2 weeks to go

Two weeks to go before my sister turns another year older. It's funny how she reminded me of her birthday (as if I would forget!) the last time we talked on the phone. She was telling me about her day - what she did, where she went, what she bought - and suddenly said "malapit na birthday ko".

I just had to laugh when I heard her because you see, this is my brother's style. He reminds people when his birthday approaches and drops hints all over the place. Achi & my bro are really two halves of the same coin, maybe being born exactly 12 years apart (i.e. they were born under the same animal sign under the lunar calendar) gives them similar ugali.

Me? While I won't deny appreciating if my birthday is remembered, I don't think that I've ever reminded anyone - not even my immediate family - about my birthday. Hiya eh.

Have you?

Salmon Cakes

This overexposed shot shows a photo of the Salmon cakes that I prepared a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I lost the recipe and cannot figure out the website where I copied it from and when I attempt to make a search, there are too many hits. And no, I don't have my browser history anymore.

I vaguely remember adding:
chopped red pepper
chopped onion
salt & pepper to taste
1 can of corn kernels
2 8oz cans of salmon
egg or eggs
plain bread crumbs

Mix them all together, form into patties and fry.

If someone can point me out in the right direction, I'll appreciate it :)

Wedding attire

My brother called me up to ask, "what's the usual wedding attire in the US? What do people usually wear?" and I told him that while girls' attires differ depending on the formality of the event - cocktail dresses vs evening gowns - but guys usually wear suits.

So then brother starts arguing with me - we are discussing this because he will be attending our cousin's wedding in May - and tells me that it's an afternoon wedding anyway so why would anyone wear suits ? I took this as my cue to remind him that a lot of people wear suits to work every single day.

Ah...

He's still unreconciled with the idea but I'm trying to convince him that he has to wear a tie at the very least. My brother, the sort of vain guy that he is, is kind of warming up to the idea of pure silk Luxury ties.

Personally, I'm liking this gold one and can totally imagine him wearing this.

Pizza day

Saturday night last weekend was pizza day for hubby and me. We made the crust - he wanted to knead and thought it was fun - together and we divided it up and formed nd topped our own pizzas since we wanted different toppings.

Hubby's pizza had a tomato-based sauce ( tomato sauce + tomato paste and seasoned with oregano, onion powder and garlic powder). He topped it with mozzarella cheese, ham, meatball pieces (Ikea swedish meatballs), bacon, pepperoni and more mozzarella.


My pizza sauce was cream-based, I used plain creamy Alfredo sauce from a bottle. I topped mine with spinach, ham, meatball pieces, bacon and mozzarella cheese.

We dropped by the supermarket to get some fresh mushrooms but I forgot to take them out when we were preparing the pizzas.

The crust is still not as nice as I would like them to be. It's okay to eat while it is fresh out of the oven but it gets harder when it cools. Konting experiment pa and we can probably invite friends over for a make-your-own pizza dinner sometime.

Godfather

Dropped by the library on Saturday morning and as per hubby's request, picked up DVD movies of The Godfather. We watched parts 1 and 2 all day on Sunday and we are loving them so far! Can't wait to see part 3 but since I was only able to borrow 2 DVDs on my card last Saturday, we have to go back for the rest.

Part 2 was around 4 to 5 hours long on two DVDs. I cannot imagine how people watched these in the moviehouses but, hey, we did sit still for that time. We couldn't turn our eyes away because the movie was so good. Now, I kinda know why people like using Corleone, Vito, Don in their internet handles. :)

I did wonder how they could possibly get hold of those old cars in the movies. Hubby says that at the time the movie was made, there were still plenty of those cars around (i.e. they weren't that old back then) so it must not have been too hard. I thought that they might have gone to some sort of club or something like a biker community where they can look for people who own vintage cars and bikes.

Versatile Alfredo Sauce

Had a hankering for pasta today so I boiled some spaghetti and for the sauce, I sauteed some garlic, added some salmon chunks from a can and poured in bottled Alfredo sauce.

I didn't think that it was going to be good. The last time I tried canned salmon chunks w/ Alfredo sauce, it didn't turn out this good, seems like the sauteed garlic added just the right amount of flavor.

I'm still iffy on whether hubby will like this or not. After all, he's not a huge fan of cream sauces to start with. But I guess this should be good enough for a no-meat meal on Fridays throughout the Lenten season. We're not supposed to eat much anyway :)

Unknown numbers

I got bored tonight and I decided to go through all the caller IDs that my phone has stored in the past few months. I'm seeing a lot of numbers that I don't recognize and believe me, I am good with remembering and recognizing phone numbers - I might be the only one in my family and my circle of friends who doesn't rely on my phonebook to dial out, I always dialed the number straightaway.

So I set my browser to Infospace under reverse phone lookup and start typing in these unknown numbers one by one (I did say that I was bored) and not surprisingly, they're all coming up as unknown numbers. So these numbers called me repeatedly - some even multiple times - and nobody bothered to record a message and none of the caller IDs could be traced back to them. I wonder, could they be using some sort of Free Spoofing service to hide their real phone numbers ?

As for me? I've decided to hold onto this Free Spoofing information, this might come in handy some day. A way to spy on an ex-bf, perhaps ? or your spouse's ex ? or just to pull phone pranks, it's sure to be fun.