March 7, 2011

This is the Arch of the Centuries of the University of Santo Tomas.  To be honest, back in the day when I was a student in UST – 4 years of high school and 5 years of college – I didn’t really pay much attention to this landmark except for the time when we were required to sketch it for  Visual Techniques class.  But when I revisited my alma mater during our Philippine holiday, I couldn’t take enough pictures of the Arch of the Centuries.  After doing a little bit of research, I found out that there’s a new tradition now being observed in UST where freshmen and graduating students walk under the arch – to welcome the freshmen and to send the graduating students (who I’m sure got plenty of career advice) off. I wish we had that tradition back then.  That would have been sweet.

I wish I could say these are silver bullion bars, but I can’t because they’re not…at least not yet, metaphorically speaking. *wink*  These are toasted flour cakes or polvoron as we call them in the Philippines.  I love love polvoron!  I’m happy that I was finally able to make them myself.  The things I do to satisfy a craving for a taste of home.  Yum!

My daughter loved these so much.  She said they tasted like “the real thing”.  By real thing, she meant bakeshop-bought polvoron. Haha.  I’m gonna make more of these, that’s for sure.  We are running low on supply. Hee hee.

My daughter has always loved having dimsum for her school lunches since she was a 3-year old pre-schooler.  She still loves having them for lunch to this day.  She recently had this Beef Siomai/Shumai Bento.  I love that dimsum can be prepared well ahead of time, frozen and just steamed for 15 to 20 minutes when one has a craving for it or running short on dishes to cook for the family.

I love assembling my daughter’s school lunches.  If I could sell these (among other things!) I would!  Hahaha!  I probably have  a better chance of making it in something food-related than in something related to http://wholesaleinsurance.net.  I’m just not that much of a sales pitcher. Hee hee.

Cheers, y’all!  Have a great week!