What is so exciting about waking up each day?

Aside from being a blogger, I also work as a writer for an American company. Not only that, I’m a full-time student at the UP Open University. I work and study at home, which means that my room (and the Internet) is pretty much the only world I see the entire week.

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You can just imagine how crazy it is to carefully juggle my schedule in order to accomplish various tasks in the confines of my small space. That’s why it’s important for me to feel inspired and excited to get out of bed and face my laptop each day.

Coffee helps me to jumpstart my morning. But to keep me up and rolling all throughout the day, I concocted this refreshing fruit iced tea made special by Lipton Yellow Label Tea. I named it Tea-ropical Holiday Punch. Its natural minty flavor makes it also a great alternative drink for the holiday season.

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Our old folks undeniably love our local kakanin. My mother and father, even my lola and tita when they were still alive, are huge fans of these sweet rice cakes. They come in varieties of flavor, color, shape, and texture.

In Malabon, the town where I grew up, kakanin can be found everywhere. Go to one of our public markets and you will see a special section that sells different kinds of kakanin with names you probably have never heard of. In fact, the city is known for its delectable sapin-sapin, kutsinta, and biko elaborately served in a colorful array on a round bilao.

On this blog post, I will share to you my mother’s recipe for Palitaw. We call it dila-dila in Malabon because of its distinct shape (dila means tongue). The name palitaw was derived from how it is being prepared. Palitaw or litaw means “to appear,” or in this case, “to float,” because it starts to float in water once it’s cooked.

If you want to learn how to prepare palitaw, refer to the recipe below:

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Being a food blogger is a very exciting pastime and a great diversion from what I do every day. Aside from having the opportunity to taste a variety of flavor from numerous restaurants and recipes, I also get the chance to meet amazing people from the food and beverage industry – from chefs to marketing experts, from restaurateurs to other food bloggers.

And just like many Filipino food bloggers, I also love food. I enjoy eating as much as I enjoy cooking. However, food can sometimes cause bad breath and oral health problems, especially if you like spicy and acidic food like me.

Since having close encounters with a variety of people is inevitable because of what I do, it is important for me to practice a daily ritual of oral hygiene to maintain that everyday fresh breath confidence. To keep me confident at all times during these close encounters, Swish Mouthwash is there to help.

Swish Mouthwash is absolutely alcohol-free. This makes it fun and enjoyable to gargle without the painful burning sensation. Swish Mouthwash has SureFresh technology that kills bad breath causing bacteria giving me the fresh breath to last the whole day. It is available in four fantastic flavors of Fresh, Arctic Chill, Mangosteen Mint, and Cinnamon Blast. Guess what my favorite is?

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