Simple Recipes

Yes! I just celebrated my 26th birthday last June 25 and well, only few knew about it since I removed my birthday information on my Facebook account(it really works if you don't want to broadcast how old you are hehehe). Anyway, on that day I decided to make a fruit salad  for my family ,so I bought the one gallon of fruit cocktail, one can of condense milk and 2 boxes of nestle cream which was about Php 280.00 all in all.

Actually making a fruit salad is as easy as one, two, three ... All you have to do is to follow the steps below:

1. Drain the syrup from the fruit cocktail.  
2. Place the drained fruits on a bowl.
3. Mix all ingredients, the cream, the drained fruits and the condense milk.  You could also add some cheese, sugar palm ("kaong"), nata de coco and some raisins if you like to add more colors and taste to your salad. 
4. Then after mixing all ingredients in a bowl, let it chill for awhile and then you could serve afterwards.  

Easy right? I was planing to take a picture of my work unfortunately there was no camera available.  I'll just make another one and take a photo of it soon.  By the way next time I'm planning to make a mango float since it is easy to prepare too.  All you need are a few pieces of ripe mangoes, ten pieces would do,a box or a pack of graham crackers, two box or can of nestle cream and two cans of condense milk.  For those who have no idea on how to prepare such desert all you have to do is to follow the steps below:

1. First peel the mangoes and slice them into thin pieces.  Set it aside.  
2. Crushed the graham cracker and layer it in a square pan, or you could just put the graham directly on the pan without crushing it.  
3. Mix the nestle cream and condensed milk in a bowl.  
4. Put some mixture of it on the square pan just enough to cover the layer of graham then put another layer of mangoes above it.  Just repeat the procedures until you have used everything.  
5. Just like the fruit salad, let it chill.  I suggest it would be best to have it chill overnight.  The the following day you could serve the frozen mango float to your family or guest.  

Another easy recipe, right?  I hope you could find some time to try making it with your family and friends.  Until next time. If you have other ways on how to make a fruit salad or a mango float just feel free to post it on this site.
'til next time...

It is more fun in my wake...;p

Recent events in my life has made me realized that death will surely come to us.  We really don't know when, where and how we are going to die... one thing for sure we are going to die and bid this earth farewell.

With these thoughts in my mind I have come to the decision that I should make my demands on how my funeral would be like. hehehe!  Like I said, we don't have any slight idea when that day would come to us.

So to start my demands...

1.  If I’m declared officially dead on the hospital (hehehe! what a term) and there are some organs that could be useful for others then I’m willing to donate them to those kids who needs them.

2. My casket should be closed unless my family could find the best make-up artist who could make me look like I'm just sleeping like a princess then they could open it for viewing.  If not, my casket could only be opened on the last day of my wake and during my funeral mass.  Hey! Who wants to look dead when they already dead? Get it? Hahaha!

3. I really like to take pictures this is why I have made up my mind that during my funeral there should be a photobooth, wherein the lay-out of the printed photo should have a caption "It's more fun on Melai's wake".  Everyone who visits my wake should have their pictures taken.  I'd like a wacky pose please. HEHEHE! Yes I’m a little crazy, I admit it so do it.  Hmm…on second thought renting a photobooth would be quite expensive.  I think it would range up to Php 3,500 for 3 hrs. So…

 24hours per day / 3 hrs = 8 x 3500 =Php 28,000.00/day x no of days of my wake

 Gosh! There’s a lot of zeros there, my parents would kill me the second time around. Hahaha! Okay no more photobooth, they could print a tarp place it on one corner and hire someone who could take a picture of every guest or I could ask my friend January to do it for me. Hehehe! That would be cheaper that renting a photobooth.

I was also planning that there would be a video played during my funeral.  A video made by yours truly and it would be about thanking my parents, my friends, my lover etc and saying sorry for those I have done wrong.  But I realized it would be useless…  If we want to thank someone or say sorry to someone we should do it while we are still alive.  Right?

Well, these are just few demands during my wake and I'm still thinking what to add on the list.  Hahaha!!! Call me crazy if you want, I really don't care because for me my demands would seems like helping the ones I left to overcome their grief over my death and remind them that my death would be a celebration... a celebration as I return to my Father's home.