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Carmina's quest for the perfect display for her treasured mementos led her to an extraordinary find

Carmina was looking for the best way to hang treasured pictures and mementos from a keepsake. I felt it was time to bring them out and display them on my wall. I saw many options, from cork boards to felt boards , but I didn’t want an ordinary board hanging there. I wanted it to be part of my wall décor, placed above my desk where I sit daily—something I could look up at and be reminded of past travels and accomplishments. Some people keep them in photo albums or store them digitally, but I wanted mine on display. What caught my eye from an ordinary felt board something had a roof which remind me a house. The best part it is light weight and it has a mount tape in the back attached to the felt board included was thumb tacks and something else where can decorate. Carmina had purchased the three dimensions roof felt board wall self-adhesive retro premium wall decoration message measurement of 60x80 cm in color camel for 875.00 pesos ($14.34) not including shipping and handling. The st...
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Bamboo Shoot Recipe

There are a lot of vegetables to eat and when you are used to eating the same vegetables you get tired eating the same you have cooked it over and over again. You know if you’re boss doesn’t eat it you will get stuck eating it with your housemates. When it becomes a leftover, you know you have to eat it the next day and you too are tired of eating the same food. Bamboo Shoot Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Cup Bamboo Shoot (sliced thinly) 1 - Cup Sayote Tops 1 - Onion (chopped) 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Thumb size Ginger (peel and sliced thinly) 1 - Cup Water Patis (fish sauce) to your taste Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil while it is getting hot add garlic, onion and ginger sauté together. Add bamboo shoot and sayote tops Add water Season with patis and it will be cooked for a short time. Optional Ingredients: Replace the water to 1 - Cup Gata (coconut milk) Add 1 - Cup Shrimp (peel remove skin and head) Add 1 - Cup Ground Meat of your choice NOT SPONS...
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Alamang with Kamias Recipe

When you are tired of eating the same food and want to eat other than what you normally eat from your fixed menu sometimes we crave for food that are easy to make and a dish that you can eat with fried fish to combined it's taste with something else. What is Alamang? Alamang are small shrimp usually made for bagoong, ukoy and vegetables. This is one shrimp I cannot eat I get allergies but my family at home love the taste. What is Kamias? Kamias is actually a fruit and it looks like this in the picture. Alamang with Kamias Recipe Ingredients: 3 Cups - Fresh Alamang - micro shrimp (clean and strain) 2 Cups - Kamias (cut in cubes) 1 - Onion (chopped) 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis (fish sauce) to taste 1/2 Cup Water Black Pepper to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: In a pan add cooking oil add garlic and onion saute add fresh alamang and water let it boil Add patis and black pepper Add kamias Best to eat when hot. Ready to be served. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyl...
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Do you get tired eating the same food in your home?

Here in our household we have a fixed menu that consist from Monday to Sunday for two weeks a menu of A and B. Sometimes when you reach the third week of the month you get tired of eating the same old food from the first week. When you live in a household where the family have medical issues and need to eat on the healthy side and the fixed menu hasn’t been revised to their health issues what you end up doing. The cook ends up thinking of alternative food that can be cooked for her boss. Sometimes when you cook something other people are not fond of that dish there comes a time people argue over just on what food was cooked that day instead of thinking how hard the cook had put so much passion on her cooking to taste how it taste. When you live with a household of people it is hard to get any feedback in return and there are times you lose that inspiration to cook because out of your hard labor of love comes complaints from their mouths. I’ve been there and done that so I know how the ...
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