Learning to Cook and Other Things

For lunch and dinner I shall cook sinigang. I got 1/2 kilo of pork and 2 bunches of kangkong. I still have tomatoes and onions, ginger and sinigang mix. If at all possible, best pang-asim are real tamarind fruits. But heck! This is the fast food generation. After boiling I remove all the accumulated scum of the meat, including the skin and some of its fat. I prefer to slice my pork at home after it's boiled. This is just my style, no particular reason really. It's almost always adobo cut for most of my pork dishes. What I also do is put in the veggies just before eating. That way they stay crisp. If lunch is served at 1:00, the veggies will join the pre-prepared pork dish at 12:55. Sinigang -the easiest ulam to prepare. Sarap! Cheers!

We had some leftover wine rose ' just lying around waiting to be dropped into the trash but I decided to open the bottle. I could smell that it can still be useful. what's left remains usable. Cooking for my son who worked the graveyard shift pose an enormous challenge because temporarily, there isn't much to spend for food. Sigh! My strategy is to use what's available in the ref. Today, I have some 125 gms of ground pork, 2 pcs of carrots, ginger, garlic and onions . I added just enough: ground black pepper, muscovado sugar, salt and yes my leftover wine. There's also some 20 pcs of springroll wrappers. I just sauteed the pork with the wine, added everything until its cooked, and then seasoned. I allowed the mixture to cool then went on to wrap in small portions. The mixture yielded 15 pcs of springrolls. So guess what? Another invention from the cookingnewbie - the ibanag cook... Cheers

Produced by California based Ernest and Julio Gallo, wine rose is refreshing and sweet and easy to drink. Perhaps a great add-on to spring roll mixture. Cheers!

To decrease body acidity eat more alkaline food. apple cider vinegar bee pollen lecithin granules probiotic cultures green juices vegetable juices fresh fruit juices unpasteurized organic milk mineral water green tea herbal tea dandelion tea ginseng tea brown rice honey maple syrup molasses fresh coconut Include these in your eats. Cheers!

almonds chestnuts cottage cheese chicken breast eggs fermented tofu flax seeds nuts pumpkin seeds squash seeds sunflower seeds sprouted seeds yogurt More of these please. Cheers!

Garlic Asparagus Fermented Veggies like Kimchi from Korea Watercress Beets Broccoli Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chlorella Cucumber Eggplant Kale Lettuce Mushrooms Mustard Greens Edible Flowers like Rose petals and buds Onions Okra Peas Peppers Pumpkin Rutabaga Seaweeds Spirulina Sprouts Squashes Turnips Zucchini Cheers!

cinnamon curry ginger mustard chili pepper sea salt miso all herbs Cheers!