No More Chub

I’m Filipina. My family is gigantic, and 90% of us live in Houston. What does this mean? There are tons of family parties. Parties with food galore. The food is unending. The dessert is rich and delicious and full of all sorts of goodness. The food that makes you just pause and say, “Mmmmmm…yums”. How do you say no to all your favorite dishes, that you only get ever so often because the good Filipino stuff isn’t cooked everyday.

Tonight was my niece’s 1st birthday party. And as usual, there was an immense amount of food…See, my cousin’s opening a new Thai Spice restaurant out in Katy, so they ordered food from the main Thai Spice restaurant to serve at the party. Anyways, there was pad thai noodles, curry chicken, eggrolls, sweet n sour chicken, spicy wings, shu mai, etc…Then there was alot of yummy dessert too…cupcakes, bread pudding that my mother made, and that’s always so tasty, etc…

I think I did well. I got a lil bit of the things I wanted to eat, sat down and ate half of everything I got. Luckily, the rice wasn’t cooked yet, so I didn’t have any tonight. I did have one piece of dessert, which is a Filipino dessert called ensaymada (see below). It’s the best picture I could find on the internet.

Yeah, not so good for you. All that cheese, butter, sugar, eggs…Anyways, it’s not the easiest dessert to make, so if that’s at a party and your Auntie worked hard to make it, you better eat it, even if it’s just a little piece. ^__^

I was down 11 pounds this morning. Maybe not after my dinner tonight. hah… =/