Dough Story

Here comes another night when I experiment with my dough recipe.  This time I have taken pictures of my dough before and after settling it down to rise.  

In the photo it has the color of siopao white.  You see that it doubles in size.

After baking, it comes out hot, golden brown, crispy and crunchy, smelling like fresh baked sweet pan de sal- straight out of the oven!

Yummy....mmmm!

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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Never tire.

Continuation of Mural Pictures

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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Never tire.

Pictures of the Mural Contest

Here are the pictures of the recently concluded Pasay City Host Lions Club On-the-spot mural painting contest.  It's an environment theme.

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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Never tire.

Painting as investments

There are insitutions who invest in paintings like stocks.  They say the "deader" a painter is the more valuable his work becomes! 

Perhaps there is someone who can share his thoughts on this?  Maybe some more information on valuation and return periods for such works?

I'm posting the pictures of the murals recently conducted by the Pasay City Host Lions Club at their club house at Lions Road.  Yes, your eyes haven't betrayed you.  It's really called Lions Road.  That's how far public service can get you! 

The picture is the champion for this event.  The team receives 50k pesos cash prize.   The event will be reported on ABS-CBN's TV patrol tomorrow September 29 630pm.  

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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Never tire.

Your SEC Reports Better Be Updated

I am presently undoing the mess our accountant has made.  We have been regularly late or remiss in filing our annual General Information Sheet and Audited Financial Statements and one of our corporations got revoked.  

As a result, I have to check, collect documents and get the appropriate Board Resolutions to save the corporations' existence.  

Not to mention the penalties SEC will be charging us.  From my research, some of the delinquent corporation pay between 10k to 100k- depending on how many years you are late.

SEC annual reports checklist:

1. GIS for the year

2. Audited financial statement.  If your capitalization is below 50k, then just a sworn finanacial statement from your Corporate Secretary will do. 

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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Never tire.

The pizza crust color

After baking for a couple of weeks, I finally found the magic crispy brown pizza color!

Oh what 100 degrees Fahrenheit can make! hehe

The 5 hour bake

It all started at 6pm.  I was carefully weighing and mixing my test recipe while bearing the rainy damp humid air.  I mixed in the yeast into my concoction and powdered in the flour. The liquid result actually looked like the whitish-yellowish Yakult color.  

I kneaded and kneaded until I was bored.  It was interesting for the first 15 minutes.  First you'd see white powedery balls and then they turn into white sticky- very sticky- balls of paste.  After pressing, folding and doing the same thing, I came out with play dough look-a-likes!  

I slapped them into the pan and fired up the giant ovens!  Yes.  I had two giant industrial-sized ovens! har har  I pre-heated the oven and placed in the pizza crust for several minutes.  

Beep went the timer, and I slowly removed the pizza crust with my thickly protected hands.  You had to respect the oven at this temperatures.  I had horror stories of it...  

After being satisfied with my crust's color, I experimented more and decided to crank up the temperature by a hundred degrees!  *naughty smile*  This was the face of the 5 year old who couldn't play with the oven before!  After repeating the process, we got our burned crust- as black as dirt and smelling coal!

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Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Never tire.