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Father’s Day Fantastic Buffet at La Cuisine
1,200 Pesos, VAT Included (Kids 12 and below 500 pesos)

Salad Station/Cold

Grapefruit Salad with Fresh Crabmeat and Tuna
Tomate and Mozarella Mille Feuille
Grilled Provencal Vegetables with Pesto
Rice Salad al Indienne
Mini Tomato and Basil Quiches & Quiche Lorraine
Strawberry Gazpacho
Fresh Tabouleh Salad

Main Course

Roast Crown of Pork with Apple Sauce
USDA Prime Rib Roast with Spinach Gratin with Three Sauces (Pepper Sauce,Béarnaise, Roquefort)
Selection of Home Made Artisanal Breads

Desserts

Strawberry Treacle
Mango Pavlovas
Choux Puffs with Orange Curd
Hazelnut Meringue Cake with Chocolate Cinnamon Mousse

Book now! (02) 501 52 02 or paseo@lacuisine.ph
La Cuisine Francaise, G/F Paseo Parkview Condominium, Sedeno corner San Agustin, Salcedo Village, Makati.

Photo: The very accommodating staff of La Cuisine. Today I ordered a spicy chorizo (merguez) sandwich. There was no chorizo in the kitchen. “But I have to have the spicy chorizo,” I whined. So they sent someone to their booth at the Salcedo weekend market to get the chorizo. That’s service.

Koosi would just delete everything.

1. The comment in an excessively familiar tone, unless you are a close friend.

2. The comment that addresses me as “Ate”. I know this is supposed to be respectful, but it makes me feel like you’re asking to take the day off, and I don’t have a maid. I do have one sister, and she doesn’t call me Ate.

3. The comment with the long preamble about how much you want to be a writer. You want to be a writer, write something. No need to announce it.

4. The comment about how much my work has influenced your own writing, which would’ve been nice if your grammar weren’t atrocious, which makes me feel that I have failed you. (We do allow grammatical errors, but aspiring writers must meet a higher standard.)

5. The comment about how everybody says you sound like me, which you really should take as an insult. (They’re calling you a copy. Slap them.)

6. The comment that was obviously composed with a thesaurus in an effort to impress. The fact that you bother to leave a comment is impressive enough, thank you.

7. The comment designed to show how much smarter you are than everyone else. Why so insecure? In the words of a psychiatrist, Hindi ka ba na-‘Very good’ ng mga magulang mo noong bata ka? (Didn’t your parents say ‘Very good’ whenever you did something right as a kid?)

8. The comment that pretends to be about something but is really about the author’s bottomless need for attention.

9. The comment that thinks it is witty when it is just uncouth. Lots of writers (most of them British) make a good living from being rude and clever. It is a skill. Consider that you might need practice.

10. The comment that is less about the subject under discussion than about the author’s bitterness about his own life and resentment towards the people he thinks have it good. Comments of this nature can be very interesting, but most of the time they’re just depressing. (We make a distinction between depressing-that-makes-you-think and depressing-that’s-just-depressing.)

11. The comment that is deleted for no reason whatsoever. I just felt like it.

The winner of the Roger-Rafa playing attire design contest is Dulce N. Cabanag!

Click on the thumbnail to see the full drawing.

I freely admit that the name (which I presume is an alias) gave her an added advantage. Dulce N. Cabanag, we’re going to lunch.

The correct answer in the weekly La Cuisine giveaway is Croque Monsieur. Everyone got that right. In the raffle I picked out number 46, Alice Theresa 88. Alice Theresa 88, you and a companion are going to have a croque monsieur merienda at La Cuisine. Let me know when you want to claim your prize and I’ll make the reservation.

The next La Cuisine question will be posted tomorrow.

The winner of the Best Caption prize in You’ve Got Homework is lilith for this caption:

Bambi’s real parents.

Congratulations, everyone. Please post your full names in Comments (they won’t be published) so we can arrange for you to collect your prizes.

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Alice Theresa 88, your reservation (under your real name) for two at La Cuisine for Sunday, 13 June at 11am is confirmed. Bon appetit.

I love this photograph. So elegant.