Cassava Bibingka, A Filipino Specialty and Our Home Office

Kelly of http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/is sponsoring "Show Us Where You Live Friday" and the theme this week is Office. Get some inspirations and let's all visit Kelly and all her participants.

I am also participating in Foodie Friday so stick around after this post.

Since I don't go to work, I will have to show you our home office. This is what you see as you enter from the hall. A settee sitting by the sliding doors and then an Asian file cabinets with shelves greet you.
The home office leads to the master bedroom, which is very convenient since I log on my computer soon after waking up. This room also serves as a showcase to my hubby's egg collection. Notice the framed 3 eggs on the wall? I gave that to him last Christmas. You can enlarge to see more details.
Let me just take you around the walls and corners. This is John's side of the desk.
We bought the wall unit from Ashley Furniture. It's perfect for us cause as you can see, we are computer nuts and it has a return in between our individual desks, which we can share for our laptops. Between hubby and me, we have 1 desktop and 4 laptops. It also has ample storage for our paperwork and files.
It has a shelf to hold a TV so I can watch news while blogging.


This is my side of the desk. I am the one using the desktop cause I am a heavy user and I need a super fast one and a big screen.

John and I both like the look of alligator skin so when we saw this chair at Miskelly's, a big furniture store in Jackson, MS, we wanted to buy 2 right away but they only had one in stock so we went to a local store and ordered 2. They are also distributed by Ashley. I especially like these chairs because they have no arm rest. I put both feet up when I am blogging or surfing the web and arm rests just get in the way and pinch my thighs.

I really love my chair, so comfy!

We have a lateral file cabinet in that wall, which matches the Asian tall cabinet. See the Sevres eggs on top of the wall units?

On top of the cabinet are some of John's egg collection and some Chinese figures.

And here you see the exit to the hall, which we transformed to a library.

I used to enjoy this view from the office.

But since we are building a pool, this is the view now. I know eventually, the view will look better.

Thank you so much for coming. I hope you enjoyed the tour to our home office.

Here's a little announcement in between here. I am only 2 posts away from my 100th post. I have gathered some stuff to give away, so be prepared to leave comments on my 100th post. You get an entry for every comment. But I will add an additional thing to the rule. If you participate this Saturday for Sightseeing Sat, I will add 3 more additional entries for you. Chandy, are you listening? You can post any sceneries or travel pictures and it does not have to be out of the country, it's all up to you. If you plan to participate, just leave me a comment by tomorrow night and tell me so I can add your link on Sat. I do not have a Mr. Linky set up.

Just to name a few of what I am giving away: a set of 4 black ruffly placemats, a set of 4 ceramic teapot napkin rings, a tablecloth with 6 napkins I bought from Grand Cayman (trust me, it's really pretty!) and some other items.

Now back to Foodie Friday!

Today is also Foodie Friday, hosted by Gollum at http://designsbygollum.blogspot.com/. I don't really like cooking but since I baked something yesterday, I decided to participate and share what I made.

This is a Filipino dessert called Cassava Bibingka. Cassava is a starchy root also know as yucca.

Here are the ingredients: 2 bags grated cassava, 2 cans coconut milk, 1 stick melted butter, 2/3 cup condensed milk, 1 egg, 1/3 cup sugar, 2 tsps. vanilla

A jar of macapuno and 1/2 cup condensed milk for topping.

I buy the frozen grated Cassava from Asian grocery stores.

Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Mix the first 7 ingredients above and pour into a 9 x 12 greased baking pan. I used 3 smaller ones because I wanted to give away 2 of them.

Bake for about 1 hr, 15 min. I baked mine for a little under an hr. because my pans were smaller.

While the batter is baking, mix a jar of macapuno (sweetened young coconut that you can buy in Asian food stores) and 1/2 cup of condensed milk.

Pour the mixture on top of the baked batter for another 20 min or until light brown in color.

Enjoy! This is one of my favorite Filipino sweets.

Thanks for joining me. Now let's go see Gollum and look at what everybody else is sharing.

Thanks Kelly and Gollum for hosting.