Finally, a movie date after three years!

OK. Forgive me for some virtual flirting today, but I have a confession to make. I'm in-love with another man, another soldier, another captain! Oh yes, of course, the photo says it all. It's Steve Rogers aka Captain America! Gosh Chris Evans, you don't know what my husband and I went through to watch your movie. Really.

Classic Pork Adobo

I strongly believe that you're not truly Pinoy if you don't eat adobo. Others say you're not a true Filipino wife if you don't know how to cook it. Well, I know a lot of Filipinas who cook it but admit that they honestly know it's not that good. So I don't think that there's truth in that statement. However... as a self-proclaimed kitchen goddess, I think I have already mastered the art of cooking adobo. So I'd like to help you out by sharing with you my Classic Pork Adobo recipe.

This dish is one of my daughter's favorites; it never failed to make her eat a lot of rice when this is what I serve her. If you don't eat pork, you can try my Hawaiian Chicken Adobo with Sesame Seeds recipe instead. You have the option to remove the sesame seeds though, you'd know why when you read the post. Anyway, here's the recipe of my Classic Pork Adobo, y'all.

Dasoland Family Adventure Park's Mini Zoo

In my previous post, I showed you photos of what you can see and do at Dasoland Family Adventure Park located in Barangay San Vicente Dasol, Pangasinan. I said that the Mini Zoo photos will be on a separate post because for me, it was the highlight of our trip. You know, a ram ran after us! LOL.

Our Dasoland Adventure

It's summer! And what else should we do this season but go out, have fun and do things with the fam bam. Right? Heeeep, our financial mom-nager instinct is telling us to stay, try to have fun and just watch movies with the kids at home. Although it's a picturesque idea to book a hotel on a beach front so you could sip your expensive fruit shake while watching your already-tanned children build their sand castles, you honestly know it will break your and your husband's bank account should you do that unplanned.

So when unplanned trips happen, we savor it.

Sophia and I usually spend the holidays with my husband R at the camp. One sunny day in December, bored and armed with some extra cash from the Christmas budget, we drove to Dasol, Pangasinan and explored the non-mainstream theme park situated in a vast and remote mango plantation in Barangay San Vicente that is the Dasoland Adventure Park. 

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"My daughter's photos, once a week, every week, in 2014."

Her school's 13th Moving Up Day was definitely last week's highlight! If you've been following my posts on Instagram and Twitter, you all know by now that she bagged the Music and Movement Award and the Academic Excellence Merit for Science. The latter was a very big surprise! I never thought that my child will have fun studying that difficult subject I once dread as a student. Sure, I trust her intelligence but I was not expecting that it will be far different and kinda the opposite of something she is already good at ― music [and movement]. I have one person to really thank for: Teacher Sam! I'm glad that my little popstar princess adores him. This photo is enough evidence, isn't it? ♡

Choco Lava

When I first bought my oven, an Imarflex 3-in-1 electric oven-turbo broiler-rotisserie kind, I was on baking high. I baked the basics: chocolate chip cookies, chocolate crinkles and banana bread. Those were the easiest to bake. When I have mustered enough courage to face my measuring cups and whisk,  I tried baking classic chocolate cake and cupcakes for my husband's birthday small party here at home. It was okay and edible but not fab. I thought I'm not gonna be good in baking anymore. I just resorted to making pizzas and baked pasta dishes so that my oven will serve its purpose. One day, while browsing Facebook, I saw Junior Master Chef Louise's post: a photo of a drool-worthy choco lava! I scanned the ingredients and got excited that I have most of it in my kitchen. I don't have Nutella and white sugar though but I have Nesquik chocolate syrup and powdered sugar! I baked again and let the whole house steamed like a dry sauna room and that even if I'm beginning to miss the cool air of January because of the summer heat, I didn't care. My hormones were telling me to patiently wait for this fattening friend. OK, enough of the ramblings. Ready for the recipe?

Four Tips for New and Aspiring Bloggers

One day, my cousin Camille of Lollies and Lipsticks told me she'll seriously blog. I can't remember how it started but we just found ourselves in the park of their neighborhood and doing a pseudo-blog mentoring. Since it was technically my first, I was random and rambling and well, real. I told her how I felt about other mommy bloggers, why I sometimes don't blog, what makes me want to go to blog events and what kept me going. If you religiously read my isms, I'm sure you'll be a bit shocked to know that some of the revelations that I disclosed during that time are hidden on my posts. You see, this may be a virtual representation of my passions, life and how I live it, but really, it's not the end all and be all of who I really am. There are things I think are better left unsaid as it can break me or other people. Like what I always say, it's just a quark of my royal universe. 

Wait. Where is this going?