Forget the powdered juice and carbonated soft drinks. The best way to cool off this summer is to make your very own Watermelon and Pineapple Shake.
I freeze the watermelon and pineapple chunks. Once frozen, I put them in the blender, add a little bit of sugar and water, and voila! We have the perfect thirst-quencher. Rich in vitamins, none of the preservatives, and guaranteed to shoo the heat away. And cheap!
It’s the 4th and final week (for now) of the Lunch Box Meme. Share what you’ve got up you sleeves, moms and wives! Posting of links will be on Friday.
In February, we’re giving the lunch box a break, so we’re doing a different meme. Stay tuned, or better yet, come around next Tuesday to find out. We’ve got some nice things a-brewing. 
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Mauie’s Bigger Boy’s Korean Beef Stew
Maver’s Pancit Efuven
Lynn’s Chicken with Sweet Peas (Guisantes)
Julie’s Baked Mussels and Home-Baked Bread
iMom’s Chicken Tocino and fresh pineapples
Cookie’s Karne Frita and Broccoli and Mushroom with Garlic Cream
One of the things that can enhance the memory would be food. Now why would we even consider this as important?
Memory is a thinking process for recalling information among others. This is one of the many thinking processes that we need, that our children need too, when we face the day’s challenges.
So what does this mean? It means we should eat more of these kinds of food so that we can improve our memory skills. Ahem, there’s no denying we have these “duh!” moments or memory gap moments or, sige na nga, senior moments then 
Do you have these in your lunchboxes?
Source: http://www.helpguide.org/life/improving_memory.htm
Ok, now are you ready to tackle the challenges? For more tips, don’t forget to click that -> Feed Your Head.
Round-up will be done for posts that will make it till Friday 
UPDATE :
Here’s the round-up of those who participated this week.
Mauie’s Picnic Lunch
Cookie’s Ginisang Ampalaya and Pork Steak & Fries
Maver’s Economical Chicken Curry
Lynn’s Chopsuey with Quail Eggs
TeacherJulie’s Fried Cream Dory Fillet
Imom’s Pork Patties & Mushrooms
Week 2 of our lunchbox meme, yey! (insert banana dance here)
Leave your link and we will have these in our round-up.
We learn from each other’s preparation and so we get ideas on what to do next, plus we also get those link love. So please, go get your cameras, take a photo of what you have prepared for your loved ones, write a short and post and leave a link here. Link love will be done till Friday.
Thank you and now, I will go write my entry
And now for our participating lunchboxes:
Julie’s Field Trip Food
Mauie’s Beef Tapa and Fried Egg
Cookie’s Chef Salad and her hubby’s Christmas Ham Sandwich
Maver’s Spanish Sardines Pasta
Lynn’s Egg, Mayo and Wheat Bread Sandwich
Manang’s Organized lunchboxes (This we gotta try doing!)
Salen’s Homebaked Chocolate Chips cookies (with the recipe)
iMom’s Baked Herb Chicken Thighs with a link to the recipe here.
Lunchbox Meme for 2009 is back!
Which means it is back to work for some of us and back to school for most of the children.
I am sure we’ve had enough of those meaty food during the holidays. Now is the time to make good on our promise to have healthier food choices, for ourselves, and our family members.
Grab the badge and join us here, just leave a link if you played.
The meme will be opened every Tuesday. Final round-up will be done for entries that will make it till Friday. So now there is no excuse to let this pass as you all have four days to take photos of what you have prepared in your lunchboxes.
Share your secret recipes so we can all learn something new.
Let’s bring a whole new meaning to the word LUNCHBOX
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Julie’s Lechon Kawali with a (sort of) recipe here
Mauie’s Big Boy had Chicken Curry Maki
Maver’s Healthy Chopsuey
Lynn’s Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger!
iMom’s Homemade Chicken Tocino (with a how-to)
Iska’s Bacon and Cheese Sandwich/Pandesal and Shrimp/Vegetable Salad
So now I’ve made public my attempt at the Christmas ham this year.
So this better work… Or else!
Aside from being a tradition begun by Mama that I want to keep alive, making my own Christmas ham has its many advantages. For starters, it’s less expensive. The 5.6-kilo fresh ham (pigue in Filipino) that I bought yesterday cost Php816.00 (or about USD16.50 only!). Commercial hams nowadays cost as much as Php850 per kilo!
Home-made ham is healthy. Mama never used nitrates (salitre in Filipino) and prague in her hams, and I will never too. Anyway, my ham won’t be stored for too long. It’s going to be gone shortly after midnight of December 25th! So there’s no need for other preservatives - good old rock salt has always been enough to do the trick.
In the past, I have dry-cured my hams, just as Mama did. My cure consisted of rock salt, brown sugar, ground black pepper, and cinnamon.
Approximate cure proportions for a 5-kilo ham:
1 cup salt (I don’t like it too salty so I’d put in about 3/4 cup)
1/2 cup brown sugar (I like it sweet, so I adjust this to 3/4 cup)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ground pepper
*Mix all of these together.
I massage the ham all over with the cure. The ham is always deboned so even the crevices where the bone used to be get some cure massage. The ham is kept tightly covered in the ref in a plastic container.
Curing time depends on the meat size. Two years ago, I cured a 3-kilo ham for a month, and we ended up with a very salty ham. (The meat was pink and tender though - saving grace! haha) I should have soaked the ham in cold water first before cooking to remove the excess salt.
According to this site, ideal curing time is 1.5 days for each pound of meat. So for a 5-kilo (11-pound) ham, 16 days is ideal.
Very important during curing: Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the 3rd installment of our Lunchbox Meme and we’d like to see your wonderful creations. Post a comment here and I’ll do the round-up tonight.
Its week number two for the Lunchbox Meme. Just leave a comment here as soon as you have posted and I’ll do the round up later tonight.
Greetings, Mommies!!
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Today is the first day of our weekly meme and we’d like for you to share what you pack in your kids’ lunchbox. It can be as simple as a sandwich to an elaborate 5-course meal. Its up to you, just show us.
One of the jobs that we, Mommies, have to take very seriously is preparing lunch boxes for our kids and hubbies. Nowadays, packing lunch isn’t as simple as making a peanut butter sandwich and throwing in a can of juice. With all the healthy options available there is the increasing demand of making nutritious pack-away meals for our family.
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