Home-made Wendy's Frosty in Three Ingredients

If you are a fan of the Wendy's Frosty [like I am], this recipe should interest you.

Popsugar food has a video up detailing how to make your own home-made Wendy's frosty only on three ingredients: condensed milk, chocolate milk, and Cool Whip. It all seemed so simple as she mixed the three ingredients, until the big kicker came in that you had to have an ice cream machine. Sure, if you have one, that's great, but for the rest of the regular folk with no extra disposable income to get one, that's just a no go.

Fret not, though, as a viable suggestion from the comments came in if you are like me who happen to not have an ice cream machine lying around the house.

"To those without an ice cream maker, Brothers Green Eats did a video on this and froze the chocolate milk in an ice cube tray. Then they blended the chocolate milk ice cubes, the condensed milk, and cool whip in just a regular blender."

Dunkin Donuts' price increase

I'm not sure when this change happened, since I haven't really been buying a lot of doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts lately, but it turns out that one of my all-time favorite flavors, the Choco Butternut, is now part of what the store labels are "premium" donuts and as such, it costs 35 pesos a piece. 35 pesos! It's nearly twice the price of other "regular" donuts where it used to be part of.

It's within the same price range as that of other high end doughnuts such as Krispy Kreme [roughly around 40-45 pesos per piece] and J.Co Donuts [42 pesos per piece]. These higher end brands tend to go cheaper as well if you buy by the dozen. It's just sad that what I consider to be part of their original flavors have to be tagged to be part of their pricier group, when they could have just continued to come up with newer flavors to fill that void instead of alienating loyal customers with such a big price increase. Then again, I guess, I'm just not updated.

J.Co Donuts - Hi Lychee!

On a Sunday morning, I was with my girlfriend spending time at J.Co Donuts. I love the variety in their doughnuts, and how they seem to capture the flavor accurately with their products.

So, today, there was this new flavor [or at least it seemed new to me], and I just had to give it a go. It was called "Hi Lychee" and as the name implies, is Lychee-flavored.

Nothing much to write here, except that if you like lychee, this doughnut captures that flavor quite well. Reminds me of those canned lychees with syrup that my dad buys from the grocery.

Korean Yogurt from Bon Chon

Bon Chon Chicken has been known everywhere for their double-fried, paper-thin skin and delectable soy garlic and spicy chicken. That's a known fact. They are so popular, that there seems to be one within one public transportation ride to and from the next branch. Case in point, there's one in Eastwood Citiwalk, one just barely outside Eastwood, along C-5. There's going to be one in Cubao; Megamall and Robinson's Galleria have their own respective branches as well. I can go on, but that's not what you're here for anyway.

One lunch hour, me and my teammates decided to visit the Eastwood Bon Chon for some good eats. My teammates were intrigued with the long lines and the almost-always jampacked branch. I've been to Bon Chon many times before, but I was influenced by my former boss Bebot and I just fell for it from there.

I've detailed the awesomeness of the chicken in an earlier post, so I won't delve into that anymore. Out of curiosity, I decided to try out their Ko-Yo [Korean Yogurt] and see if it's any different from the typical frozen yogurt offered by other stores.

  

Being a fan of the Banoffee Pie, I tried their take on it to see how it stacks up. 

 

I shared this with my teammates to get their thoughts on it. We have the same thoughts on it: it's different from the regular frozen yogurt, as this seems to have no sugar in it, and have that sour taste that you normally get from regular yogurt. The caramel and banana seems to try and lessen that sour taste, but that's the prevailing thought. Then again, this IS yogurt and I can't knock it for tasting like a yogurt now, can I?

 Also, the crust at the bottom seems to be either old, or is really, really hard. The plastic spoon I used could not break it, and I had to eat it by chunks. I didn't particularly like that.

As much as I love Frozen Yogurts in general, I just could not recommend this. I'd stick to the chicken and the wonderful Chap-chae noodles when going to Bon Chon. I might reconsider but that would not be soon.

Mini Stop Strawberry Yogurt Sundae

Yesterday was a bummer day to say the least. I was hoping to eat out at my regular cheap eats place for dinner since I'm home alone for the evening with my dad out, but since it was a Sunday, they were all closed. Since I was already outside Eastwood, the only two choices were Jollibee, and Mini Stop, lest I want to walk back in and check options again inside. It was already 9PM, and didn't feel like trekking back in, so I settled with eating at Mini Stop's toppers [which is a hit or miss, depending on the branch, or day... or whatever factor there is, it seems]. While on queue, this caught my eye.

If any previous history is any indication, I just had to give it a go. The last offering I tried out was real good.

Mini Stop may be hit and miss with their rice meals [except Uncle John's chicken, which is mostly a hit], but their soft serve ice cream is always a hit if you ask me. Worth the 15Php, and more than made up for the sad, sad, "chicken teriyaki" rice toppers I had.

No, this isn't Selecta Magnum, but I just had to take the obligatory picture