Star for all Season(ings)

This is what a highschool friend of mine called me one time during a get together in her place. It sprouted from a joke when I told her if I can sideline as an actress, Of course it was all in jest when I said that! And then she called me Star for all seasonings and that stuck. Some of you may have noticed how long I've been absent from blogging again. Well, not too long really! I've been busy with my food business because since I joined Good Meal Hunting I've had my hands full, apart from my other project that takes most of my time. 

Once again I would like to thank Good Meal Hunting for the exposure! Even I surprised myself during the interview. I thought I had to bring out a lot of my lost english vocabulary from my "baul" (antique trunk) and even imagined my nose bleeding at the end of the interview from all the questions that would be asked from me by Mr. RJ Ledesma. 

To those who might be interested hahaha (as if)... The show, Bright Ideas, which would feature other Kitchen Merchants like me, would air on August 11, 2016 at 9PM at the Bloomberg channel. I know I made a slip on one of the questions asked. I won't tell you which one hahaha you'd have to watch if you want to find out! hahaha

I prepared Beef Caldereta and Crapple salad roll for this particular video shoot.

Beef Caldereta

Crapple Salad roll

Popping it up with Good Meal Hunting

My marinating, prepping up, and eventual cooking of the dishes that I was bringing to the pop up kitchen organized by Good Meal Hunting went through without a hitch. Thanks to my ever reliable nanny Sheila and my youngest son, everything went on smoothly except that we forgot the parsley that I was supposed to use for plating. My husband knows how much I abhor driving through Edsa as I expected traffic to be horrible. But thanks to the phone app called HERE (which by the way is an app developed by Nokia and is still useful even without internet service), I was able to breeze through the trip via C5. 

As soon as we arrived we prepared everything on the table.  For the life of me, I wanted to knock myself on the forehead for not checking out Pinterest. I wanted my first pop up to look rustic or picnic like even but this is the best I came up with, with the limited time I had to come up with other ideas. 

The dishes I prepared for this event? I did Slow cooked Pork Belly with 2 kinds of gravy - Creamy mushroom and Apple raisin. It was served as a complete meal, with macaroni salad to complement the dish. I also prepared Chili Tuna Pasta, Coco Custard cups, and Oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips.

Slow cooked Pork Belly set meal 

All in all I had fun, am sure our nanny Sheila and my youngest son Alloy enjoyed themselves too! We almost burned the rice though as I just noticed. that part of my warmer was missing so, that the bottom of my warmer was directly in contact with the can of wax that I used. It was my first and I am ever so grateful for Good Meal Hunting for giving me this kind of opportunity and exposure!

Good Meal Hunting

Remember me telling you that I have a project? That was about 4 to 5 blogs ago... if am not mistaken.

Let me start by saying that I have always imagined myself in the food business. Reason why when I was still working, I brought with me food that I peddle at work. I have always dreamed of running my own cafe and that still remains as such. So when a friend of mine and a former colleague, messaged me about checking out goodmealhunting, I did so without hesitation. From the moment I checked the website, I knew that this was what I needed! I immediately signed up and a day or two after got a call from them confirming my online registration. It was that day that I arranged going to their office at Circulo Verde in Quezon City. I went there on June 9 with my youngest son in tow. I brought with me food samples as well and signed the contract for good measure hahaha! I am amazed and so happy that something like this is available for homemakers like me. Now I can just worry about cooking and let Good Meal Hunting take care of the delivery! I have met Warangkana Gear Fajardo, the Founder and CEO of Good Meal Hunting and I am just as amazed that finally someone like her was able to provide a platform for kitchen merchants like me. I have high hopes and very happy that I made the right decision by joining them!

Viaña’s Crapple Salad Roll

Viaña’s Chapchae

Viaña’s Chicken Cordon Bleu