Fiipino Food Overdose
I am trying really hard not to talk about Spring rolls the way a decent website talks about Spring rolls. But for once, I will try to act like a clickety-clacking typewriter void of a bell when it comes to the rightmost part of the page. If you’re a bit confused, then you were born after the year 2000 when typewriters cried dry tears after their ribbons were left to dehydrate. In the end, what’s left of them is their space bars…. which actually amounts to nothing (but a lot of spaces).
Let’s do it Plain Jane!
Spring rolls originated …
Your brain eats as well. Let us feed your mind. This category also comes with ear-dumbbells for cranial strength.
great for dormers, single dads, moms that don’t know how to cook and those who would most likely cook soup in a rice cooker.
So what else did I do before myfilipinokitchen jumped to its premature death around the middle of 2011?
I talked about sex.
Press play father.
It all started with the question, “Do Aphrodisiacs in the Philippines really work?” And then thoughts about procreation erected from there. Apart from everyone’s knowing, I even wrote to Doctor Holmes (A Filipino sexpert) to answer this for us but to no avail she’s busy helping couples who have problems while on a washing machine.
After that, it built up the discussion to Filipino Street Foods (as many consider innards …
What have I learned while I was away?
I learned how to make fresh Lumpia wrappers.
I learned that wrapping a fried Lumpia thinly will make it explode when you fry it.
I learned how to cook 2 dishes out of making chicken broth.
I learned that the South Eeast Asian version of fried chicken doesn’t involve any crumbing. Case in point, Max’s Fried Chicken.
I learned that using real saffron in Arroz con Caldo boosts the flavor exponentially.
I learned how authentic it is to eat green mangoes unpeeled.
I learned how to liquify bagoong. And to …
Isaw. That’s what we call them. I-saw. The first syllable is pronounced as E and the second one is pronounced as if you are saying Tao -more like saying E-sao. But that’s when you are in the northern parts of the Philippines. Both in the central and south, they are called either inihaw or inasal.
Before I go on with trivial things (Which is for you my dear regular readers who do not usually comment! I know you’re existing, you just have muted hands.) let’s accomodate our new readers by getting …
A month ago, @Limer35 and @Filipeanut, Filipino foodies from California, sent me a tweet asking me what do I think of adding Betamax to Adobo. To clarify, it’s not that dino-age system that your grandparents use to watch a movie. Betamax is a slang for coagulated blood cubes or cakes as it resembles the tape that you load in your Betamax system to watch movies like Total Recall, Top Gun, Pretty Woman or that Nora Aunor movie that’s famous for the line – “My brother is not a pig”. Well right after they got my attention …
Next week we will be talking about Modern Filipino Cooking and we will discuss recipes that have been created decades after the 2nd World War. This week, I will be giving you a glimpse of what we will be taking about not only next week but also for the next month.
In this segment, which I am thinking of doing on a regular basis, I will let you guess what are the secret ingredients to this Filipino Food. And what Filipino recipe is it. Let’s begin shall we?
So have you guessed what …
