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How To: Olive's Sonnet Juice.

Here's a must try if you have a machine that juices the hell out of any solid object except metal or stone.

• Carrots
• Apple
• Ginger
• Bunch of spinach leaves with stalks!(Iron Chef's secret ingredient!)

If you buy the fruits organic, mild wash will do. Just slice to fit to the mouth of your juicer. If you buy fruits with chemicals sticking on its skin (not organic), then you have to pay your karma by having to peel the skin. Amount of ginger should be not that much, depends on your liking of this vegetable. Suggested size should be enough to leave a hint of it, and should not overwhelm the juice. I use thumbsize ginger and I always remove the skin.

Then do a Popeye dance and drop in the spinach stalks with leaves hanging out of it and then viola! Add ice to serve cold. I call this Olive's Sonnet Juice. You might think it might taste bitter as all green leafy vegetables do when eaten raw, but it should not be because the apple adds sweetness to it. That damn flexible fruit has natural sugar the size of a starbucks sugar sachet.  You can substitute apple with any fruit - chico, guyabano, whatever sweet fruit is available.  But then you have to re-name the juice as it will no longer be Olive's Sonnet juice. Could be fun, because then you can have it patented ;).

Review: Amici di Don Bosco

I've been hearing about the raves, all raves!  There's this pizza place daw where Italian priests cook pizza that has a taste of authentic Italian.  So I dragged Cindy one night when she visited me to raid my winter wardrobe. We had a hard time finding the place, it's in Don Bosco, but you see, Don Bosco's location is cramped and dark and it's this traffic-inviting area during weekdays-- there's no outside space for parking. And since this is Makati - the Mordor of motorists, Cinds decided to park in Waltermart (nearby mall) and then walk 5 minutes to Don Bosco. That's a tip!

We found Amici's entrance facing arnaiz road.  It has a canteen-like ambiance and there were lots of people, more like groups of families.  We decided to order Quattro Formaggi (Four Cheese) -- can you imagine, different kinds of melting cheese in one pizza? Yummy! You pay 240 pesos for 10" pizza (there's no pizza slice), it's like ordering one in Europe , just like in the movies(by whole not by slice). Thin crust of course, as all pizza should be (hehehe!).   It was really good, there's a bit of salty taste and "oven-fresh crunchiness", it's really good! Cinds and I have 4 slices each, and I can only finish three. Kakabusog talaga.  We also tried their blueberry gelato, and though it's one of the highly recommended food in their menu, I'm not really gaga over it.

Amici di Don Bosco is located in Pasong Tamo corner Arnaiz Avenue, Makati. It's open 10am to 9pm.