Juicy JELL-O

1 cup boiling water
1 package (4serving size) JELL-O Brand Strawberry Flavor Sugar Low Calorie Free
Gelatin
1 cup cold orange juice


STIR boiling water into gelatin in meduim bowl at least 2minutes until completely
dissolved. Stir in orange juice.


REFRIGERATE 4 hours or until firm.

Makes 4(1/2-cup)servings

Prep: 5 minutes

Filipino American Marriage

I got this article from http://www.livinginthephilippines.com I got interested on reading it and would like to share this to all my friends.


Written by a foreigner who get married with a FILIPINA

Hi, I had a similar experience with my .....ex........Filipina wife. I call it the "sup to u, sup to me" syndrome. When I met her here in Cebu about 9 years ago she was as sweet as could be. Anyone meeting her would say she would be a great bet for a wife and many people did say that and I thought so also. Everything we did was always my decision. Where shall we go today Hon "sup to you" what would you like to order off the menu "sup to you", what movie would you like to watch? "sup to you" on and on, everything sup to you.

Then I brought her back to Alaska on a fiancée visa and married her and we had a son and then any decision from that point on was "sup to me"! She was, and still is a good girl in most ways, never drank or smoked or used drugs, didn't cheat etc etc but she turned out to be the most hard headed, obdurate, intractable woman I have ever known in my life! She became acquainted with a lot of other Filipina Americans who quickly let her in on the situation in America..."you don't have to listen to him any more, just do what you want." She knew from the start that I wanted to live here in the PI and planned to balikbayan for a few years b4 retiring completely here, but once she got to the states she just stubbornly refused to return to the PI under any circumstances. She was completely beyond persuasion and in fact wouldn't even listen to any of my reasoning, just continually said NO! (SUP TO ME)

So don't anyone count on the sweet loving faithful Filipina wife returning to live here. Some do but many don't. I still have a hard time grasping the change in her attitude. Now we are in a messy argument about my visitation with my son...another topic! I'm re-married here in Cebu and will in no circumstance take my new wife to the states, even though she does hound me about it occasionally.

She knew exactly my thoughts on the subject when we were married. I love life in the Philippines and intend to stay here and keep my wife a sweet Filipina here in this country. I've seen and heard of too many Filipinas who became Americana diretcho when they got off the plane. I could have found a woman like that without leaving the states if that's what I wanted.

Good luck to all, they do make good wives, even in the states as long as you are willing to be submissive to their will and live in the U.S. SUP TO YOU, SUP TO HER.........


How to tell if your Net girlfriend is scamming you. One of the livinginthephilippines3 members said;

One of the List resource people wrote to a List guest the following, a foreigner who was having second thoughts about marrying a Guest Relationship Officer, (GRO) his girlfriend and fiancée he met in a bar/karaoke.

John wrote:

So you have fallen into the trap by meeting a gorgeous, shy little GRO, and you feel at this moment that you want to marry her. OK, but first let me tell you a little story.

I ran a girlie bar in Manila for just over 5 years. I soon found out the ground rules, and although I didn't approve of them, they were the rules.

Girls were bought from their parents in the provinces for as little as P2000.00, we went on regular shopping trips and I found the whole thing distasteful but that was how it was done.

They traveled back to Manila on the bus, while we came back in a chauffeur driven limo. As soon as they arrived, the teaching process began. Most of the teaching was done by the senior GRO's or more experienced girls at the bar.


The No. 1 Rule is that you are no longer free, you have been purchased by the boss and your parents have been rewarded, do not let your parents down! You are not allowed to go out without written permission from your boss or when you are bar-fined, but then you must arrange this with the Head Geisha.

You belong to the Boss as if you are married to him. You are not allowed to have a personal boyfriend. Every male is your boyfriend, but only if they pay your bar-fine. If you are bar-fined, you must be back on these premises by Noon the following day. If you are late you will be fined and the money will be taken from your salary.

After these ground rules were learnt, the girls settled in and were taught how to please a male by dancing, flirting, massage, and sex. At first I thought I was in paradise with a line of 18 year olds queuing up out side my bedroom door.

But the novelty soon wore off, believe me. The quiet girls were taught that shyness was a tool they could use,
because loads of guys are turned on by the sexy little shy one. She acts like the virgin and the little girl lost.

Do not let this fool you. She, like all the others, are in this business to make money for the bar, the object of the exercise is to get the guy to buy loads of ladies drinks and then Bar-fine as many girls as he can handle. All the tricks in the book are used to get the cash out of your pocket and into the till.

Girls under the age of 21 are not allowed to drink alcohol, so if you ply her with drink and take her out, you could get into trouble with the Police, that's if somebody reports you. Big heavy fine, and money all around for the corrupt police and their informers.

Another thing is that if you are dating your girlfriend without paying a bar-fine, she will get into serious trouble with her boss, and you will probably be taught a little lesson by a few heavies that creep up on you from nowhere. I know. I have woken up a few times in the rat infested gutter, with my nose out of joint, all because of a shy little GRO.

OK you think you love her and want to marry her. You say you are 45. By the time she is 25 and at her sexual peak, you will be in your 50's. She will go back to the bar, she will want to show off to her old friends that she is now all grown up, and she has her old husband paying for everything she wants in life. Plus he is paying for everything her parents want....and the sisters and brothers... and the 500 or so cousins that are waiting in line for their share.

She will see the girls in her old place of work, having a good time with the punters, while all she has to look forward to that day is a pile of washing and ironing. She will be very tempted to have just one drink with an old flame and listen to his drunken promises. She will probably take him to a short time hotel and earn some extra
housekeeping by just laying on her back for an hour or so. Eventually you will get suspicious, the rows will start, She will go back to work in the bar. The end!


Sorry mate, there are hundreds of thousands of gorgeous decent Filipino girls in this world, all looking for the man of their dreams, and all wanting to settle down, start a family and live Happily Ever After. You are a little bit like myself. I too fell in love with a GRO, but a good friend warned me of the dangers, I lived
with her for a couple of years and we had some great times, but she would always go back to the bar to see her friends once a week, then twice a week, making excuses, coming home at 4 in the morning, drunk
and clothes torn. Then into Shabu [methamphetamine, speed, crank.] Bye bye little shy GRO. Now probably dead.

It will be hard to make the break, but you must. Remain good friends but please don't marry her. Because she is already married...TO THE BAR

By JOHN HARMAN. 3-21-05 by permission

There is a saying, "You can take the girl out of the bar, but you can't take the bar out of the girl." I believe this is true most of the time, certainly from what I have seen in the past 15 years. There are exceptions, but rare. The bar is exciting. Provincial girls become idols of customers, stars in their own eyes, make tight friendships in the bars. But some girls find a boyfriend before they get hung up with the life. But that is rare. There is usually always some problem that brought them to this, in addition to poverty, they can't shake.

Mocha Cake

- triple-tested at The Good Housekeeping Research Institute


Ingredients
1 10 3/4-ounce frozen ready-to-serve pound cake
1 tablespoon instant-coffee granules or powder
2 cups heavy or whipping cream
1/4 cup chocolate syrup
2 1-ounce squares semisweet chocolate
1 teaspoon shortening

Directions
1. With serrated knife, cut frozen pound cake horizontally into 3 equal layers.

2. In cup, stir instant-coffee granules and 1 tablespoon hot tap water until coffee completely dissolves.

3. In large bowl, with mixer at high speed, beat heavy or whipping cream until stiff peaks form. Fold in chocolate syrup and coffee mixture just until blended to make mocha cream.

4. Place 1 cake layer on cake plate; spread evenly with 1/2 cup mocha cream. Top with second layer; spread with 1/2 cup mocha cream. Top with remaining cake layer. Reserve 1 cup mocha cream; use remaining to frost top and sides of cake.

5. Spoon reserved mocha cream into decorating bag with medium star tube. Pipe a decorative border along top and bottom edge of cake. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.

6. Meanwhile, in heavy small saucepan over low heat, heat semisweet-chocolate squares and shortening until melted and smooth, stirring frequently. Line a 6-ounce custard cup with plastic wrap; pour melted chocolate into plastic-lined cup. Cover and refrigerate until chocolate is set, about 2 hours.

7. To serve, unmold chocolate from custard cup. With vegetable peeler, slowly and firmly draw blade along surface of chocolate to make curls. Use chocolate curls to garnish cake. (If chocolate appears too brittle to curl, let stand at room temperature a few minutes to soften slightly.)

Each serving: About 275 calories, 22 g fat, 110 mg cholesterol, 115 mg sodium.


Courtessy of Goodhousekeeping.com

How to Unmold Gelatin

1. Before unmolding, gently pull gelatin from around edge of mold with moist
fingertips.

2. Dip mold in warm water, just to the rim, for about 15 seconds.

3. Lift mold from water, hold upright and shake to loosen gelatin.

4. Place moistened serving plate on top of mold.

5. Invert mold and plate; shake to loosen gelatin.

6. Remove mold and center gelatin on plate.

Grilled Chicken Ceasar

Ingredients:

1/4 cup pasteurized egg product
1 clove of garlic, minced (about 1/2 teaspoon)
1 1/2 teaspoons anchovy paste
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup finely grated Parmesan
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
6 cups coarsely torn romaine lettuce
2 cups of baby spinach leaves
2 cups of whole-grain croutons
4 grilled chicken breast halves (about 4 ounces each), sliced

How To:

In a small bowl, whisk together the egg product, garlic, anchovy paste, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice. Slowly add the olive oil in a steady stream, whisking the whole time. Stir in the Parmesan and season with salt and pepper.
In a large bowl, toss the dressing with the lettuce and spinach until well coated. Add the croutons and toss to combine. Divide the salad onto 4 plates and top each plate with grilled chicken slices.

Avocado Buttermilk Sherbet

Ingredients

2 Avacados
2 c Buttermilk
1/2 c Sugar
1/4 c Honey
1/4 c Light corn syrup
1/4 c Lemon juice



Instructions

Puree avacados in blender or food processor.

Combine buttermilk, sugar, honey, corn syrup and lemon
juice. Beat well and blend with avacados. Refrigerate
until mixture is thoroughly chilled, then freeze
according to ice cream maker manufacturer's directions.

Makes 1 quart.

Cookies and Creme Snacks

2 cups reduced fat chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
1 tub (12 ounces) COOL WHIP FREE Whipped Topping, thawed


STIR cookie crumbs into whipped topping. Spoon into snack cups.

REFRIGERATE or freeze until ready to serve.

Make 13 (1/2-cup) serving


Great substitute: Prepare as directed above, substituting 2cups rasberries or chopped strawberries for cookies.


Prep: 5 minutes

Lime Pie Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups milk
2/3 cup heavy cream
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 cup white sugar
1 cup lime juice
2 teaspoons lemon extract (optional)
1 (3 ounce) package lime flavored gelatin mix
6 whole graham crackers


Directions

In a saucepan over low heat, combine the evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, milk, and heavy cream. Cook until warm, whisking frequently. Once the mixture is hot to the touch, whisk in the gelatin mix and sugar, stirring constantly until sugar and gelatin are completely dissolved. Whisk in the egg yolks, and remove from the heat. Stir in the lime juice and lemon extract.
Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. This recipe takes a bit longer to set up than the usual ice cream.
Once the ice cream is thick, open the canister, and place large pieces of graham cracker evenly on each side. They will break into smaller pieces as the machine churns. Mix for about 5 more minutes. Transfer to a freezer container, seal, and freeze until solid. I like to use 1 gallon resealable freezer bags.


Courtesy of AllRecipe.Com

Chocolate Banana Parfaits

Ingredients

2 cups cold fat free milk
1 package (4-serving size) JELL-O Chocolate Flavor
2 medium bananas, sliced
1/2 cup thawed Cool Whip Lite Whipped Topping
1 tbs. chopped walnuts



Directions

1. Pour milk into medium bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 1 minute.
2. Spoon 1/2 of the pudding evenly into 4desset glasses. Layer with banana slices,
whipping topping and remaining pudding.
3. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Garnish each serving with additional banana
slices, whipped topping and walnuts, if desired.

Makes 4 servings

Fiery Island Pineapple Pork Chops

Ingredients
1 (4 ounce) boneless pork chops, 1/2-inch thick
4 teaspoons Jamaican Jerk seasoning
1/3 cup hot pepper jelly
2 tablespoons pineapple juice
1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
4 slices fresh pineapple (cored, 1/2-inch thick)


Directions
Coat chops with jerk seasoning; set aside for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, microwave jelly, pineapple juice and ginger on High for 30 to 60 seconds or until melted. Grill pork over medium-high heat for 5 to 6 minutes per side, turning once. Baste frequently with glaze. During last 3 minutes of grilling time, place pineapple rings on the grill. Baste with jelly mixture. Grill pineapple until heated through. Serve pork chops with pineapple.