Sunny Sunday

I didn't sleep too good last night and I got out of bed at 6 when the alarm sounded. I went downstairs to check on the bread and sure enough it was done. The breadmaker turned off automatically but there were droplets underneath the bread. I hurriedly dried the bread and put it away in a bag and made another batch of white bread, hoping that it would be ready in time before I leave.

After I'm done with the bread, I thought I should make some food ahead of time so I can have for dinner or lunch at work tomorrow. I already have some ground pork out so I thought of making baked beans with pork. This is one of my favorite grandma's recipe -- yummy! Here's how it came out. It's great with rice or bread and I made two cans of these and have plenty to share with coworkers.

Visited my friend today at Norwalk, EB looked fine but she could not sit for long as her back starts to hurt. She entertained us as long as she could but finally start to lay down. We didn't do our usual outing with her this time due to her pain so we just sit and chatted at home. We got there around 9:30 and left around 12:00 and arrived in the valley around 12:30. We decided to grab lunch at Seafood City before depart ways. On the way home, saw the snow-capped mountain in the horizon. It's beautiful but you'll have to really zoom in to see the snow.

At Seafood City, there was this vendor with a small cart selling chestnut outside the building. It didn't look like much but the vendor offered us a sample each. It was surprisingly sweet. We thanked him and went inside the food court to have lunch. After we're done, we stopped by at the vendor again and we bought 10oz bag for $5 from him. Included with our purchase was a plastic cracker, made especially to crack the chestnut shells which was pretty neat. I didn't really pay attention to the packaging that the chestnuts came in, but it looked Chinese to me. The reason I pointed this out was Seafood City is a Filipino market and to have a Chinese vendor selling chestnuts right by the entrance was a tad awkward hehe

After picking up HD, we proceeded to Ralphs to do some grocery shopping and to get cold-cuts -- HD's favorite (and he won't eat any other cold-cuts as they have fillers *roll eyes*) -- Boar's head. They are SO expensive for said reason but they are really tasty. And here's a shot of them. We got the turkey, roast beef, ham and provolone. Since I made so many loaves of bread hehe might as well. I also bought a can of San Marcos jalapenos and a box of corn meal. I wanted to make the jalapenos bread but I forgot another ingredient: cilantro... darn, it was too late when I realized that.