Mommy Pehpot, Author at Mommy Pehpot

When Dream Come To Reality..

I have a dream.. a very simple dream…

to plant tomatoes, sigarilyas, okra and eggplant.. a few of my favorite vegetables..and to harvest them in a nice basket and feed my harvest to my kids..

and now my dream is slowly turning into reality!

That’s the seeds that we planted last March 3 (with the help of my kids!).. That’s sigarilyas seedlings. When it started to sprout I was ecstatic! Sigarilyas is my favorite vegetable and to be able to plant one is happiness for me. The other seedlings are tomatoes, eggplant and pepper.

Our Okra seedlings that we planted 2nd week of February.. I can’t wait for the day that my Okra will bear its fruit..

The Chinese Kangkong after more than a month.. My mom said we need to cut some to encourage more growth.. so we did today! and we’re having Kangkong for lunch!

Our very first harvest! (photo of the dish later)

I am so happy that I finally had the courage to do this planting project..that I was able to manage my time more and squeeze this one.. it turns out, it’s not as time consuming as I thought it is..

Next project: Make an alphabet and number poster for Chico and Sati and start teaching them.

EDIT: here’s our Kangkong Dish:

Please Take Me To Mexico NOW!

If there is a food that I can eat every day, that would be CHILI CON CARNE. A dish I first encountered during my college years. A dish that haunted for years until I finally learned to make one. Well, mines good but not as good as the one I tasted from a recent tour at Faith Academy.. a tour that I am having a hard time blog about.. because every time I tried to, I am haunted by the chili con carne we had for lunch…. which is the best I had so far! argh now I am getting hungry again!

That’s my version of Chili Con Carne..steaming rice.. and cheese on top.. plus an ice cold coke! waaaaaah I’m in heaven!

So yes aside from Piñata, another thing that I love from Mexico is their food (and the festivities too!)

And a few weeks ago, we had another Mexican treat.. after a creative afternoon at Global Art, we had a tasteful snack at B&T Mexican Kitchen (just beside the Global Art HQ @ Sekai Center).. opps no photos of food that time (if it is not a food event I don’t take photos of what I eat *wink). Their chips and dips are soo good but what caught my attention and my kids’ appetite is their Mango Glazed Chicken.

The photo’s not from the event but from a take out.. wanted to try City Delivery but that would cost me 400+ more..so hubby and I drove all the way to San Juan for this.. and the supposed charge for delivery just went to another serving of Mango Glazed Chicken. We all agreed that we can finish one serving in one sitting.

As expected, we try to imitate the dish, but this time we used pork chop. The result was not as good as the B&T Mexican Kitchen’s Mango glazed chicken but it will do for a while.

Here’s our version, I used Mama Sita’s mango syrup for glazing, turns out too sweet hahaha not that bad for a first timer.

🙂

Our Piñata Collection

While browsing our photos for my Certified Loot Bags Addict entry, I found a great collection of Piñata..

Piñata is a container (palayok here in the Philippines), usually made of paper, filled with candies and toys and is broken as a part of a party or ceremony.

I can’t remember when I started the Piñata tradition…but since then, our party will never be complete without it.

That’s the oldest from our file.. Chico’s Thomas the Train Piñata. I had a hard time making it.. not to mention that I made two.. and yes I also love making banner for my kids’ birthday 🙂

Spongebob Piñata for my nephew’s 4th birthday last January 2010. This is the quickest Piñata I ever did! Took only about an hour or so 🙂 the kids love it so much! Me and my sister make fun of Spongebob’s eye bugs! hahaha

And because I had so much fun making Spongebob Piñata, I convinced my second boy for a Spongebob themed birthday party the same year my nephew had his. We learned from our mistake.. and Spongebob got a good night sleep the night before, hence no eye bugs this time.

Same year.. (hmm I think 2010 os Piñata year for us LOL) my first born celebrated his 7th birthday.. and he wants a Ben10..I wish I can say the same with this Ben10 Piñata but I had a hard time making this one.. as you can see, I only used crayola (or color pencil) on it.. my hands got so tired coloring it.. my art supplies were missing that time hahaha

The latest we had is the Cars movie Piñata.. from my second born’d 7th birthday party. My first born did the sketch and I just adjust it and color it.. saves me a lot of time. You know what, my first born is only 8 and he’s been a great help to me lately (as far as cleaning my arinola!). Lightning needs a wheel alignment on this photo haha It was quite a challenge to paint this Piñata as I need to make it look like 3D and I am glad of the outcome (err except for the wheel LOL)

We have 4 more birthdays coming this year.. May, my third born and another nephew.. I am still undecided on the theme but my third born loves Power Rangers and Mickey Mouse.. oh wait! Mickey Mouse seems to be an easy choice (nyahaha). Come October, my first born will celebrate his 9th.. and since it’s almost near to Halloween, I’ll think we’ll have a Halloween party and have a monster for Piñata (now that sounds exciting!). As for my princess, a Hello Kitty Piñata seems nice (she loves Hello Kitty) but I am not sure if she’d be happy seeing Hello Kitty in pieces.

When time permits. I’ll make a tutorial on how to make Piñata for birthday parties.