Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

June

Wow, it's already July tomorrow. Pretty crazy how the first half of the year just flew by.

This month, I experimented in the kitchen often.

Vegan adobo: shiitake mushrooms and tofu
Tableya hot chocolate with cinnamon, vanilla and chili powder.
My brother went to Finland (for business) and brought home some blueberries.
We also had ripe mangoes at that time so I made a pie!
Binagoongan rice with green mango and egg
baked potato wedges in butter-sriracha sauce
lettuce, tomatoes, sauteed mixed mushrooms, caramelized balsamic onions,
burger buns, and beef-malunggay patties with cheese
Yay burger!

zaru soba (cold buckwheat noodles in dipping sauce)

This month, sadly, I only made one painting. It is, however, my most detailed painting so far.


This month, I visited a third-wave coffee shop in West Avenue called Coffee Empire.

So much equipment, it looks like a laboratory!

They have a room for storing coffee beans and a roasting area as well.

I ordered a light-bodied capuccino. It was very good and it didn't need sugar.

A mango-bavarian which was good but too sweet for my taste.

This month, I went to Boracay (first trip to the beach this year yay!) with my friends to relax. We mostly just ate, walked, slept and played in the water. Hurray to getting a tan!

Wind turbines! Hurray for renewable energy!

This month, my computer finally crashed and I had to have it formatted. Thankfully, I decided to buy an external hard disk drive last April (by then, my computer has been exhibiting some problems already) so most of my files are backed up.

This month, my news feed has been bombarded with graduation photos, mostly of my former students, and even though it kind of makes me feel old, I'm actually very happy looking at them.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Color, Curry, Coffee

I've been practicing with my waterbrush by documenting my days. Below is for last Saturday's. Since Saturday is training day for kendo, everything written is kendo-related lol.


Last Sunday, my friends and I went to try CoCo Ichibanya curry house. The last time I was in Japan, I wasn't able to try it so I'm very glad that it's here in the Philippines. I absolutely love Japanese curry.

I ordered a chicken cutlet curry and went for the level 5 spicy. (It's the spiciest available in the Philippines. In Japan, they get up to level 10). Unfortunately, it wasn't spicy enough to make me sweat lol. However, it was really, really good!




After lunch, we went to Epic Coffee Roastery in Kapitolyo for coffee and to chat. I ordered a toasted marshmallow latte. The toasted marshmallow flavor was not very prominent but it was very good latte. I have no photos but the place is very beautiful and I'd really like to go back.

Epic's toasted marshmallow latte

Yesterday, I had dinner with a couple of my friends from UP Aggregates. We had dinner at Rib City (a new restaurant along Maginhawa Street) and then had coffee at Magpie Cafe (also in Maginhawa Street). I also brought them some homemade vanilla bean cheesecake.

my vanilla bean cheesecake and Magpie Cafe's mocha latte