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Blue Eagles led the Green Archers to one of their favorite nook — Fruili…inside UP village.

Putanesca (P120). Angel hair with our version of putanesca - made of tomatoes, capers, anchovies & olives.

This pasta felt light.  Simply feeling healthy as we take our fork with swirled pasta into our mouth.

Magherita (P160). Simply a combination of garlic and herbs smothered with 2 layers of mozzarella cheese topped with fresh tomatoes.

Tasty bites of this pizza will surprise you with a crunchy ending.

Spaghetti Meatsauce ( P 110). Beefy Tomato sauce served with spaghetti.

Definitely, good!  All because Lance really made sure that we get a taste of this…this is one of his favorite.

Tre Formaggi (P160). Another classic pizza of three cheeses - mozzarella, cheddar & blue. A treat for cheese lovers.

This really is a treat for cheese lovers.  The blue chiz flavor really stood out which I loved!

Tuna and Mushroom (P100). Spicy white sauce with tuna & mushroom served with spaghetti.

I also liked this tuna and mushroom but the presentation was not that appetizing.  The pasta looked like it was overcooked.  I liked the spiciness of the white sauce and the light taste of the tuna.  I love love mushroom too!  I’m happy that this tuna and mushroom didn’t taste the usual “can” (lata) taste.  I would’ve finished this off but hesitated to do so.  I had another dinner to go to..have to have space for that dinner.

The dessert menu is not their homemade stuff but it came from the usual supplier of Italian resto…you’ll know what I mean if you take a peek of there lineup…pharaoh’s delight, after8. tiramisu and tartufo nero/ bianco…but order anyway, if you want to have a sweet ending.

This is a good find!  Place is a little bit of cramp.  No fancy place, only good and affordable food!

We’re back, Cafe Juanita!  This was one of our date place when I was still working in Mandaluyong eons ago.  We’d go to Cafe Juanita whenever we have longer lunch time or dinner time because of the longer cooking time.

I was quite surprised to find that Cafe Juanita was more alive than our previous dinner visits but I was glad too!  At least, it was in a festive mood, just in time for Christmas.

Juanita’s Caesar Salad (P 242).  Glad to have ordered a veggie salad this time…I’m up to my neck eating meat and meat these days…How am I going to lose the pounds I need to lose?!  And aside from that, I need to eat healthy as JX would also need the nutrition the most!  I liked the salad, sauce generously mixed with the greens.

Dinuguan with chicharon (P230?).  HB decided to order this dinuguan.  It was not in the menu but just sticking on a wall in front of our table…new dish….Dinuguan!  And so we tried…I am a sucker for sauce…and this lacked the sauce I wanted but nevertheless, this tasted good.  I could taste the coco cream but wished I could have more sauce to mix with my rice.  Fat content on the pork was considerably fair.  The chicharon was kinda stale.  But overall, it was okay.

Kare-Kare ni Juanita (P483). Always served with pride as one of our specialties: Ox-tail and tripes stewed in peanuts and toasted rice with tropical vegetables.

If you’ve noticed, we have been eating in Filipino restaurants these days AND been ordering Kare-Kare (though of different variants) and so far, I have liked this BEST.  The sauce tasted real…made of peanuts.  It was grounded to bits.  The bagoong was also good to complement the dish.  At least, the kare-kare didn’t rely on the bagoong to make the dish delish unlike the previous kare-kare we had (I haven’t blogged about it.)

Sticky Toffee Pudding (P89).  I didn’t like this dessert.  If I remember it right, the pudding tasted like Food for the Gods and I do not like Food for the Gods.  Wished I was the one who ordered the dessert.

If I had the chance, I’d try their Sunday Lunch buffet…another date place too!

Cafe Juanita
No.2 United Street corner West Capitol Street, Brgy Kapitolyo, Pasig.
Telephone Number: +632 632-0357.

We just came from a meeting in QC…it was late for dinner (for me at least) but HB convinced me to have dinner here…

He said that we rarely go to QC so we have to maximize our trip…and off we went to this place called Adarna…We had to ask exact location from a nearby gas station and parking boy from Trellis but they were not familiar with the resto…and so we went on until we found Adarna…Yes, we are always on an adventure whenever we look for a new resto…never give up until we land on the restaurant with our obvious hungry faces.

Wow!…it was like an old house but not the eerie kind of house.  By the way, they have 2 function rooms which they named, Silid ng Bituin and Silid ng Reyna.  You can reserve the rooms with a minimum consummable of P5000.  The function room can fit 15-20 pax each room.  You get to feast on the photos of the Local Actors and Actress and Carnival Queens.  At first, I didn’t quite get what Chef Ginny was talking about when she was telling us the story of the Carnival Queens so I had to asked it again.  The Carnival Queen is similar to our Miss Universe now.  The only difference between the CQ and Miss U is that the Carnival Queens come from the prominent families with the samequalification as the Miss U candidates.  How interesting and how different is the CQ term as what we know of it now.  The rooms would definitely be one of the conversation topics during your gathering.

Piassok (P304).From Mindanao, experience this exotic Sulu dish of beef chunks cooked slowly in smoked coconut cream and ten spices till tender then buttered and grilled just before serving.

Hmmm…so this is piassok…kinda surprised to see just 3 chunks of beef….but at least it tasted good…you can taste the coco cream…but I wonder what the 10 spices where….I forgot to ask…I was too excited to even remember.

Seafood Special (P471). A true-blue Manila family shares an Iberian style seafood dish of shrimps, scallops and fish in a flavorful tomato-olive oil suace topped with bell pepper, fried onions and parsley.

A sweet tomato sauce that enticed my palate…shrimps, scallops and fish with the Batanes rice…hmmm….yummy but i was wishing that the fish was not breaded (meaning fried beforehand).

Batanes Yellow Rice Family Size (P130). From up north, a rice dish that is so simple it is elegant. Turmeric, garlic and a bit of pork flavors the rice for a special treat.

Practical side of me, instead of ordering a serving size of the Batanes rice which cost around P60, we opted to order the Family size since this is twice the price of a solo size but 5 people can eat it.  We brought the leftover home.

Platanillos con Mangga (P150). Light cream on crepe twirled into a cone and finished with rhum-flavored mango slices.

I wished AD was with us.  I’m sure he will be soooo happy with the dessert.  He’ll be in sugar high for sure.   This would not taste good if we include this in our doggy bag so off it went into our tummy.

They made a Sari-sari store for the kids and kids at heart.  The candies and party favors are for FREE.  These are the treats you had when you were young.  You name it, they have it.  I’ve tried to name a few to see if they forgot something but it was just out of stock!  Tex cards, plastic balloons, chocnut, bazooka, mint candies, marbles, sampaloc…Kids and Kids at heart just loved these treats the most, that’s why it easily disappeared!

A….for Adarna….Awesome concept!  Love to go back to try their other interesting dishes with friends.  Good company with good food.  A great place for bringing your special someone!

Adarna Food & Culture
119 Kalayaan Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City
Telephone: +632 926-8712
Mobile: +63 917 961 8113
adarnafoodandculture@yahoo.com

This is soooo funny…

It was another tiring day of the week. We had dinner at La Regalade and came home rather late. Cleaned a little bit and off, we went to snooze…

JX has a bed of his own while AD shares the bed with us. I would usually bring JX to our bed when it is nearing morning so he would sleep a little longer.  Based on my experience with the boys, if one (HB & me) of us sleeps beside them, they tend to sleep longer because of the human heat and not sleeping alone in a room.

AD usually would wear sando to sleep while JX wears a white tee.  Both wear pjs.

JX would usually wake up when he gets hungry in the middle of the night so when he woke up with a cry, I quickly got him to nurse him.  When JX began to suck (pardon the word), I felt pain which don’t usually happen.  So, I stopped nursing him at that moment because the pain becaome unbearable.  It was a relief that JX didn’t cry to complain.  Gladly, I laid him beside me.

After an hour or two, I woke up and remembered JX was not beside me but near my waist/ leg part. He really rolls everywhere, finding the best position and spot for him.  And guess who was beside me? It was AD.  He was also wearing a white tee.

Hmmm….It made me wonder…Was it AD or JX who I nursed?  Of course, AD won’t remember it but I asked anyway and joked about it. As usual, he would just smile until he had no eyes and answered yes.  And it was yummy too!  But if it was AD, wouldn’t I noticed it since AD’s head is bigger than JX?  AD is heavier than JX.

Until today, I’m not really sure who I nursed — AD or JX.  And I guess, I wouldn’t know either.  And no, definitely, it was not HB because he was nowhere near the bed.  He was in front of his beloved computer.