huevos rancheros or not

all of a sudden i had this craving for huevos rancheros but if you want to eat the real deal then it's quite cumbersome to do, i mean i need to make guacamole, i need to have nachos/tortilla and refried beans to make it really authentic.

i've resolved to just having "baked" eggs or something similar since i've seen some blog posts of a similar dish. so finally, i gave into my craving months after.

saute some chopped onions, put some canned chopped tomatoes (you can use any type of canned tomato in my opinion the key here is to have something saucy enough. you can even use tomato sauce and fresh chopped tomatoes but i was going for this certain effect so canned chopped tomatoes it was), put some seasoning i've used jalapeno, cayenne and oregano (the specks you see on the top of the eggs) maybe you can use other spices to make it either italian or mexican like basil or cumin, salt and of course the eggs. cover it if you want a certain level of doneness, for this dish i like my eggyolks a bit done on the outsides and just soft and creamy inside. i also topped this with cheese afterwards. perfect with garlic bread or any crusty bread heck you can dip your nachos in this as well.

"japanese" fried rice

this was actually just a hodge podge of left over ingredients i didn't want to spoil so i decided to make fried rice one day.

rice, chopped/fried veggie meat, shimeji mushrooms, spring onions, japanese soy sauce, egg omelette cut into thin strips and some shredded nori

shella makes: noodles :D

just wanted share these wonderful carbs i've cooked, one is western and the other is pinoy.

salmon and zucchini fettucini

inspired by tgi friday's cedar smoked salmon pasta (not sure about the name). this version is sans the cream but basically has the same ingredients as friday's.

garlic, fresh tomatoes, salmon, zucchini and italian parsley.

palabok

this is palabok, a filipino rice noodle dish. the sauce is made with garlic, ground pork, shrimp juice, annatto seeds, water and flour. there so many choices of toppings, mine had chicharon, egg, shrimp, spring onions and fried garlic.

my big gay rainbow cake

ever since i saw the rainbow cake of cake shack, i knew i had to try it. light, fluffy, colorful layers of buttercake with a cream cheese frosting. i initially wanted it with rainbow colored icing but other than the price, i realized that the colorful layers will not shine through if the icing is multi colored as well. luckily, there's an option to have a colored icing other than the traditional white one. got mine in yellow which was perfect. it was really good and you can see the brightness of the colors which other rainbow cakes out there fail to match (if they google they will know why their layers are not bright and colorful!). this was my birthday cake by the way hehe...good enough reason to buy a big cake isn't it?

cake shack

http://www.thecakeshack.com.ph/

my day at kimpura

this was my first time in kimpura could you believe it? i can't either. of course we got the teppanyaki. i only ordered two sets of ribeye with fish and prawn and had an extra order of scallops. also just had an extra serving of rice and miso soup since there is 3 of us.

food was really good, you know that they use only high grade ingredients. it was a very happy meal and we were so stuffed we didn't finish all of this, had the leftovers to go.

kimpura
trinoma mall, qc

my birthday brekkie

oh yes, you read it right! this was my birthday brekkie that's why it was tagged #itsmorefuninthephilippines since i celebrated my birthday in manila for the first time since i moved to kl.

i don't like the singaporean chilli crab recipe or the sweet and sour type of crabs. for me this is perfect, the way i want my chilli garlic crabs. butter, garlic, crabs, tomato sauce, salt, sugar and tabasco.

urbn bar and kitchen

i've read so many reviews on urbn, well most of them were sponsored posts but the food seems legit and it has become one of my friends' favorite spots so during my last visit it was a must.

well i wasn't really blown out of my mind with the dishes we tried, they were ok but not extraordinarily good.

manchego cheese souffle - it was light and the crispy prosciutto made it more interesting and provided a contrast of textures.

rack of lamb - wanted to try the dry aged steak but they didn't have it tsk tsk. we ordered medium but this one seems to be too rare for us. we had it sent back to the kitchen for further cooking.

mac and choreese - nothing special just mac and cheese, i didn't even taste any distinct flavors from the chorizo.

kurobota pork belly - seriously? this was just like fried pork belly. there's something wrong with the slaw it was just not right and they are better off using regular pork because the way this dish was cooked didn't highlight the quality of the pork.

white chocolate lava cake

my friends love their chocolate lava cake but they didn't know there's white chocolate lava cake so when we found out we opted to order this. this one is more like yema flavored cake and not white chocolate it was still good though. 

overall, they served decent food but nothing to rave about. there was a miss on my singapore sling by the way. they served me a drink that tasted like cough syrup so we eventually complained and they replaced it with something that is what a singapore sling should look like (well it was my first singapore sling so i was apprehensive on complaining but from my recollection a singapore sling shouldn't really look like a mcfizz).

urban bar and kitchen

fort pointe building, bgc