Spaghetti with Meatballs

Most kids love spaghetti, a variations from a regular spaghetti is put some meatballs on it...

here's the recipe.

Spaghetti with Meatballs

Ingredients:

Sauce:
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
1/4 cup olive oil
350 g beef, in single cut
1 kl. ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped
salt

Meatballs:
12 g. ground minced beef
1 egg
2 cups freshly grated parmesan cheese
4 cups fresh bread crumbs
1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
1 cup oil for frying
1 kl spaghetti

Sauce:
Saute the onion and carrot in the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat until softened, about 5 minutes.
Add the beef and saute, until browned all over, 8-10 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and season with salt.
Simmer over low heat until the meat is tender, about 3 hours. Remove the meat. It can be serve separately after the pasta.

Meatballs:
Mix the ground beef, egg, Parmesan, bread crumbs, and nutmeg in a large bowl until blended.
Shape the mixture into balls the size of marbles.
Heat the frying oil in large frying pan. Fry the meatballs in small batches until golden brown, 5-7 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
Cook the pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water until al dente.
Drain and add to the pan with the sauce. Toss well with the meatballs and serve hot.

Tomato sauce :
1 kl firm ripe tomatoes, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 red onion, thinly sliced,
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
Leaves from 1 small bunch basil, torn
2 tbsp olive oil
1/4 tsp. sugar
salt

Answers to Many Why's of Life Part 2

1. What's the feeling of staring at something for so long but it is still unfamiliar?



"Jamais Vu" or the reverse of Deja vu is a temporary sensation in which familiar situations and objects seem new and strange. This is according to UK researchers that is exists and can induced.



2. Myth: I am too old to donate organs

Facts: People of all ages can donate organs and tissue. Physical condition, not age, is the important factor in determining if organs can be used.

3. Lactose Intolerance is the ability to break down the sugar(lactose) found in milk.
Cow's milk allergy is caused by a specific reaction to the proteins found in milk.

4. The Human foot has 26 bones, 107 ligaments, 33 joints, and more than 250,000 sweat glands.

Philippines: AH1N1 Virus Update

In the latest press conference of the Department of Health, Secretary Francisco Duque announces an additional 131 new cases of AH1N1 totalling to 604.

In this new cases there are 117 Filipinos and 14 foreigner and 19 from them have a history of travelling to countries affected of AH1N1.

Metro Manila has now a Low Level Outbreak of AH1N1 because most of the cases and new patients are from the Metro.

Colegio de San Agustin of Makati was the latest school who suspended their classes due to 1 student who has AH1N1.

Holy Spirit School in Quezon City also suspended their classes not because they have a case of AH1N1 but for preventive measure and disinfecting of their facilities.

Two new cases were also reported from the House of Congress after the first cases of AH1N1 death in the country who is an employee there.

Secretary Duque also announces that 64 patients have fully recovered in the past 24 hours and a total of 464 or 77% fully recovered from the virus.

Answers to Many Why's of Life

Answers to Many Why's of Life

Some answers to some life questions....

1. Why are rain clouds dark?

Rain is water. Water is light in colour. Rain clouds are full of water. Therefore, rain clouds should be light. Impeccable logic, but wrong. Obviously, there are always water particles of water are small, they reflect light and are perceived as white. When water particles become large enough to form raindrops, however, they absorb light and appear dark to us below.

2. How to get enough calcium without drinking milk?

Try calcium-fortified soy milk, though if you suffer from a true food allergy to milk you may also be allergic to soy.
If you can't tolerate soy milk, try a fortified rice or oat milk.
Calcium from supplement isn't a bio-available, but can provide an alternative.
Eat more canned fish bones, green, leafy vegetable, nuts, seeds or beans.

3. Is an aircraft affected if it flies over an area hit by an earthquake or a hurricane?

An earthquake would not affect airspace and thus would not affect a plane flying overhead, says Canadian Air line Pilots Association spokeman John Mazor. When it comes to hurricane, he says, a commercial plane would never get caught in one "because meteorologists are able to track the origin and path of a hurricane with great accuracy and with sufficient warning."

Quotable Quotes: Parenting Styles

Excerpt from Reader's Digest June 2009 Issue

"Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and
the rest of the time when they will turn in." Write Eleanor Graham Vance

" If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent." Bette Davis

" Kids can be a pain in the ass when they're not a lump in your throat. " Barbara Johnson

"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude." Ralph Emerson

"The quickest way to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable." Lane Olinhouse

"Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children." Doris Day

"Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth." Peter Ustinov

Baboy, Pig, Swine....

Baboy, Pig, Swine whatever we call it, can be both harmful and beneficial to our lives.

AH1N1 (Swine Flu), FMD(Foot & Mouth Disease), Biogas, Pork adobo, lechon, crispy pata, menudo....all are from pig.

We love eating pork cooked in different recipes, it gives us our needed protein to give us energy. Pork also has high cholesterol that can lead to us having high blood pressure, heart ailments.
It is individuals prerogative to control their intake in order to avoid these sicknesses.

Swine flu or AH1N1 is now in level 5 Pandemic around the world. At present there are now 20,000 cases and more than a hundred deaths in more than 66 countries according to the World Health Organization(WHO).

Philippines: June 12 Independence Day

June 12, 2009 marked the 111th day of Independence for the Philippines.

There will be no class and work on that day to celebrate the freedom from foreign rule.

But, are we really free from foreigners? We even encourages tourism because of the income and businesses we get from them.

Is June 12 really our independence day? some say its July 4 (Fil-Am Friendship Day) or January 21 (Opening of Malolos Congresss.)

How can we show our being Filipinos? Patronize our products, use our own language...etc...

Here's the irony of it...we like imported products, we encourage our students to speak the foreign language, the government treat domestic helpers as heroes instead of giving them employment in our own country.