Best Seller – Pasta in Olive oil and spicy boiled Egg cooked in tender minutes, exact taste with pesto and black pepper

Dessert – Chocolate Mousse

Beverage – Strawberry Iced Tea (fresh from Benguet)

What a delight. Sounds foreign?Haha. Five star treatment? Definitely.  Here’s why…what a way to end the day. I only ate two meals today, 26 July 2009. first my brunch, because I woke up around 10:00 am today, braced the heat of the sun rays (so hot). We are supposed to run and do marathon today at the sea side (Roxas Blvd and along CCP), however, another big HOWEVER, I was not able to wake up at the exact right time because of my flu and semi-fever. I kept on sneezing the entire day, got confined here in the room, watching TV shows of all sorts, read a book, played PSP games, daydream but no desire to fix my room. haha. Went down several times for a drink, said hi to everyone and all  then went back up here again, back in my portal. Funny.

Then for dinner, I craved for my ultimate favorite VALUE MEAL, not Mcdo or Happy Meal, but this one:

My Lucky Me! Pancit Canton (not an advertisement, just a blog post ok?) with its loving partner, my companion, boiled egg and a bread. I just got this image from the web, but my choice of bread would have to be Pesto (that’s the perfect combination).

My Favorite Value Meal. Rain or Shine

This is my ultimate favorite meal, lots of people who learned this was shocked, they never thought that I love eating pancit canton, most especially the Super Spicy Chili flavor. Haha. You know why? Because this is the only food which I can cook. Haha. Really, I am proud to say that. So even up to now, whenever discussions arises in a cafe or chats, I would boast about my ability to cook Pancit Canton with Egg. Hahaha.

One of my waterloo, really, is cooking. Because I grew up fearing the “kalan” or stove. I thought before that oil (in frying pans) would end up all on my face. “Tumatalsik kasi yung oil” (the oil kept on splattering all over the kitchen, just an exaggeration here). And that is when my “kitchen-fear” develops. I never learned to face my fear. I just love to eat.

Another factor would have to be, my mom does not really know how to cook “old Filipino Meals” too up to now. Haha. See, it is in the genes. But I too, am proud to say that she mastered the art of frying, all sorts of egg styles (nakahiga – sunny side up / nakatayo – boiled egg / halo-halo – scrambled egg), boiling water, playing with tuna’s (in cans of course) all its cooking style and that’s it. Hahaha. Whenever I would praise her about her cooking, this is her only exact line “of course, it is cooked with love that is why”. Funny. So funny.

That is why, I grew up eating bread, more bread and bread. My dad loves everything she cooked too. Haha. Good thing though that he is not into Filipino “real dishes” like Paella, Adobo, Caldereta, Tinola and so other cultured-Filipino Style-of cooking.  Lucky for us, if ever his taste buds would want that, I have an aunt who does cooking with magic. Yehey!

So my taste actually ranges from Fastfoods (burgers, fries, pastas, pizzas or as they say – the American Way), to instant-ready-to-eat-microwave-friendly ones, to Mini Stop and 7-Eleven. Haha. Full of chemicals! But, hey, look at me, at us. We all survived and was able to keep the beauty and energy of life.

I for one, believe that the support we can give out to our loved ones or to anybody else, be it in cooking or art, or choice of course really matters. Let us all fly to the moon, with our friends and family members as our feathers and wings for us to fly.

I will definitely eat Pancit Canton again. Definitely.

Would you like me to cook one for you? It’s on me…I will include 2 special boiled eggs on the side and a Pesto bread matched with Red Ice tea as a perfect treat. How about that?

Wink.