food for thought -ranting about breakfast for dinner

dont you just hate it when you go to a restaurant, ask a waiter about something in the menu just to be told that they will ask because they dont know? or to order and be told that more than 2 things in the menu are not available?

this was what happened when i went out with my HS classmates last saturday to have dinner at heaven & eggs.

the place had a cheery atmosphere, very inviting indeed. we settled in and after looking at the extensive menu, we ordered only to be told that 2 or 3 of our choices were not available.

i had ordered bacon, egg and cheese wrap and i naturally showed discontent that it was not available. the waiter retracted his statement after my frown and came back after a few minutes to tell me that my order was available. that would have been a disaster to a hungry customer early in the morning (as this restaurant does specialize in breakfast).


the dish was pretty good except for minor set backs.

there are two things i like about breakfast. one is over easy eggs and the second is ketchup (where its applicable of course)! i had asked for the eggs to be over easily cooked with the waiter dutifully repeating my request with the run down of the orders but it was not cooked that way. and when i gobbled up the little saucer of ketchup and had asked for a refill, they took more than 5 minutes to give me my condiment! now unless they tell me that they make fresh ketchup in the kitchen, i think that there is no excuse for such a small establishment to delay more than 3 minutes to give a customer her ketchup!

and it does not end there. when dinner was over, we were handed the dessert and drinks menu. my friend was intrigued and asked the waitress what the milo dinosaur was and she replied "milo po", uhmmm, i think that warranted further description...this was of course dismissed. i wanted something hot and asked the waitress what the the heaven and eggs blend was and i was told to hold (?!). a waiter came and asked for my inquiry which i repeated and was surprised to know that it was just the restaurants brewed coffee!

gosh! ok, lets just say the waitress was new, but shouldnt she have undergone training. i definitely was not asking what the herbs in the steak were or what oil they used in frying a dish, i was just asking what a drink was which turned out to be plain coffee! sheesh!

thank heavens for good company which neutralized the unsatisfactory experience!

weekend reunion

my first non solo weekend!

hubby was craving for sisig so saturday evening, he persuaded me to visit a restaurant which is truly a hidden authentic sisig place, aysee.

because i am not fond of non air conditioned restaurants with no exhaust installed, so i was hesitant at first but how could you say no to a request of a balik bayan (hehehe!), i just had to agree.


i was happy to find out when we got to aysee that there were available seats inside. the least i wanted to do was to eat roadside. so we ordered sisig and papaitan (aysee's specialty) and were ultra happy at the sight of our food.



it did not last long and less than an hour after ordering, we were out of there satiated.

sunday was an exciting day for me. i used my new anya hindmarch bag and coach wallet which hubby brought home for me and the new mossimo sandals that came in the box with other loot from my mom.

and, i finally opened my mineral make up and braved my way with the brushes. this was of course after reviewing the instructional CD that it came with.

because im such a cream make up fan, it was weird using powder from start to finish. at first i thought that it was a bit cakey and dry but when i stepped out and looked at my reflection, i thought it looked really flawless. i am now a convert. in fact, im wanting to try to do eye make up. ill see if i can find some locally available mineral liner.

sunday has always been rockwell mass day for us until hubby left, so after 2 months of saturday anticipated mass alone, i was happy to hear service with him.

before heading to mass we went to get our tresses maintained and it was there that we found out that manny won the fight (kwentong barbero! hehehe!).


and after mass, with growling tummies we headed for kuretake to collect my win from our boxing bet. of course i routed for pacman and hubby, the skeptic, routed for the bigger man.

we were both pretty hungry when we got to kuretake.


so we ordered a bento for two

(do you spy my anya on the seat?)

and sukiyaki teyshoku which both came with their entourage of dishes.

sashimi, and rolled cabbage

and shawan mushi

when our orders came and the dishes could not fit on the table, i had to ask the waiter to readily wrap some of the components of our orders so that we would have room for our plates. talk about two hungry people!

tummy filled, we ended the day with bolt the wonder dog. it was a good movie although for a cartoon, the plot seemed pretty grown up to me. i guess gone are the days when mikey rode steam boat willy.

a little teary eyed walking out of the cinema, we headed to the parking lot. i happened to look at cmg going down the esclator and spied a nice pair of shoes. i went in and did not want to leave without it. hubby felt helpless and gave in (after a few upward rolling of eyeballs).

so home i went with a great looking pair of shoes!


you immediately know you have a great buy when you feel that you will not be buying a new item like the one you bought in the near future. this is how i felt after i bought my new soles. dont you think they just look absolutely gorgeous?! i cant wait to wear them!

how did you spend your weekend?

home made kaya breakfast

in a little more than 12 hours my hubby will be coming home!

i cannot wait!

i woke up early this morning to check his flight status and everything is on schedule. lovely news to go with the lovely cool and sunny weather that greeted me today.

i headed downstairs and found that our house help prepared hamburger for breakfast (?!). not wanting to start my day with a burger, i happily realized i had all the ingredients for a kaya breakfast.

2 slices of bread (i used my frozen multigrain)
2 1/3 of an inch slab of butter
2 teaspoons of coco jam
1 bag of earl grey tea (i use trader joe's)
milk
2 eggs

kaya toast:
toast the bread for 5 minutes in medium heat
after the bread has cooled a little, top it with butter and the coco jam
milk tea:
heat water for your tea and steep the bag until desired strength
add milk
soft boiled eggs:
place raw egg in its shell in tap water and put over medium heat
time the cooking process starting when the water starts to boil
after 3 minutes, remove the egg from the boiling water and run under the tap
serve in a bowl (soy sauce optional)

taaaahdaaah...

Sedap!

sorry to disappoint you but im still not interested in cooking unless i really need to (like when you have to eat hamburger for breakfast! hehehe!), so call this a rare moment in time!