I know it’s so glamrock but I wanna watch.
MEXICAN SHRIMP COCKTAIL
1 large can V-8 juice or Clamato (spicy if desired)
2 avocados, chopped
2 cucumbers, seeded and chopped
1 medium red onion, chopped
1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped
1 jalapeño, seeded and chopped
1 pound large shrimp, peeled, de-veined and steamed just barely cooked so it’s still crisp
Ketchup, to taste
limes, quartered
Tabasco sauce
Mix all ingredients except the shrimp and avocado in a large non-reactive container. Let sit for a few hours in refrigerator, or overnight. Before serving, mix in the shrimp and avocado. Serve with limes and Tabasco sauce.
I first had this at E’s place and love it so much I could have an entire pitcher in one sitting.
Friday, J and I decided to play hooky and get a headstart on the Labor Day sales so we headed off to the Vacaville outlet stores. J was particularly interested in checking out the Burberry outlet store (their suits fit him perfectly, but he is a 40L and for some reason there are hardly any of this size suits on sale…) and I was looking for a jacket to replace my Nice Collective Holey Armpit jacket. You see, I just realized that in most of my photos I am wearing this…and it really is battered.
We left SF at around lunchtime so we decided to pass by Vallejo to get some lunch. And I saw online that Sonoma Blvd had a lot of pinoy places so we headed there and ended up at Goldilocks for lunch. Not my first choice but apparently I had chosen a place that closed and was now a mattress store or something like that. So Goldilocks it was, and they had a portion of the restaurant as Ongpin express and we had the 2-ulam meals (bistek, kare kare, lechon paksiw, lumpia) but the highlight of this meal was the platter of chicharon bulaklak we ordered as an afterthought. Vein chilling joy.
Truthfully, I don’t think outlet shopping gives me the thrill I imagined it would. After going around the entire place I left with 2 lightweight jackets ($25 each) and 2 dresses (grey and black, both for about $30) from the Gap. You know, I think I am getting a renewed fondness for this shop, they just have the generics I like.
Oh and a bag of pretzels and maui-onion-horseradish dip that we ate while sipping some gatorade sitting on the grass in a hidden shady place we discovered, while we waited for our hothothot car seats to cool down.
Going back, as I saw the fog rolling in to cover us, I felt like cheering.
P.S. We reheated the chicharon in the oven 3 days after, and it’s still goodgood.
Funny how we ended up with these 2 posts. One written by me 3 years ago, and now this from the little sister (well, younger sister, because we aren’t little anymore…)
I’m in a food mood (when am I not anyway?) so I’ll tell you about some goodies I found at the shops.
Sounds a bit like bufala, and yes it is mozzarella. But better. Think mozzarella in bag form, filled with cream and soft mozzarella chunks and other fatty goodness. One of my SILs orders this at restaurants but J and I have never bought it because it always came in about a pound-size, for say 14 dollars…which we would have sprung for if we thought our bodies could take it. I seriously think we would get sick from eating half a pound each.
When we were at Rainbow Grocery today J found a small pack of burrata. About a quarter pound, for less than 3 dollars. So together with the heirloom tomato and basil in our CSA box, some organic mission olive oil (also from Rainbow, the best tasting reasonably priced one in the grocery, acc. to J), salt and pepper…
all that we needed was our Acme baguette to dip…and slurp slurp slurp.
Nothing elaborate, just a square of the best tasting dark chocolate I think I’ve had. I’m a milk chocolate girl, but this one is so smooth I love it now. You can taste the dark chocolate, but it’s not bitter at all, it has a creamy smooth taste, like just the right amount of milk was added. Acckk if you see this one be sure to buy it. If it costs more that 5 dollars (mine did) just close your eyes and stop buying coffee shop coffee for 2 or 3 days, its so worth it.
an old highschool classmate tells you “Wow, you haven’t aged a bit!!!” :S
Well, I do feel it, this aging thing.
This year I’ve been to
- podiatrist - for flat feet, and plantar fasciitis, and I learned I had an extra bone in my foot
- chiropractor - arm pain, from muscles clenching and stress
- dentist - to have a tooth taken out, tooth planing (to avert the dreaded gingivitis), and 2 more teeth to be taken out this Thursday…(Imagine, I have only 1 molar left!!!)
- ob/gyn - high point of the exam being “Mai, so you’re turning 35, do you plan on having kids?”. She was very nice though, and agreed that not every person is meant to be a parent.
- eye doctor - yearly glasses update
Grabe, if I were a car I’d be due for a major overhaul.
Although I attribute a lot of this to carelessness and lack of exercise. To think, the YMCA is just a few blocks away, and J and I make it seem like it is such a pain to go…hay.
that I am getting intolerant of cutesy-poo and saccharine remarks more and more and find it increasingly difficult to make myself give a tolerant pokerface? Thankfully, I have also learned the value of controlling myself and keeping silent, or even leaving for a bit to cool down instead of giving people a blast of what I think.
But man, is it hard sometimes.
Dan Tan - arrested last March 31, 2007 for charges of participating in and for being the proponent of dog fights in Antipolo City - was finally arraigned last June 5, 2008.
Months of delaying tactics had stretched into a full year and finally, for the accused, there were no more medical certificates on “illness” to present as excuse for non-appearance in court and the 60-day waiting period for their pending Motion for Reconsideration at the Department of Justice had lapsed.
Tan pleaded “NOT GUILTY” to the charge of violation of Republic Act 8485 which prohibits dogfights.
Tan is shown in the video-grabbed photo above participating in the said illegal act. The video clips and photos are only some of the evidence which will be presented by PAWS.
Eyewitness accounts of arresting police officers, accounts of PAWS volunteers who were on the scene at the time of the raid, veterinarian’s certificates and the confiscated pitbulls themselves are hoped to seal the country’s first dogfight conviction.
Marking of evidence is set on July 7 while the pre-trial is slated on August 28 at the Antipolo Hall of Justice.
Meanwhile, the Court has directed that representations be made with the Thailand Embassy to try to locate - Phanuwat Nunthawat, Kittiya Boonyang and Timothy Dharmajiva -Thai citizens who were arrested in the raid (who skipped the country on Holy Thursday 2007.)
Phanuwat Nunthawat, Kittiya Boonyang
Timothy Dharmajiva
Please forward their photos to your friends in Thailand as these are people who are currently “at large”. We need help in locating them and bringing them back to face charges in Philippine Court.
Dogfighting is illegal and cruel. Here are some file photos of the victims from last year:
Photo 1: “Midnight”, renamed Black-Black by his current foster parent, when he was rescued last March 31, 2007. His left paw was almost severed and he was on the verge of getting killed when the raid was announced.
Photo 2: Black-Black in September 2007. Just a few months after the raid, his paw is healed and he has put on some weight. Now, Black-Black is a beloved pet - happy and a bit, er, chubby.
Photo 3: The other dog rescued from the raid, “Buddy” - was a “leg dog”. He was trained to attack the legs of his dog opponents in the ring - the reason why Black-Black’s leg bore the most damage. From our video file evidence, it appears that Buddy was Tim Dharmajiva’s dog - flown in from Thailand to participate in the international dogfight rudely interrupted by the CIDG-PAWS raid last March 2007.
The “AFTER” photo was taken in September 2007. Buddy is much fatter now and the wounds are hardly visible on his face.
Read more about the dogfight raid on Lizzie’s site.
Help save dogs like Buddy and Black-Black and put a stop to dogfights.
Report dogfighting in your area to the police by calling 117. For assistance, email philpawsATyahooDOTcom.
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