Lady E Eats

Sometimes dinner does not need to make sense to anyone except the person eating it. Sometimes you want spaghetti. Sometimes you want potatoes. And sometimes McDonald’s chops crinkle-cut potatoes into adorable little pieces, puts them inside what looks suspiciously like a tiny pillow box, calls them Poptato , and suddenly regular fries have competition. At least in our house. Poptato is one of the newer additions to the McDonald’s Philippines menu, arriving around the same time as the Choco Lava Puff I recently tried . And unlike the Choco Lava Puff, which left my son and me somewhere around the hmmm, it’s okay territory, Poptato was an immediate hit. Someone Chopped Up the Fries I can almost imagine the product-development meeting. Someone looked at crinkle-cut fries and thought: What if we chopped these into tiny pieces? Then someone else presumably said: Put them in a cute box. Et voilà. A new product. 😂 Except it works. The pieces are tiny and irregular, with all those litt...

Baguio Country Club Cheese Bread

My sister went to Baguio, Ifugao, etc. last week. She brought home a bunch of goodies including this: It’s supposed to be a cheese bread but it’s filled with walnuts and dried fruit. It’s like a fruit cake inside. I didn’t like this. I like sweet and savory but this was just terrible. I like dried fruits as my grandma makes a mean fruitcake and she uses the same ingredients. I just didn’t appreciate this. It really tasted weird for me. The filling just does not go with the bread.

The Leftovers Got a Second Life. The Herbs Came Too.

I bought a tray of roasted pork belly from S&R. Y’all regulars know this. It looked wonderful. Crispy skin. Thick slices. Plenty of meat. There was only one problem. It was too herby for me. I ate some of it, but there was enough left that I didn’t want to simply keep reheating the same pork and hoping I’d suddenly stop noticing the flavor. So I did what I often do with leftovers. I turned them into something else. This time, pork binagoongan. No recipe here because that isn’t really the point. The point was taking something already cooked, looking at what I had, and asking: What else can this become? The bagoong, garlic, onions and sauce gave the pork an entirely different personality. It was richer, saltier and much closer to something I wanted to eat. And it was good. But here’s the funny part. Those herbs? They survived. 😆 Underneath all that binagoongan flavor, I could still taste the herby seasoning from the original pork belly. Apparently, leftovers brin...

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I'm a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom who loves to cook, study about health and well-being and to use food as medicine. I strongly believe that God created the human body to heal itself and food is one of the most powerful ingredients for perfect health. I have dramatically changed our diet and lifestyle and you will see those changes in my newer posts. I hope you will enjoy these recipes. Let's journey together towards perfect health. Cheers!

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