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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...

The McDonald’s Choco Lava Puff Was Calling My Name

There are some food launches I can look at, think, Oh, that looks interesting, and then peacefully continue with my life. The McDonald’s Choco Lava Puff was not one of them. I saw the ad for McDonald’s new desserts after they phased out the Apple Pie, and that was basically it. The Choco Lava Puff had entered my brain. By that evening, I had ordered it. I mean, look at the premise: flaky chocolate pastry with warm chocolate filling inside. On paper, this sounded extremely promising. Unfortunately, the actual experience was a little more complicated. First Bite of the Choco Lava Puff Mine arrived warm, which was expected. The chocolate filling inside was still warm too, so breaking into the puff gave me that lovely molten-chocolate moment I had been expecting. And there was certainly chocolate. Quite a lot of it, actually. As photographic evidence will demonstrate, eating this thing neatly may require skills I do not possess. At some point, I had chocolate on the puff, chocol...

Lady E Reviews: Chef Nic's Spaghetti with Creamed Mushroom and Bacon Sauce

We went on a staycation in Binondo a few weeks back so that we can go shopping comfortably at nearby 168 Mall and Lucky Chinatown. After 168, we discovered a KKV branch at Lucky Chinatown Mall! I got a few things (photo at the bottom of this post), but one of the standouts is this spaghetti pack from Chef Nic.

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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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