Burn Baby Burn!

(View from the park, Waianae mountain range caressed by the softy clouds and blue sky, Makakilo down below, houses on top of the hills and busy freeway below, wonderful ))
(the park is so wide and OF ALL THE SPOT at the PARK I end up taking picture beside the RUBBISH CAN! hmmm)
Actually this park is were we usually spend our weekend afternoon, After all the foods I've posted and ate, I think it's time to kick some ass today!lol
It's been a while since we didn't go to this park, so I've decided to spend our afternoon at the park, hubby and his son played basketball and I do alternate walking and cycling around the park, about 3 rounds of walking and 7 rounds of cycling, birds chirping on the trees, fresh air with great view and burning some fats, whew feels good. We're looking forward to do it every weekend now.

The GOODIES for FRIENDS

I started blogging just this year so I missed sharing this ahihihi.
Last december I decided to bake goodies to give to our neighbors and friends, hubby agreed. Whew Its not that easy as I thought, its so time consuming and and need lots of patients! I wrap it with assorted goodies for about ten families I guess. I include a loaf of my loaded banana bread( I call it loaded coz aside from banana I also include crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, chocolate chips, raisin and walnuts), macaroons, and different kinds of cookies. For 10 families I made it in two batches, 5 families per batch and hey 1 day of baking each batch! Its FUN though, and hubby complain that our kitchen looks like bakery with all the goodies on the table.
Usually our electric bill is $150 max, and our December bill is $250 :( , thats terrible! hubby said that on next Christmas no more baking we just give box of macadamia chocolate less hard work on baking plus the electric bill, but baking those goodies is fun hehehe.

FOOD TRIP!

Me and Hubby are so crazy of ROMY'S Kahuku Prawns, imagine that! we are staying by the west side of Oahu and Romy's is located at north shore, to go there we have to travel miles and miles, about 45 minutes - 1 hour just to get there. The gas, driving time and if you're unlucky and didn't call ahead you will stand up on long line under the heat of the sun!. Anyway its worth it though, they have the best taste of prawns and shrimp in town, it's fresh caught, sweet and cook to its succulent! I always ate it with my bare hands, suck all the yummy juices before feeling it and i don't care of the tourist on the other table, It's FINGER LICKING GOOD! I'm just enjoying my prawns and shrimp! (kamayan-kinamut), garlic butter is the best.
guys when you visit Hawaii and happen to go north shore by Kahuku, pls don't miss Romy's Kahuku Prawns, it's the best.

Oyster Awareness

Here's my silly oyster joke of the day...
What did one Gulf oyster tell his girlfriend oyster?
"Will you take my pearl and be my wife?"
girlfriend oyster: Silly, I already have pearl much bigger than what you are offering me, if you give me diamond instead I'll marry you!

Most people including me loves Gulf oysters so much, eaten raw or grilled.
But just recently I've found this site about gulf oyster awareness, and I never thought that oysters might be contaminated with bacterium they call Vibrio vulnificus. But not to worry oyster lovers, we can still enjoy our favorite oysters, all we need is be well inform about oysters, and this web site about oyster awareness can help us become cautious with oysters, and they also have recipes on how to prepare yummy oysters. Lets enjoy eating Gulf oysters, and also be oyster aware!

Medical LEECHES?

I watch late night show last night and actress Demi Moore and David Letherman are talking about leeches! David ask him about her beauty and health secret and Demi told him about Medical leeches, thats yak and ewww I'm trembling when I saw even one leech.
According to Demi, She do it somewhere at Austria if I heard it right. She said the process is you lie down on bed and the Dr. will place the leeches on your belly button, then the leech will crawl to your belly button and suck your blood, and it will just fall off if its already full. aaaarrrggggggg.
I really research about their topic and in shock to find out that yes even on our ancient times like Egyptian and Aztec they used leeches to cure sick people 2500 years ago. And France use the method on 1800 century, and made popular again on early 1920s.
And in 1986, Dr. Charles Lent of Utah State University reported in the journal Nature that leeches can be useful after the transplantation and reattachment of tissues. Lent reported that leeches can help to restore normal blood flow in certain damaged parts of the body. Basically, leeches can help because they have a natural anticoagulant (a substance that prevents blood from clotting and forming scabs) in their saliva. When leeches attach to the skin, they can help repair the venous (veins are part of your circulatory system and are where the blood flows through on the way back to your heart) system in the damaged area. Once normal venous flow is restored in the damaged area of the body, the leech can be removed. Some surgeons now occasionally use these little creatures to help with certain procedures. So, the next time you see a picture of a leech, don’t scream and yell “Yuck”. These little creatures can actually help us.