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Homemade Tiramisu (or something like it) which I already featured here in my 2010 Project 365.

I did this homemade tiramisu before getting wedding party gifts for a friend. When we got home, it was the perfect sweet thing to have after a long and tiring day.

Ingredients:

• broas or lady fingers dipped for a bit in bitter coffee melted in water
• all purpose cream and condensed milk mixed together (no mascarpone cheese in our household)
• cocoa powder
• dark chocolate syrup (optional)

Dip the broas briefly in the coffee. Lay all the broas together. Put a layer of the cream on top of it. Continue layering depending on your broas.

Sprinkle with cocoa powder when you are done.

Chill for a few hours before serving.

Put chocolate syrup if you so desire. The children asked for some since I did not put a lot of condensed milk and the cream is not too sweet.

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Tomorrow, the faithful will celebrate Easter Sunday.

Easter Sunday in the modern and commercialized Philippines mean going on egg hunting and having Easter Sunday parties. Hey, no offense meant, this is a great family bonding activity after church obligations have been fulfilled.

Easter Sunday is so much more than just egg hunting.

For vacationers, this day means they go back to work the next day, dealing with bosses and clients, reading insurance blogs or whatever it is that they do to earn a living.

When I was young we used to go to the beach for Easter Sunday celebration where the pastor talks about the significance of Easter Sunday. We’d go egg hunting after the service, before taking a plunge in the cool waters of the almost uninhabited beach which by now I am sure is full of vacationers.

Sometimes the eggs can’t be eaten because these have been buried in sand and well, has been sandy all over 🙁

Sometimes one would get “lucky” and sit on a hidden egg. No need to go dig in the sand anymore, yipee!

I miss those times when things were simpler.

I gotta go to sleep now for we have an early morning church obligation. I hope the kids would be able wake up 🙂

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Now your favorite Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have been transformed into Krispy Kreme Easter Egg-Shaped Doughnuts!

There is no need to hunt for Easter Eggs, just get a box or two of these Krispy Kreme Easter Egg-Shaped Doughnuts in these flavors: Hershey’s Cookies & Cream, Chocolate Iced with Sprinkles, Chocolate Custard Filled, Hershey’s Dark Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Kreme, Sugar, Caramel Kreme Crunch, Chocolate Kreme Filled, Snickers Classic and Cinnamon Apple. There are new flavors too: Lemon Iced, Blueberry Iced and Strawberry Iced

Krispy Kreme Easter Egg-Shaped Doughnuts are now available at Krispy Kreme stores near you.

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A lot of home break-ins during Lent happens. The reason for this would be because people are vacationing elsewhere due to several days of non-working days. One of the times home break-ins happen is when people attend dawn masses before Christmas.

I am not joking about this if you think I do. These articles here and here from a broadsheet confirms what I am talking about: home break-ins during Lent.

Ironic considering the country is predominantly a Catholic country.

So what are the homeowners supposed to do to prevent home break-ins during Lent when they will leave their homes for a few days? Here a a few helpfult tips:

• Lock your homes securely. Keep the valuables (like jewelry, cash and important documents) in sturdy containers like mmf drawers or vaults that hard hidden from intruders or better yet, bring them elsewhere.
• Stop newspaper subscriptions several days before your vacation. Piled up newspaper in front of your gate means there are no people inside.
• Use automatic timers for lights on  certain times of the day.
• Lower the sound of our telephone’s ringing. Or better yet, just turn off the ringer.
• Ask a neighbor you trusts to keep an eye on your house for you.
• Try to make your home the same as when you are away and when you are there.

Encourage not these people who have dark motives of doing home break-ins during Lent. Being a victim is not a good thing.

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