Life's Sweet Fudge

These past few days, the weather is just so crazy. Most of the early mornings, it’s cold and sipping a hot Nutella Hot Chocolate is just fitting but then in the afternoon it’ll be hot and humid then it’ll be a bit chilly again in the evenings. Oh well, at least we can sip this delicious chocolate while just staying at home probably reading your fave magazine, or looking for January Clearance online or watching TV.

Making this Nutella Hot Chocolate is fairly easy.
Ingredients:
1 cup milk
2 tbsp. Nutella

1. Put the milk in pan and heat it up, once it is warm put the nutella and whisk.
2. Serve hot with marshmallows. Done. Yum!

Wow these are cool, isn’t it?

These cakes resembles like real cigars, aren’t they? If you have friends or relatives who love smoking cigars, these cakes will surely fit their passion for smoking hehe. The bakers are really clever these days as they can make any kind of cakes and other pastries that can suit any theme for birthday, anniversaries or other occasions. But if you’re looking for real cigars, check out this.

Images from: abccakeshop.com and cakerbelle.com/

Today is one of those days when I don’t know what to cook for lunch. I opened my freezer and there I saw chicken breast and frozen sweet peas so it gave me an instant idea what to cook. Fortunately, I have a can of button mushrooms but I got no all purpose cream or cream of mushroom but I know what to substitute for it.

Ingredients: The measurements are just approximates bec. most of the times I don’t really measure when cooking, ok

1 tbsp. butter
1 tbsp. cooking oil
1 onion
2-3 cloves of garlic
1 can of button mushrooms cut into pcs.
1 carrot – cut into strips
1 chicken breast – cut into strip
about 1/2 cup of sweet peas
salt, pepper,
about 1/2 cup of water
about 1/2 cup of evaporated milk –(you can also use all purpose cream or cream of mushroom soup) Note: if you use cream of mushroom, i think you don;t need cornstarch anymore because this is already thick)
cornstarch dissolve in water

Procedure:
1. Put cooking oil 1st so that butter will not burn, butter then saute garlic, onion.
2. Add the chicken, cook until it changed color
3. Add the veggies. Season with salt and pepper.
4. Add water and the milk. Cover and simmer
5. Add the cornstarch until thick.
6. Adjust seasoning according to your taste. Serve hot! Yum!

I enjoyed watching my nephew played his butterfly yoyo and I have to say that it’s not that easy to play with it esp. doing all the tricks. I guess it’s even harder to bake these oh so colorful and delicious macarons if a non-baker just like me will make it. Hehe.. I’ll just ask my sister to bake it for me and will just help her in preparing the ingredients.

I accompanied my mom to her doctor the other week and before it’s our turn, I noticed that her doctor is on his phone talking to a fellow doctor. I guess he must be consulting or exchanging medical notes on how to go about the patient. I also experienced when I was rushed to the hospital that the ER doctor called my doctor telling him what medicines that he’ll give to me.

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Valentine’s Day is coming soon and these cute cupcakes with heart toppers are really cute! You can give them to your friends and loved ones if you ópt to give foods as gifts. You can order them at your fave pastry shops or you can bake your own if you know how. There are so many cupcakes designs that you can make. Just be creative and you’ll end up having delicious cuppies.

Yay, summer is coming and thinking about the humidity makes me sweat right now. I still remember how hot the summer is last year and all I did was to complain …lol

Anyway, I think this Mango Strawberry Mimosa Pops will make our summer cooler. I saw this online as a a dessert for bridal shower and I think this idea is cool.

Mango Strawberry Mimosa Pop
ingredients:
• mango orange juice
• fresh strawberries
• prosecco
• 3 oz dixie cups
• small bamboo forks purchased at Target

directions:
1. Mix 1 cup of OJ with ½ cup Proscecco
2. Pour into 8 small dixie cups – should fill up about ¾ of the way. Put in the freezer for 30 minutes
3. While those are freezing, take 5 large strawberries and puree with ¼ cup OJ
4. Add this next layer to the popsicles along with the bamboo forks in the center and freeze overnight
5. Enjoy!

Recipe and image from http://greenweddingshoes.com/diy-bridal-shower-popsicle-party/

It’s always fun and feels great when we are eating but we have to know that we should not eat too much especially those foods that are high in fat and saturated oils. Having a high cholesterol levels in our blood can give us so many health problems if not monitored. It can lead to hardening and narrowing of the arteries and can even lead to heart attacks. I don’t think that we want that to happen to us right?

People with high cholesterol levels in their blood sometimes don’t even know that they have a high cholesterol not until they go to the doctor and have their blood examined for cholesterol levels. Patients are given medicines but unfortunately a drug named Crestor, that use to be given to patients with high cholesterol and with cardiovascular disease can cause serious side effects. Kidney failure and other side effects are known to be caused by Crestor. If you are a victim of Crestor, you can file a Crestor lawsuit so you can be compensated for the damage it has done to you.

Here’s another quick and tasty recipe that I cooked few weeks ago. My friend posted a photo at her IG acct. the dish with mushroom that they ate in her fave restaurant and I drooled over it so I decided to cook this Beef with Mushroom in Oyster Sauce.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo or sirloin beef cut into strips
1 can button mushrooms
1 onion
2- 3 cloves garlic
1 carrots cut into strips
approximately 1/2 c water
3-4 Tbsp oyster sauce
pepper

Directions:
1. Saute garlic, onion. Add the beef
2. Add carrots, mushroom. then add water. Simmer till tender
3. . Add the oyster sauce until cooked

So easy!