Corndog

I was able to buy cornmeal at healthy options. After the long search, I finally found the cornmeal that I've been looking for since God knows when. And so last Saturday, with my daughter as my assistant, we cooked corndog. See the pictures below? I took the first 5 pictures. The next four were taken by the little girl, she insisted to be my photographer, lol!. And the rest were taken by the husband.

Anyway, I had a hard time frying the corndog since I don't have a pan deep enough to contain the length of the hot dog. So I gave up and used the cocktail size hot dogs instead....lol! See the last two pictures?

Preparing the batter was as easy as ABC. Here's the ingredients of my batter:

3/4 cup yellow cornmeal
3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
a pinch of salt

I just mixed all the ingredients then I coated the hot dogs (which I already placed on barbecue skewers) and deep fried.

They all liked it except for the appearance, lol! I hope I'll be able to buy a corndog maker so I can make perfectly shaped corndogs for the family. :D

Our Weekend {June 12-14}

So, how was your weekend? As for me, I had a wonderful one. We had a long weekend since last Friday was a holiday. We were supposed to visit hubby's relatives in Baler but due to some conflicts in my schedule, we did not push through. Instead, here's how we spend it:

Friday was an adventure for the little lady. We went to Manila Zoo. Yes. We thought we should bring our daughter to the first Zoo in Philippines before we go to the latest and much newer ones. And yes, the little lady enjoyed it. She was able to see some animals (that were already there since I was a child, lol!) like the elephant, monkeys, eagles, turtles, tigers, crocodiles, snake, and a lot more. Unfortunately the old giraffe is not there anymore. According to the taxi driver (the driver of the cab that we hired to get tot he zoo), it died two years ago...

When we left the zoo, the little lady saw a children's playground across. We stayed there for a while. Played see-saw and enjoyed the swing. Then we took a ride to rotonda, had our lunch-snacks at Mang Inasal Metropoint, took the LRT to cubao, strolled at Gatewaymall, walk through Rustan's supermarket (the little lady rode the cart with little tikes car), then went home. We just took public transports but we really enjoyed the day.

Saturday, we went to SM Marikina. When we entered the mall, we were greeted by the music from Banda Kawayan (Bamboo Band) my college alma mater's pride. We listened for a while as they entertained their audience. The little lady was amazed. After that, we took the little lady upstairs to play at Bounce.

And today, after attending church, we just stayed home. I cooked some special dishes (read the story here) which the husband and the little lady enjoyed. It's a wonderful feeling when someone praises your cooking. Specially when I hear this from my little girl: "Hmmmm, ang sarap ng luto ng mommy ko ah!".

So that's our weekend, how was yours?

WS: Fun! Fun! Fun!

She finally had fun. I took her last Saturday to the mall and let her play at the play area. She tried three different slides and all the swings and play houses. She took all of her time to enjoy the place. It's a good thing that there are few kids in the place when we arrived. When the other kid's play time were over, she was left all by her self (of course I'm with her to be her guardian) but she enjoyed it even more.

Last Sunday we visited our newly painted house..see, this is how it looks now.

It's indeed an enjoyable week end.

More weekenders here.

Hello!

I'm here at work right now and I know my day is going to be busy. I will not be able to write a lengthy post so I'll just write my updates in bullet points.

• The eye glasses was fixed. I'm thankful that I only paid for the lens that was replaced.
• We had a great mall time yesterday. My sister took us to lunch at The Old Spaghetti House.
• The little lady is nursing a fever and cough due to colds. I'm having a hard time giving her meds. She don't like medicines :(. I might take her back to the doctor tomorrow if she'll not get better today.
• The husband will undergo minor nose surgery. He said it's because he suffers nosebleeds frequently. I don't know the exact diagnosis, but he said it's nothing to worry about. I hope he'll get better after the surgery.
  

Week end Snapshot #43

One Sunday afternoon...outside the village. We went out so she can play with her bicycle. Got tired so we rested on the sidewalk.

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