What I have eaten during Erev Hag 2009?

"Shana tova" and hag "zameach" that I heard as their greetings to each and every one with hugs and kisses to families and friends, wearing not so elegant but new and presentable . I loved looking at them on their happy faces welcoming their new year and another new beginning as they said.

First served was the juices and this kind of food that came from and purely fish pellet.This is the kosher food that my employer likes and  most favorite. Every time they serve in the dinning, this is the first choice by both of us. Gefilte fish as they named it, so easy to prepare.Get recipe here how to prepare and cook this Jewish food.
This is the only fresh salad I've chosen and few slices of small tomatoes.These have mixed with pomengrates and ripe pig tree fruit as toppings.
Soup - something like meat balls but with dough, good taste.
Look at my dinner plate , it has fried rice with raisin's, beef and rolled chicken meat inserted with nuts and some herbs or veggies that I taste.
Oh..Oh..oh...wine moments now and here I am pouring my glass of red wine.Just below half of my glass ,I might not drive our toy car to go home. "Don't drive while you drunk" right?
my friend Erika and her fiancee on the third long table from us.

There are a lot of foods prepared by the village kitchen chefs. I saw the bread, cakes and cookies.Fresh sliced of different kinds of fruits, cooked of dried mixture fruit called "komput".You pick what you want but I picked some and brought home, lol. Tea, coffee and colds drinks in another corner of the dinning hall. Great time and gathering that I included to my treasured moments here in my work place , Mishmar Hasharon.

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EREV ROSHASHANA

On September 18,2009 will be the Jewish New Year's Eve holiday.They have dinner and I am sure I'll be sitting beside my employer.It is my responsibility that where ever she goes I'll be on her back or beside her. lol..

In the bible Israel is called as "the land of milk and honey", so during their new year's eve they always prepared a long table dinner for the whole family(private) and here in my work place(kibbutz) is for the whole village people gathered together.Erev roshashana is the new year's eve in the whole world celebrations. Roshashana means "head of the year" . So..expect me to eat all their foods speacially their fruits of the year.Here are some lists of fruits and each symbol why they need to eat and prepared all of these during new year.

Hello world..did you know that pomegranates has 613seeds inside of one fruit? I know Jewish counted this,lol.Just today and my first time ever I knew these, thanks to them sharing their knowledge and spreading their beliefs of new year holiday.This fruit is the number one special at the long table together with honey during the erev hag (new year's eve) .

Honey  symbolizes the sweet whole year.

Bread, and other fruits was deepen to honey before swallowing, hehehe. I'm just following what they are doing specially if the family of where I'm working with is eating it.

Green spinach  symbolizes for green year with good harvest in the farm. They also prepared rounded head carrots.

Dates as sweet also, black eyed beans, leek, apples and gourd and more leafy fresh salads.

Rosh means head , so they are eating the "head of the fish"  which symbolizes the abundancy and fertility.

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meet my new friend ERIKA

Hello guys....meet my new friend ERIKA, sexy, blond, white complexion, faithful friend and a good chef. Look at the image below, she brought me last night a big sliced of peaches cake she made. Waahhh....I did not slept until I did swallowed it all, sigh.Imagine she came after my heavy dinner, ahhhhhh...plus 1 kilo my score on weighing scale again in just one night grrrrr. But sorry she is already committed to one handsome local guy here in my work place.hehehe.Remember JHING_CUTIE ? her contract was finished and she will be going home to get marry to his pinoy (pa rin) bf that she found in Internet.
Erika love to bakes all kinds of cakes, bread and cookies . So you have the right to blame her why I am chubby but not slowly lazy caregiver now, lol.Soon I will feature here all the recipes she will be or we will be making , as I told you I am just a helper in times like this doing dish washing jobs. You know me where I had been and grown up. I am expert to all herbs cooking or those foods in the mountains or in the jungle.Sigh but proud as it was my reality of my life.

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sweet "maha"

Food cooking time folks and here is what I will share for all of you. I'm the fastest chef caregiver ever! lol. I always cook the easy easy ways like mixing all ingredients then taste it and that's it! Stirring sideways , clockwise or counter clockwise and even crosswise until it becomes sticky then become more sticky up to 30 minutes of rolling. Taste if the corn flour are cooked then put to any baking pan with any designs you choose and let it cold to fridge.So yummy.... below are the ingredients I bought and mixed to a cooking pot.

please click to inlarge above image for the complete ingredients

Oooppss...the iodized salt should at least 1/2 teaspoon only and refined sugar will be depending on the sweetness you want to be. I just put one tablespoon so it is not too sweet or sugary fields , hehehe.
First sticky stage
Second and more sticky stage
And this the cold and ready to served sweet maha food.

Hey ...before I forget I want to let you know that this is my first time to cook "maha" since I arrived in Israel.Hallelujah!! how many years already , hahaha. I'm far from Tel Aviv , the central home of most caregivers selling all Filipino foods during day off of Saturdays and Sundays and during our special, declared Philippine holidays.

And ....sorry I never saw this food on any occasions we've been since before. How many weddings,birthdays,barmitzvah(dibut) and dinner we attended. But take a look of all the ingredients I used its all from their supermarkets too.

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BEST LUNCH of PINOY CAREGIVER

THAT's ME!! a caregiver love foods from home.I still have dried fish from home that hubby sent it to me last month. Where did I kept it so that the family where I am working can not smell it ? in... the... FREEZER!....lol.I wrapped it with clean newspapers plus cellophane then put to closed tight small food container .They don't like the smell and I'm "medvayezet" too.(sigh) Hello...fellowmen ..COME and JOIN with me..hmmmm..yummy!!lol.

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Cooking and Food Time Talks to caregivers!

Since I started to work here we agree that I can cook my food once in a while because they have village kitchen here, they called it "kadar'ha'okel"(not sure of the spelling but words sounds like it) which means "DINNING PLACE".We have food budget there but sometimes we are looking our native foods to eat. No problems to the office who manages the old woman and also to the family around her. But sometimes the elderly itself is the main problems. Some caregivers never never allowed to cook or bring foods even that is their local foods to their work place. For caregivers wanted the work assigned to them, stay there and sacrifice, if not you can go out and look for another job.In my situation is different it is she likes me to cook sometimes and hate sometimes.So..I need to observed first the mood before cooking. lol. I'm expecting that to all elderly because of their life experiences they've always bear in their mind the word "SAVING of EVERYTHING!" and need to do it then followed them.This is one treasure I acquired in working here as caregiver to an elderly."Save___ , save___ and save___ and save___."

Now , lets go to cooking - Last Sunday's tiring trips to Jerusalem , Monday- we're been to the general consultant of my old woman in Billingson hospital, one hour maybe drive up to there and another hour coming back home.Tuesday- a regular tiring day here inside the house and now Wednesday- I'm feeling a little bit homesick. I want to eat something that makes me feels good. I always have here a rice stick noodles, I bought veggies and fruits every Sunday before coming back to work and some ingredients have already in my cabinet. So...here is what I cooked......pancit bihon!!!

Hey wait...Oh yeah! you're right! NO MEAT AT ALL ! I want to escape eating meat for few days maybe. I've just cooked it with chicken flavor mix and soy sauce(toyo-silver swan) with the biggest onions I found in public market.Joining one big head of garlic also and olive oil.No salt and pepper added, veggies are carrots, broccoli flower and cabbage.

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PREPARING on SUNDAY TOUR

Almost two months that I've never joined any trips and tours due to so many reasons.First financially then my workload. Trips scheduled was during Saturday nights for night swimming that I cannot go out regularly.
NOW.... I'M READY TO GO!!

Looked!!!what I have prepared as of today.I cleaned my TOE NAILS (la,la,la,sing) with nice polish courtesy of DHEMZ , how nice ,right? My new footwear that I asked favor to the youngest son of my employer if in case they passed by the factory of TEVA from work , an American signature of footwear here,to please buy me one pair.That's what I always wanted to wear the men's outfit, lol.

Hey..looked up the foods - preserved papaya before I forgot everything to bring. If I feel dizzy along the way just let me smell the sweet and sour then I will be feeling alive.hehehe.Pumpkin seeds,mixed nuts, banana chips, fruits must be taste sour.I'm afraid to eat lunch if it is not on the way home, I might throw it all and dispose in the middle of somewhere.(sigh)

Ooopppss....I almost forget ! I'm so excited! Our destination: YAD VASHIEM- if you seen in the news world wide that most dignitaries are visiting this place . Now this is my first time to be there, yeheyy...next will be the old city of Jerusalem, I've been there for how many times but still loved to go back .Might be , if time still allow us in Jerusalem Museum and wishing wall again.We are all friends working as caregivers for elderly here.

HAPPY WEEKEND GUYS!

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You're the 1, Goldilocks

Each time I went vacation I never forgot to got inside in any Goldilocks outlets before coming back abroad for work.I am so proud bringing "pasalubong" (present) to my employer of some Goldilocks products and let them taste.They like it too, seems good flavors they said.Believed me or not, I brought more than 10 kilos hand carry of polvoron , all pie's flavor, pastillas ,etc here and sold it double the prices to my co-workers. Sorry Goldilocks but it is caregivers business each time I went back to work here.Polvoron and pastillas are easily to find in some Asian food store here but it takes just one day-off to finished all stocks if all pinoy's heard that they have Goldilocks products on display.

"You're the 1, Goldilocks because you are always on my heart even I'm far from home and I'm missing you always! "

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RICE PRICES ABROAD

If you are working abroad you can always remembered the smallest thing back home.This morning I went to the village store here in my work place.I want to have lunch with white plain rice. I'm just consuming one kilo of rice for the whole month. Imagine if I'm home one kilo is not enough for a single meal.Funny to tell but it was true. This country was not planting rice and even citizen's here don't know how it looks like before they are buying it in the store.They knew it is rice ready to cook but if you asked them where, what the colors or kinds, classifications, etc. they just turning their heads left to right which means they don't know.Just lately when airing reality tv shows and some issues on Internet they saw others facts about rice.
Look at the image how much one kilo of rice I bought, it is worth more than a hundred pesos (P100 ) in the Philippines .There are still higher prices than these quality but it was in the same taste . For me this is not the first class quality of rice. I grown up surrounded by rice that is why I know if something smell on the rice . I know if it was wet or dry during the harvest season until packaging for market exchanges to cash as one source of living. Most processed foods and this rice here are from Thailand, why from there? mostly citizen's here love to spend vacations in that country.Because of higher rice prices, I used to eat more fruits and veggies and it is more cheaper than rice compared to other prime commodities that I need.Wonders bothered me most , I'm still gaining weights even eating less rice.SAD!.

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LETAYEL to Mcdo

One of the regular routine of caregiver is to go "letayel", going outside to unwind together with their respective employers.Some are like schooling going to their regular schedule in "moadon", it is an elderly club or organizations.Others are meet in the park nearby and some are in the fast food chain around.

Yesterday before sunset my friend Jhing_cutie called me to go in nearby McDonald together with our employer but my employer don't want to go out.So we stayed home the whole day. At around 7 pm that almost dark as they came back, she in hand me this McDonald hamburger and french fries.So..this is my dinner for late night then. One thing good in our work as caregiver was we talk and see friends during our working days if our employers can still go out for letayel.

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MOMMY's PLACE RESTO-BAR in TEL AVIV

Saturday day off was scheduled for looking seafoods that are not eaten the whole week.Some caregivers can cook thier foods in thier employer's house but without seafoods or fish.Pork, seafoods are not the jewish foods and fish is cooked differently of what we wants.So every day off most caregivers cooks thier native foods on thier flat/apartments then eat the whole night long and drinks.Most birthdays are celebrated during Saturday nights or Sunday's.

My friend Jhing celebrated her birthday in so many ways.After attending the mass we went dinner to Mommy's Resto bar located at Bnei Brak cor Neveshanan in Tel Aviv, where the place of crowded foriegn workers hang out.We ordered foods that mixed all with seafoods. See that pictures over there? - rice with seafoods, noodles with seafoods and drinks but not seafoods , hahaha. They are serving Thai, Chinese, Japanese and filipino foods.We did wait the musical band to play that consist of some filipinos singing and dancing because we still have another birthday party to attend.

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Veggies + Fruits + olive oil = fresh salads

Food chain Mcdonalds has its own version and advertisements of this menu.Lunch and dinner for Israeli's are not complete if there's no presence of salads aside from lettuce as they called it "HASA\(read as kasa)".These are my own choices of ingredients, all are the smallest sizes and just one piece each  ------- red pepper bell, green cocumber, yellow green apple, tomatoe,  assorted nuts, raisens(dried grapes) ,carrots, salt as desired, little drops of lemon and two(2) tablespoon of olive oil. Slice into desired sizes and mixing all ingredients. If we're not going out, this is my usual dinner plus drinking green tea after 20 minutes.

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HAppy-bday2me

Yes!..it's my ****ty eight birthday last april 24, I recieved a gifts- one from DEMZ blogger down there and fly straight from Sacramento,CA.Below has an image of what she sent - she don't like to post it here so..I decided to put it out in later days..hahahaha.

Jhing_cutie here our friend cook our food again. We decided to do it now because that past weeks we are busy with our work,then a lot of holidays here that our employers also needs to partipate or attend to each celebration because they are a part of the history.And May 01 is our holiday also that we separated our trips-she went to Rosh ha'Nikrah a border of Israel and Libanon.


Here are a part she cooked aside from chicken macaroni salad and other sweets.Swerti mapapangasawa nito-sarap magluto eh.(lucky man whom she get bows ,she's very good chef)

Prepare first all ingredients like carrots,red pepper bell, green pepper bell,cabbage -cut into desired slices of any menu like pansit as the occasion will not go on without it, there is pineapple chunks/tidbits,potatoes -sliced into medium cubes, chicken breast sliced to small cubes, boil soft chicken meat,onions,garlic,black pepper,seassoning-like soy sauce,chicken curry and salt. 
This is chicken cubes with pineapple,green pepper bell,crrots sliced round slant,put a pinch of sugar so cannot smell the meat or pepper- something like kids cuold love it too .
Here  is the beef cubes  meat,potatoes, chicken curry,red pepper bell-sliced in in string style, carrots cuts into bigger cubes, adds seassonings(halatang di me nagluluto-hihihihi)You can put also green peas if you like. 
And last but not the least "ang pansit" bow.Filipino occasions will not complete without these, agree or disagree?-mga pinoy dyan.Just a rice sticks noodles ,meat and all vegetables you like to includes, sauce and mixed everything ...that's all!

This is DEMZ gifts to me...sssssshhhhhh...wak kayo maingay.I'm so proud of hers and thankful to be a mother friend of hers. Hug & kisses to baby and you except to daddy...hmmmmm.bawal I'm still older than him...,hahahaha,hellowwwwwwww.

THANKS BE TO THE LORD FOR ALL THESE BLESSINGS I RECIEVED and MORE TO COME UNTIL 120 yrs old....yeheyyyyyy....

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G.RICE+extra thin noodles = instant SOUP

Ingredients are ginger,onions,garlic (cut into small pieces or in cubes),glutinous rice,chickens flavors,olive oil,salt,ground pepper and extra thin noodles - forgot to include in picture taking-hehehe. 1/2 chicken breast, boiled it better to make it extra soft or can be overcooked  is much better then split into small pieces.
Heat olive oil in cooking pot and put ginger first then garlic and onions until it becomes light brown,I dont like golden brown it taste burned already.Then wash 1/2 cup of glutinous rice then put all together everything on a pot for a minute. Put one liter of boiled water and mix all ingredients. Boil until it becomes overcooked or sticky soft.

 This is my  24 hours  food which is good for four persons in just one meal.Hope this head ache will go away tommorow after I finished it all.(lugaw lng yan eh.hehehe.) I can survive vegetables also and like this kind of food if I'm not feeling well . I'm drinking of lot of water as if I'm drowning in myself then after 24 hours  runny nose is coming again.
No..no...my employer was not eating what I cooked.They have here village kitchen with special employees doing it.I just get all her foods in the dining room and then pre-heat to serve.

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2009:WEIGHT WATCH!! target : 55 kilos

I almost forgot that it is already one year when my father was died.Every time I remembered him and I finished my work I sat down in front of my laptop surfing,downloading,anything that I can do to make my mind busy.The moment that I sat down I'm beginning to eat what I have around. On the side of the table was a bundle of fruits,downside was all liquid drinks, in the back that I can get by just stretching my hands was cookies,biscuits and on the left side of my table was other stuffs like plastic glasses ,plates, tissues and table napkins, etc.These are all inside my little room.Everything was written DEIT or LESS of sugar,calories,etc.I always reading the site of how to loss weights.It is only now again that I step on the weighing scale.OMG!! 75 kilos again!! in just 5"4' in height.Shocking!!Peoples and friends always telling me I'm a big woman.They never said fat woman,but now I know IT IS DESAME WORDS !!!

Last year I used to have LTT (I sent already to my daughter) , rubber stretcher , small blocks of cement outside that I used it as weights, their is aerobics on TV that I used to follow every time on air.I used to drink some fresh herbal that they said its good for health with a disgusting taste,I have a lot of diet pills that sometime I am afraid to drink, boxes of different flavors of tea's.I used to jogged 3-4 times every week when my employer was sleeping.All of the above are the things that I cannot do it anymore.Due to an irregular sleeping habits of my employer I always have headache and sometimes not feeling well of no findings.I always felt dizzy and sleepy.

So, I need a fat burner or any diet pills that it works without all of the above activities. I found this ACAI DEIT PILLS and ACAI BERRY DEIT PILLS on this website :http://www.dietpillsinreview.com/diet-pills/Acai/
NO FOOD INSIDE MY ROOM,ONLY MINERAL WATER NEEDED and ACAI DEIT PILLS! I believe this will be the effective one,produce in BRAZIL and recommended by Dr. Nicholas Perricone, a small kind of berries but have a higher percentage of anti-oxidants.

COME and VISIT their website to find more interesting things to do about diet or to all weight watchers in any range of ages.

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HANUKKAH AND CHRISTMAS in COMMON

HANUKKAH means a Jewish celebration of lighting 8 candles in eight consecutive days. Its a family of togetherness, the triumph of religious freedom, light, and miracles. Lighting the menorah, saying blessings and followed by food festivals and games.

In Christianity it is a celebrations of when the savior was born.The family was trying to get together for dinner and going to church especially the mid-night mass.Exchanging gifts and greeting cards,reconciliations,etc.

DECEMBER 2008 celebrations is in the same week in both calendar of JUDAISM and CHRISTIANS.Below are the things in common that I saw and served as symbol of this celebrations.

---------------------sufganiyot-------------doughnuts-----------


--potato lat cakes and other special food for celebrations----

--------------------- PRAYING of BLESSINGS----------------

------------------- GREETING CARDS----------------------

-------hanukkah foods serve for dinner for the whole family

------------------------golden chocolates--------------------------


---------------------------matanot -----------------gifts ----------


-----------MENORAH ------------CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ---------



----------HANUKKAH TREE---------CHRISTMAS TREE -------

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