Toni and I had a cooking session today. This was our 2nd time to cook. Last time I showed her how to cook pancit and she showed he how to cook chicken pot pie. My hubby took me to her house which is about 12 minutes drive from our house at around 2:00PM. Then he just came back to pick me up after we're done cooking. I showed Toni how to cook our native cake "puto". I brought all the ingredients except the eggs because it might crack on the way. I mixed all the ingredients of the "puto" and then cooked it. When I'm done I told Toni and her kids to come and eat. All of them love the "puto". Then it was her turn to show me how to cook apple pie. She made a crumbly Dutch apple pie. My husband love apple pie and I took it home and just baked it in our oven because hubby came to pick me up before we had time to bake it.

a picture of the "puto"


Ducth apple pie before it was baked


Toni and I

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Today I baked blueberry muffins but this time it was a ready made mix from the box. I used to bake muffins from scratch but I just got lazy this time. My hubby and I just love to eat muffins and everytime I baked he ate most of it. Sometimes I give away to my friends. I just love to give something to my friends especially my friends in the church. Hubby knows this characteristic of mine. I want to bless other people with the foods that I cooked and it made me happy to see other people happy whenever I give them something to eat. I think I got this from my grandma who when she was still alive, she loved to bless other people by sharing whatever foods she had to our kins who were poor. It's really good to be a channel of blessings to other people.

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It's Saturday and my hubby is off from work. He mowed the yard today while I cooked our breakfast. After breakfast, I went to pick up the squash flowers and string beans in my garden. Then I went for a walk just around the block. Walking is a good exercise and helps me to lose some of those excess pounds.

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Just been busy these past few days doing chores in the house. Yesterday, Toni and I went to the store to buy some baby stuff for the baby shower of the 2 ladies in our church who will be giving birth soon. The baby shower will be this coming Saturday for Joan and on September 5 for Elizebeth. Another lady, Alicia will be giving birth on January. So there will be three babies to be added in our church soon and that's a blessing. I've been busy cooking today. I cooked banana nut muffins after lunch and then I cooked the veggies from my garden for our supper. Yesterday after I got home from the store, I made some lumpia so I can stock up my freezer with it. I run out of wrappers so I asked my hubby today to buy 3 more packs of lumpia wrappers. I will continue making lumpia later. We were not able to attend midweek service today because hubby's back is hurting, tired from work. I gonna give him a massage tonight to relieve him of that soreness in his back.

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I'm in the mood to bake banana pecan bread and muffins today. I have to use the bananas before they rot or else they'll just go to waste and I don't want to waste anything. My parents and my grandma used to tell us when we were kids not to waste anything. So today we have a lot of snacks and my hubby would be glad when he comes home and see all the muffins and bread that I baked. He's always happy when I baked muffins and bread. He loves to eat them.

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I've been to Oklahoma several times but this short vacation we had is really an enjoyable one. We went there with Bro. Hugh and Ms. Mareta who invited us to attend the Balloon Festival in Tallequah, OK. What I really like most in this trip is the cottage house that we stayed for 2 days. It's an old house but it's been renovated and it's really cute and clean and it's situated in a very peaceful and quiet town in Cookson. Infront of the house is a 102 year old pear tree. It was also my first time to see all those big, colorful balloons and I enjoyed seeing them at night when they had the balloon glow wherein they lighted the ballons and had it twinkled. We also went to see the classic car show and the extreme wheelin show. But most of all, I enjoyed our meals that we had at Pancho's mexican buffet restaurant in OKC, at Charlie's Chicken restaurant in Tallequah and at Mazzio's Italian eatery in McAlester. We really enjoyed this trip.

balloon glow


the cottage house where we stayed


underneath the 102 year old pear tree

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