Cheesecake and Cupcakes

It feels good to bake for friends and bake for the family..for that's what I love doing..baking...that everytime I bake, if it's being appreciated by friends and friends of friends that's music to my ears and feels like heaven to me.

I am now in the process of turning my hobby into business...slowly, my husband and I are introducing them to friends and now we are on the stage of referrals from friends of friends, etc...I am really dreaming on having a cake shop in the near future but I know that would take a lot of planning and courage.

I've realized that even though you've been baking and doing the same thing a number of times already, there would come a time that sometimes you will fail...I felt bad yesterday 'coz I got an order from a friend and referred me also to her friends and told me that they would make a purchase of cheesecakes and cupcakes. So I accepted the orders. I was too happy 'coz I got lots of orders from them so I baked the cheesecakes only to know that 4 hours before the said meetup, the cheesecake didn't harden 'coz I was preoccupied with other things the time that I was doing the cake and I forgot to add the hardening agent. So I rushed to the supermarket to restart all over again and make another set of cheesecakes. Then, I made it on time....

The bad-luck day didn't end with just the cheesecake...When we delivered the baked goods to the meeting place, my friend opened the box to inspect the cakes only to find out that the cupcakes slid out of their holders and some were ruined...I almost cringed in shame at that very moment...I just apologized for what happened and promised my friend to give her cupcakes for free on  her next order just to get myself out of that shame....oh really I felt bad..

I've realized now that really you'll go through a lot of trials before you can establish your business or reach perfection on what you do...Now, it's time for me to move on and keep depression out of my system..Let's just say that it's a lesson learned...now learn from those mistakes...pick up the pieces and move on.

Here are the cupcake pictures just before the "kamalasan." A memorable one for me...indeed....whew! But again Thank you Dear God!

Goldilocks Cake Expo 2011

 I wanna attend this once in a lifetime expo...been wanting to attend a Wilton class but due to conflict in schedule and budget constraint, I guess I'll just go to the expo and just watch the exhibits and be inspired..hope someday my cakes would be one of those displayed there lol!

Hope I can get to the event on time....

The Guinness Cake

I have always been a big fan of Nigella Lawson....I love the way she cooks for her family and friends and how she loves entertaining guests. I also love her kitchen and her storage room...hoping that someday I will have my dream kitchen also..I'm glad that most of the ingredients in her TV show are available here in the Philippines..One that I tried baking was the Guinness Cake..It's a simple and easy cake to do but heavenly delicious. I promise! lol!

The picture was taken after it was served already to my surprise visitors so before I had the opportunity to frost it nicely, my visitors were already in our house and the cake had been consumed by almost half already, but I'm happy to say that they loved it, and appreciation for it was more than enough for me already plus the fact that I love visitors and cooking for them.

I'm looking forward to doing more of Nigella's simple but heavenly cakes and dishes...

Rotavirus

My 3-year-old son,  Elijah  was struck  by an illness with symptoms like vomiting and loose watery stools. As a mom, I always get terrified and bothered every time my son would get ill. Everytime he gets sick, it is very traumatic to me I guess.

On day 1, his symptoms were only vomiting (I mean projectile vomiting) and low-grade fever up to 37.7.  But on day 2, he stopped vomiting but instead started having loose watery stools (yellow in color and foul smelling).  By the way, he was struck by this illness at 1 year of age. So this was his 2nd time that's why I have a bit of suspicion that what struck him again was rotavirus..Going back, he started losing appetite and did have poor fluid intake then.So I brought him to the ER since his pedia was on his holiday vacation at that time 'coz it's November 1, but fortunately we were discharged home from the ER by the pedia resident. What the doctor told me was to only rehydrate my son with Hydrite and give him only soft diet.They told me that it was not rotavirus, but still I have the feeling that it was. I had his stool and urine checked but they were all clear for infection.

Good thing now day 5 since Elijah got ill, I must say he's back on track. He is frisky now.  His appetite is back though we don't give him hard to digest foods still

My other culprit for him becoming ill again with that virus was when I changed his milk formula from Promil Kid to Grow.  I must say my son's really  "hiyang"  with Wyeth milk products and later I will switch him back to Promil Kid again..Goodbye all other milk brands, we'll just stick to "Promil" for my son's sake.

These were my son's meds....

The yellow pill cost 20 Php and I call it "magic pill" 'coz this saved my son's life for the 2nd time, and I owe that to what we call our "herbalist"



WHAT IS ROTAVIRUS?
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children,^[1] and is one of several viruses that cause infections often called stomach flu, despite having no relation to influenza. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae. By the age of five, nearly every child in the world has been infected with rotavirus at least once.^[2] However, with each infection, immunity develops, and subsequent infections are less severe;^[3] adults are rarely affected.^[4] There are five species of this virus, referred to as A, B, C, D, and E.^[5] Rotavirus A, the most common, causes more than 90% of infections in humans. (From wikipedia)

Tofu sisig

I love sisig so I've thought of making tofu sisig myself instead of the typical sisig with humongous fat that we are fond of eating 'coz now at  30 I am trying to keep myself off fatty foods as much as I can, but still enjoy the privilege of having to eat foods that I like.  At first, i was hesitant for I know that tofu has an aftertaste of soy and I hate that taste that's why I don't like tofu but honestly after I've cooked this one it really really tasted like the sisig with pork and even my husband asked me if it has pork in it and I said no..it's 100% tofu only..



I'm proud for this one 'coz I got  "thumbs up" from my hubby who happens to be a cook and my critic as well when it comes to cooking..I've failed on some of the dishes that I cooked but this one I must say is really one of the best that I did...

Ang Mahiwagang Grill

Lately did I realize that we have this at home as a gift from our wedding more than 3 years ago...It has been in the storage room for quite some time..I just discovered this while decluttering our storage room...thanks to me

Today, I used it for the first time....Barbeque for lunch today..I so so love it...I will use it over and over I promise!

Lolo Dearest

Sadness has been upon my soul since my grandfather has been diagnosed with rectal cancer. Doctors told him he has until December 2010 to live, but thank God he is still alive right at this very moment and I thank God for that really. Selfish as it seems, I ask God for another years for him or even forever if He will grant to, but I know that's not possible. How I wish we could be with him always until his dying day..I know lolo is nearing death and my family and I are learning to accept it, but i can't help but be teary eyed every time I think about him dying. I know all of us will go there in God's time but we are just human beings; we become emotional, stressed and can't help but to cry when someone dies. It's always hard to say goodbye especially to the ones who have been a big part of your life, especially in my case I grew up with a lolo and lola who have always loved us unconditionally just like our parents did.

Thank you lolo for the love you gave us, your grandchildren. You may not be the perfect grandfather, but still thank you for the undubitable love you gave to us. We love you and we will always do for the rest of our lives.