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Onion rings.

“Ewww… the smell” as some people would react.

These onion rings can be used for frying crispy onion rings, or used as pizza toppings or for the Filipino version “bistek”.

Our own version of the bistek has no beef strips but has bangus back fillet strips marinated in soy sauce, oyster sauce, and ground pepper cooked with onion rings. Yum!

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True to my plan to spend frugal Christmas, I was able to bake several batches of brownies to give away to relatives and for my children to munch on.I found these easier to bake than the cookies I planned to do first.

I was even able to bake some butter loaves to give to the children who come a-knocking on the gates on Christmas day for some “aginaldo”. We were even able to give to those plying the streets when we went to hubby’s aunt’s for lunch on the 25th.

Anyway, here are some of the brownies I baked in a photo taken on Christmas eve:

Here’s wishing you all a bountiful 2009 filled with joy, peace and love 🙂

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Yellow Cab Pizza is like a “special” pizza for we just have these when there are special events. We love it of course for the taste is really like no other but its price is not that affordable for us.

The children like pizza with mostly cheese as toppings. Whereas I love green bell pepper, mushroom and onions.

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We stay and wait for my husband to come from the office for about 2 hours in SM Megamall every Monday and Wednesday. By we I mean my two younger children and I.

it is dinner time when we go there. We bring milk drinks with us as their drink as they have their dinner. We usually just stay in the mall’s basement food court near the parking area we chose to avail of.

The children usually choose Greenwich for food. We used to order those meals with fried chicken, pizza, macaroni salad and drinks. Lately we have been ordering their rice meals like Chicken a la King or Adobo or we go for another kind of food from a different food store.

Anyway, the Greenwich Macaroni Salad is often LEFT UNEATEN. The kids do not like this and neither do I.

Why they have to put fresh tomato and sliced lettuce bits in the macaroni salad, puzzles me so just because. Somebody clue me on this, please 😀 This part of the meal goes to waste so we do not buy these anymore.

The children love macaroni salad, they do, but this one is not a favorite.

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I may not be able to do some  blog hopping because we have a whole day United Nations Day Program today. WIll be visiting your posts when my sked is a bit free. Thanks for dropping by.

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Taking food photos is a bit tricky.

I admit this is what I need to work on, taking food photos. I have never quite made myself good at this. It is all trial and error of course, which makes me frustrated at times but I am willing to work on it.

This got me thinking about how to take better photos of food.

I think one of the things that make food photos look good is the way it was prepared. Food styling is an art in itself, I believe.

Another thing that makes food photos look good is the lighting. There are restaurants that have good lighting one would think they got maxim lighting stuff.

Let’s take a look at these two food photos that show how lighting make the food look better. These were not altered in any way except by cropping and putting my blog’s name on it:

Arni Sto Fornou or slow roasted leg of lamb served with potatoes and lemon au jus from Cyma in TriNoma during the Bloggers Spot Pass Food Tour last summer

This spread from Mamou in Serendra was for our perusal. I took photos here because the lighting was better than the one where the food were for taking photos. This reminds me that I have not written a post about this leg of the Bloggers Spot Pass Food Tour in Serendra, my bad. I have a post for the Spot Pass Bonifacio High Street Bloggers Food Tour restaurants though for the same blogger event

There are also restaurants with bad lighting that no matter how delicious the food is, and how well it looks, and how wonderfully it was presented, the photos do not do justice to the finished product and that is a sad thing.

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I posted early because I have work tomorrow and may not be able to put my link.

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