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Home-Made For The Holidays

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Congratulations to my friend, Aileen!!!! on the launch of your latest cookbook!  It is so timely and perfect for Christmas!!!  

Previous entry:  Home Cafe by Aileen Anastacio March 3, 2010 

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Like last year, food from the cookbook were served during the launch, too bad I missed it! 

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Thank you Aileen for sending me a copy.  It is so beautifully done!!!  I will definitely try the recipes with Javier and will buy some more copies to give as gifts!!  You have always been very generous with your recipes

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Here are some pages from the book.  Each recipe has a photo.  It’s very well done!!!  Love the photos!  This is just a few of the many other nice recipes and photos in the book!! YOU HAVE TO GET A COPY OF THIS RECIPE BOOK!!! 

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Ilonggo Recipes by Gaita in Mothers Club

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I really admire my friend, Mimie and my sister, Dina for their dedication to Mothers Club! 

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I only get to attend once a year now due to my schedule and I never miss Gaita’s session.  I am so happy Mimie does not ever get tired of inviting me over.  

Of course the house is always jam packed! 

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 She has been doing this since the year 2007 and this is already the 5th one!! Thank you Gaita! I hope this will remain a tradition in Mothers Club 

Mother’s Club – Gaita Fores August 23, 2007 

Healthy Cooking with Gaita September 9, 2008

Recipes from Lusso September 6, 2009

Sharing Some of Pepato’s Recipes with Mothers Club in Gratitude for 7 1/2 Years of Serving on the Tables in Greenbelt 2…Gaita August 17, 2010 

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Gaita brought some things to sell from Ilo Ilo and from Cibo and it was sold out!! and was not even enoughmother-club-gaita-2011-025.jpgmother-club-gaita-2011-026.jpgmother-club-gaita-2011-011.jpgmother-club-gaita-2011-012.jpg

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Thank you Alexie Claparols for the Documentation of the Recipes

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Shakes and Smoothies

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I loved the smoothie I had in Alive!  In fact they had so many others to choose from

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After lunch and the spa, I joined the workshop where they taught us how to make a healthy smoothie! 

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This is coconut juice which is not in the recipe  

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very very delicious and very simple to make and very healthy!!! 

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This reminded me of the juice my Mom has every morning!!  It is more GREEN than this green smoothie of the Farm.  And I think this is the secret to her youthfulness and energy!  She has more energy than her kids all combined!!  I call her the Energizer Bunny because she literally just keeps going and going and going!  🙂  This is her recipe.  The cook prepares everything but she is the one who puts it in the blender/juicer herself EVERY MORNING! My Dad used to take this but he gave up but Mom continues to take it. 

2 stalks celery

1/4 cucumber

1/4 ampalaya

1/2 green pepper (small) green capcicum

1 whole green apple

3 parts of broccoli 

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And this is my friend, Renee’s juice 

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And I received this in an email about healthy juices  

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25 Mushrooms Kitchen June to August 2011

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Javier ( Previous entries:  Chef Javs Feb 27, 2010 and Chef Javs Part 2 Jan 27, 2011) has attended already two classes at 25 Mushrooms Kitchen and he really learned a lot and is enjoying it.  It’s s hard to find cooking classes when it is not summertime so I enrolled him at 25 Mushrooms.  Sari told me that the class is taught in Filipino, and the more I liked it so Javier will learn to speak and practice his Filipino.  He also has two classmates that are kids.  Javier cannot stop talking about it and after ever session, he gets so excited and cooks something for dinner from what he learned that day. I am so happy he is busy every Tuesday and Thursday

Heart2Heart is so happy to have bumped into the owner Sari in an event. I keep featuring 25 Mushrooms Kitchen and hearing about it, but never met the one behind it.  She is so pretty and so young.   More power to you Sari and I hope you will continue to do this forever!  

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This is a new class this coming Tuesday!!   

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Here is the remaining schedule for the month of June, for July and August 

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Best Spinach and Artichoke Dip

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Heart2Heart gets a kick out of trying to copy dishes tasted elsewhere and trying to make them at home!  I made an artichoke dip before and I remember putting mayonnaise in it.  But recently, I tried an artichoke dip where the chef said she did not use mayonnaise and instead used more of cheese.  So I researched online and looked for a recipe I could copy and try.  And I found this!!  It uses sour cream and cream cheese and not mayo!!! and it was good!!!  

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I don’t do the recipes myself but I tell my cook what to do!  She is very good in reading recipes so I am lucky.  So when I found this recipe, I told her to make it – we did not have monterey jack cheese and red pepper flakes ( i don’t put this anymore )  but she was still able to make it and it was really good.  Since we did not have Moneterey Jack cheese for the top, my cook used Cougar cheese (Previous Entry:   Cougar Gold Cheese May 11, 2010 ) since it was what we had at the time, and it was perfect!!  I always substitute ingredients and change them with what we have and what we like.  So the top can be any cheese that you like! 🙂  This is dedicated also to my Assumption Velada committee, here it is finally the recipe I promised!

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Then of course you can choose anything to go with the dip, crostini, crackers, potato chips

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Lucille’s Smoothie Recipe

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Heart2Heart recently posted a smoothie recipe.

Previous Entry:  Smoothies April 3, 2011 

My recipe is very simple and very yummy. Any flavor of Golden Spoon frozen yogurt, I use simply tart.  Old Fashioned Vanilla would probably be a good base as well and then just make sure to add a fresh fruit.  Like maybe Strawberry flavor would be good to add frozen strawberries.  Until this day, I have one every day as my dinner.  That is my meal already for dinner. 

Lucille on the other hand who is a cook and an expert homemaker has her own recipe too which I asked her to share with us.  These are her exact words which I thought was so funny and cute so I kept it as is.  She uses fresh Holly’s yogurt for her smoothie

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Mexican Food by 25 Mushrooms Kitchen

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Just arrived from LA and the Mexican food continues back home 🙂  And we love it!

After having the Japanese food,

Previous entry:  Japanese Food by 25 Mushrooms Kitchen March 14, 2011 

Dina and Tina sent their cooks to 25 Mushroom Kitchen to learn Mexican food!

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and so Tina in collaboration with Dina prepared Mexican last Sunday!

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Jalapeño chips and nacho chips for appetizer

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Our Mexican spread

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Tacos made out of fried lumpia wrapper- I like it this way because it is not so thick and easy to bite

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April classes of 25 Mushrooms Kitchen

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