 slices of hamachi (my fave) sashimi style and a couple of pieces of shrimp tempura roll.

Salad! It had endives and healthy stuff.

The main event: prime rib with a 3 peppercorn sauce, served with a horseradish mashed potato and sweet onion. Ugh can't even look at it right now I'm still sooooo full

Dessert
Profiteroles with chocolate ice cream and dark chocolate syrup stuff.

My free starbucks! So I went to go pick up a buddy from OAK airport and while I was waiting for him I had to go to the bathroom really bad. I ended up going to starbucks and feeling bad that I used their facilities and didn't patronize them. So I was deliberating over what to get when these 2 guys came in. They went ahead of me, which I didn't mind since I was still deliberating, but asked if it was ok if they passed me. So guy #1 orders his drink and then said he would like to pay for his buddy's drink and then he turns to me and asks what I want to drink. I told him it was quite alright I could get it myself but he insisted. He ended paying for everyone in line. Mind you this guy was probably around my age. I said thank you and got his name and his friend's name. So Victor and Jason where ever you are I hope God blesses you and get good karma towards your way.

I was so full from lunch that I didn't even want to bother with dinner. Ugh I don't want to eat like that again.

I'm getting lazy

2008-01-15T23:22:00.000-08:00

Order has been restored. I've caught up on my posts.

Breakfast
A bowl of maple brown sugar instant oatmeal.

Lunch
At the best cafeteria on campus (Bld 33). I had sushi that had crab and spicy tuna in the middle, ebi, salmon, and hamachi on top. Had edamame, hot and sour soup, a jicama, orange, mango salad (which tasted similar to a ceviche except there was no fresh fish except for the fish on the sushi), and a vegetable croquette. All of this for a whopping 10 bucks. Yeah no lie.

Snack
A ball of chocolate and a caramel kiss.

Dinner
Pollo Asado Super Quesadilla on a whole wheat tortilla from the Taqueria Guadalajara across the street from my house. Lots of salsa and lime juice on top. Yum!

Too Tired and Sore

2008-01-14T23:11:00.000-08:00

I was too tired and sore yesterday to post. Better late than never.

Breakfast
Time to swtich it up!!! Yay! A bowl of apple cinnamon instant oatmeal and the yummy tomato basil chips.

Snack
I was hurting soo bad that I just kept on eating chocolate to make myself feel better. I needed the endorphin boost.

Lunch
My sad, sad lunch. A bowl of mediocre chili from the whackest cafeteria on campus (bld 10), a 600 calorie Turkey Wrap, and probably the only healthy thing I ate the tomato basil chips.

Comfort
More sweets to help me feel better.

Dinner
or what's left of it. I forgot to take a picture of the Whopper Jr and fries I had. But I did take a picture of the empty dish for the organic ketchup and the Dr. Pepper I drank.

Snowboarding

2008-01-13T22:56:00.000-08:00

Went snowboarding on Sunday. Left at the butt crack of dawn. Not pictured is our breakfast at McDo. I had a (can you guess? no not an english muffin) sausage mcBiscuit, hash brown, and orange juice. Totally powered me up for boarding the whole day. Thus the lack of pictures. I forsee problems when I'm super tired and can't post pictures. Actually lately I've been forgetting to take pictures of what I eat until I'm done eating. I'll try to be better....

Lunch
This was right after I wiped out and hit my head. I actually forgot how I got to tahoe that day. Luckily my memories came back. All I ate in this picture were the fries. The corndog belonged to someone else.

This was my actual meal. Thanks Boring for the chicken tenders, fries, and coke. He didn't even forget the ketchup! Awww such great friends.

Dinner
We ate dinner at Brookfield's in Sac. We were starving from boarding all day. I got the meatloaf which was pretty tasty.

Busy

2008-01-12T22:39:00.000-08:00

Some of this is going to be retroactive.

Breakfast
Had to work on a Saturday. Found these chips the night before at safeway. I can't believe they give you 1/2 the serving of vegetables for every ounce you eat. Tomato Basil my fave!!

Can you guess?? Yup whole wheat english muffin with sunflower seed butter (from trader joe's)

Lunch
A "hoagie" from safeway with turkey, ham, red onions, various dressings, and hard bread. Not really appetizing but what could I do when the cafeteria is closed on weekends?

Dinner
Ate at this Thai restaurant in the outer sunset called Chabaa with my friends. Had this yummy hot and sour soup with shrimp and mushrooms.

Here is Som eating a thai version of silog. It was ground beef on top of thick flat noodles and a sunny side up egg on top of all of that (thus the silog). There was also yellow curry with chicken.

Pad Se Ew my favorite Thai noodle dish.

boring

2008-01-12T00:33:00.000-08:00

I guess I forgot to take a picture of my breakfast :(. But I had an english muffin again with sunflower butter. I think I was just really hungry. haha anyways...

Snack
A bowl of popcorn. Courtesy of JArca binks. MMmm thanky!

Lunch
Southwester BBQ Ranch salad from safeway. Satisfying.

A piece of gum for freshness. Thank you mascot bunny imprisioned in the rainbow slinky.

I caved in to the chocolate craving and splurged. Kit kat, crunch, candy cane kiss, and a dark chocolate dove. MmM :(

Dinner
Another Eating Right frozen food from Safeway. Vegetable Marsala was yummy. Lotsa fiber... uhm yeah wish I had meat??

Drink ;)

Went out with some friends to Cafe Cocomo for some salsa dancing. Had coupons for 2 for 1 drinks. The bartender lady made my friend and I a fruit punch something or other. Super yummy!

I <3 Tribu

2008-01-10T22:47:00.000-08:00

Slow eating day today. Good!

Breakfast
What no oatmeal?!?! But an english muffin with sunflower seed butter and a piece of chocolate. So Healthy.

Lunch
Ate at Tribu to celebrate my ex-roomie's engagement! Had bagoong rice, sizzling bangus belly, sinigang pork, and lechon kawali. Oh so yummy. I said that if I were stranded on an island and could only eat one thing I'd choose the bagooong rice.

Snack
Piece of gum to stay fresh!

Dinner
Couldn't finish all the rice in one sitting so I had it for dinner.

free lunch wednesdays

2008-01-09T22:40:00.000-08:00

Breakfast
As you can see breakfast is not the most exciting part of my day. But I have to say that this new flavor of instant oatmeal, cinnamon bun, was yummy.

Lunch
So this picture is blurry because our lab meeting had started before I could take a picture of my food. Camera phones can't silence their clicking noise because of pervs who take pictures of people unknowingly. Therefore you camera has to make a really loud noise every time it takes pictures thus my blurry picture. We had Vietnamese food today! Vietnamese sandwhiches with grilled pork, imperial rolls, grilled pork chop, and beef stew with French baguettes.

Snack
Wednesdays = meetings all day = free food. So at our next meeting we had free dessert. This was like a chocolate cheesecake with mousse something or other. It was from our on campus catering which isn't the greatest. I can make better dessert.

Gum to get rid of the after taste from the Vietnamese food.

Dinner
Leftover Thai food from yesterday's lunch. More spicy eggplant, sweet basil chicken with rice. Not always the best the day after but edible.

I <3 Cuties. At least that's what the sticker says. Clementines for dessert yum-o.

Edamame to make the roomie and I not as hungry.

I feel like I ate more...

2008-01-08T23:13:00.000-08:00

even though I'm still hungry.

Breakfast
Again oatmeal and english muffin with sunflower seed butter.

Lunch

Made a trek from South San Francisco to Downtown San Francisco to have lunch with friends at the mall. Had some pretty decent Thai food from the food court. Spicy eggplant and sweet basil chicken. Yummy!

Snack
Gummy Bears! I think I only ate all the red, pink and clear ones then threw away the rest.

Dinner
Oriental chicken salad from Safeway. This salad was huge! Only ate half.

Dessert
A scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough from Baskin Robins. Ack!! I forgot to take pictures of the 2 flavors I sampled. Darn! Oh well.

i got the mondays

2008-01-07T22:44:00.000-08:00

I thought that I would be super busy this morning at work so I ate a huge breakfast. I was wrong.

Breakfast
A bowl of apple cinnamon oatmeal.

Orowheat english muffins with sunflower butter and strawberry jam.

Lunch
Left over bibimbap from yesterdays lunch. Still good.

Banana chips shared from Heweezy.

Snack
People started popping popcorn around 3pm and the smell filled the whole office. So I got tempted and got a bowl.

Dinner
I stocked up on Eating Right frozen foods from Safeway. mMmm I love lasagna. It took forever to heat up and I was starving. I started to eat it before I could take a picture.

Weekend

2008-01-06T21:35:00.001-08:00

So I had the hardest time formatting this. Sorry if it doesn't make sense I forgot my miniSD inside of my laptop. But this is all I ate this weekend. Woohoo!

A bowl of oatmeal and a slice of chocolate dream tart.

Lunch I had a bowl of rice with bistek (marinated beef in soy sauce and lemon) with my fresh tomatoes that's supposed to replace ketchup :(

My typical starbucks order: tall vanilla soy steamer with one shot of vanilla. yum.

Taquitos for dinner.

Cookies for a snack.

I forgot to take my medicine so I had to eat again. So I made a ham and cheese sandwhich.

Your typical Filipino breakfast. Rice, Cornbeef, and a over easy sunny side up egg. Served with fresh tomatoes soaked in patis (fish sauce) and vinegar. Yay for silog!

One piece of Toblorone that my dog was beggin for.

Rice tea at the Korean restaurant I ate at for lunch with the Fams.

Sweet Rice beverage!! My favorite drink at a Korean restaurant.

Multiple appetizer plates typical of Korean restaurants. I don't even know what each dish is.

Bibimbap!! My fave.

Gum to freshen up my yummy korean food breath.

Snacks at the thing I went to. Hawaiian shortbread and "food of the Gods"

More Snackies after the thing I went to. Chewie chocolate chocolate chip cookie and yummy pound cake with icing.

Came home to an empty apartment so I cooked Mac & Cheese with soy milk. It gave me a tummy ache. :(

Chocolate and Pizza

2008-01-04T23:17:00.000-08:00

Let's get to it...

Breakfast
Ah yes, can you tell I'm a creature of habbit? Sunflower butter on orowheat health nut English muffins. Washed down with Mighty Mango Naked juice. The biscotti was for dessert. I know dessert for breakfast weird but if you didn't know I was weird by now you should stop reading. Actually I only took a couple of bites from the biscotti because it smelled funny to me. I thought the smell was like cats and I asked my coworkers to check it out but they couldn't tell. After further reflection on the smell I think it smelled like wet dog. I thought I would get over it after the next bite but I couldn't take it any more and threw it away.

Lunch
I saved leftover Thai food from yesterday's lunch meeting. I got some eggplant (my favorite "vegetable" in the world), Pad se Ew (spelling??), and some rice with beef stuff. It wasn't as appetizing as it was yesterday. Luckily I got some community chocolate to erase the taste of lunch. Someone brought ghirardelli 60% cocao and Lindor truffles. Can we say PMSing?

Snacks
My coworker opened up the M&M's I got for Christmas from my best friend. I couldn't resist and ate only 3.

Then while waiting for our Indian pizza to arrive at home I ate 2 candy cane kisses. It held me down for dinner.

Dinner
For dinner we had Indian pizza delivered from Zante Pizza. We ordered The Best Indian Pizza: Topped with Spinach, Egg Plant, Cauliflower, Ginger, Garlic, Green Onions, Cilantro, Lamb, Tandoori Chicken & Prawns. We also ordered vegetable pakora.

I guess I like brown...

2008-01-03T23:11:00.000-08:00

Not really. I think today's mix was interesting. Don't know if it was nutritious.

Breakfast
As you can see I almost forgot to take a picture. Thus the one bite out of the Orowheat Multigrain Wheat Health Nut English Muffin with sunflower seed butter. It was yummy because it was chunky but not like peanut butter chunky. I drank half the bottle of Mighty Mango Naked smoothie juice. I didn't bother with the orange because I wanted to save it for lunch. Speaking of...

Lunch
Gardenburger with a slice of tomato on a wheat bun. I tried not to eat too much ketchup. I have a shirt that says "I put ketchup on my ketchup". Yeah, My name is roe.skee and I have an addiction to ketchup. Inject straight to my veins please. Anyways I tried to eat my whole orange but it didn't really have as much taste as I would like. I think I got too used to "cuties" or clementines.

Ah, the perks of working at Genentech... free lunch! There were leftovers from a lunch meeting so they sent out an email and we came like vultures to the meeting room to grab leftovers. These were actually yummy. They had thai food. So I had eggplant with tofu, Panag Curry with chicken and rice, and some cucumbers with red onion and sweet rice vinegar.

Eating the onions gave me onion breath so I chewed a piece of this flavor gum. Haha I forgot what the flavor was.

Dinner
Ate at a decent sushi place in San Bruno called Hiro with a very good friend. They started us off with green tea and miso soup. The soup was sort of bland, I mean more bland than usual for a miso soup.

Lion king roll because I felt like splurging since I ran at the gym today for 45 mins.

White Tuna Delight. I confused my favorite yellowtail (hamachi) for white tuna. Why? I think my mind was somewhere else. Anyways white tuna on top, spicy tuna and shrimp tempura in the middle. yummy spicy sauce.

Met up with more friends at TGIF but didn't want to eat there so I just ate another piece of gum.

Then when dessert came around I caved and had a bite of I guess a recess peanut butter cup pie cake thing.

The sushi made my day :) But for the record when I look back at this day.... I just want to say that it was interesting.

Brown = Filipino

2008-01-02T22:31:00.001-08:00

I feel like I ate a lot of brown today. I need to add color. Let's begin...

Breakfast
The other half of my Mighty Mango Naked juice from yesterday and Bisquick bibingka that I baked the other week. Bisquick bibingka is basically bisquick pancake mix, sugar, and eggs with large slabs of philly cream cheese. :) It was a hit. My roomie even said I should open my own bakery. Don't even get me started. You can see my desk at work. I usually eat breakfast at my desk.

Lunch
On with the Filipino theme of Pancit Sotanghon with shitake mushrooms and hard boiled quail eggs. Leftovers I took home from yesterday's mini get together at my parent's house. There were also a couple of pieces of lumpia shanghi that I shared with a couple of my friends. Ate lunch at my desk since everyone who I usually eat lunch with got hungry early.
We decided to make a trip to the common eating area on the floor above us to visit the vending machine and to get milk. Since it was our first day back there wasn't any good milk left in the fridge except for a lone carton of soy milk. I decided to drink the soy milk. People like to leave left over food or candy in the common area to share with others and today there so happened to be a big bag of kisses. I took 3 (ily... corny I know) for dessert.

Dinner
I met up with a couple of friends for some Pho and Rockband. I've been searching for a good Pho place around here. This place is close enough to good. But I haven't had Pho in a while so my judgement could be impaired. Anyhoos, I ate the #17 on your typical Pho menu. Added some "cock sauce", hoisin, thai basil, and sprouts for taste. I guess this doesn't really fit in with the Filipino theme for today... but it's Asian so that's close enough.

That was my food day. Nutritionally I could have done better. I went to the grocery store to get some fresh produce. Hopefully those items will pop up sometime this week. Til tomorrow...

Happy New Year!

2008-01-01T21:47:00.000-08:00

Happy 2008! So last year while one of my many visits to Giant Robot, I came across this book that documented everything the author ate for a year. It inspired me to do the same except write a blog about it. This is the product of random inspiration. Why am I doing this? Hopefully to make me more aware of the food choices I make. Make healthier choices and also to document all the great places I eat at here in the city. Enjoy!

Midnight Snack
Starting the year off right my family has a tradition to eat a small snack after the countdown. My dad served us macaroni soup. It's basically chicken broth with macaroni elbows, carrots, cabbage, etc. Very homely way to start the new year. I sipped on some Martinelli sparkling apple cider. I know, I know such the alky.

There was also some french bread and tilamook cheese that I partook in. I'm usually not a big fan of cheese but with the french bread it was pretty yummy.

Breakfast
I woke up 8 hours later and had breakfast. Some left over bread and cheese from our midnight snack with a little ham. A clementine or cutie, whatever you want to call it for my 1 serving of fruit. For "dessert", Mahablanca, not sure of the spelling but it's a creamy corn pudding thing with some brown crap that taste real good on top. :) Some water to drink and my medicine. Yay!

Snack
I'm noticing I'm doing a lot of snacks. Hmm... but at least this one is "healthy". Mango Madness Naked juice. I only drank half the bottle since 1 serving is like 150 calories or something and each bottle is 2 servings. Read your nutrition facts carefully! It can be deceptive!!

Lunch
This very unappetizing looking thing is sweet and sour chicken. It was a frozen package food from safeway. Supposedly it's a healthy choice or whatever but it tasted like oatmeal with sweet and sour sauce. Good thing I halved with my sister.

Taquitos! I didn't really want to eat any since after reading the nutritional facts I found out that eating only 3 of these tasty heart clogging treats it was 310 calories. But since the safeway frozen food wasn't so appetizing I had to redeem myself. At least I'm drinking water and not soda.

More mahablanka! This stuff is yummy and addictive like any other Filipino dessert. Just a small piece.

p.s. I really like eating out of a bowl and will use it for as long as I can during one meal (i.e. use the same bowl for multiple courses of the meal)

Dinner
My parents threw a small get together for their friends and a priest from our church so we had to help cook. I was helping my Dad mix a sort of ceviche with squid and onions and took a nibble of one of the squid. I almost forgot that I was taking pictures of everything that I eat. Good thing my sister caught me and reminded me. So this is the one piece I ate :P

Shanghai Lumpia!! My favorite! I think frying lumpia is one of my hidden talents. Seriously I think I'm freakishly good at getting that perfect golden brown color without using a deep fryer. Again I snuck 3 pieces in while frying some for the party.

At last the actual dinner itself. Starting with the lumpia and going clockwise: Lumpia with chili sauce, ceviche, pancit sotanhon (with hard boiled quail eggs!!), Mongo, grilled talapia with fresh tomatoes all on top of rice. Whew a typical party plate. Again, at least I drank water.

I love to bake. My sister and I wanted to try a recipe from her 2008 Betty Crocker calendar and came across this chocolate dream tart thing. It's basically fudge on pie crust. The chocolate was not proportional to the crust but it was still good.

So that is post one for day one of 2008. yay! Food choices? eh I could use more fresh vegetables but it's only day 1.