Buco Pandan for Dessert

Everybody here at home loves Buco Pandan Salad. It is a famous dessert here in the Philippines with a lot of varieties that you can find such as buco pandan ice cream, buco pandan drink and much more. Buco pandan is just easy to prepare, all you need is buco strips, gelatin, all purpose cream, tapioca or pearl balls, sweetened milk and pandan leaves to make the scent more sweet and aromatic.

Just scrape the buco into strips, then cook your gelatin with pandan leaves to make that aromatic scent. Keep the gelatin aside and then cut it into cubes. Place the buco strips and mix it all together with the gelatin with all purpose cream, sweetened milk and your small tapioca balls or pearl balls.

If you may ask what gelatin to use, you can try Alsa gelatin mix, with no flavor of course. You can try the colored green gelatin for this recipe but if that gelly is flavored aside from buco pandan, then don't buy it. It will destroy the flavor if your gelatin is apple flavored.

Anyway I did not include the step by step photos for preparing this recipe. I just have the finish product, anyway if I have the time, I will do post it here. Hope you like this dessert recipe. Enjoy and have a nice day!

Craving for Vanilla Ice cream

I know it is not advice to take too much sugar or carbohydrates during pregnancy. I only take a cup a day for my daily dose of ice cream. It was just another food craving which I can consider my comfy food since I do get some odd taste on such food. It does taste unpleasant or bitter type. Even if I like the food and eat it, later on there will be an after taste that I really wanted to flush out from my tongue.

Vanilla Ice Cream by Amul


Well, this vanilla ice cream will just do the trick for the mean time. But I still needed to figure out what I can do so that I won’t be sticking much on sweets and cold treats such as this. I know I am an ice cream monster before, but this pregnancy surely gave me an idea to give it a try. Actually I don’t like any other flavored ice cream. So the nearest and safest for my mouth was vanilla. I don’t know why, but mostly I do like to take in white colored foodies and snacks.

My comfy snack, Vanilla Ice cream with pearl balls, weird combo

I do like to include white marshmallows and pearl balls on my ice cream. Funny isn’t it? I do have a good laugh on my food combinations sometimes. Indeed online research does make a big help when it comes to nutritious foods to take and I will be serious this time to consider what is best for me and my baby. I would really have to force myself to eat more since I do lack in weight and the doctor told me to add more weight like 12 more kilos. Well, that will be a lot of hard work I guess since I have been around 45 kilos only, and now I needed to gain more weight, maybe even pizza will help me with this one, LOL! Aiming to get that weight...hope soonest!