Filipino Baby

After the end of the summer when the boyfriend came back, the daughter of my helper and the boyfriend were getting cozy. The parents of my helper were even mad about it. Well the daughter just would not listen to them. My helper would seek advice from me. I tried to talked to the daughter once when she came here to my house. Even though I don’t have a job for her that day I invited her over to talk. When she came here at the house I could tell the changes in her physically. I already had something in my mind and just didn’t asked the girl that day. The next day when my helper came back to work, I asked my helper if she noticed her daughter throwing up in the morning or something. She said no because “she’s not in my house, staying with my sister”. I told my helper to just observe her daughter because I think she might be pregnant. She said okay. After 2 weeks my helper informed me that her daughter was pregnant. She was really devastated. I can’t blame her for that. My helper was really crying here at my house. Just to ease some pain away from her I told her that hey, you are not the only family that suffered like that here in this world. It happens to some members of my family too.

The daughter now is 5 months pregnant. She’s 16 years old, and the guy, he is i think 17 years old. The boyfriend has no job yet because he is graduating in high school this coming March. The parent of the guy said, their son will have to get a job after graduation to support his girlfriend and child. They are not going to help out big time because they have the siblings of the guy to support too. I asked my helper what she thinks of what happened to her daughter. She said to me that “I never fail to tell her that I don’t want her to follow my footsteps. That I want her to finish up her studies. She would just give me a smirk. I told her, I wished I was given the chance to go to school before. I gave her the chance to do it. She never listened to me when I told her not to be out during night time and don’t hang out too much with her boyfriend, she might get pregnant. It happens what I feared for.”

I guess now the daughter was sorry that she’s pregnant at the early age. The guy was not really there all the time to support her emotionally. She knows now that it’s going to be very difficult for them since both of them had no job. They both rely on their parents and relatives for financial support. My helper has 2 other daughters to support too. So it’s going to be a hard ride for all of them. My helper told me that she’s telling her daughter to start saving for the delivery of the baby. It’s not cheap to give birth here even if its in the house with the midwife. They are starting to gather baby’s clothing now. Like I told my helper that the hardship right now is just the beginning. They have to worry about later the food, clothing, medical and the schooling and more.

Somebody from the family were interested to adopt the baby when he/she’s born. My helper and her family are thinking hard and weighing their options. That’s what she told me anyway. I told her to really talk to her daughter and boyfriend about it. Think about what’s best for the baby. If they can handle everything why give up the baby. I told her that it’s not going to be an easy decision for them. I told her to pray and asked for guidance from up above.

I wish them all the luck!

Our conversation then went on to the girls before and now. I’m meaning to say about the girls that was brought up way before the internet came. We both made ourselves and our families as a sample. Like me and that friend were both brought up in the farm. We are happy and satisfied of what we had before. We have to get by of what toys we have even just making toys out from scratched. We are taught to obey our parents always and be respectful of the elders. Like we were talking also of how we used to dressed ourselves before, it is so conservatively. Which both of us said that it is okay to be updated in the year we are now, but we are hoping that the Filipinas will still have a little bit of the conservativeness that we had before. With the internet now, wow, the girls are just showing off everything just to lure the guys  to earned extra cash. I know lots also were brought good thing with the internet and some people were just using it for the bad thing.

The innocence of Filipino Kids

You know it is the modern era now, that’s what they called it. But still lots of men here still wants the ladies to have some old fashion ways. I mean I’ve heard young men making comment that they still want the conservative ways of the old days. Like they want that they will be the one chasing the girls, instead of the other way around. They still want too, that they will go to the house and ask the parent of the girl, if they can court the daughter. They want the ladies to dress up more conservative than seeing bulging cleavage. I’ve heard people saying that you can find ladies do the old fashion way  in the province. I think we still have lots of conservative ladies in the city, but a little harder to find. I’m glad we still have some ladies like that this days. I also know that it is far from the old days what we have now, but at least some ladies are trying to still remained some old ways.

But thinking of it. My friend that we just had the chat, her daughters were somewhat raised the old way. So I think it really depends on every parent on how to disciplined their kids. Or is it also from who the kids really hangs out with nowadays will tell who the kids really are? We were just really puzzled by how the young ladies nowadays knows how to lure guys on the net at the young age. Also how the older ladies chat on the net and showing off everything, and with lots of guy pretending to be a lady just to get money. So many things and questions on our mind. It is hard to find good answer.

But we are also talking of the guys wanting a wild ladies (like naughty one). We all would say that it is not hard to find ladies like that, just go to the bar that have dancers, and they can find women they wanted. Luckily here in Davao we don’t have bars that have nude dancers. I think the mayor here will closed down the establishment right away. I’ve heard over ten years ago they had places like that here, but the last mayor here closed that places down. Good for him.

Really the old fashion ways of the Filipinos is fading more and more. I’m glad and sad that people are more open into whats new with the surroundings. But it is also makes other people wanted more and more as if with no satisfactions and that makes the other people do drastic stuff that ends up hurting them or others. I guess this is part of life that we have to accept and deal with it. Really hard to find solutions but we can talk about it and share ideas about it.

Cheers!

One commenter on my last post was just so narrow minded. He only wants to see himself, not even wanting to listen to others. Anyone’s comments and advice are always welcome on this site. We never discriminate anyone here. You can say what you want just don’t use foul language and no personal attacks. I think that’s not too much to ask here.

Just Thinking

I am trying to write about my feelings and my experiences here and when I was living in the States for 10 years. I am trying not to step into somebody’s toes here. I never intended to do that. I am writing how a former Philippine resident of 21 years, went and lived abroad for 10 years, then came back to live here again. I just wanted to share my experiences when I used to live on the other side of the world. I am trying to share my experiences to the ladies who are married to foreigners or an OFW people who live abroad and wanting to come back here for good.

I’ve been saying here for a long time that it’s not an easy adjustment on coming back  here to the Philippines for me. It took me a long time to adjust. It was not fun for me at first to live here. It takes time and commitment.

I was born and raised in the Philippines, but in many ways I grew up in the States

I never thought of myself as higher than anyone else because I lived in the other country for a long time. I just think of it as a good experience and loved to share it with my family and others that want to listen. I am really happy now to be back here in my country, it was a good choice for me and Bob. Chris was the first thing that we did considered in coming back here to live. My family was really the big help with him and for him. Plus it was really good for my kids knowing my family and my family knowing my kids. Before when my kids were growing up, the only people that they really knew was the family of Bob. Nothing wrong with that though. It just nice now that my kids at least saw and knew my mom even for just a few years. At least they had good and sad memories of my mom. That’s when my mom started to get frail and not in good health already. My kids helped out a bit watching my mom when she was staying with us. Bless her soul now.

I’ve been asked on the email a lot of questions about how I felt about the life when I used to lived abroad and the life living here again, they want some of my thoughts on that. Instead of answering to one person sometimes I will share my thoughts to all of you. I know some people might have the same questions in mind and just too shy to ask us here.

Thank you guys for visiting our sites and sharing your thoughts too.

Cheers!

The Bride and Groom

I’ve been hearing and seeing similar stories over and over again. And I think you’ve read about similar stories written here too. But I want to write about this story again just as a reminder for some readers here. I am not sure if more and more guys are gullible nowadays to the ladies that want money.  I thought being with the internet now people will read a lot more before jumping into the relationship. Or the internet makes them more to jump in the relationship, since some women showed more skin and the nice talking on skype. Oh well, I don’t know really whats going on with these people. I wish them well I guess.

Another friend of mine who was into real estate was talking to me about her clients, the lady a Pinay who came here with her husband to lived here for good. They bought a house and some other properties. Later the guy was fooling around with the younger women. Most likely they end up separating. So all the money they spent to buy properties like house or businesses will be wasted, the properties they will sell it almost less than half of what they paid for. I’ve seen some houses that was built by some troubled couples it was really the dream home they built. Very nice and fancy house. All the inside and outside of the house were nicely done. They wanted to replicate the life they had before they came here. But it would all changed when the guy did something. The guy almost just end up separating the second wife here because in the end he had no money to support the girl.

A Filipino-Foreigner Family

Honestly, living here for over 11 years now. I heard both the good and the ugly relationships. I’ve heard also that the girl was the one playing around. Some women even make both the 2 guys lives in the same house. She married the foreigner to have the money. The guy (Filipino) that she loved lives with them in the room downstairs or outside the house like for the maids quarter type kind of thing. Even if the foreigner knows about it, nothing he can do. The lady had the properties all in her name. The foreigners just don’t have the money anymore. Even the money that the foreigner is getting every month the lady had access to that.

You guys probably wonder, was I bothered hearing all these stories? Oh yeah, before I was really almost losing sleep over feeling sorry for the guy. But now I am numbed already and mad at them too. They already had the tools to investigate now but they won’t do it. I am mad at some guys, when the girl shows lot of skin it doesn’t mean you will empty your wallet over that. If a women shows off  some skin like that, In my opinion that’s not the women you wanting to be with or marry though. On the other hand maybe that’s the kind of women some of these guys were looking for. Just be prepared though at the end.

On the other note: I’m so happy that I’ve known and heard lots of Pinay married to foreigners who are successful too. I hope it will be unending cycle of success for all the couples here, what ever part of the country you are from.

CHEERS!

The Helper prepares the kids breakfast

We had a stay out lady right now, who is helping the maid inside the house and twice a week will do our laundry for us. I just like it that our kitchen, she always makes sure its clean. She’s just so amazed by the food that we are cooking. Everything is really new to her. She was raised in GenSan to very poor parents. She was sent to school and quit later because they just don’t have the money to afford for a lot of school projects and other school fees. So she quit and worked as a waitress at the age of 16. Found a guy there and she was living with him for awhile. The parents of the guy don’t want her, reason being her family is so poor. She got pregnant by the guy. The guy’s parents disowned her and the baby. So she went back to her parents and they accepted her and took care of her and the baby.

She can’t really just rely on her parents because her parents also had so many kids to take care of. So she then try to get a waitress job again, she really find out having no education was hard to be working in dealings with people. She’s thankful that here at the house we are teaching her a lot about cooking different dishes and herbs. She’s learning a lot also about all kinds of kitchen gadgets and utensils. She’s just thankful that we are sharing our knowledge to her. We also are giving her extra stuff and for her baby.

Nicole is staying with us now

After giving birth she got sick. She said because of lack of food. She’s just thankful that her brother and her father has a decent job now to support the family. Before coming here to work for us, her brother was the one buying the milk for the baby. She asked the father of the baby, but the mom of the guy refused to help out. So she’s now left by the guy to raise the kid. Thankfully her mom was there to take care of the baby while she’s working here. To be honest I really hope that this new helper will succeed in life later. She’s a hard worker. She really wants to give a better life for her daughter than what she had when growing up. I know it’s hard for her because she’s away from her baby. But her mom is good with her baby anyway.

A couple of weeks ago, we ordered pizza for dinner. Not sure if some of you guys were familiar with the big pizza here that can be up to 60 slices. We ordered one of those for all of us here at the house. While we were eating one of the kids asked our new helper what does she think of the big pizza? She answered back that to be honest with you I don’t really know what the pizza tastes like until tonight. We just didn’t ask her for more explanation. The next morning she told me why they didn’t have pizza, for one reason its expensive to buy a whole pizza. If she will then buy a slice it usually cost like a hundred pesos. She said that she would rather buy something for the whole family can enjoy. So I just didn’t say much, instead, I told her that if we have food here and its new to her for her to taste it and enjoy. She’s just so amazed of the food that she tasted just for over a month that she’s here. It’s really fun teaching somebody that’s willing to learn and not embarrassed to ask what to do. Really me and my family really hope for the good future of our helper and her baby someday.

On the other note: Please know who you hire before getting somebody for a helper. We just had an incident last month with another maid. I don’t want you guys to experience it. The police just told us that theirs a group right now of maids, taxi driver and house boy and a leader, its like a gang. The really active right now are the people from Santa Maria and Malita area. Lots of employers reported the crime from the workers that came from that area. I will write more about it later.

Abreeza Sign

To be perfectly honest, my only main concern now would be the traffic flow on that area when the mall opens. Right now to go from Victoria mall to Damosa Street during evening time, before it would take like 45 minutes or so, wait when the mall opens, it might take like 2 hours or more then. Especially during Sunday, just right across the Abreeza mall is a Catholic Church. During Sunday, its always traffic in that there. Now when that mall opens, it might be a traffic jam in that area then. Hmm… It might be good for me then so that I won’t shop that much there.

I’m too impatient when it comes to traffic jams. Well, who would not be. I think the whole Bajada going to Lanang area will be a busy road pretty soon. SM North is in the process of building now. They already started pouring the concrete and stuff there. I think they are targeting to be open in about 2 years from now. Some areas like the supermarket might be open ahead than others. It will be good from the people of Tagum, Panabo, Samal Island and the Compostela Valley area. They don’t have to cross the Bankerohan bridge then to shop at the other SM.

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I don’t think I will be going on that new mall anytime soon. I will wait a few weeks. It’s going to be flooded with lots of people from all around the nearest towns here. Just by looking outside when we’re driving by the new mall all workers were trying to do the finishing touches outside. I don’t know about the inside of it though. Just talked with my kids awhile ago, they are really excited with that new mall open especially with the Toys “R” Us store coming there. They’ve been looking up toys r us website. They already know the store for a long time now.  My goodness we have to try to make more money here.

Well, hope to bump some of you there sometime. When its open and you’ve been there, let me know what you think of the mall. Have fun shopping!

Later that day, really early evening my niece Glenda informed me that my cousin who lives in Kidapawan was killed. I was shocked and didn’t want to believe about it. She said that she was informed by some members of our family in kKidapawan and told her to tell us that my cousin was killed. Me and Glenda don’t want to believe at first we thought they were just playing tricks on us since it was April fools day. Just to make sure I called up one of  my siblings (some who lives in Sarangani Province and some in General Santos City) if they heard any news from our cousins in Kidapawan? They said Nope, so then I told Glenda to called up my nieces or one of my cousins there in Kidapawan and ask whats going on.

At the funeral with my family

To be totally honest I’m already in panick mode. I told Bob what was going on because he was close to this cousin of mine that died. My cousin stood as Bob’s dad during our wedding. Bob saw him last like 2 years ago when the wife of my cousin in the hospital here in Davao for a treatment for her breast cancer. She’s good now. So when I told Bob about what happened he was shocked and wanting to know more about it. We did know more about it later that night.  Still I don’t want to believe it. I was really hoping that it was just a joke. Bob told me to believe it now. I was having a hard time believing and accepting it because he was in good health the last time I saw him. My cousin told me that time that his always watching what he ate because he wants to lived longer for his kids and grandkids and his adopted child. It was easy to accept my parents death though because of old age and they were sickly.

My cousin who owns several fish car trucks (that carries bunch of fish with ice and transported from one place to another for a period of days) went to Zamboanga to get some fish to sell at his several fish stalls in Kidapawan market. He goes to Zamboanga a lot to get fish and visit his family there from his mother’s side. On this trip he brought along with him his wife and his assistant. In the middle of the trip a man pulled over pick up a guy who wanted to hitch a ride with them, so he gave the guy a ride. The guy was on top of his truck. Not too long after that, another guy pulled him over and wanting for him to give him a ride. He stopped and waited a while to let the guy climb up the truck he thought anyway. All the sudden they heard a big bang. The assistant said I think one of our tire blow up. Both the assistant and my cousin open their door to get out. As soon as my cousin open the door and tried to get out he was shot by the later guy that wanted a ride. Him and his wife and the assistant found out that the guy shot also the person on top of the truck.

Part of the body of the guy shot was half way hanging on top. The guy that shot my cousin fled the scene. He was running and somehow caught a ride again somewhere. The wife of my cousin was panicking, my cousin was still alive and just within minutes of dying. The wife was asking for the nearest hospital, but its an hour drive. The wife knew that my cousin would not make it.  My cousin died after not too long on the drive. On the next town, my cousins’ wife was asking for help there. The son of the high up guy there helped them. I guess with the description they know who the guy was. The next day they caught the guy that killed my cousin. He is now in Zamboanga waiting for the trial.

I hope it would not take a long time for the trial, it was hard enough already for the family to handle that he died and to relive it again would be harder for the wife and kids and grandkids. My cousin was not released from the morgue right away. Police were there to investigate. Takes hours for the wife to get the body and bring it to Kidapawan. Some members of my family in Kidapawan went to Pagadian. My cousin was brought by the St. Peters Funeral Service (the people we used for my moms funeral) to Kidapawan.

I went to his wake. I was shocked of the amount of people there. As if he was the mayor of Kidapawan. Every night they had like 2 thousand or more people there for the wake. When I went there at the wake in the early evening I can see people but at least I can just easily go and see the casket. After talking with his wife, me and my siblings went home to eat dinner at my other cousins house when we came back to the wake, wow, I saw more than a thousand people and they keep growing on the wee hours of the night. The wife was telling my other cousins that she was wanting to just have just the family exclusively on the last night of the wake. But how could anybody shove away the people that were wanting to pay their last respects on my cousin? So the wife changed her mind and made it open to everybody.

The murder happened in the Pagadian area

On the wake I saw some of my families, if I remember the I last time I saw them was when I was a kid. Some I saw when I was in college. We were talking there because that cousin that died during my mom’s funeral he was talking to me about we the BAYOY clan should have a grand reunion with the last aunt we have that ‘s left be included. The aunt was the youngest of my dad’s siblings. I told him yeah we should do that. Because of the schedule and other stuff it didn’t happened. But on his wake it was somewhat a reunion on our family. Lots of my fathers side families were there. I’ve seen one of my oldest cousin that I’ve known here in Mindanao that’s alive. I saw him when me and my parents went to his house for a festival, that was like 35 years or so ago. Some cousins and nieces and nephews I never saw them for  almost 30 years ago were there. It was really nice seeing them. I wished in a different circumstances though. It was really a bitter/sweet reunion for all of us there.

During the funeral day we thought not many people would be attending since the night before a lot of people were there already. Well we were wrong. The church was filled with people. I was just so amazed by how much he was loved by the people of Kidapawan. He was not as popular as the government officials there but the outpouring support of the people there was truly humbling for us. The market vendors, my cousin was the president, asked the wife if on the way to church if the casket can swing by on the market for all the vendors pay their last respect to him. I was shocked on our way there I’ve seen lots of people waiting there at the side of the market. With the speeches of so many people I know that my cousin was well like in that area.

TO YOU MY DEAR JOKER COUSIN LEOPOLDO S. BAYOY MAY YOU REST IN PEACE AND WE LOVE YOU! YOU’LL BE MISSED!!!

“Dear Feyma, I am a Pinay. An OFW working in the Middle East. I just got back from a month of vacation there in our beautiful country, I want to work extra hard right now to earn as much as I could. Then I want to retire there later. I have been supporting my family there ever since working here. I wanted to stop supporting my family, but I can’t tell them that. I just don’t have the face to tell them. Since the war started here in the Middle East, I have been thinking hard for my future. I want to settle down with my boyfriend . He is a Filipino who is working here too. We want to get married in a few years. He is also supporting his family (like parents and siblings) back home. Lately my bf and I were talking about saving our money for our futures. I felt guilty, Feyma, of doing this because I am used to helping my family. But I have also my future to look after too. My family lives somewhere in the Visayas. I have been reading some of your posts here about living near the family. I might have to give the small house that I built for my Papa & Mama. When me and my bf get married we might live in Mindanao. Watch out we might be neighbors someday. I learned a lot from the comments of your blog.

I want to earn and save my money right now, and invest my money later for a business. Do you happen to know what business is good in Pinas? I have family there that owned like a KTV bar. They asked me if I want to owned one for an investment. I told them no, I don’t have desire to own a KTV Bar.

Dear Feyma

Feyma I hope to see you and your husband when I retire there. I am thinking now of going to Mindanao next visit to Pinas to see what is good for me and my husband to be. Thank you so much for listening. Keep up the good work. I learned so much from this site”.

Should she be an ATM Machine for the family

So guys I need your opinion on how to handle on telling the family that they will be cut off from the support that was provided for a long time. It would be hard for the family to handle then. The lady also has the right to cut them off because she has to start her own family too. This is going to be big change for the family. Well, they should be happy though, they already had a house built for them. All in all this is not an easy thing for the woman and the man. Not sure if the man would quit supporting his family. For me if she quit supporting the family the guy should also do the same, quit supporting his family.

Wow, her questions about good business here in the Philippines? That would be a hard one to answer. For one, I don’t really know what she likes to do. Even if the business is good, if the owner is not into it, more likely the business will fail. I hope when time she retire she will study first what is good and what she like to do first before venturing into anything here. That’s what I do anyway. But it is up to her. I really hope for the best for the lady and the hubby to be too.

Thank you guys in advance from your unending advice here. I really appreciate very much.

Cheers!

Carabao pulling the Kariton

When ironing clothes we used the old kind, where you just put the hot charcoal inside and just keep loading more charcoal when needed. Its heavy to handletoo. I think back in the day, some iron might be made of cast iron. Gosh, I wonder how much the weight of the thing would be? It’s already heavy right now that its not made with cast iron. When we used it before when I was in the farm when ironing our clothes my sisters would always put banana leaves underneath the iron for resting in between uses. It makes the clothes smell good like earthy, full of nature. Hey, only people that used it understands what I’m saying. The city people would not know what I was talking about, I think.

Feyma’s Childhood house in Patag, Sarangani – I’ve shown this video here before, but it ties in nicely with this article so I included it here.

Going from one place to the other we used kariton pulled by the carabao, or rides on our horses. My dad usually walked from our house to the next town to catch the jeepney for the city. Its a few miles of walk. He was not really into riding horses or the kariton. That’s one thing I was dreading before when my parents wanted to visit our other farm to see what are tenants were doing with the land. I hardly go with them, they will just walk to go there. Being young, I’m a bit lazy in walking especially for a long distance walk. At least its not just me whose lazy, my cousins too.  Really me and my cousins would go to our tenants tag along our horses. It’s always a blast going to our tenants farm.  We had lots of fruit trees there. We really indulged ourselves there with so many different kinds of fruits. Wow, just by thinking of the fresh fruits makes my mouth water. Just sad though because our tenants before are already dead and the one that’s left behind now were the grand kids or the relatives. They didn’t take care of the land the way our old tenants used to do.

We just are a little bit more lucky than some other kids in our neighborhood. Some of them especially the natives there like the Bla’an, they lived a bit far from us and on the hills. They have to get the water for drinking down below. They could really climb those hills with no problem. Well, being they would walk twice during weekdays for school in the morning and afternoon. Mostly during weekend they will be in town to sell some of their products. They really are fast in walking up and down the hill. A lot of the kids will be carrying a jug or two of water after school. Usually my classmates before, coming early in the morning for school they will bring with them the jugs and leave it at the people that had pumps for water for their drink. After school they would get the jug and fill it up with water and take it home with them. Can you imagine the weight of those jugs that they’re carrying ?  The water and the back pack full of school books and papers. You know what I never heard my classmates complain before. To be honest some of those classmates and schoolmates of mine were successful. They became teachers and others became nurses. Some of the  teachers now back in the province teaching in the school where I attended grade school and others teaching in the neighboring town and they are happily married, others went abroad. Of course the majority of them were married young and have kids. Back to the cycle again.

Feyma the young beauty queen

A few years back I went to my elementary school where I graduated my grade school years. My classmate was the principal, and at the time asked me to give a speech since I just get back from the States. He wanted me to encourag those kids. During those times I met up again with some of my other classmates and schoolmates during grade school. I’m happy that some of them were teachers there and others worked at some higher level in some other school district.

Sometimes me and my siblings were talking about our life in the province. It amazes us though. Even though we have no electricity there and life was just so simple there but still we managed to make our life a little better. Same with our other neighbors. Nowadays, our town already had the electricity and the means to go to the other town with jeepney or motorcycle. But I felt like the neighborhood is not as good when I was growing up. We, the older generations felt that the new generations didn’t really care enough now for the town. They just want to be lazy and have fun. I’m still hoping that my town will improve for the years to come.

Cheers!

A few weeks ago I saw a cooking show of Jaime Oliver cooking a pizza in just 30 minutes. Wow, that sounds great and quick too. As I was watching I told Bob we can do that. It was a simple recipe. Almost all of the ingredients were readily available here. The only ingredients I am having a hard time finding was the self rising flour. I went to every mall and baker’s shop here in Davao. Well it well worked with flour and the yeast anyway. For now I got a solution for my dough I have our bread machine to do all of that. I just slap all the ingredients in the bread machine and in no time I have my dough ready to go. Before rolling the dough turn your oven all the way and turn down the temperature a little before putting the pizza inside.

Jamie Oliver

When the dough was ready, just roll it with the rolling pin and make the shape that will fit in a frying pan. Drizzle a small amount of  olive oil in the pan, then put the pizza dough in the pan. Put pizza sauce (I use del monte pizza pre made sauce already, if you have sauce of your own you can use that)  on top of your dough, then put chunks of mozzarilla cheese, fresh basil leaves, anise seeds, salami, ham and grated parmesan cheese and drizzle a small amount of olive oil.  Turn on your stove in medium heat and put the pan with your pizza. Let it cook until the dough turn brown on the bottom, and put in the oven with the pan and cook more  until the cheese and the  crust turned brown. When the pizza were cooked already it  will shaped like the pan. The crust was so crunchy and yummy.

Pizza

The pizza really is a big hit in our household. The kids will not mind to have pizza 3-4 times a week. They love it. They also like to help out on putting the toppings too. With the kids pizza, basil was not included. They just don’t like the tastes of it. But with our pizza we like to put basil and anise seeds on top.  The one with the breakfast sausage, salami and ham really did taste very good.  I had to make few batches with our oven I will just put 2 pans inside. Really I can put more pan but the cooking  will take longer. Its a time consuming.

You can share your pizza recipe here. We will gladly try your recipe.

Have fun eating!