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Aug 17

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Chef Javs Cooks for Chef Vicky

Chef Javs loves Chef Vicky. Whenever we are at Mamma’s table, Chef Javs learns so much from her. And he always asks her for advice 🙂 So this time, it’s his turn to cook for Chef Vicky. We invited her over to the house in Baguio and he prepared a degustation and we all enjoyed!!

Potato croquettes with cheese

Mushroom risotto balls

Chef Javs version of Momofoku pork buns- He made the pork bun from scratch! So yummy 🙂

Salmon tartare and tuna tartare with caviar

Banana and prawn tempura with Wasabi mayo and truffle honey- YUM! Everything was really good

Sous Vide 30 day dry aged Bryan Flannery Rib Eye with Truffle Bernaise Sauce – WOW! Super Yum!!

For dessert he already asked the help of Chef Vicky and she assisted 🙂

Banana Flambee

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Aug 17

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Fight ALS with the Ice Bucket Challenge

By Heart2Heart | Giving Back, Health and Fitness | No Comments

Heart2Heart loves how people help other people. And how other people help for a good cause even if it means doing silly things 🙂 My kids joined and told me about this. Here are some of my favourite and creative videos I saw on youtube

Published on Aug 15, 2014

Bill Gates accepts Mark Zuckerberg’s ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominates Elon Musk, Ryan Seacrest and Chris Anderson from TED to participate and raise awareness for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

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Published on Aug 12, 2014

We’d like to thank Keith Yandle of the Phoenix Coyotes for the nomination of Paul Bissonnette, and we’d like to call out LeBron James, Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson.

We’d also like to dedicate this bucket drop to Keith Yandle’s good buddy Pete Frates for his continued fight with ALS.

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Click below to go to their website for more information

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Aug 17

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Mamma’s Table 2014

By Heart2Heart | Foodie, Travel | No Comments

I have a feeling we go to Baguio because we like visiting Chef Vicky in her home 🙂 But definitely this is something we always look forward to when visiting Baguio. We have been going here almost every year since it opened, we missed only last year. Previous entries: Mamma’s Table by Vicky Tinio Clemente January 9, 2011

Mamma’s Table the Second Time Around July 10, 2011

Anniversary Celebration at Mamma’s Table 2012

Here is the Mamma behind Mamma’s table 🙂 So happy to see her that day

Posted on the refrigerator in the kitchen

The famous appetizer spread. I took it with the girls so you can once again see how long it is 🙂

Artichoke and Parmesan spread

Chili Con Carne

Smoked Bangus Mousse

Kani and horseradish spread

Amuse Bouche – Caramelized onion, sauteed mushrooms, gruyere cheese and truffle oil custard baked in the eggshell served with finger toasts with anchovy butter

Interesting soup!! French pressed gerb infused chicken consomme serve with Chicken mousse line with sage, brunoise of carrots and zucchini. Another use for a French press!! And the soup was so good – yet light and healthy!

Foie gras with Balsamic vinegar pearls 🙂

Broiled fish on leek, dill, saffron coulis and brown butter lemon parsley sauce

Intermezzo

Seared tenderloin served with red wine reduction and mushrooms jus, served with rissoni with mascarpone and mushrooms and blanched French beans

Leafy green Lolo rossa, romaine, watercress and arugula with orange supremes, pomelo, pineapple and almond with citrus vinaigrette

Chocolate beignet with chantilly cream and mangoes

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Aug 16

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Paella at the Kneedler House

By Heart2Heart | Hot Off the Press, Travel, Yummy! | No Comments

We love also visiting the Kneedler House when in Baguio 🙂

Previous entries: Dinner at the Kneedler House Baguio Jan 3, 2011

Cottage at the Kneedler House January 4, 2011

Lunch at the Kneedler House July 9, 2011

Lunch at The Kneedler House Baguio Part 2 September 9, 2012

Visiting the Young’s 🙂

Angels from Tita Emily Campos of Touch of Craft 🙂

Thanks to my cousin Edward for this old photo from 2005

We love taking photos by this wishing well

The beautiful wishing well that eventually became the inspiration for Tito Stephen and his new magazine publication, Taste and Travel

Previous entry: Taste Travel and Trends July 1, 2014

It’s so nice to eat at home in Baguio because the weather is so nice and so conducive to cooking outdoors and just hanging out in the house. Tito Stephen and Tita Reggie have such a beautiful home! A country home 🙂

This is the usual appetizer table and we look forward to it 🙂

Bangus chicharon

Playing in the background was Tito Rj’s CD which is now available in Starbucks!! I love this CD!!! Tito RJ is Tita Reggie’s brother in law 🙂

Best Foodie friends 🙂 Mom and Tita Reg

yum yum homemade paella 🙂

Grilling 🙂

Special macaroni dish for Mischka 🙂

This is the salad table 🙂

Seasonings and spices

Dessert table

Inside the Master bedroom dressing room is this Mosler vault. It is behind a mirrored sliding door so it looks like it’s just a closet. For 20 years they have been trying to open this safe wondering what could be inside the vault. Finally a friend knew someone from Mosler and it took them 24 hours to open it.

There was nothing inside only another Mosler cabinet that was also a safe. There was nothing inside the cabinet too 🙂 So nice to use this old vault door as a door! 🙂

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Aug 16

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The Hub in Greenfield District

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Aug 16

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Oh My Gulay Baguio

By Heart2Heart | Arts and Culture, Foodie, Proud to be Pinoy!, Travel | No Comments

My friend, Ginge, told me about this place Oh My Gulay 🙂 We rarely eat out in Baguio and usually stay home so we have little time to really eat out. So I went to the place just to take a look at it! It’s this green building across ( La Azotea building 108 Session road ) the Starbucks in Session road. Good thing the others went to Starbucks so i took advantage and crossed the street to check it out

There’s no elevator in the building so you have to climb up to the penthouse 🙂

You see the entrance from the floor before, 4th floor

Aside from the vegetarian cafe, it is also a venue to house arts and talents from the Cordilleras

Entrance- I thought I was entering a Disneyland ride 🙂

There’s a small side entrance which has a stairway to go up to the cafe seating

There are many areas for seating – up, down, balcony, under 🙂 Very nice place 🙂

The menu 🙂 Vegetarian. We must come back one day to try

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Aug 15

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D Vision Custom Metal Works

By Heart2Heart | Arts and Culture | One Comment

We were so happy to see Tito Frank and Tita Annie!! They used to be our neighbours when they were living in Manila till they went back to Arizona

This trip, Greg and Junie came along so it was nice to see them too!!

Junie is the daughter of Tito Frank and Tita Annie and she was 14 years old and I was 9 years old back then. I would bug her everyday and go next door after school. I must have been a pest 🙂 Junie stayed for only 3 years and now lives with her family in the Bay Area

Greg and Junie design and manufacture wrought iron, brass, stainless steel doors, staircases etc for interior designers and direct clients in San Francisco. Even metal works can be customised 🙂

They gave this beautiful heart decor which they made to Dad and Mom for their anniversary 🙂

Some of their works

They are based in San Carlos and in case you need anything made, you can contact them 🙂

Click below to go to their website

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Aug 15

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20 Incredible Places on Earth

By Heart2Heart | Photography, Travel | No Comments

I googled “20 Incredible places” and there were quite a lot of searches that popped up! And just imagining how many beautiful places there are in this world and if one person can actually see the whole world in their lifetime 🙂 Whatever it is, there is much to explore and see and God has created a beautiful world. I always tell my family that we should explore and not always go to the same places because there is so much more out there!! Posting here two articles out of the many out there.

Taken from: http://www.seenox.com/2014/02/26/20-incredibly-breathtaking-places-you-wont-believe-actually-exist/

It’s on my bucket list though 🙂

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Aug 15

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TPLex and SCTex

By Heart2Heart | Nature, Travel | No Comments

Heart2Heart loves these two highways! From SCTex it will lead you to TPlex ( Tarlac-Pangasinan- La Union Expressway) which is now a quicker way to get to Baguio. The TPLex is an 88.85 km four lane expressway currently under construction North of Manila. It connects central to northern Luzon, with its southernmost terminal located in Tarlac City. Tarlac and it’s planned northernmost terminus currently slated to be at Rosario, La Union.