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I suggested to my brothers and sisters that we just bring Chef Hosoya to the family. Thank you again to Mykie to organizing everything for us and making this come to life. So he came over to Dad and Mom’s house to cook for Father’s Day
We provided the japanese rice, the pork and all the dining ware. They brought everything else
And just to give you an idea of price, we were 16 people. They charged P 10,000.00 for everything they provided
Salmon Carpaccio Salad – 3 plates of this
Tonkatsu – we provided the pork but everything else they provided and of course Chef cooked it – we each had one of this so 16 plates of Tonkatsu
Ebi Katsu Curry ( Prawn ) – for Dad since he does not really eat pork
and there was around 16 pcs. of prawns for whoever wanted
Tori Karaage – really really good!! Also good for all of us
It was all worth it!! Thank you Chef Hosoya and Bella for preparing our special dinner for our Dad
If you would also like to have them cook for you in your home, Pls call Bella the wife at +63-915-921-6754
I went home excited, mentally planning our Father-Son trip to the mall. (Each week, I try to have a date with my boys. Sometimes together. Sometimes separately. That day, I was going to have a date with my eldest boy, Bene.)
But as I arrived home and stepped down of my car, my phone rang.
“Bo, are you already at the wedding?” my friend asked me.
“Huh? What wedding?” I asked.
“The wedding of Amina…”
Wham! It was like I was hit by a bat on the head. I totally forgot about the wedding!
How can I now tell Bene?
The little guy was so looking forward to our date.
When I entered the house, I greeted him and said, “I’ve got a problem about our date …” I told him about the wedding.
That was when my wife said, “Son, can you go with Daddy to the wedding? That’ll be your date.” (Thank God for my wise wife.)
A few minutes later, my son and I were riding the car in our matching barong tagalogs.
It turned out that we were early for the wedding, so we walked to a coffee shop beside the church, and talked and laughed together as he ate his favorite cinnamon roll.
The wedding was superb!
It was also a wonderful time for me to give mini-lectures to my little pupil—in whispers at the back pew—on marriage, family, and love.
After the wedding, the reception was at the exclusivePolo Club.
While waiting for the dinner to begin, we had a phenomenal time sitting down on the grass (yes, still in ourbarongs) under the canopy of stars—and chatted the night away.
“I don’t want to be a cowboy anymore, Daddy,” he said.
“No more?” This was a shock to me. It had been his declared dream ever since he was two. In fact, his first word wasn’t “mama”. It was “horse.” (I’m not kidding.)
He piped up, “I don’t want to be a Cowboy anymore. I just want to ride horses for pleasure.”
“Okay. What do you want to be?”
“A businessman.” (Six-year old kids have a way of declaring their dreams as though it’s as sure as the planet is round. I wonder what age we lose that confidence?)
“That’s great. You can own a ranch. How many horses do you want to own?”
“About ten,” he grinned.
“How will you earn to maintain the ranch?” I asked.
“Kids can ride my horses for P20 each…”
“Uh…, isn’t that a bit too cheap?”
“They can also feed my rabbits if they pay something. And I’ll sell my customers snacks and have a restaurant in my ranch.”
“That’s fantastic.”
“My ranch will also have an imaginary forest.”
“A what?”
“An imaginary forest. Parents will be afraid if their kids go to a real forest with real animals. So I’ll make an imaginary forest with robotic animals—even some legendary creatures like dinosaurs, unicorns, mermaids,…”
“Mermaids?”
“Yes, because there’ll be a lake in my ranch. With a shipwreck. Kids can also visit the shipwreck.”
After planning for his future, we got our plates and stood in front of the buffet table for the entire evening. Because the food was so fabulous, we didn’t bother to sit down. That night, he ate seven sticks of barbecue and I gobbled up 50% of the European cheeses there.
In other words, my date with Bene was a ball.
If I didn’t have a weekly date with him, how will I know about his dreams? I would have missed hearing that he didn’t want to be a Cowboy anymore, that he wanted an imaginary forest, robotic animals, a lake and a shipwreck for kids to visit and have fun…
I was even more convinced of my family goals when I read the frightening statistics from David Perdew about “fatherless kids”. According to statistics, children from a fatherless home are:
·Five times more likely to commit suicide
·Thirty-two times more likely to run away
·Twenty times more likely to have behavioral disorders
·Fourteen times more likely to commit rape (this applies to boys)
·Nine times more likely to drop out of high school
·Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances
·Nine times more likely to end up in a charitable institution
·Twenty times more likely to end up in prison for a long period of time
Fathers—and mothers—your kids need you.
David Perdew says we either pay now or pay later.
And when you pay later, it always costs more.
I suggest you pay now.
Don’t Make The Mistake Of Paying Later…
Most mornings, I bike with my two boys around our village.
Actually they bike and I run after them.
Because I don’t have a bike (mine is broken).
But I don’t mind.
Because that means they win our races. And they have fun laughing at their father who always comes last, my tongue hanging out of my mouth, ready to faint.
This morning, after biking, we also played chess and checkers. Obviously, I beat them in every game. (Sweet Revenge!)
Some days, we play the Wii together. It’s an interactive game console and we have loads of fun doing that. From pingpong to bowling to flying to car racing. (Yes, the old guy looses again.)
And if I can get off from work a bit early, we’ll go running and biking again in the afternoon.
My point?
I spend an enormous amount of time with my kids.
Is it difficult?
You bet.
I do a lot of stuff. I run 12 businesses. I lead 9 non-profit organizations. I preach 300 times a year. I write 80 articles a month.
But I’ve made a decision that nothing is more important than my family.
Why?
Here’s what I learned about life: You either pay now or you pay later. If you pay later, it’ll cost more.
I don’t want to pay later. It’ll cost me 100 times more!
Like some parents I know. Sadly, they never spent time with their kids. In other words, they didn’t pay before.
Today, these parents are paying. They sit restless at night, crying, worrying about their adult children. And they ask these very painful questions:
·“Why is my son hanging out with the wrong crowd?”
·“Is my son drinking too much? Is he taking drugs too?”
·“Why did my daughter choose that bum as her boyfriend?”
·“Will my son ever grow up and take responsibility?”
A place in San Antonio Village in the basement of a building!!
James and I gladly joined Mykie and Keiko on this adventure! That’s Mykie, Keiko and James going down the basement
Not at all fancy….in fact a basement with vacant spaces even
And here it is, literally a hole in the wall 🙂
This is it! 3 tables for dining
one side
and the other side 🙂
Thanks Mykie and Keiko! Keiko is Japanese 🙂
I was so intrigued to see bottled softdrinks because I hardly see them around anymore
Here is Bella with her Japanese husband, Chef Hosoya. Mr. Hosoya was a Tonkatsu Chef for 30 years in Japan!
The menu. No frills place, means no frills prices 🙂
Oroshi Katsu- Oroshi is just the name of the sauce. You get all this for P 215.00. P 180 if plain Tonkatsu
Here is the sauce which is like a raddish type of sauce
This is the plain tonkatsu. They just use local pork to keep the prices down. But it was still very good
And this is the Misu Katsu set- a sweet sauce
I wanted to try Cheese Katsu, I thought it would be inside, but they just topped it, so it was not what i expected
I told Mykie I wanted to try using our Vande Rose Pork loin and we did bring our slab! Aside form the cooking technique, of course the ingredient is key as well. So the higher quality the pork is, of course the better the taste
He cooked it for us and wow, it was so much better. Duroc pork from the States. Though the chef recommends that it should have a bit more fat at the end to make it taste better. We were very satisfied though with what little fat it had
Here it is again, he sliced it thicker than the local portion he makes….
I don’t recommend delivery since this dish is fried, so it might not be good anymore
Want to try the adventure?
If you can understand Japanese, click below to go to the website:
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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!!!
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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