There is no way you can celebrate Valentine’s Day without chocolate! This February, troop to the Maya Kitchen and watch how the pros add that unmistakable touch to your favorite chocolate Valentine desserts. You can bake it from scratch and decorate like a pro – this is what Nikko Buendia will teach in her Valentine Designer Cupcake class on February 4, Saturday, 9am-2pm. On the same day, 1-6pm, Roxanne Arcilla Kangleon will demonstrate Chocolate Candy Making for Fun and Profit with actual hands on in the preparation and moulding of lollipop, black and white bark, choco flakes, chocolate dipped...

Been asking friends from the City Hall of Makati City for Caracol Festival dates and thank God I receive the Festival date! Makati’s Caracol Festival will held on February 26 2012, Sunday! See you at 4pm at the corners of Ayala Avenue and Makati Avenue in Makati City. Oh by the way! here are my photos during Makati’s Caracol 2010! Everyone is invited to leave their cares behind, put on their body paint, masks and costumes of flowers, birds,fruits and endangered species and Caracol away! Caracol 2012, The Mardi Gras of Makati City’s “Save The Mother Earth” is sponsored by...

When to check and clean padlocks When padlock are kinda hard to open, most people would use WD40. But here’s a do-it-yourself tip you can do at home. Just a quick advise, check and clean your padlocks at least once a year to avoid rust and other metal residue. It’s for your own safety. How to open rusted padlucks Most often, rusty padlocks are very hard to open. All you need to have is your key to the padlock, any oil will do, vice grip or pliers and a hammer if ever. First, you must try to open the padlock using your key. If you successfully opened the padlock, then its time to clean...

One of my healthiest stew I ever made. I may say that this Healthy Chicken stew or Healthy Chicken Tinola can help you retain your weight as to compare to other recipes. Imagine, this chicken recipe used Chicken Breast and canola oil instead of using Chicken red meats and vegetable oil? I didn’t took off the skin because the recipe might fail. Anyway, this recipe is very simple, all ingredients are all easy to find! In my case, I just got some of my ingredients at the backyard like the dahon ng sili and papaya. The ginger, garlic and onions are all typically can be found inside your...

Its very easy to tell what your New Year resolution for this year but, most of us forget and vanish and ends up a broken promise. So how can we fulfill it? Now here’s a simple and easy way on how can we fulfill our promise… All you have to do is write them first on a piece of paper, review them if its realistic or not, erase the promise that you can not or impossible for you to do then re write them again on a 3M Post It! and stick them up on your work area. easy right? Why do we need to stick it? We need to stick them up for us to remember it! Study shows that making marks makes you...

It’s easy to make gravy sauce especially for roast meats like chicken, beef or pork or even hamburgers. You just have to make meat liquid stocks or set aside the roasted meat drippings to make gravy. You can make use also of instant meat stock cubes if you want. Ingredients of Mushroom Gravy Recipe: 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) butter 3 cloves of garlic minced 2 tbsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce 1 pound mushrooms, sliced 1/3 cup Maya All Purpose Flour 1 quart cold beef, chicken or vegetable stock or broth salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste   Procedure  of the Gravy...