Jay and Che's Wedding Anniversary

Last January 15 was Jay and Che's Wedding Anniversary, and that means eating time once again! We had a little chocolate cake, Che got it from a pastry store near corner F.O. Santos Street in Grove. And of course, Jay's favorite Kani Salad... the ingredients are cubed cucumber, apples, ripe mangos, lettuce, japanese mayonaise and crab sticks, yum! And look at Chuy, he was busy munching the vegetable tempura!

Belated Birthday Greetings... Happy Birthday from the LB Family!

Happy Birthday Reggie, Marilyn and Linda... many more birthdays and blessings to come!

Baguio Trip!

We just came home from Baguio last night! We'd been away for 4 days and it was such a great experience to stay in Baguio this time of the year. It was terribly COLD! We stayed at Teacher's Camp cottage 213C, our favorite cottage to reserve because there is hot water in the shower. Althought it was not really that good looking compared to the hotel rooms, but we are very comfortable staying there because we get to cook food, relax and just feel the cool morning breeze of baguio. On our way, we stopped by at the Manaoag Shrine and had mass. Then we visited the Pink Sister's convent, the famous Lourdes Grotto, Baguio Cathedral, Mine View Park, Good Shepherd, Session Road and Camp John Hay. We ate at Mann Hann in SM, Brother's Burger and Carlos Pizza at Camp John Hay, and tried the fried "day old chicks", a street food very famous in Baguio. Luigi and Enzo had the great time in Shoemart, just strolling around and still searching for late x'mas presents... find out how much fun we had in Baguio!

Our family just love to stay in Baguio, it's our second home away from home! I just wish we can have our own place here... someday!

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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...

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..

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?!