WELCOME BREAKFAST FOR THREE SWEET MAGNOLIAS

​Today we welcomed Carol, Cheska and Dolly from their summer travel; Dolly and Carol went to the US and Cheska to Europe 

Carol and Cheska

Here’s Dolly below 

I prepared a different breakfast today; not the American/continental breakfast of bacon, ham, sausages, omelettes and pancakes; nor the Filipino breakfast fare of corned beef, longanisa, tocino and over easy eggs or salted egg with tomatoes. 

I am one who always try different dishes. Whenever I go to a restaurant, I always order something different; this way, my palate will experience different taste and flavors

When I was in Singapore in April, my son brought us to Tuga a Portuguese restaurant in Dempsey Hill where I tasted chicken livers cooked the Portuguese way. I replicated the recipe back home, added half chicken thighs to the livers. From memory, I recalled the taste and put in the right spices. And voila!  I got it!  Adding that dish to my cooking repertoire, for sure. 

Portuguese chicken livers. 

Today I served papaya and orange wedges. 

And sandwiches: 

Chicken sandwich with tomato and romaine

Cream cheese-yogurt and dill with cucumber

And cheese pimiento which I forgot to photograph. 

Tomato-onion-mushroom- spinach omelet. 

I like to depart from the usual breakfast; at home don’t we often run out of menu ideas so we turn to processed meats in our pantry like corned beef, spam or our stock of ham and  sausages? Don’t we also resort to longanisa, tocino and red eggs?  See, that’s why I want to try new things. 

While some may not choose pasta for breakfast, I thought, why not? So I made putanesca. 

I served the mango loaf baked by my sister, Annie  and mini cheese cakes from her too. 

Mel, a dessert aficionado brought a peach dessert topped with jello on cream

Cheska brought a taste of Paris where she visited recently; different croissants and kouign-Mann: pronounced “kween uh, man”; like a Britton butter cake made of 30% butter, 30% sugar and the rest is flour.  Oh so yummy yet so sinful. It must be really good coz when I opened the box this is all that was left. 

Carol brought chicken macaroni salad 

And Juliet gave me lots of suman which is my fave. I was brought up eating cakes baked by my mama and all kinds of rice cakes too. There was a lot so I shared some and left these for us. 

The highlight this morning was the unexpected Bidibidi bag for Carol. 

Tess gave us all similar bags for our birthdays except Carol so she left this before she went home to Rotterdam.

Tess is in London now with her family. Here she just got off the plane.  Look, she is also using her Bidibidi travel bag. She says that she misses  us, everyday she always has a word or two in our group chat. 

Tomorrow is the birthday of Cheska. This morning we already greeted her and I handed my gift to her, a solo personalized cheese board. 

We missed Claire, our youngest bubbly buddy who is feeling under the weather so I sent her food Here she is when she is well.