the accident...

I really never thought nor even had a bad dream of encountering this... moral lesson, don't drive when your oveer fatigue... or else you'll end up like me in this situation...

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

After the success of my red velvet cookies ... i made a follow up baking session the next day after and I made some chocolate crinkle cookie... and this time, i would like to give thank to panlasangpinoy.com for the recipe... enjoy baking and eating!

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 4 pieces raw eggs
• 1 tbsp vanilla essence
• 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
• 2/3 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup confectioners sugar

  Cooking Procedure


1. Cream the butter in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer
2. Whisk the granulated sugar in and continue mixing for 2 minutes
3. Add the cocoa powder and melted chocolate then mix again for a minute
4. Put-in the eggs and vanilla essence then continue to mix until the texture becomes fluffy.
5. Add-in the flour, salt, and baking powder then mix again until all the ingredients are evenly distributed.
6. Cover the mixing bowl with cling wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours
7. Remove the cover and scoop the mixture using 1/2 tbsp measuring spoon
8. Roll the mixture using your palms until the shape becomes spherical
9. Roll the chocolate balls over confectioners sugar until fully covered
10. Arrange on a baking tray with wax paper (each ball should be 2-3 inches apart)
11. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake the chocolate balls for 10 to 12 minutes
12. Remove from the oven and allow to cool down
13. Arrange in a serving platter then serve. Share and enjoy!

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My Version of Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

This is another late post,since i have been very busy for these past few days, i mean weeks or almost months...i had a chance to do my baking again and to those friends of mine who's asking me the recipe of this yummy cookie, here's how... but before i forget, i would like to acknowledge the writer or to where I got this recipe, he/she got a blog as well which inspire me to continue baking/cooking and blogging at the same time... thanks to http://foodie19.blogspot.com, for this wonderful recipe... and by the wayh, i love the tagline..."NOT A CHEF,BUT I CAN COOK".... enjoy baking....

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

Ingredients:
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour 
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 
1 tsp baking powder 
1/4 teaspoon baking soda 
1/2 teaspoon salt 
1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature 
1 cup sugar 
2 eggs 
2 tbsp buttermilk 
1 tsp vanilla extract 
1 tbsp red food coloring 

Directions:
Preheat an oven to 375°F. 
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper 
Put the confectioners' sugar into a bowl and set aside.
Sift together all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt, set aside
Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs 1 at a time. Then beat in the buttermilk, vanilla and red food coloring.
Turn off the mixer and add the flour mixture. Beat on low speed just until blended.
Cover the mixing bowl with plastic and refrigerate for an hour or until firm
Using clean hands, form dough into one inch balls and roll in confectioner's sugar
Arrange in baking sheet an inch or two apart from each other
Bake until cookies are puffed and cracked on tops- about 12-14 minutes- cookies will be soft but leave them in the baking sheet for two minutes before transferring to cooling racks
Serve with cold milk...
Enjoy!

Baked Chicken Macaroni...

After the car accident that I have encountered, I feel so stressed and cannot sleep and as if i need to de-stress and one activity that lessen my stress is cooking and since it is also my sister's birthday I made some baked macaroni... here's how i do it...of course we'll start with the ingredients...

400gms macaroni (cooked and drained, Set aside)

300gms minced chicken
1 small can mushroom sliced
3/4 cup minced carrots
1/4 kilo (7 pcs) hotdog

1 240ml all purpose cream
1 150 gm tomato paste
1 200ml tomato sauce
1/4 cup cheez whiz (processed cream cheese)
1/4 stick butter
4-5 pcs garlic choped/minced
1-2 pcs onion minced
1 medium size bell pepper
1/4 cup catsup

mozarella cheese (preferably grated)

quickmelt cheese...(sliced or grated)
Salt and pepper to taste (others preferred soy sauce)

Melt butter and saute garlic and onions. Add in minced chicken and put some seasoning (salt and pepper/ soy sauce). Add in tomato sauce, tomato paste and catsup, stir till all mixed together, add carrots, mushrooms, bell pepper mix again while it is simmering you can add the cheez whiz melt it until it is mix with the sauce, then add in all purpose cream...stir until well blended...
In very low heat, add the drained macaroni and let it absorb the sauce. When equally mixed, let it cool down a bit. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celcius. Put the macaroni mixture in an aluminum foil pan and put cheese in between layers and bake for 30-40 mins or until cheese are full melted.

The Nuvali Jogging Get A Way!

This was taken last May 26, 2013... we took a ride going south to find a haven for family activities... Nuvali!... We had fun time jogging, biking, and feeding koi fish... and of course food tripping!...

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Top 7 Craziest Medical Misconceptions — As Seen On T.V.

Credits to Filipino Nurses' Blog...

Truth is stranger than fiction but when it comes to facts presented on TV dramas, it’s the other way around. And if you think that  mind-boggling and eyebrow-raising medical (or fictional) phenomena can only be seen on foreign medical TV dramas like “House” and“Grey’s Anatomy”, you’re definitely wrong in your assumption. Even our cheesy and overly dramatic Pinoy soap operas have their own versions of twisted medical truths. Blame it on the clever writers and their unlimited avenues for creative imagination, television viewers nowadays are being led to believe that everything in boob tube is true and accurate.

However, if you’re a nurse, doctor, or anyone who have spent many years to grasp the nook and cranny of profession, you must know that most medical facts are either exaggerated or completely twisted when they are presented in a typical television drama. I guess sensationalism is the name of their game that’s why they usually deviate from what’s existing in the real world. Let’s take a look on some of the craziest medical myths that have dominated our television dramas over the years:

1. The “Ako Budoy” myth

If you’re a Filipino television viewer, you might have seen a drama-series offering of ABS-CBN which was also dubbed as the first “advocacy serye” in the country. I’m talking about “Budoy”, a prime time drama about a intellectually challenged person portrayed by a Filipino matinee idol, Gerald Anderson. Although there were some instances that captured your attention, special education experts doubted if the show  really stayed true to its objectives as an “advocacy show”. This is due to the fact that some parts of Budoy’s story were either outright unrealistic or very hard to believe, to say the least.

First, “Budoy” suffered from a genetic condition called Angelman syndrome, a disease characterised by “severe intellectual disability, speech impediment, sleep disturbance, unstable jerky gait, seizures and usually a happy demeanor.” In the TV show, one will easily identify several inconsistencies with the character’s portrayal of a special child with this rare disease. Budoy could speak fluidly like a normal person when in reality, patients with Angelman syndrome can only use a maximum of 10 words because of their limited mental functioning and vocabulary.

Second, Budoy was born through artificial insemination and as he grew up, symptoms of Angelman syndrome started to manifest. According to special education expert Dr, Tippy Tanchanco, this is close to impossible. “There are no studies that link the cause of AS to artificial insemination. It is a genetic condition, so it’s a hereditary condition, although rare. If there is, it is just incidental, which can also happen,” she explains.

Lastly, Budoy developed extraordinary abilities of a genius after being involved in a car accident. According to Dr. Tanchanco again, this sudden twist of events has made the show more of a fictional story rather than an advocacy drama that depicts real life events. Though there are some rare instances that a person with mental disability develops unusual skills after having a bad head injury, they usually go back to their previous state after a few hours or days.

2. The “Defibrillator” myth

It’s funny to see doctors on TV every time they employ several confusing  techniques in using defibrillators to save their patients who are under critical conditions. Defibrillation is the process of using electrical stimulation to reestablish the normal rhythm of the heart. Doctors and some trained nurses use it for emergency and critical cases. As a standard, the two paddles are properly placed in the chest area to ensure equal distribution of electrodes to the heart. This is what they call “anterior-apex” placement in which the first paddle is placed on the right chest just below the clavicle while the second one is placed just below the pectoral muscles of the left chest. However, doctors on TV dramas usually place defibrillator paddles in the chest area in a position that make them parallel to each other. In addition to this, you can sometimes see them rubbing the defibrillator paddles together which is not required in reality. As a matter of fact, rubbing them together will only ruin the whole device.

3. The “Flat line or Asystole” myth

I know you already know what I’m talking about. When you see a flat line on the patient’s cardiac monitor on TV, that is the signal for the relatives to call the nurse and then in just a snap, the doctor and nurses will work hand in hand to save the patient’s life by defibrillation. That is, of course, is a scene you will commonly watch in a typical tearjerker. But in reality, that is not exactly the case. Asystole is not  ”perfectly flat” when you see it on the cardiac monitor. You can call it “flat line” but the real “asystole” has certain waves in it. Moreover, applying electrical shocks during asystolic episodes will not just bring more harm to the patient but will also decrease its chance for survival.

4. The “Amnesia” myth

Yes, you can have amnesia  if you got your head severely injured but you will never recover from it by getting another head injury. It’s not like those that happen in local soap operas wherein the protagonist recovers her memory after accidentally hitting her head on the wall. Furthermore, amnesia doesn’t necessarily mean forgetting your self-identity. It can cause you to forget several important details about your life but unlike what they portray on TV dramas, you can still remember who you are after getting amnesia.

5. The “Suck that snake bite” myth

Action heroes typically do this in the middle of the jungle but don’t ever do this in real life. The venom from the snake can travel within your bloodstream and reach several parts of your body in a matter of seconds. Therefore, sucking the blood out from a bitten victim will be futile. You might put yourself in greater peril as the area under your tongue is highly vascular or rich in blood supply. Once the venom is absorbed through it, you will just turn yourself into another person needing medical emergency.

6. The “Pulling out an impaled knife” myth

Several scenes in war movies and action flicks have provided us the false assumption that its alright to remove a sharp object deeply buried in our wounds. You might want to try it yourself but remember that by doing this, you will further aggravate the bleeding, cause massive hemorrhage in the wounds, and just kill yourself in the process.

7. The “Doctors-know-it-all” myth

In medical TV dramas like “Grey’s Anatomy”, doctors are always in the forefront doing almost every single task for the patients. It’s like the other health care professionals like nurses, medical technologists, and radiologic technologists are completely out of the picture. In reality, there are a total of 16 or more professionals working in collaboration with one another to give every patient that quality of care he rightfully deserves.

These are just some of the medical myths commonly seen in television dramas so feel free to add more. A lot of people are too gullible to believe every single thing that they get from the television. As health care professionals, it is our primary responsibility to educate people about misconceptions and myths related to the health care industry. Through this process, we will be able to debunk false assumptions and provide people not just quality care, but educational information as well.

... tama nga ito... nakakatuwa lang, kinakagat ng mga tao... minsan kahit nga ako... hehehehe... ( alam na ang script eh)....