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May 6, 2013

Chef Javs Cooks for Papa’s Birthday

By Heart2Heart | Celebrations, Foodie, For kids | 2 Comments

Lola Menchu and Javs had a good idea for Papa’s birthday! Javier was to cook the entire dinner! Javs loves cooking in Lola’s kicthen because he has the whole place to himself and Lola provides all the ingredients! haha 🙂 They go shopping together all over the place- Rustan’s and Gourmet Garage

Here is the Chef in action wearing a Chef’s hat and apron! So cute!!

It’s so hard to take his photo because he gets mad at me

Safari theme by Mom 🙂

It was a very very good dinner, we all loved the food from beginning til end. One day he told us he will be the first to open the first Michelin star restaurant in the Philippines! 🙂

He has been cooking this several times already and I keep telling him to repeat so he can master the dish and true enough he is perfecting many of his dishes

I taught him this before which we tried from Cibo – but he did it differently, he put cheese inside the squash flower and it was really really good

This is one of his masterpieces and everyone loved! Turkey which he brined overnight and cooked with maple syrup and goose fat! That’s his own invention 🙂

Goose fat from Gourmet Garage Subic

Not to mention the Foie gras stuffing which he made! YUM!!!!

Javs bought Kurobota pork at Rustan’s supermarket and he made it into Tonkatsu – it was very very good!

Lola Menchu and Javs went to Salcedo market to get the fresh crabs and seabass. WOW!!

His leche flan is also very good- he used the egg yolks which he separated from the whites which he used for the sea bass

Papa was very happy Chef Javs cooked for him! It was a dinner made with love!

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May 6, 2013

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James Birthday Celebration
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We had a very simple celebration for James’ birthday. To make it easier for Dad, we just bring the dinner to him so we just order out and eat at home with Dad

Just to make it a but different from the normal, I set it up a bit. Thank you to Windsor and Tiffany for the beautiful black chairs which immediately changed the mood of the dinner and gave us more room in the table rather than the usual chairs we have here

Previous entry: Windsor and Tiffany May 5, 2013

I just brought some of my decors and linens from the house 🙂



We just ordered Chinese food

And served the yummy lechon from Yugi and Timmy! Thank you!

Happy Birthday!!

Thank you to the Jaric staff for the cake which james appreciated very much

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May 5, 2013

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Graduation Celebration for Daniella
By Heart2Heart | Celebrations, Decor and Set ups | One Comment

Congratulations to my beautiful, smart, loving and sweet hijada, Daniella! How fast time flies, I can’t believe she is already going to College! She was accepted in all the schools she applied to and she chose to go to THE Ateneo 🙂 which made her Lolo Jun very happy

The eldest daughter of my sister

Lolo Benny and Lola Charing were there! What an honor to have them both come and attend this special celebration

Happy to be with the Tiangco family

MJ and Chris- The Lacoste boys 🙂

My sister, Maricar, is the one now designing all the decors and set ups of the Rustan’s Flower shop. I love the terrariums, the birdcages and the crystals on the lamps all from Rustan’s Flower Shop



Maricar also chose all the food dishes – all the favorites of Danni

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May 3, 2013

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Happy Birthday Osquito
By Heart2Heart | Celebrations, Foodie | 3 Comments

My friend, Bambi, always invites me and she makes sure she invites me way way in advance that sometimes I actually forget to put it in my calendar. Yet I know she will not take it against me because she is my true friend 🙂 My hijado Osquito ( named after grandpa Oscar ) was celebrating his first birthday so Mommy Bambi prepared a feast for the family. She cooked everything ( except the arroz caldo and lechon)

Turkey!

One of her specialties, lengua! Wow, this was wiped out the first! She sent this to us for Christmas too and was much appreciated

Paella

This was the only thing she did not make

Oh plus the lechon which flew in from Bacolod – and she made sure we got first and served us the skin. Oh boy 🙂

Kiddie Spaghetti which I liked

Bambi made these chocolate lollipops for the kids

Bambi’s eldest son, Gigz, with Osquito my cute hijado! I told her that Gigz is very handsome and is a Gary V in the making 🙂 And true enough she told me that he has been asked already to join showbiz! 🙂

Cakes cakes cakes! There always has to be a chocolate one!

Celebrating with cousins 🙂

Bambi introduced me to Migs Villlanueva who is an artist – I took her photo beside her painting 🙂

She also gifted Osquito for Christmas with a handpainted bag with his portrait on it. Q for Quito

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April 24, 2013

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Life is Good
By Heart2Heart | Celebrations, Today's Quote | 6 Comments

Guess who joined me today for bootcamp? My best friend Eds! We planned it last minute last night since she wanted to have breakfast and go to mass! Instead I dragged her to come with me to exercise 🙂 There she is in the middle holding Ned 🙂

We did half class of bootcamp since I wanted her to try also Retro class which I knew she would enjoy. I did 30 minutes more and she continued for an hour 🙂

After exercising, I invited all of my bestfriends to breakfast. All of this was unplanned and just last minute plans of getting together. The thing is, this was how I was envisioning how I would have wanted to spend my birthday – nothing fancy but just being with my best friends – my husband, James, my girl bestfriend Eds and my boy bestfriend Ned 🙂 What more could I ask for?

Eds and I shared a Polo Club sandwich and Of course Ned had the healthy breakfast. James could not wait till 9am to have breakfast so he just sat with us. Thank you Ned for treating us for breakfast!!

I planned to be in the office by 930am but ended up arriving at 11am, had a meeting, signed some papers and left. Shared a cake which my other office family gave me ( Thank you for my cute cake ) with my Golden Spoon family in the office. I saw my sister there so I was able to spend time with another bestfriend of mine. Didnt get to take her photo though

Mr. Blue always remembers me on all occasions with greeting card and gift 🙂

Met Javier at church to pray

And Chef Javs had to rush home to cook for dinner. He insisted on eating at home and him cooking despite my wishes to just eat out! 🙂 But he is always so sweet to want to cook for us. Invited Dad and Mom to join our little celebration

Thank you to Lauro and Grace Baja for my birthday cake which we had for dinner! It is really gigantic! My first time to have a giant cookie cake. I had it with Starbucks coffee ice cream! YUM!

Life is truly good! Thank you to everyone for all the greetings and for being a part of H2H. The world becomes a better place when we share the many good and nice things in life here at Heart2Heart.

Dad de Jesus always gives the best and most unique wish – the wish of GOOD HEALTH! We all need this! I wish this as well for everyone. God bless!

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April 21, 2013

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Margie’s 50th Birthday
By Heart2Heart | Celebrations, Entertainment | 5 Comments

Happy 50th birthday to my friend, Margie! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL ALWAYS MY DEAR FRIEND and getting more beautiful as you grow older 🙂 Thank you for always making me laugh!

So sweet of Raymond to throw a party in celebration of Margie’s 50th

Thank you to Anna, Margie’s sister in law, for helping Raymond organize the party. We had a delicious homemade meal prepared by the staff of the Sy family

I did not know that it was going to be a night of entertainment so I was not really ready for video, but luckily I was able to capture each one who sang that evening. And I thought it was only Ryan who sings!! The whole family loves to sing or play an instrument! With the lovely Pinky Marquez leading the show together with Raymond – it was a lovely night of music.

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Previous entry: Introducing Ryan Sy February 21, 2011

Happy Birthday to the PAELLA QUEEN!!!

Previous entry:  Paella Margarita December 10, 2011

Margarita’s Paella of the Century! May 31, 2008

Margie’s Birthday Lunch April 26, 2009

Merienda with Margie September 25, 2010

Homecooked Dinner at Raymond and Margie’s October 8, 2010

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April 18, 2013

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Celebrating at the Goose Station
By Heart2Heart | Celebrations, Foodie | One Comment

Entering BGC and loving the signs that sparks creativity and promotes art

Nice to be back at the W to dine at the Goose station, The last time was Carmina’s birthday in 2010 when they had just opened

Previous entry: The Goose Station March 23, 2010

Lolo Jun and Lola Menchu wanted to treat Jaime who was here on Spring break vacation. Javier suggested the Goose Station though he could not join us that evening

Choice of Express Menu or Degustation

This is my favorite way of having a meal – a little of everything, no buffet where you have to stand up several times, and you can have a peaceful and uninterrupted conversation with your companions.

We were five in the table and four of them chose Memory, I refused to have the same since I like to try as many dishes as possible. So James and I shared with each other and we got to try all. It was a wonderful dinner, Jaime of course enjoyed his brother’s recommendation.

Both degustations gets the same amuse bouche

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April 14, 2013

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Congratulations Quito and Pam
By Heart2Heart | Celebrations | 3 Comments

Congratulations Quits and Pam!!!! We are so excited for the upcoming bundle of joy!!!

Dad and Mom always celebrate happy news with Thanksgiving mass and of course a meal with the whole family

Dad’s gardener sometimes does the centerpieces using the plants in the garden 🙂

My three beautiful sisters in law! 🙂

Spanish food as requested by Pam who is craving for all kinds of food 🙂

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April 8, 2013

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Celebrating Starbucks 200 stores and 15 Years in the Philippines with Howard Schultz
By Heart2Heart | Celebrations, What's New at Starbucks? | 9 Comments

We have all been looking forward to this day – for Howard Schultz to come and visit our country. To all of us, Howard symbolizes not only Starbucks, the great coffee company, but LOVE and HUMANITY which he explains so well in his speech during the opening of the 200th store. I could listen to this over and over again and get inspired. I am merely the daughter of Jun and Menchu yet the overflowing love within the Starbucks organization is reaching me and reaching everyone that steps in a Starbucks store. This is only a 4 minute speech but it is very beautiful and has a very meaningful message from Howard! These kinds of words can only come from the heart

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Starbucks Philippines gave Howard a special gift

Mark Justiniani’s interpretation of Kape Vinta – Starbucks Philippine Blend

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