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Icy School Ground
School ground becomes ice skating ground
I had seen this area of the school filled with water and formed a plash when it rained and the children would splatter on it at breaktime. Now that it’s winter the water turned into ice and hard enough to let the children bring their ice skates and perform on ice. Some like to play hockey while others just want to glide with their shoes. This is better than playing with water, I guess, though I know that some children love to play on a plash. It will take some time before the ice melts perhaps enough to make the children long for a dry ground.
Filipino Vegetable Recipes I Love The Most
Philippines is rich in natural resources. Aside from breath-taking sceneries and highly entertaining and relaxing white sand beaches, Philippines do offer good foods that only Filipinos can perfectly make. Filipinos specialize in cooking different kind of recipes, may it be chicken, pork, meat or vegetable recipes.
Vegetable menus and recipes is where Filipino recipes, dishes and delicacy excels the most. The very common Filipino vegetable recipes I love the most are listed below in no particular order.
Pinakbet
Pinakbet or pakbet is a popular Ilocano dish of the Philippines. Pinakbet is the contracted form of the Ilocano word pinakebbet, meaning “shrunk” or “shriveled”. The basic vegetables used in this dish include native bitter melon, eggplant, tomato, ginger, okra, string beans, lima beans, chili peppers , parda and winged beans. A Tagalog version usually includes calabaza.
Chopsuey
Chopsuey is a very popular vegetable dish. Filipinos have come up with their own individual variation that suits individual taste and the availability of ingredients. There are no exact measurements of ingredients. You could always adjust the ingredients base on what ever available or base on your preference.
Sicilian Hot Chocolate Drink
When it’s intensely cold like now I always think of having a hot chocolate drink. I thought winter this time would be mild and dry but I didn’t count on the coldest month to be always the coldest month, lol! I have known that February is the month when winter is the most cruel here. Snow is fine but when the temperature drops to -11°C like this morning I don’t feel like working at all. My hands really froze after scraping snow off my car. It’s first time for me to be driving the car in winter. Anyhow, I’m home now and guess what I am thinking…
The hot chocolate drink I had at Baia Verde bar in Catania, Sicily
This hot chocolate was so creamy, I could just eat it, not drink. It’s so different from the hot choco drink I usually have in a café here, which is almost the same as what my Tassimo can make. But this thick choco drink is a real energy booster to me. I wonder how to make this – perhaps melt a block of chocolate in a pan and add some milk, or is it just cacao powder mixed in a hot milk. I’ll make an experiment.
- dlysen: I remember Ampalaya… I use to eat this most of my lunch during my High School because it was the...
- Nelly Grey: The Winter time can surely pause us sleeping problems.
- lasagnarecipes: Nothing is as satisfying and comforting as hot chocolate. These recipes are priceless. Can’t...
- Traditional Bathroom Suites: I have also heard lot about Philippines and its different varieties of recipes but all...
- RonLeyba: Thanks! I love ‘em all!
