Thursday, February 18, 2010

Truffle Mania!


What's a better way to enjoy life than popping one of those rich, decadent, luscious and oh so tempting truffle in your mouth??!

"Um...truffles... Yum!"

Most of us have share the same passion as to eating these fancy, expensive looking chocolates and heck they are EXPENSIVE! But no matter what they are so good and melts in your mouth like no other! To add, makes you feel at your best!

So right around Valentine's Day I went crazy learning how to make truffles myself and I tell you it's not easy to have one perfectly enrobed truffle in a nice shiny coat of chocolate! The tempering of the chocolate for a first timer was just crazy and tedious! However I must say the outcome/ success was very rewarding! =) For a chocolate soul like me, I didn't mind enrobing myself in chocolate as well but what tops the whole experience is being able to share that experience with special people in your life. I have concluded that the next chocolate holiday in my life will be a moment I will not miss to have my family and friends involved in the production of this seemingly fancy confections! =)

After a whole week of trying to perfect the art of truffle making, tempering chocolate, enrobing and (the fun part) eating rejects, I just can't get over the experience and wanted more! It's like a life changing event in my life towards the way I appreciate chocolates/confections. The "oh wow chocolate..yum yum.. gobble everything, done!" attitude was history for me. I now eat my chocolates like it's my first and last. This is basically the same lesson I learned from learning how to make bread and any other kind of food I have prepared in the past: Appreciate and savor the flavors, don't just gobble and wobble after!

I dare you to do the same and I can only promise you one thing, it's all worth all the trouble! Chocolate has never lost it's power to melt somebody's heart!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Growing up "Military" way


I woke up feeling positive today.

I opened the windows and cool breezes of air kissed my warm, chubby cheeks :) I closed my eyes briefly and suddenly a brief memory from being back home recurred in my mind, my strict parents! (LOL!)

My dad served the Philippine Army for some good number of years as I was growing up and all I know that time was that he was so strict and I hated him for that ( sorry dad, can't find any other word to describe how that felt =S). We worked on schedules and I of course had my share of scoldings and what not.

At 7, I took on a lot of responsibility for my family ( helping my mom clean the house, do laundry, take care of my little sister, fold the laundry, wash the dishes, etc.) and that went on and on until I moved out of our house to fulfill the path that I thought was destined for me. Oh well, the whole point to this is that it wasn't until I got here in the U.S. and had to be away from home and family that I realized my parents, my dad most especially, was preparing me and my siblings for something greater, our liberation.

It's not easy being away from home and I haven't been gone for too long but I am a living testimony of a soul that searched, grew, got lost and got found again. I will never forget growing up the Military way.

Thanks dad!