Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Maligayang Pasko sa inyong Lahat!

It's Christmas day and we had a day full of eating and fun... Sucat folks came late for lunch (as usual!!!) because of traffic. We were having a late lunch when Ellen and kids came. After lunch, we all went to Issa's house and chat with the LA folks. Cely, Jigs, Reggie, Marilyn and the kids were all there talking to everyone here at home. High-techonology is really amazing, we get to talk and watch the people in a different place. After the long chat and eating, we had our annual family pictorial! We have to shoot inside the house because it was raining the whole day...

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Busy Kitchen!!!

It's almost Christmas and we are all on the move... Che and I are incharge in baking brownies, rhum cakes and baked noodles, Jay is in the stove area for the meatdishes, lumpiang ubod and shanghai, and Issa is in the quality control and take out area. Wheww!!! We've been like this for about 20 years na and there are still many customers who until now continue to order food from us. Check out how busy my kitchen is for the last 5 days...

Baking our famous GCA brownies, I now improve the taste of our brownies and changed some brands of the ingredients.

This is our Rhum Cake, my sister Linda gave her own recipe of this cake... really smells good because of the caramelized toppings.

Here's another famous dish we make... our Fish Fillet in Sweet and Sour Sauce.

Finally, our Baked Macaroni and Spaghetti..

Friday, December 21, 2007

Christmas Presents from Delaware

A balikbayan box from Delaware has finally arrived the other day. It came quite a little earlier than what I expected and making it exact for Christmas. Thanks to my generous sister Linda and brother in law Bill! I have lots of pans and serving dishes again, we got this from my recent visit to New York City and Lancaster. Can't wait to use them for our family get together on Christmas day...


Issa was asking if she can have this Christmas globe... what do you call this anyway?!

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Happy Birthday UNCLE BILL!!!


Happy Birthday to our favorite Uncle Bill! We wish you many many more birthdays and wonderful years to come!!! Love from your Los Banos Family... Ate Dory, Issa, Dodo, Luigi, Chuy, Che and Jay

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Issa's Birthday


It was Issa's 39th Birthday last December 1, but because of Hal's birthday party, we have to move our dinner on December 2. We had dinner at Baan Thai, a little resto at the corner of Sta. Fe Subdivision in Grove. We had Mixed Fried (platter of Spring Rolls, Dumplings, Crispy Kangkong, Okra, Tofu and Chicken Strips), Spicy Beef, Pad Thai, Bagoong Rice and Spicy Chicken Salad. Everything was spicy! But the chicken salad was really great, specially now that I'm on my second week of South Beach Diet. Try this new discovery... Baan Thai Restaurant!