Clear and pastels for J&R

Wedding alert! It's tomorrow! <3

D's college friends, Ramon and Joedith will tie the knot tomorrow. They are one of D's favorite couple friends so I offered to make their wedding cord also. Joeds was too happy when I asked her. Here's them now. So full of love.

And here's the cord I made for them -

It's clear with a touch of pastels. Their motif is pastels of any color daw. As in their entourage will wear different colored pastel dresses. Cool! I do not want naman their cord to be techni-colored so I decided to use clear beads then accent na lang ung pastels. Nag-work naman sya I think. You be the judge. :)

Here's my packaging. Bote sya ng Clara O'le Strawberry Jam. O diba bonggels? :P

Unfortunately for us, we cannot attend because my hubby chose work first. Aww. But I do hope they'll like it.

With so much love,
Yosh

See you in dog heaven, Didith

So one day you are crying and then someone ask, "Why?"

And then you told her, "My dog died."

And she replied, "Parang yun lang..."

Dang!! At that moment I just want to punch her face. Pero pinigilan ko na lang. Kawawa lang sya. Only a dog lover will understand. And unfortunately for me, konti lang kami.

It's been a week already. It's only now na nakayanan ko na isulat. Nakakalungkot pala. I came to a point that I question myself. Am I a bad amo? Nagkulang ba ako? It's our practice sana because we are planning to start a family already but then we failed dahil nadeds si Didith. So will our baby not live din? Aww

This "was" Didith a day before she died. Sobrang payat na nya. Ang super yellow. The vet said she had liver disease and we cannot save her anymore. That night, I told her to sleep na if she's already tired. And parang hinintay lang nya yung words ko. The next morning, she never woke up na. I didn't take a picture of her in her "sleep" na. I want to remember her alive. This picture is not exactly the kind of aliveness I want to remember of her, but at least she looks sweet here. 

Hay so many bad thoughts. I just hope I'll get over this soon. Please pray for Didith and for me.

Hoping to see my Didith in heaven,

Yosh

Soft-boiled Egg ala Junior Masterchef

It's no secret that I love to cook. Actually, it's one of the wife duties that I always look forward to bagets pa lang ako. At halatang-halata naman sa katawan ko na busog ako always. :) So naturally, one of my favorite TV shows is Masterchef US. Last month, I was so engrossed with Masterchef Junior. Takte! 9-13 years old na mga bagets nagluluto na ng mga steaks at 3-layer cake?! Ibang klase!! Hahaha!

Anyway, one of the challenges that I got curious about was the soft-boiled egg challenge. Here were the top 4 while doing the challenge - 

They were only given one egg, slotted spoon, a pot with water and a serving plate. No timer! They will time it by gut. That's the hardest part!

They were tasked to deliver something like the picture below. Hard egg whites that does not stick to the shell and a runny egg yolk but definitely not raw.

Of the 4 of them, 3 failed. Only one did it. I was so surprised because these kids can cook food that are more hard to create but they weren't able to perfect the soft-boiled egg. Apparently, it is really hard. That's if you're trying to achieve the Masterchef standard of soft-boiled egg.

Shempre kinwento ko kay Bryce ang episode. Bryce, by the way, is our resident chef in the office. He's not a chef, chef. Just an aspiring one but he knows a lot about cooking. He shared some tips on how to achieve it. I tried it at home and here's the result -

Hard egg white and runny yolk! Yehey!! How I did it? Ok, let me share with you Bryce's secret. Wag nyo na lang ako isumbong. :P

Steps:

1. Leave the egg on the counter overnight if you're gonna cook it the next morning. Do not use eggs that just came out of the ref. I used an egg that was removed from the ref for two hours lang bilang sobrang busy kong tao. Char!! Basta dapat room temperature ang egg.

2. Boil your water first. Do not put your egg when the water is not yet boiling.

3. When the water is already boiling, put your egg in the slotted spoon then submerge it into the water. Make sure that no part of the egg is touching the base of the pot.

4. Time it around 3 1/2 to 4 minutes. Serve with a smile! :)

The reason why we cannot use cold eggs and why we cannot let the egg touch the bottom of the pan where the heat is concentrating is because we do not want the sudden change of temperature to crack our egg. Also, by using a slotted spoon, the egg will cook evenly and we can avoid the egg to be over-cooked on the side where the pot is touching it. Gets? Ahh basta ganun!

Try it daliiiiiii!

Feeling masterchef,
Yosh


** All photos except the last one were from the internet