Mommy Pehpot, Author at Mommy Pehpot

Home Town is ❤

Long weekend.. and the weather says it’s summer! A great time to hit the beach (or a resort) and spend it with family..

and while I was searching for a good travel deals online, I realized, why not my hometown? There’s a really nice resort there, and it’s a good time to visit my grandmother…

Friday afternoon and we’re heading north!

SCTEX is the fastest route, but opted for Maharlika Highway, because of this:

Baliwag stop over for Balot and Hotdog! It’s been a while.. it’s been 2 years since our last visit.

The next day, we prepared for a day of fun, fun, fun. Swimming day at Hunter Valley!

Sunday, we went to visit my grandmother at Talavera. The kids had fun running around and we went home with a few additional plants for my garden!

Of course Talavera visit is not complete without Pastillas (will have this on a separate post):

We went home with a full stomach and heavy but happy heart! The ride back home was long and hubby’s back was aching, had to watch a few massage training videos, to treat my hubby. I was tired from that weekend too.. but seeing the kids with a happy smile, that weekend was worth it.. bitin nga lang!

The Suki Planner (Mercury Drug Suki Daybook 2013)

because I am a suki.. I got this from Mercury Drugstore:

It was only recently that I got really serious with this suki card thing. In fact, the past few days, I even buy our toiletries there.. if Mercury has toys or musical equipment I think I will buy from them too, for the sake of gaining more suki points (but we know we can only buy sonare flute from guitar center). Sometimes I feel like we were not just suki, feeling ko stock holder na kame! What, with the amount I spend at the drugstore for vitamins alone, you’d be surprised! Multivitamins for us as well as Vitamin C, and when kids are sick, the amount is doubled. Kaloka lang mga teh!

But yeah, thank goodness for loyalty programs such as the suki card.. now I have a really nice planner that I can use. The planner is simple and writable.. you know what I mean? It’s not too pretty that you’d end up NOT using it. Yes, like the one from Starbucks, my 2012 planners ends up somewhere in my box of loots. It is so pretty eh, i don’t have the heart to use it!

Another thing I like about the Suki planner is this:

Oh yeah! discounts overload! And discounts for most of the products I use (meron din discount for Aqiva milk! yay!)

You can have your own Suki planner (Suki Daybook) for 30 suki points and Mercury ball pen for 1 point (maximum of 3 pens a day). I am not sure with the suki planner if we can have more than one. But who needs more than one planner?

I am not into loyalty programs.. I don’t even have an advantage card! pero now, I am a convert hahaha teka nga makatakbo sa SM at makakuha ng advantage card.

California Pizza Kitchen Opens At BGC

A new kitchen opens at Bonifacio Global City, with it’s bright walls with a California- inspired interior, who would miss California Pizza Kitchen at 30th street corner 9th avenue at BGC?

With it’s new interiors comes new great offerings this year:

Anchovy Pizza, a thin crust pizza topped with crumbled anchovy fillets, sliced fresh tomato, garlic and fresh Mozzarella with Neapolitan sauce. As you can see in the photo above, the pizza was served with lemons, because you need a squeeze of that to balance out the saltiness in the anchovies. It was really salty without the lemon but a few squeeze and it is good to go. If you’re not a lemon fan, try ordering Anchovy Pizza with Asparagus & Spinach Spaghettini, it’s a perfect match.

California Pizza Kitchen also introduced calzones such as the Italian Sausage and Pepperoni. It has mozzarella and marinara sauce, served with roasted garlic bulb. I tell you, this is a must try and don’t forget to use the roasted garlic, it adds a sweet taste to the calzone.

Their sandwich offerings now includes CPK’s own Cheese Steak Sandwich:

CPK’s own Cheese Steak Sandwich uses USDA tender steak strips sauteed with button mushrooms, yellow onions, Mozarella and Queso Quesadilla Cheese. I;m sure my beef junky husband will love this sandwich.

As for desserts, CPK features, Caramel Banana Tart and Caramel Hazelnut Cake, we had Caramel Hazelnut Cake and Mango cake during the media launch:

Both desserts are tasteful and a must try.

CPK is also launching the Holiday Party Meal. Mix and match your pizza (pepperoni, Hawaiian, five cheese and fresh tomato) with family sized pastas (Spaghettini Vongole, Tomato Basil Spaghettini or Spaghettini Bolognese) for only P995. This also comes with a free carrot cake and Coke 1.5 L. I must say that this meal is perfect even for brainstorming meetings. The Holiday Party Meal is available until January 6, 2013 and is valid for take out and delivery orders only.