Cup-pirasong Cake!

I have been baking a little too often this month. Just this week alone, I did 96 cupcakes in total.

A dozen of that have been devoured last Sunday.

Last Tuesday, 28 cupcakes went along with Yoyon to his child care for his pre-birthday celebration. His treat for the little people in his "school". (The rainbow icing was an inspiration from my kumareng April. I used a small pipe and cheap food colouring for my practice.)

Wednesday was the night I started baking carrot walnut and vanilla choc chip cupcakes. All stored in the fridge right now, waiting to be frosted and decorated for my little lion's party on Saturday.

Only used a cheap hand held mixer for all of these. So you guessed it right - my forearms need some loving massage right now. But I can't stop just yet. I have choco-mocha and almond orange flavours lined up fro Friday night (after office hours!!!).

I am truly enjoying this craft right now. I am beginning to think that I might have to bid adieu to my collection of scrapbooking materials and tools (just when I have finished painting my scrapping room - I can see DH going , "Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!"). But then again, baking and cake decorating is done in the kitchen. That means, I still get to keep (and maybe use again) my colourful scraproom.

Holy Menu...

Tomorrow, Good Friday is the start of another loooong weekend! Hooray!

Anyway, before my brain shuts down, I'm trying to think of what to serve the kids and the young-at-heart this weekend. And because we will be, (more of try), observing abstinence, I can't have meat in my dishes.

You see (and I'm pointing at my mareng April who emigrated to the Swiss Alps two years ago), the Manasan's and LS will be getting together at our new abode for an egg-painting session on Saturday afternoon. (We've been missing you in sooo many events na mare!).

I'm thinking of palabok. But I must confess I've only tried my hands on this recipe, ONCE! I need a backup recipe. Since Carla is bringing fish. I might whip some ensaladang labanos (radish salad) . Also, thinking of salmon head in tamarind soup (sinigang sa miso). Or maybe munggo soup (mung bean soup).

My biggest challenge is the kid's menu. My goddaughter has allergy with seafoods. So I might bake some spaghetti. Hahahaha! No meat sabi eh! Esep esep muna! But imposing abstinence from chocolates and cakes before Easter Sunday seems to be a better alternative for them.

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This morning Wiji even had a request, if we could make some treats for the guests. Here goes another challenge. So I'm thinking of Food for the Gods. Again, I have only tried this once. By the grace of our Lord, may I find the recipe and the ingredients I have used four years ago.

Dishing out my own DISH

Hubby might throw a joke on me for including the dish I just cooked in my blog. Heck, I'm NOT the only one who does similar posting over the internet. Anyway, it's my version of spaghetti deli-meat-left-over-lovers ... but this time I added some fresh asparagus spears for added colour and of course, nutrition!

It's basically, ham, salami, chorizo, and whatever deli is in the fridge, (You can substitute my chorizo for hotdogs, why not!), sauteed in olive oil, onions and some minced garlic. And toss the cooked spaghetti noodles in. All done! This is going to be our "baon" (packed lunch) for tomorrow at work, and Luigi's lunch since he loves noodles.

Okay, I haven't tried it but I know it's gonna be good enough for one hungry stomach - hubby's! He's about to come home from his uni classes tonight.