STWO was recently launched 
by Tippi and her sister Triccie ( the one below Tippi ) All beautiful- the Tanbunting ladies Tita Nancy and Cynthi
Delicious, home cooked stews that are easy to store and ready to heat! Call 0977 722 8224
Sweet Soy Pork
Lamb Tagine – my favourite 🙂
Callos
Call 0977 722 8224
Like the three wise kings who came bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, Marks & Spencer presents you with a wonderful array of luxurious gifts, befitting the most royal occasion and the most important people in your life.
This Christmas, find the perfect gift for you and your loved ones, and remind them that they are, indeed, a reason of celebration.
PALATE PLEASERS
Have a delicious Christmas by gifting your family and loved ones with Marks & Spencer’s Food Hampers.
Laden heavy with delicious goodies, the Marks & Spencer Food hamper is packed with your favourite season treats such as decadent cookies and biscuits, all-time favorite pasta and sauces, as well as award winning wines, that ensure a truly delectable Christmas spread. Have everything you need to celebrate in delicious style! Spoil your loved ones with more than 10 different hampers and wine sets. No need to worry as you can find the perfect gift that matches the occasion and the budget.
The Supreme Luxury Hamper (P4,995) offers everything to create the most delicious and truly majestic Christmas Spread. In addition to sweet mini chocolate crispies and Extremely Chocolatey Dark Chocolate rounds, enjoy a festive spread of Danish Ham, Christmas tea and coffee, as well as Old Man Creek Shiraz wine. Toast to the most memorable Christmas yet!
The Luxury Collection (P3,495) whets the appetite of your most discerning friends. It includes a Single Estate Reggiano Rosso White wine, chopped ham, Turkey Breast and an array of delicious hot chocolate, cappucino and English Breakfast tea set. This is a set that even Santa wouldn’t mind receiving.
Treat your loved ones to a wonderfully rich selection of hearty savories, tea time delights and fine wine with the Pure Indulgent Hamper (P2,995). The thoughtful package comes with ingredients to help you create a wonderful Christmas pasta dish of Italian Fusilli with two sauces: Tomato and Herb Sauce, and Tomato and Garlic Sauce. A Single Estate Reggiano Rosso Wine, Colombian Ground Coffee and Organic Green Tea with Jasmine Infusion make for the perfect after-Christmas feast pick-me-upper.
More than your usual food basket, the Classic Favorites Hamper (P2,495) is a sure win the Christmas. Chocolate Chip with Hazelnut Cookies, Smooth Peanut Butter, Bourbon Biscuits, Dutch Shortcake, and Swiss Milk Chocolate will indulge your sweet tooth. This is paired with a bottle of Sparkling Cherry Juice and House Red Wine, among other goodies.
Luxury now comes at unprecedented value. For P1,995, you can take home the Pasta Bellissimo, Chocolate Delights or Yuletide Must-Haves Hampers. Whether it’s to create the perfect pasta dish or to delight others with a sweet, indulgent treat of chocolate and cookies, and/or jams and biscuits, you can never go wrong with these picks.
Lastly, the Hearty Breakfast, Old Time Favorites and It’s Tea Time! Christmas Hampers offer an elegant selection of biscuits, tea and jams only for P1,495.
Take out the guesswork when thinking of the perfect gift for a host as wine is always welcomed in any holiday party. Choose from Marks & Spencer’s Wine Gift sets – the Luxury Wine Duo (P1,995), Celebration Wine Duo (P1,695), and Festive Wine Duo (1,295). Cheers to stress-free gift giving!
In this season of giving, Marks & Spencer keeps on giving. With every P5,000 purchase of Christmas Food and Wine Gift Sets, receive a FREE P250 gift voucher up to November 30,2015 only.
FASHION FLAIR
Ring in the holidays with a new, sparkling ensemble care of Marks & Spencer. Gift yourself with a dazzling new clutch or luxurious shawl to keep you warm in this season of cool. From sophisticated cocktails dresses that help you welcome the New Year in style, to chic bags and accessories; Marks & Spencer helps you get ready for the party of the year in your grandest style.
Men, of course, will never be left out as Marks & Spencer helps transform the average Joe into a dashing debonair for Christmas. Change up your typical presents for the men in your life, and gift them with a new, fresh scent; fine belts, ties and other accessories; and bags for business or everyday use. Marks & Spencer has everything his heart desires, from choice picks that help him dress up or dress down in comfort.
For the ladies in your life who deserve to be pampered, Marks & Spencer’s beauty gift sets are sure to bring a twinkle to her eye. The aromatic fragrance gifts will give your loved ones an indulgent touch this season. Indulge in relaxation with luxurious lingerie, and bask in comfort with sleepwear to give anyone a good night’s sleep. Let them feel pampered not only during the Christmas, but every day of the year. Every woman in your life deserves to feel truly special.
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Last month Alicia Sy told me about Rita Nazareno being in the cover of Town and Country. And she told me to look inside. And wow! I thought to myself how courageous this woman is! If you have not gotten a copy of the October issue, make sure to check it out – the inside photo and story of Rita and her cancer story
Today I was so happy to meet Rita in person. Rita is an Emmy Award winning TV producer! Congrats Rita!!! Rita told me that long ago she would work with Eric Quizon and even directed the MTV of “You Are My Song” by Martin Nieverra. She just finished a script and who knows if the Skinny People will produce the movie!!
Today she designs bags under the brand. She took off from her grandmother who started in 1925 S.C. Vizcarra. Her clients are from Europe and she exhibits there twice a year! Love her bag today which can also hold a cellphone!!! How creative! She told me she travels and that’s where she gets her references for design.
A photo of Rita with one of her gwapo Spanish admirers, Toñete 🙂
Click below to go to her website
Even dishes have collabs! Cheesecake + leche flan = Cheesecake flan! Super YUM! From Wildflour Cafe! Thank you Joy Ortega for bringing this!!!!
This was literally my slice! I was so full already. And this is how I eat nowadays to lose weight! Make sure to put the honey sauce- this is super yum!! PROMISE!
Celebrating Lola Charing’s first birthday in heaven. It’s a good time to get together with the family – The latest additions to the family! Martina and Emma! 
Cousins bonding 🙂
Aldub was there! haha!!!
Yummy Japanese food from Mogu
Caesar salad with crisp tofu 🙂
Yummy orange dessert
Baked apples with vanilla ice cream! YUM!
On the way home from Baguio 3 hours away, we stopped by Starbucks in Dagupan. 
It’s a warehouse type store with air ducts in the ceiling. 
Starbucks coffee is Arabica. Only the best
So honored to have Lolo Benny as a special guest for the mass and blessing of the store. 
On the way home, we had breakfast at Pancake House
It was the day before Halloween and the place was nicely decorated 🙂 
Our trip to Baguio was really Javier’s request to Lola. Every year the kids love going to Baguio with their friends and staying in Lolo Benny’s house. They ask Lolo and Lola to take them. This trip it’s Juan, Jeff and Andrew who are Javier’s guests. Just like when we were kids we loved going to Baguio with our cousins with many fond memories. Hoping this tradition will continue for many generations
Dad and Mom bring their friends too! 🙂 Father Tony and this time Lolo Benny!!! FUN!
Taco for breakfast! 🙂
Crispy bacon 🙂
The famous country sausages! 
Chef Vicky Tinio told me about this place – a friend of hers who also opened up his house for dining, It’s called Foggy Mountain House and it was really foggy 🙂 that night we went there. We were hoping to catch the sunset at 530pm but it was really very foggy. If you do decide to come over, best to come at round 5 to 530pm for sunset and to appreciate the view. It’s a very casual and cozy place in Baguio to have a Mediterranean meal.
Same direction to Bencab Museum but further down Naguilian road.
Quite a steep driveway to get to the house – Fog in the view 🙂
Make sure to book this table by the balcony – it is the best seat in the house
Here he is! Babes Reyes of Foggy Mountain Cookhouse –
he has a brick oven to cook the meats,
living room with a Cacnio artwork and his balcony 
and front porch as dining area
Special guests 
and more special guests 🙂
and some more! 🙂
Fireplace 🙂
As usual I went inside the spy 🙂 Love old Baguio homes!!!! the cozyness and charm!!
And here is Babes cooking our food
So happy to meet this kind gentleman who is a good friend of Chef Vicky Tinio. He is a self taught chef who wanted to leave the corporate world and be his own boss. His cooking is casual Mediterranean with influences from Morocco and Greece where he traveled 
Love what he did with the garbanzos ! He toasted it with some spice which tasted so good! Ask him and he will tell you how he made it! He gave me some extra pieces – YUM!
Our dinner on the ref door. Babes is so conservative he does not want food to go to waste – I am like that too!! But I ordered and told him we wanted to try more so we added to this list!
Interesting drink -Cinnamon with pineapple
Bring your own bottle 🙂
SALAD
Mixed greens topped with black olives and feta cheese. Fresh orange juice or mango vinaigrette
Crispy Squid Fries at Foggy Mountain Cookhouse – the squid is from Canada and it’s so tender. YUM!!!! Babes told me that he doesn’t like serving French fries instead he serves mashed potato ….. thick strips of giant squid…with dill tartar sauce…served with truffle oil infused mashed potatoes…Like eating Crispy scallops!!! TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE TRADITIONAL CALAMARES!
Chicken parmesan pie (new dish)
Thigh fillet seasoned with parmesan cheese.. pan fried…with fresh tomato and basil sauce ….layered with motzzarella cheese..topped with herbs and polenta and parmesan cheese…oven roasted for that crusty luscious pie goodness! YUMMY!!!!!!!!
Porcheta
Rolled boneless pork belly seasoned with Mediterranean herbs. In red wine reduction sauce and raisins. Served with Spanish brown rice. My version of Italian roast pork. Crispy skin, juicy meat! 
Brick oven roasted boneless leg of lamb
Lamb slow roasted on brick oven.. marinated overnight in Moroccan spices. Served with Middle Eastern veggies. Drizzled with feta cheese and lemon zest salsa.
Fish fillet fried in olive oil. Topped with medley of tomatoes, basil and black olives in olive oil. Topped with parmesan cheese – SUPER YUM!!!
The boys loved this and it disappeared in less than a minute! Grilled Chipotle Pork Chop.
One inch thick pork chop marinated in chipotle spices and honey. Served with roasted potatoes. Southwestern flavor- a must try!
Pumpkin pie puree topped with roasted mallows served with whipped cream….delicious..not so decadent!
FOGGY MOUNTAIN COOKHOUSE
GLOBE -0916 767 4687
SUN – 0932 762 3639NN
SMART – 0949 357 7617
OPEN…..MON – SAT……11am to 3pm
and 6pm -11pm.(we can open earlier upon request)
SUNDAYS….Close…LORD’S DAY……For milestones that falls on
that day. we will open for dinner.
Day before reservation and pre order PLEASE! (dishes are prepared from scratch….some dishes have to be seasoned day before….we DONOT compromise on quality of food)
We cannot process credit cards yet.
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Vibrant hues and bold statements took center stage at the recent Charriol Forever Colors and St. Tropez 35 watch launch held at the Mind Museum, Bonifacio Global City. Reflecting the playful vibe of the collections, the Mind Museum was transformed into a fun and youthful display of lights and music, befitting the occasion and the brand.
Since 1983, Charriol has taken pride in designing timeless, elegant pieces that reflect the contemporary tastes of its loyal patrons. And its current collections show just how much it is in tune to the desires of the market for something chic and stylish.
The Forever Colors collection of bangles is a bright take on the Charriol style with its signature cables incorporated into the street-chic designs. Available in 12 eye-catching shades, the Forever Color bangles evoke a fairytale-meets-rock mood. They provide the perfect pop of color to brighten up any urban casual ensemble.
The St. Tropez 35 watch, on the other hand, lends itself to the whims of the elegant, modern woman who loves variety and versatility, with interchangeable bracelets and pretty clips that can be used to create “different” watches. With just one set, enjoy limitless possibilities. Luxury still lies at the heart of the design as exquisite diamonds and Mother-of-Pearl is used to embellish the pieces.
Vice President and Visual Director of Philippe Charriol International Alexandre Charriol kicked off the celebration, along with SSI Group Inc.’s Michael Huang and Charriol Regional Director, Thibaud Jaouen. Other prominent guests from the fashion, media and social circles came in attendance, including online influencers and rising beauty/style icons Mari Jasmine, Ava Daza and Tricia Gosingtian.
The short program hosted by the lovely Janeena Chan, who was also herself decked in Charriol Forever Colors bangles, consisted of a fun fashion presentation which showed off the beauty and versatility of the Charriol collections. Guests were also treated to the ultra-smooth tunes of Chocolate Grass, a Neo-Soul and Jazz band. Changing the tempo later on in the evening were The Zombettes, whose addicting beats had the guests finding their places on the dance floor.
With the successful unveiling of its latest collections, Charriol further cements its place as one of the world’s leading jewellery and watchmakers. Be rest assured; regardless of place, time and occasion, Charriol with bring you up-to-date with modern pieces that embody effortless style.
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