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When Mom Violy spotted Crisostomo’s handwritten menu, something in her chest lit up: home-style lumpia, sinigang steaming in clay pots—could this be the comfort food she’d been missing?

Carmina informed Mom Violy that she would visit her home on Saturday, November 8, 2025. She asked if Mom Violy wanted to go out for lunch and mentioned needing to do some grocery shopping due to an upcoming big storm. Mom Violy suggested trying Crisostomo, a Filipino restaurant inside Robinsons Magnolia. Carmina forwarded the menu for her to choose what she wanted to eat, while Carmina already knew her order. I chose pork barbeque served in a set of three pieces with a vinegar dipping sauce. I skipped rice and opted for lumpiang hubad, fresh lumpia without a wrapper, topped with peanut sauce.  Mom Violy initially craved the classic Pinoy paella, but when it wasn’t available, she decided on sinigang na baboy with an extra serving of rice. A family member chose sisig with garlic rice. Carmina enjoyed her meal with Mom Violy and particularly liked the  lumpiang hubad , though she kept wondering why it had no wrapper. I explained that it’s called "naked" because it’s served witho...

Pambahay and Pantulog Clothes

When we come home from work, school from the outside we always change into our pambahay clothes. Pambahay means clothes to be worn inside the house if you have visited the Philippines you will notice most female are wearing duster that look like this: Men are wearing muscle shirt or sando with shorts since the weather is hot they tend to wear these type of clothing. The most common is white sando worn most of the time. They also wear this type of clothing when they go to sleep. They call it pantulog (sleep). Most female don’t wear duster when they sleep sometime you will see them wearing pajama if they have air conditioner in their room. Some wear long t-shirt type of duster when they sleep.

Filipino Chicken Curry Recipe

Once every two weeks we eat Filipino chicken curry cooked at home by our cook. Tonight was the night we had eaten this dish and I was able to ask our cook for the recipe: Filipino Chicken Curry Recipe : Ingredients : 3/4 Kg - Chicken (any part) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Tsp Garlic (mined) 2 Cups - Pure Gata (coconut milk) 1 - Small Bell Pepper (diced) 1 - Carrot - (cubed) 1 - Large Potato (cubed) Curry Note : Curry powder is salty just use little amount of the following : Patis - Depend on your taste Chicken broth cube - Depend on your taste Step 1 : Saute onion and garlic in a little amount of cooking oil Tip : Too much cooking oil adds fats when you add the gata (coconut milk) Add chicken and gata Simmer and wait till the gata has thicken Add potato, carrot, bell pepper Add patis and chicken broth cube to your taste Cook for 10 to 15 minutes NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and...

Coupon

Coupon on the Sunday newspaper was so popular when I was growing up in California. We would run out in the driveway to get our newspaper and check out all the coupons we can use on an upcoming sale. We would cut up the ones we needed and discard the ones in the recycling bin. After many years has passed cutting coupons in the Sunday paper was no longer the trend people would receive coupon through email from promotion in certain stores we had subscribed from. Years later everything became paperless and when you enter a grocery store they would give you a print out on a coupon of certain product you have recently purchased. You would become a member of the Entertainment Coupon Book that comes with lots of coupons in restaurant, hotel, car service and etc. Now our coupons comes from our phone that you can just get by giving out your phone number and register it at the store. Sometimes the store requires a card to become a member to get a discount from the store...