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...

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Sauteed Tuna and Sayote (Chayote)

This post is for all my man friends out there who rely on this blog to feed them (haha!) or give them ideas on what to eat aside from the regular junk food that they buy dyan sa tabi tabi. Or at the very least, give them a nudge to eat decent food. We were supposed to have this for baon but my kuya invited us for lunch so we had this for dinner instead. Filipinos are very creative when it comes to cooking food that will feed every member of the family. Even some well-off families serve simple gisa or sauteed dishes. Men are also taught this very simple way of cooking. Ginisa dishes often include a vegetable and some meat. But some go without the meat especially if the budget is low. Ginisa is very popular with the middle class, down because they normally have soup which is a good extender and helps you get full without eating too much. This is especially true with families in the poverty line. Hot soup over rice is enough to feed the family. To cook this, saute some chopped gar...

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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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