M cooks: cheesy bola-bola!

While having cheese hamburg lunch yesterday, I had the inspiration to make my own hamburg in this weekend. Today after me-time (was off from work today), I decided to make bola bola instead (Filipino meatballs, one of my childhood faves). Yui loves cheese so I decided to toss in some. The verdict? Everyone in the dinner table declared it tasted MUCH better than the hamburg we had yesterday. Yui even requested I make the same again next week❣️🥰❤️

Baked it instead of frying. Preheated the oven at 180degC. Baked for 20 min at 200degC, and kept it inside the oven for 15 min. I’ll preheat it at higher temp next time for more crispy bola bola!

humba

Been craving for Filipino food lately – actually, more like, I miss Papa’s cooking – so I cooked humba (slightly sweet adobo) using Japanese condiments – dashi, mirin, Japanese soy sauce, sesame salt, sesame oil plus wei pai, a Chinese flavouring that’s great for soup. The result, deliciously Filipino Humba, as if it was Papa who cooked.

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Komeraku’s Ochazuke

It was unexpectedly cold today so I opted to buy ochazuke from my favourite bento shop for lunch. Ah. Simple but definitely Goodfood! 🙂
Salmon flakes. Nori. Rice crackers. Pickled vegetables. Dashi (fish broth) stock.

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and hurray! I can finally post photos! Am not sure of the reason though but I did two things – update my iOS and deleted some apps to have more storage. Now, I-have-to-find-time to catch up with blog backlogs.

Haagen Daz Sakura

It is that time of the year again when everything that’s sold is sakura-inspired. But we certainly are not complaining! And that we sure are happy to indulge.
We got addicted to the sakura yogurt last year, which I haven’t found yet on the stores’ shelves this year.

Found this one.

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What’s inside? Heaven.

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It’s a heaven though that needs to be taken with a litre of water. Will try to post more sakura-inspired products soon.

OldTown white coffee

I know I lived (and am living and will live, hehe!) a good life before I had this. But now that I’ve tasted this one, I find myself thinking, “what would I do when I’ve already consumed the pack that a friend bought for me from his recent trip to Singapore??!!” To think this was supposedly for Hubs. 😀

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Of course I already looked it up in Rakuten and Amazon Japan but it’s not sold there. There’s some in Amazon US but it’s unreasonably expensive.