Grilled Mussels, Oysters and Tilapia Dinner

Grilled Seafoods

It's once again dinner time, and the shaman's having fun with food again. We had some Tahong (Mussels), Talaba (Oysters) and Fish (Tilapia).

It's a good thing having fast metabolic rate, eating will not get you fat. For this evening we decided to grab some grilled seafoods, since the red tide warning has been lifted and he haven't tasted tahong and oyster for quite some time.

The shaman fired up some uling (Coal), and placed  tahong and oyster over it. It cooks fast, and its quite half-cook compared to conventional cooking methods. Vinegar sauce/dip will make it more tasty and complete the cooking process. Like kinilaw recipes, It applies the same method. For our vinegar sauce, I diced some onions, sili (pepper), pepino (Cucumber), a bit of salt, and sugar.

Cataclysm Calls Forth Heroes to Arms

A new nemesis has surfaced, a new era in World of Warcraft. Calling newbies and retired gamers to return and be sucked back.

The shaman returns, from a long slumber. Everything has changed, Everything is new.

And my auctions has expired. Looking forward to face cataclysm soon.

Cheesy Lasagna Sunday

Our first lasagna

This Sunday, We have Prepared Lasagna.

This is our first time to cook lasagna, since this food follows the same path with baked macaroni. We just followed the same procedure to as how we make baked macaronis.

Using the Flat sheet pasta used for lasagna, Ground beef, Spaghetti Sauce, Quick melt Cheese, Tomato sauce, Onions, Evaporated milk, Butter and all purpose flour.

First up we boiled the pasta, then prepared the red sauce similar to spaghetti sauce procedure. As for the white bechemel sauce, Butter, Flour, all-purpose cream on a sauce pan.

Penne Carbonara and Whole Meat Ham Dinner

Holiday Ham

Our Galera Trip was cut short due to Work-Related Hazard so we treat ourselves with this feast for dinner last Friday.

What I usually do with the ham is boil it with pure or concentrated pineapple juice with a few pineapple chunks untill the sauce thickens. No additional seasonings required.

And a Typical carbonara recipe using penne pasta sizzled with italian seasoning.

The shaman's trip to the beach

Sorry Yuki you can't

The shaman's recent visit to puerto galera for a little R & R.

Off-peak season is a nice time to visit, have a few people around, and everything is cheaper compared to peak seasons.

Resonance Speaker

CD-R King Resonance Speaker

Recently got curious about a resonance speaker I saw at cdrking pavilion mall in binan.

The shaman was urged to take a look at and, googled it up. Next thing is I grabbed one. Resonance by definition, "in physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with larger amplitude at some frequency than others."

"Resonance occurs when a system is able to store and easily transfer energy between two or more storage mode" (wikipedia)
In this case, Resonance speaker Produces sound and transfer it to any flat surface the

Pork Adobo with Ashitaba

Pork adobo with Ashitaba by my sister

For those of you wondering, what is "ashitaba" click here. This is an alternative way to make your regular dishes healthy using ashitaba leaves or commonly known as "Tomorrow's Leaf"

You can basically use it as a garnishing, to common Filipino Dishes. Already used ashitaba in "Tokwa't Baboy," Papaitan, Nilaga/Bulalo, Sinigang  both on Pork and Fish. Sorry I have no images when I cooked them five or more months ago.

Later on I will do post them as I cook them.

Lechon Kawali and Pancit Habhab Delight

Lechon Kawali

This is what the shaman prepared for dinner lastnight, Lechon Kawali non-fry and Pancit Habhab. Thanks to Connie over at homecookingrocks.com for the wonderful idea. It turned out well, crispy and oil free.

After boiling the pork belly slab with salt pepper, onion and garlic. I let it cool for a few hours without the pork stock.

Then shoved it to a turbo broiler, I didn't preheated tho, took me 40 minutes under 325 farenheit.

Even though it didn't popped that much, the skin has the similarity to lechon baboy (Roast pork) skin.

Why is it good to have a live linux iso, cd or usb drive

Linux Mint 8 Helena

My slowest computer running winxp, when it crashes. Using my ready-made linux distros live cd installer saved on a 2GB flash drive. I just boot up the pc, and run a live session to access files or perform a backup even if your windows system won't boot up. I have a backup windows ISO saved on my external drive.

Since when you use linux live cd, dvd, or usb drive. All devices works out of the box, even your cd burning optical drives. Looking at the image on the left, I am burning an installer from my backup ISO, because some of my installer is not with me at the moment. Also I managed to get some files out to completely perform a clean install on this machine.

The shaman and letran batch 95 @ sutukil bar

Sutukil bar & cafe

The shaman went out with his highschool friends and batchmates at Sutukil Bar & Cafe last Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010.

After a long stretch of 15 years, it's good to see old friends and buddies. Facebook groups brought us together that led everyone to decide its about time to get those old grumpy folks back and have a break, do some chatters over food and beer.

Not to mention the songbirds to enlighten the crowd over at the stage for live music and KTV.