I am a full time Mom! And that's the reason why I need to prepare meals for my family. I have 2 kids, one who is in grade 5 and the other one is in grade l. The sacrifices that we, moms, need to endure is one waking up early in the morning to prepare breakfast for my love ones. Yes, it's a breakfast for my kids and for my hubby. My hubby to his office and my kids to school. The good thing about this is that I only do this Mondays to Fridays.
One of my friend encouraged me to participate in a sort of competition, a cooking contest. I am a shy type of person and I have never joined any live cooking competition. But at the back.of my mind I want to join because I want to overcome this shyness. So in other words, I was able to convince myself and took on the challenge.

As what I whisper to myself... well, this is it! I was about to face one of my greatest fear - being in highlight with lots of people watching me. And what adds up to my nervousness is that this is a live cooking competition. I love to cook and I enjoyed preparing for my family but this time I need to convince the judges. I'm not a fancy cooker type who is comfortable cooking for the big crowd and I only cook for small occasions like my family's momentous events.
The day has come! My chilling factors doubled and though it was held in a mall in Taguig still there are mall goers who would often look at you and sometimes even look around to see the challengers.
Since it is nutrition month, my prepared dish was simple enough to hopefully capture the taste buds of the judges. I cooked the dish inspired by my kids which I called "Angie's Burger". A burger patty with malunggay leaves, my kids really loved it. I just mixed ground beef and other spices and added malunggay leaves to make it more nutritious. We all know the benefits we could get from Malunggay, that's why I am so happy that my kids really love it.
The battle begin, my competitors are also Mommy  Bloggers, Jing Javier and Lariza Garcia. I know that they are very competitive and they've already join some other cooking competition unlike me who is a newbie. But we're good friends and we just joined to make it more fun and enjoying. Though there were some difficulties happened at the venue, we still manage to pursue competition and gladly that vista mall got some alternatives, some back up plans on things like this. This gave mall goers a little something to watch and enjoy.
Well in every competition, there's a winner and a looser. Jing Javier a very good friend of mine, won the competition, unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to taste her masterpiece, her  creamy heaven. 2nd is Lariza Garcia, I forgot the name of her dish, and me as 3rd, the "Angie's Burger".
Not bad for me, this is the 1st time I joined the competition. There were so many learnings and experiences. I am thankful for it. Thank you so much Vista Mall for the great experience at the "Savor The Flavor" event.

Vista Mall Taguig, the only upscale mall located outside of Bonifacio Global City, houses well-known outlets, restaurants, coffee shops, as well as , world-class cinemas. Located closer to the majority of Taguig.
Vista Mall is located at Bagong Kalsada, Tuktukan, Taguig. You can visit their facebook account at www.facebook.com/vista-mall-taguig or log on to www.starmalls.com.ph , you can call them at 531 8126.