Mary's List

         A person's diet restricted to eating vegetable is called vegetarian. When fish is added it is called pescatarian. When the diet is restricted to eating chicken, dairy products, sea foods, fish and vegetables it is called "Pollo-pescatarian." I therefore conclude that I am a pollo-pescatarian.

Another Fishetarian Recipe... Togue (Long Strands) Carrots (chopped or shredded) Onion  Garlic Bell Pepper Canned Tuna Lumpia Wrapper     You can either mix all the above ingredients, wrap it in a lumpia wrapper and deep fry or saute (according to the following) onion, garlic, bell pepper, carrots, tuna  and wrap the above ingredients inside a lumpia wrapper then fry.  

Try this very simple recipe. I wont use exact measurement its up to you to adjust to your taste. I would love to post the picture of the dish but too bad, before I plan of taking the picture, the dish have already been a part of digestion. If you know basic cooking you can easily follow. If you want the exact measurement and step by step instruction just ask on the comment box. Thanks. Enjoy. One block of Japanese tofu-Cubed Tomato Sauce or Spaghetti Sauce Pesto Mix or Fresh  Basil (Chopped) Eggplant Cubed Onion Garlic Bell Pepper (Red or Green or both) Salt Pepper Cheese Sugar or half cup of evaporated milk (kids friendly) Noodles/ Pasta (Flat or whatever you like) Fry tofu and eggplant. Set it aside when cooked. Saute onion, garlic and bell peppers. Add in the tofu and eggplant. Add in basil or one sachet of pesto mix. Add a cup of water. Add tomato sauce of spaghetti sauce. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Add sugar or milk to balance if the mix ...

The Notebook Experience by  Chel Bundalian  on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 7:25pm I saw an old couple's picture and I was suddenly reminded with a patient of mine... 60+ year old male patient, and his wife with him in the room. Usually just the two of them. The wife was in an advance stage of Alzheimers dse. One time, the door was left open and I saw the wife going away, alone, so I chased after her and asked her where she was going. She told me she's going to visit her husband in the hospital. I told her that she's in this hospital already and I asked her to come with me. She stopped at the door watching her husband (He was just diagnosed with cancer) She told me "Naaawa ako sa matanda, lolo ko syah" and I can see the look on her face, she was fighting her teardrops not to fall. I asked her to come in and when the husband saw her I can see the worried look on his face. The wife came closer and took his hands,  she said "Kumusta ka na? Pagaling ka ha?...

Me and my family love Tofu. We adopted him a long time ago. Wait, Tofu? not a pet, another human nor an imaginary friend, but yes, a great part of our family. A week without tofu is like some weird circumstances on twilight zone. Its like we had stepped in to another dimension and missed a great part of our life. Am I exaggerating now? Yes, I am. A tofu addiction I may say. When I was younger, the first and only tofu recipe that I knew was our old time Pinoy (Filipino) recipe "tokwa't baboy". At my young age I thought it was some gross exotic food,  the sauteed pigs ears and the oozing weird black beans. How can you eat such thing when pigs don't clean their ears! Oh gross! That was my way of thinking. Only kid with strong heart and weird appetite could stand to eat such thing. It was a good thing, an aunt of mine introduced me to some other way to cook tofu. She had a way of cooking that she made me eat ampalaya (bitter gourd) and other greenery that I thought only ...

In the pursuit for wellness and staying fit there are basic questions on how to do this properly.   I think the first thing that I should do now is to know my present weight. This is bad because I never had a chance to know my actual weight before I started on my diet scheme.   I could have a bath scale but I don’t think that one is accurate. Back then when I was working on a health care facility I would weigh in everyday, not just once but three times a day: the moment I came in the clinic; after lunch and before going home.   As far as I could remember my weigh would range from 110 lbs. to 115 lbs. According to weight watchers it is not recommended that we should weigh in everyday. The most ideal is to weigh in once a week or even once a month so we could monitor the weight lost properly and would not be discourage or obsessed if there are minimal improvement. Weigh loss would not be possible on a one day only. For women hormonal change often leads to weight loss or w...

Mentioning about this staying healthy list does not mean that this is on my top list (I am still on defensive mode). Some young people do not value the benefit of maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle. I once belonged to this group of populace. As a health care provider I was very certain on what to do and that I can recognize any disease or disorder that could inflict me or anyone in the family. So I couldn’t care much on the variety of food I eat or if I sit on my booty or lie down for a day or two. Now, my views had changed. I decided to change gradually starting with my healthier food choices and routine physical activities.   I am starting to jog which I really hated before. I hated the idea of running basically because I considered my self clumsy. I am afraid that I would step on my own foot or just stumble. Second I don’t like the idea of shaking my anatomical areas when I ran. Third, I may grasp for air, I love to maintain my constant O2 (oxygen) supply.   My fea...

It did not came to me that starting on my blog would take me around 3-4 days to start. I was enthusiastic about the idea at first. Then I suddenly had a brain drain on what topic to write and go about. Well,  I once had a website under the Yahoo Geo-cities some years ago (like uh...10 years ago?) and I was not aware that it was  already gone and I did not get the chance to save my pictures and documents on that. Most of my writings consisted of poetry in Filipino language and some of the things and adventures I did. And, to add on this I have some accounts on social networking sites and journals. So to start on this blogging quest let me start on what I am thinking about or perhaps on what I am planing ... I have a lot ideas on my mind. Yeah actually, I have but the only thing is I want this ideas to be "organized ideas" and not just "dumb ideas". Some ideas goes like this: I have a checklist, a mind checklist on what things I want to do. It is too morbid for ...