Heaven on my Plate

This week was very stressful...both at work and for my personal life. With so many pending tasks calling out my name all at the same time, I just wish I can just close my eyes and everything will just move around in a snap. However, if there's one moment this week when I hope time would just stand... 

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Spanish Wine and Food Festival with Torres Wines at Oakroom

I was invited to the Spanish Food and Wine Festival Press Lunch hosted by Torres Wines last April 7, 2010 at Oakroom. Oakroom is the restaurant located on the 6th floor of Oakwood Premier Joy-Nostalg Center in Ortigas.We were welcomed by a glass of Torres Coronas Tempranillo, a red wine that was just... 

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HowTo: Create Wine Application Shortcuts on Ubuntu

I use the Ubuntu partition on my laptop as my main/work desktop and I barely use Windows because I have all the programs and applications I need on Ubuntu even Windows programs like Adobe Photoshop. Running Photoshop on Ubuntu is made possible by Wine, a software that lets users install Windows software... 

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A Wonderful Neighborhood Food Find

Today we will soon bid goodbye to the Ox to welcome the Tiger. To celebrate the eve of this event and the eve of hearts day, Hubby, Tat and I drove a couple of meters away from home to have dinner at Poco Deli. A full shelf of wine bottles will greet you when you [...]... 

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Bulgaria Prime Minister Stops Alcohol Tax Raise

The villagers of Kapatovo, Bulgaria has named their home-made rakia brandy in honor of the Bulgarian Prime Minster Boiko Borisov in gratitude to him for ending parliament’s plan to raise alcohol taxes, reports Reuters. The name given to the village’s 2009 rakia is “Borisovka.” “The people of... 

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A lovely lunch with Hardys fine wines

I'm not a wine expert. I'm just a regular person who loves good food and drink. Albeit I've attended a wine workshop and wine appreciation lectures in the past, I regret to say that I'm still not a wine connoisseur by any measure.I was invited to an intimate lunch with Hardys fine wines last November... 

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Fruit Wine Making

Fruits can be transformed into wine through a process called fermentation. All it takes is heating to bring about the chemical reaction plus other ingredients. Choice of fruit varieties. Grape is not the only fruit which we can make good-quality wine. Natives fruits such as cashew (kasoy), duhat, pineapple,... 

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Lamesa Grill

Name of Establishment: Lamesa Grill
Location: Northwing of SM City Cebu
Types of Food: Filipino Dishes
Over-all place: Has a capacity of 120 people.
Ratings (1-5): 5
Other Branches: SM Mall of Asia, Trinoma Mall and soon in Glorietta and SM Megamall.
House Specialty: Deep fried lechon in pandan-crepe wrapper.

This new restaurant just opened on June 6, 2008 here at Northwing of SM City Cebu. Again, a new taste of stylized Filipino dish is here for the Cebuanos to taste its delicious food. According to the part-owner, Sen. Franciso Pangilinan, the restaurant was conceptualized as providing Filipino food using Japanese technology.

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