Different Medium of Advertising

Advertising has been the core or the reason why products and services reach the end user or the target market. Without advertising, how are you going to make a sale? Advertising comes in many forms. It started with the word of mouth. You bake something, you let your friends taste, they loved it, they suggested you put up a baking school or put up your own bakery. More people will love your cake and they tell their friends and before you know it you're putting up another branch.

Another medium of advertising is the radio. A script is formed and radio talents perform and make the listeners imagine that it would be really nice to taste and eat of that delicious cake just by hearing about it. It's played frequently through the day so if you listen to the radio the whole day you can memorize the whole ad in no time. For those who don't want to miss the newspaper and magazine readers as possible customers or clients, print media is the way to go. Depending on one's budget, it can go from a small one-liner to as large as a full centerfold in a broadsheet. Target market can be from those who are reading tabloids to those who are reading broadsheets and magazines. Everyone loves cakes anyway...most do.

Television is another medium, catering more to the couch potatoes and those hooked to entertainment. Since kids are more likely to be hooked on TV, most of the advertising capture the kids who tell their mom they want it. These days, though, who is still watching TV and reading the papers? Though there are still some, a lot have focused on the internet. Even the kids who were hooked on TV are now hooked on the internet. The new media is now the internet but not all can be like That Advertising Agency.

FTF: Fish and Asparagus

This is one of hubby's favorite meal. He is on a diet so he decided to eat fish instead of read meat; then asparagus coupled with fried rice. Okay, he skipped the rice for it is making his tummy big, lol. Anyway, my share for all the Food Trippers out there.

Roasted Asparagus and Baked Fish Fillet, yum!

Fried Rice, my son's fave :-). Join us by clicking the link here :-)!

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I Am Craving for Dinengdeng

I have been craving for this dish and I don't want to cook it without the veggies that goes with it; so I just need to wait till I get to the Philippines this summer. My mother can cook it for me...the Ilocano style. I like it with Patani, sigarilyas, bataw, and other veggies below. Good thing every once in awhile, two of my friends bring this dish every time we have a Filipino gatherings. They know I love this dish and so I eat a lot and take home some, too after the gathering is over.

Ilocano - Dinengdeng (Inabraw)

Ingredient:

1 milk fish (bangus); fried or grilled
1 cup string beans; cut into 2" long
6 pieces okra
1 cup squash; cut in cubes
squash young leaves and flowers
1 big ampalaya; cut in 2” rectangular lengths
1 onion; sliced
2 large tomatoes; sliced
1 cup jute leaves (saluyot)
1 root ginger; crushed
Bagoong isda
3 cups water

Cooking Instructions:

In a casserole, bring water to boil. Add onion, ginger, and tomatoes. Let stand for 3 minutes. Season with bagoong and continue boiling for 5 minutes. Remove the scum that rises on top of the liquid and then drop the milkfish. Simmer for 5 minutes, then add vegetables. Cook until vegetables are done. Adjust seasoning according to taste. Serve hot!

Tips:

You can use other kind of fish like tilapia or shellfish. You can also use or add other vegetables like sweet potato and malunggay fruits.

Some put sigarilyas, patani at bataw, too!

FTF: Brown Stew (Dinuguan)

One of my fave Filipino foods...dinuguan. This dish is very yummy. Caucasian should try it. Hubby and son don't like it at all :-/

According to Wikipedia:

Dinuguan (also called dinardaraan in Ilocano, tid-tad in Pampanga, sinunggaok or champene in Batangas, and sampayna or champayna in Northern Mindanao. Possible English translations include pork blood stew, blood pudding stew, and chocolate meat) is a Filipino savory stew of meat and/or offal (typically stomach, intestines, ears, heart and snout) simmered in a rich, spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili (most often siling mahaba), and vinegar. The term dinuguan comes from the Filipino word dugo meaning "blood".

It is frequently considered an unusual or alarming dish to most people, though it is rather similar to European-style blood sausage, or British black pudding in a saucy stew form. It is perhaps closer in appearance and preparation to the Polish soup Czernina or an even more ancient Spartan dish known as melas zomos (black soup) whose primary ingredients were pork, vinegar and blood.

Dinuguan can also be served without using any offal, using only choice cuts of pork. In Batangas, this version is known as sinunggaok. It can also be made from beef and chicken meat, the latter being known as dinuguang manok ('chicken dinuguan'). Dinuguan is usually served with white rice or a Philippine rice cake called puto.