Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Noche Buena 2009

So usually we do not have spaghetti and fried chicken for Noche Buena, because, well, that doesnt really seem festive for the members of my family. However, we did not have a maid this year, so nobody could help us prepare our noche buena fare...

So we decided, as a family, to order out for noche buena, which is very un-Ortega, but it beats cleaning up afterwards and stressing out before Noche Buena




So this is what we decided to have: Traditional Hamon de Bola with pineapple sauce
A small lechon de leche (roasted young pork)
Dinuguan that came free with the lechon
Spaghetti from Greenwich which i thought was rather bland and needed a lot of touching up
Fried Chicken from McDonalds..which didnt come cheap
Chinese Style Bone-In Ham with soy-molasses sauce
It was beautifully salty
Some traditional Keso de Bola
The Cookie Monster cake from Margies which did NOT have a smidgen of cookie in it. It was actually a very moist chocolate cake, with a coffee-caramel creme filling and a coating of chocolate frosting. Yummy!
Blueberry Cheescake from Margies, which was very crumbly and soft and light and perfect!
Some Rum Cake from Daby Bautisata, one of my close friends. I swear this cake tasted like heaven...if there was an abundance of rum upstairs.

So there it was. It looked cute, and it gave me a different kind of satisfaction knowing that nobody i really knew slaved over these munchies

And so i started pigging out because xmas gives you the license to do that

All these Noche Buena photos were taken with my Sony Cybershot w290! Thank You Sony philippines!

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