Adventures of the Happy Tummy

Tired of the slice of your usual chocolate cake? Who says food should be boring? Ok, I love chocolate. But I hate boring. My friend sent me a nice, long, loaf of plainly sweet choco cake and I've been eating it with my family for the last week. So I thought.... what if...? Alright here goes: Prepare 1 plain chocolate slice on a microwave-able dish. Swirl some condensed milk over the top. Sprinkle top are with powdered parmesan cheese. Heat in microwave for 25-30 seconds. Serve immediately! Haha. Salty and sweet. Crispy cheese layer on top of cake-turned-mush-due-to-milk. Fantastic!

Empanadas are usually fist-sized pinched pastry pies with meat and/or veggies enveloped in a baked or fried flaky crust. These ones are tiny, baked, and have gourmet stuffings: Cheddar Semi-sweet chocolates Cream cheese and chives Peanut butter and Nutella! Plus, the crust is soft and chewy! We ate some immediately after we got the package. Careful, they're quite warm & sometimes the filling oozes out. Trick is to eat it by the pinched area 1st and nibble through the cute, fat body. Or better, just pop them in your mouth :) These delicious morsels go for Php40/ 6pcs. Nutella variand is premium at Php65/ 6pcs. Regular sized variands: creamy spinach, ham & cheese. Note: The hot chocolate in the photo is from our office's vendin machine. Empanada Mas 2nd Fl Food Center The Enterprise Center Legaspi Village, Paseo de Roxas, Makati City

Mom comes home with a couple of giant munchkin-looking choco balls from The Manor. Munchkin: donut balls you can pop into your mouth in one go. Okay, to be exact, they're 6 fist-sized choco balls filled with choco ganache and coated with choco sprinkles from that posh place. We ate 1 straight from the ref - cold, hard and tasteless - BLAH! So the next day, I sliced another one, placed it in the microwave for 45sec, added a dollop of cold all-purpose cream and surrounded it with fresh strawberries. Now. That. Is. Heavenly. And I served some more :9