A Quicker8.com Blog Giveaway!!!

Quicker8.com is such a generous person for sponsoring this blog giveaway. Imagine, two Fossil ladies watches up for grabs and a Kate Spade kikay kit!

I entered her first blog giveaway a few months back. She gave away a Fossil ladies watch then, but now, whoo! This is certainly a Level-UP !

I need a watch but I couldn't really bring myself to splurge on them. Most of my watches were given to me as gifts, and in very reliable, old school Casio brands. Or else, another brand with doesn't really live up to the standards. Mga sumpungin! Now, when a ran into some cash last year, I treated myself to a Casio watch. Nothing fancy though. I even bought it on sale! That's how much of a cheapskate I am!

So winning this Fossil Ladies watch would be a very nice Christmas gift, indeed! Keep your fingers crossed, ladie, toe fingers included!

TIPS IN USING LEAVES AS A KAKANIN WRAPPER

Leaves, like banana and taktakkong leaves, are generally “crunchy” and easily ripped. In wrapping suman, balisuso, inandila atc, the leaves have to be “softened” first so they won’t break when you twist and turn it and the kakanin won’t spill out of it.

I know of three ways to this. One, you can leave the leaves under the sun. Second, you can put it through the fire or idarang sa apoy in the vernacular. And third, you can dip it in hot water.

The idea is to heat the leaves up and cook it slightly. They will turn into a deep green color when done.

However, if you’re only using the leaves as a serving vessel, no need to do the above.

PALUP-SI

This rice cake is a variation of sinukmani. It uses the same ingredients, except for the sugar. You see, palup-si uses salt as its flavoring. And it is easier to cook.

All you have to do is cook the malagkit as you would any regular rice, BUT using coconut cream as its water. Put in some salt accoding to taste. And that’s it.

Like I said, I have a sweet tooth, so the original palup-si I have to dunk into sugar still. OR I would mix in sugar, instead of salt, to tweak it according to my taste.

One more thing, I have never seen it served with peanut or latik toppings. I guess, it is served as it is.