The Sun in Moon Garden

Best place for breakfast ? In a garden. A garden, to me defines my ultimate breakfast abyss. Where the sun lights straight up a face without a single barrier. Personally, I always thought the early morning sunshine is the best way to break-the-fast.

It awakens your senses and gives you a right start for the day. The sun is the best companion one could get for a breakfast in a garden.

During our (long) weekend stay at Moon Garden,Tagaytay, we intentionally woke up at the earliest light of the morning. On our first morning_ the girls were quite excited, picking their choice of table. There were quite a lot and yes quite confusing in a happy note.

They saw this picture perfect sinking-hut in the middle of small water lily pond and announced to me and their dad that from this morning on : " this gonna be our breakfast hut mom and dad!!".

While waiting for our food, we had a fun time watching the baby frogs leaping off from one giant lily leaf to another. Playing hide and seek or simply just being themselves, kerokeropee cutee frogs.Sometimes quite hard to see from their adaptive chameleon leaf colors.



Dividing our attention, were the koi fishes peeking out from the beautiful water lily flowers. Beautiful. simply divine!



Next : the del-i-cious foods ! ! See you here :)

Fresh & Green

I always love to have stock of greens in the fridge for everyday salads. My dream is to have my own backyard garden full of greens and herbs, always ready for picking for the table. For now, I buy my supply from the grocery but am not quite sold on to the idea of second store. Given, it is a must to procure the lettuce freshest ( goes with any goods) as possible so it has a longest shelf life.

So everytime we go up to Tagaytay, I steal a side trip to drop by a garden which offers fresh pick/harvest your own greens.

Along Sta. Rosa exit (from Tagaytay), Jardinero's huge tarpaulin announcing its salad dressings had caught my road eyes. Second of all, I am also always on the look out for salad dressings.

With the help of my master taster (my hubby), we tried all of their dressings and bought two jars. We bought one for the girls, which was the regular ceasar and for the adults we got the peanut dressing ( asian dressing) which was spicy and got a lot of flavors, which I thought would suit well to drizzle atop a seafood crab-veggie salad which is my favorite.

Well, at the end of the day, this mom is happy to serve her family green and fresh, nutritious, home cooked/made foods on the table.

Yellow Fin,Davao City

After durian, Davao spelled as  t-u-n-a to us. When we dropped by at Yellow Fin my brother's first order as expected was tuna- kinilaw.

fresh and chunky tuna kinilaw

The resto seemed to have had catered to many family dinners, weekend lunches , meetings and dining tourists . Dining tables and chairs looked aged but kept their vintage charms.




mutton stew in tomato/liver sauce (kalderetang kambing)

Their kalderetang kambing was a delicious surprise.It was tender without a single hint that it was a goat meat. The sauce was super tasty. Another dish (no photo) that we enjoyed so much here at Yellow Fin was the laing with a twist. Instead of shredded coconut meat or taro root, the fillings of the bundled taro leaves were tuna meat in hefty coconut cream.

Delicious food !