Hello Mommies, are you ready for the coming holiday season?  Are you preparing now your list? Gifts for your Inaanak, for your families and friends, and most specially the food that you are going to cook to celebrate Christmas and New Year.

Well, mommies here are some insights and a little advice from yours truly on what food are you going to prepare, not only on holiday season but also on daily meals.  As a full time mommy, I need to be creative and prepare different kinds of food that will give my kids and my hubby a delicious dish.

Luckily, there is now a fast, simple and flavorful solution when creating dishes.  Clara Ole is a pasta sauce brand known for its wide range of versatile pasta sauces.  Not only that, the brand is also credited for having a diversified yet innovative product concepts and other ready to use products to help aid homemakership up that delectably perfect and savory dish for the whole family.

Many say breakfast is the most important meal of the day but hey, it's often neglected because of everyone's breakneck-speed lifestyle. Want a quick fix in the morning? Whip up that batter for some scrumptious pancakes that everybody loves.  Team it up with Clara Ole Pancake syrups, the best syrup partner for your perfect pancakes.  Take your pick: Original, Maple, Cinnamon or Truly Fruity for those who want to tickle their taste buds; for those watching blood glucose levels, worry not with the sugar free version of the Clara Ole Maple Syrup. Chocoholics are also treated with two chocolate syrups they can enjoy to the hilt - the classic Choco and Choco-Nut Syrup.

I always make pancakes for my family, on breakfast, merienda and even baon for my eldest son.  Most of the time we make pancakes for merienda.  My kids love it very much specially with Clara Ole syrup.

With lunch, Clara Ole Original Barbeque Marinade is a great rescue for my menu. Actually, I have tried before with the original flavor and my husband love it!   Well, I love to cook very much!  With Clara Ole there are different flavors to choose from, Honey Mustard, Hickory and Spicy flavors that will surely play with your flavorful senses as it hits your palate.  Korean food lovers can also rejoice with Clara Ole Korean Barbeque Marinade, or bring back your glorious childhood memories with the Clara Ole line of flavorful Tapa and Tocino marinades.

My hubby loves pasta super to the max.  If I cook 1kilo of pasta, the 1/2 Kilo is just for him.  So I think Clara Ole classic pasta sauces is just right especially this coming holiday as they have plenty of variety to choose from, such as Italian style, Sweet Style, Three-Cheese, or Filipino Style.  This is great to liven up any meal.  Or, for a more sophisticated taste around the table, Clara Ole Chunky Tomato with Three-Cheese, Chunky Tomato with Basil, Cheesy Pesto, Kung Pao and Mushroom cam make every pasta dish even more sensational.

Well, maybe one of this days, I will try those different pasta sauces for my family and let them taste these different flavors and perhaps this will be likely will be my best  menu on Christmas and New Year's eve.


Last week end, I cooked Chicken and Pork Afritada and of course I tried the Clara Ole Tomato Sauce to make the sauce much tastier.  Well, that was my first time to use that Tomato Sauce and presto my kids and my hubby love it!  There is a taste of real tomato, this is really different on the usual tomato sauce that I use.  My dish turned out to be deliciously cooked and my kids commended me for it, "Mommy ang sarap naman ng luto mo" (Mommy your dish is tasty).  Hearing those words from my eldest son inspires me to cook more for them.


Another dish that my husband like is the vegetable salad, with this, Clara Ole Dips n' Dressings are perfect for those fresh and crunchy greens as part of daily healthy food fare, it includes the Thousand Island, Honey Mustard, Ranch and Asian. However, your favorite chips or appetizers and other all time much loved regular dishes like Buffalo Wings, Fish & Chips, Nuggets, Samosa, Calamari, Camaron Regusado can go perfectly well with these products so you can enjoy them to your heart's content.


But wait, there's more! Spice up our breads' flavor with the appetizing range of quality Jams and Jellies from Clara Ole that are perfect for any and all bread recipes. I like most is the Pineapple Jam, perfect match for me but my kids and my hubby love the Strawberry Jam specially once they used the sandwich maker, as the bread hot the flavor of jam makes it even more delicious that my family can finish one to two loaves of bread.




Lastly, to make the rice more flavorful there's this Ora Mix Mo with a variety of flavor to choose from.  I already used the adobo and the Java.  This is something to add some more zing to my daily serving of fried rice that turns ordinary rice to an extraordinary companion for my mouth-watering dish.

Want to know more about Clara Ole value offerings, visit www.claraole.com or like www.facebook.com/myclaraole or connect via Instagram @claraolephand share your unforgettable cooking encounters and dining experiences using Clara Ole products. You can even catch exciting Clara Ole webisodes called "Pot Sessions: A Cook Without A Book" adventure series via the facebook app: https://facebook.com/myclaraole/app_566691691690034303

So, mommies are you ready for the holiday celebration?  Better start using Clara Ole products for a more delightful dishes for your family.

Marvin Agustin’s journey to what he is today—a successful chef and restaurateur—is so inspiring that it became the cornerstone of his latest endorsement for Knorr Cubes.

Marvin recently signed on to become the new brand ambassador for Knorr Cubes, the favorite partner of people like him who are passionate about food and cooking. As such, he is also the new face behind Knorr Cubes’ “Door to door Sabaw Challenge” in which he will be visiting different cities all over the Philippines, challenging cooks to identify which is the better, more ma-karne and better-tasting sabaw: the one made with Knorr Cubes, or not?

During the challenge, Marvin will present two versions of sabaw, one made with granules and the other, made with Knorr cubes. Marvin believes so much in the product’s claims to deliver the meatiest taste and flavor that he throws in a promise to give up cooking if they end up choosing the sabaw that’s not made of Knorr cubes—and everyone knows how passionate Marvin is about cooking, so for him to promise that is a big deal.

Among the locations Marvin will visit are Laguna, Iloilo, and Metro Manila. There will be a series of 30-seconder commercials featuring Marvin engaging cooks and housewives to take part in the challenge.


“That’s really what it’s about: Marvin being confident about the product so much that he’s willing to give up his passion for cooking just to prove a point, which is that Knorr cubes is the meatiest out of all the cooking aids in the Philippines,” says Monica Rios, brand manager of Knorr for Unilever Philippines, which is spearheading the Door-to-door challenge.

Marvin grew up in a household where cooking was a passion. Their apartment was small, and from the living room, one could sit and smell what was being cooked in the kitchen.

His mother loved to cook Filipino dishes. “Mahilig kami sa sabaw. Mahilig kami sa sinigang, mahilig kami sa nilaga. Every meal, kailangan laging may sabaw. Sabaw at kanin,” recalls Marvin. “At we really used Knorr cubes. Kahit pinakbet, nilalagyan ng Knorr shrimp na cubes.”

As a teenager, Marvin worked as a waiter, and later, became a mascot for a popular fastfood chain. From there, he worked his way up, became a popular actor and re-invented himself into a successful businessman with a chain of restaurants that includes Sumo Sam, Oyster Boy, Marciano’s, Komrad, John and Yoko and Mr. Kurosawa.

This is what inspired Unilever to choose him to be the latest endorser of Knorr Cubes.

Says Rios: “It’s a nice success story to hear, that he started out as a waiter, and even worked as a mascot for a while. He has proven that he can rise above all the challenges in life. Now he’s a chef and a restaurateur. It’s very inspiring, the way he was able to achieve everything…maypassion siya, and he just really went for it. So it’s a nice feeling for him to be endorsing the product.”

Marvin feels honored to be chosen to join Knorr’s family of chefs. “When I first learned about it (endorsement), sabi ko, everyone knows that I really love cooking. I love cooking for my friends and my family, and Knorr cubes is really what we use for soup. So napakasaya at family-orientedang pino-promote namin na brand.”

Get the latest updates from Marvin himself! Like Marvin Agustin on Facebook or follow him @marvin_agustin on Twitter.

Knorr Philippines