Last time, I made traditional Gateau basque with both dark rum-infused pastry cream and French black cherry jam. I loved it so much that I wanted to make a Filipino version of it as a Filipino myself, by substituting the black cherry jam with ube halaya, Filipino traditional ube jam.
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Last time, I made traditional Gateau basque with both dark rum-infused pastry cream and French black cherry jam. I loved it so much that I wanted to make a Filipino version of it as a Filipino myself, by substituting the black cherry jam with ube halaya, Filipino traditional ube jam.

As an ube lover since childhood, I'm biased so I will say I prefer this version, the nuttiness of the Filipino ube goes well with the French pastry cream.

u/lordlors — 9 days ago

I made traditional Gateau basque of the French with both dark rum-infused pastry cream and black cherry jam. I loved it so much, I made an ube version by substituting black cherry jam with Filipino ube halaya made in Caloocan City imported to Japan.

I love ube so much that I prefer this. The ube halaya goes well with the French pastry cream.

u/lordlors — 9 days ago
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Traditional carbonara using guanciale and pecorino romano (I bought the guanciale from Nissin delicatessen) and no cream

u/lordlors — 14 days ago
▲ 109 r/pastry

Made traditional Gateau basque with French black cherry jam using a small toaster oven meant for toasting bread. The jam was still watery and it oozed after slicing. It's now in the fridge after eating 2 slices. 1 slice wasn't enough.

u/lordlors — 22 days ago
▲ 9 r/Caudex

The silvery leaves of Boswellia dioscoridis reminiscent of the color of silver cycads

u/lordlors — 1 month ago

A Filipina care worker in Fukuoka Japan told her supervisory body that she was pregnant and wanted to come back after giving birth. The director asked if she'd considered an abortion. She recorded it. On August 4 a court ruled the blatantly illegal conversation violated her rights.

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u/lordlors — 2 months ago

Am I being exploited as a Southeast Asian or is this pretty normal in the IT industry here? An agent (I'm looking for other jobs) told me my salary is pretty common but I have my doubts.

I'm a full stack dev at a mid-sized Japanese company. I've been in the company for 7 years now and it's still my first company ever since I graduated from a senmon gakkou here. Not only both back end and front end, since our department, which consists of only 8 people, has no designer, I'm also doing UX (usability testing) and UI design using Figma which I learned on my own and introduced to our pipeline.

My current salary is just 4.1 million Yen a year after working for 7 years. The boss is very kind and understanding, it's 7.5 hours a day and there's barely any overtime, and it's full remote which are why I wasn't keen to leave right away but with prices soaring and my salary barely getting higher, I started worrying and doubting. Agents always tell me around 5m-6m is a realistic expectation especially for someone with no managerial experience (since I mostly worked as a coder and a designer, not really in a leadership role) but I'm hearing differently online.

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u/lordlors — 2 months ago

I fell in love with dried scotch bonnets. Bought a seedling 2 months ago and finally harvested my first 2 peppers and used it on making arrabbiata. Turned out it's Jamaican mushroom. It's so much milder, can't deny I'm so disappointed.

u/lordlors — 2 months ago

Made cheese scones using Parmigiano reggiano and Pecorino romano. It's crispy/crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Already delicious as is but paired with French strawberry jam, I loved it even more.

u/lordlors — 2 months ago
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Made Spanish polvorones for the first time as a Filipino. Next time will be Filipino version.

u/lordlors — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/pasta

Randomly saw this brand on Amazon Japan and with a face got me intrigued since I’m not familiar. Turns out it’s incredibly niche and is famously known as organic in Italy. It’s Girolomoni and cheaper than Mancini when in bulk.

u/lordlors — 3 months ago
▲ 16 r/Spanish

As a man in my 30s, will I be mocked/get laughed at or is it still okay to pronounce ll as ly?

In the Philippines, majority of Spanish words we use lack yeismo, so we pronounce ll as ly even for names of people like Villegas will be vilyegas and martillo will be martilyo. I plan to study Spanish but yeismo just feels wrong for me because of my upbringing as a Filipino. I’ve heard the lack of yeismo is only spoken by old people in Spain.

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u/lordlors — 3 months ago
▲ 62 r/pastry

I made amaretti cookies for the first time and I used a small toaster oven for baking.

u/lordlors — 3 months ago