Food: Buttery Coffee Recipe

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year this 2020! :) It's the start of a new year. And also the start of a new decade. Everyone has their own experiences regarding 2019. Some people didn't have a great 2019 while others fortunately fared better. For me, it was a year that was full of ups and downs that kind of balances out each other. For this blog post, I'm going to share with you a delicious new drink that I learned about in 2019.

I've always been a huge coffee fan for as long as I can remember. I normally like my coffee with lots of milk, making my favorite cup a flat white. That doesn't mean I'm the kind of person to shy away from trying out unusual concoctions. Inspired by the Keto-friendly Bulletproof Coffee recipe, I've devised my own coffee mixture dubbed Buttery Coffee.

Now, butter coffee isn't new. There are dozens of different recipes online but what makes my recipe different is it's more delicious than the rest because the recipe below contains sugar as a sweetener, which butter coffee traditionally doesn't have. Some say that defeats the purpose of butter coffee, which is meant to be a healthy alternative that avoids carbs and sugar, but I'm creating butter coffee not for health's sake, but more for the taste buds' sake.

Without further ado, here are the things you'll need for a delicious cup of butter coffee:

1 cup of hot brewed coffee
1 spoonful of Ghee or 1 spoonful of Butter
1 spoonful of Coconut oil
2 teaspoons of brown sugar
1 large spill-proof thermos

All you need to do is to combine all the ingredients into the thermos, and then shake violently for a couple of minutes. Once done, pour out the contents of the thermos into a cup and it should look like this:

Notice the small layer of foam on top of the cup. That means the ingredients mixed well together.

I really like making butter coffee because it has such a unique taste and texture to it that hits the spot unlike all other coffee concoctions I've tried thus far. The brown sugar added to the average butter coffee recipe really makes it such a sweet treat, kind of like a liquid cupcake in a, well... cup.

I hope to one day make Butter Coffee for you, dear reader. Sometimes I picture myself owning a lemonade stand, but instead of lemonade, I'm pouring out Butter Coffee for customers.

For those of you that have tried Butter Coffee, what do you think of the drink? Are there other unconventional coffee mixtures you've tried that are just as good? As always please feel free to leave a comment below :) Thank you for reading my blog post and once again, have a Happy New Year!

Food: Cooking and eating a couple of Hot Pockets

My sisters and I ate a couple of hot pockets. We found some boxes of the stuff in S&R while we accompanied our uncle who was shopping for festive hams for gift giving. I'm writing about this because a hot pocket is not what one would consider a typical snack in the Philippines.

A hot pocket is basically an American burrito; a serving of meat and cheese wrapped in thin breading. One big difference between a burrito and a hot pocket is that a hot pocket is designed so it can't be unwrapped. Another difference between the two is that a burrito is considered a meal, while a hot pocket is merely a snack. Hence a hot pocket is clearly smaller than a burrito.

One box of the stuff costs 200Php and there are two hot pockets per box

To prepare the hot pockets for merienda, we had to take them out of the box along with a couple of "crisp sleeves" -- things you slide the hot pockets into so you can hold them -- that had the instructions written down on... them. We thought the instructions on the sleeves weren't clear, but we basically got the gist which is to microwave the hot pockets and let them rest for 2 minutes.

At first we tried to put it in the oven against what the instructions said because we didn't want to turn our hot pockets into lava pockets, which is what microwaves tend to do. But the hot pockets were still pretty cold after we got them out of the oven, so we proceeded with microwaving them afterwards.

Before we ate the hot pockets, we cut them open in the middle to let the heat out so we won't burn our tongues. Fortunately, the hot pockets weren't too hot when they got out of the microwave.

The hot pockets taste so-so. They're alright so long as you aren't expecting anything grandiose from taking your first bite. Otherwise you'd just end up disappointing yourself. Like I did. the thin bread wrapping texture isn't anything special, and the meaty and cheesy ingredients inside aren't all that fresh either. It's immensely mediocre, in my opinion. Jollibee's Peach Mango Pie and Tuna Pie taste much better and they're much cheaper.

That's about it for my hot pocket review. I'm a Filipino trying out this western snack and I give it a 5/10. What are your thoughts on Hot Pockets? Feel free to leave a message below :)

The finished product.