how to enjoy a cup of 3-in-1 instant coffee

My childhood memories of coffee has always been the instant coffee and or the roasted rice coffee. I always love the freshly brewed rice coffee, but not the instant coffee. The first time I tasted a real coffee bean espresso based drink was not so long ago, about 6 years ago. I remember it well because that was the time when I started dating my boyfriend which now is my husband. He was the one who introduced me to the real coffee, I now love and enjoy.

I fell inlove with the coffee (as well as my hubby) since then, I never gave a the instant coffee a chance to prove itself worthy of my taste buds. Until last week, I got interested about the white coffee instant mix. I did an experiment of pouring a steamed milk in it instead of the regular hot water. To my surprise, I was amazed of how it tasted!  Very creamy,  it has the coffee taste now, but we all know that it is still a processed coffee, not the fresh one. I'd give a fair score. I knew that there something still missing, so I tried adding a freshly brewed espresso, Finally i got the taste that I wanted. The instant coffee mix together with the steamed milk gave the creamy taste and at the same time, it somehow subdue the bitter taste of espresso a little bit. While the espresso gives the freshly brewed coffee taste that I'm looking for. So here it is, my recipe of

3-in-1 instant coffee with espresso and steamed milk
(the title quite says it all)

1 pack of 3-in-1 instant coffee mix
1 espresso
1/3 steamed milk/ hot milk (not scalded)
sugar and or cinnamon to taste

Pour 1 pack of instant coffee mix in a cup, pour the espresso and mix. Add the steamed milk/hot milk slowly while mixing it with the coffee. Add sugar if desired, and cinnamon for a lively taste.


If happens you have a chance of making one, try it, you may like the taste.

left or right?

Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others. Left Brain Dominance: (14) Right Brain Dominance: (8) Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz

A very sad tueday

Yesterday? was very awful day, and horrible too! Manila was in a very disastrous storm. Early morning  I woke to go to the bathroom and after a few minutes, electricity was gone and I could hear the moaning of the wind outside. I was scared and was wondering. It went like that all day long, sometimes, the wind would stop then then rain would pour down. We have no way of how to cook our food, thankfully the water line isn't yet affected. After several hours of waiting, the electricity came, we happily jumped out bed and opened the tv for the news update. It was heart breaking knowing a lot of people was affected, there were no way they could go back to their home, it was flushed out by the storm. And there were also people who got killed. This is the how the storm "Pedring" looks like

Let's pray for those who are deeply affected. And help if we have the means.

How To Lose Weight

"How to lose Weight" is an old self-help book title that you may have come across many times in almost all regular bookstore, but seriously, those old traditional of "how to..." really works, if you try. Here's the story how i did it, and continually doing the trick.

Giving birth is definitely a wonderful experience, it actually gives more reason to lose pounds, but after that,... few more months or a year or so?!... I gained the weight I put on when I was pregnant. My metabolism got stagnant and there I am gaining more pounds and pounds that didn't bother me until to the point that I said to myself, "hey, i can't wear my after birth clothes and pants! why is that?" and when I look at the reflection, "hmmm... i think there's something wrong, why do i look fatter than before?" little did I  notice, "Oh yeah it was the double chin? and it's starting to triple? oh my...." as I gasped. That's the time I started to become serious about my health and appearance as well. I started to research about my sudden weight gain, there I realized that I'm not exercising enough, and that I eat poor diet meals, and maybe had a vitamin deficiency because of irregular intake of vitamins and minerals. I am that time losing my hope and got deppressed even more.

After a year of enduring the depression and lots of criticism and insult. Last August, Me and my husband realized something very important, and that is "We better take an action, before it's to late". Since that day, we started the 7 day 1,800 calorie diet. After that week, we started the low calorie, high fiber moderate protein diet together with daily vitamins intake. I also started walking few round in the stairs every morning. After I got bored walking in the stairs, I started jumping ropes for 30mins everyday. Taking supplements is very effective as well.

Yesterday, we were at the depatment store and I saw a weighing scale, and stepped into it. I was surprised of what I saw, I weight 65 kilos, so instantly I converted into pounds, and the result, around 143 pounds. I was so amazed, I knew for a certain that last July I was in a  hundred and 70 pounds. I must really lost a lot of weight. 26 pounds all-in-all for just 1 month and 3 weeks to be exact. Oh my, I'm so excited to get back to my old self.


These are the lessons I learned:
1.) Quit while you're ahead. Quit the poor diet that you're into, Don't let your body suffer from illness that could have been avoid.

2.) Action speaks louder than words. Just do it. Eat healthy, be active, take supplements if you have to.

3.) And lastly have fun and enjoy the changes, do it for yourself and for others.

For more questions and detailed info, of how i did it, just write it down in the comment/response box, and i will get to it as soon as i read it. ^_^ TakeCare!

finally!

after almost one year practice of labce.com free online quiz, finally I got a satisfying score of 700+,  Yay! this is for my preparation for the future ASCP exam. Here's the link and i'm saving it ^_^.

http://www.labce.com/end.aspx?sessionid=1233852&s=8b164ec02108686fcd4c04b157fe0f8b

home cafe

my coffee collection

home-made nutritious tuna with malunggay pasta and a hot cup of yummy cafe mocha 

frothy cappuccino, beef steak with crunchy carrots and fresh parsley on the side, garden salad drizzled with apple cider vinaigrette, and last but not the least espresso con panna. 

 cafe mocha

unexpected people

Today is my natal day, well as for our time here, i am now one year older, but as for other places it maybe a few more ours before my birthday, so it is still my extended birthday after these evening and before the 12 o'clock stikes. It's funny though that none of my said ''friends" actually remembers it, of course i expected greetings and wishes, but the odds thing is the people i saw in the church once in a while and whom i don't even know would actually remembered my birthday. Thank you Lord for those who greeted. God bless still those who forgot.

Another year older, another challenges to face, new adventures in store , more wisdom I hope to come.