The Lunch!
So for my next entry, I decided to post the lunch. But because my cam kinda ran out of juice during this time, I ended up with only 1 usable picture thus will keep this entry short and sweet.
Ok since I only have one picture of our lunch, I decided to post the picture really big to show off the awesome food that we had.
For our main course we had breaded pork chops and Soured Milk Fish.
The breaded pork chops were juicy and tender. With every bite promising a healthy helping of oily, artery clogging, goodness. Despite every known fact that this will inevitably contribute to an impending illness somewhere in the near future, it was just too good to pass from. (Needless to say I had 4-5 pieces.) They were not marinated. They just had a quick dip in soy sauce and calamansi with a thin coat of flour right before they entered the pot.. The pork chops ended up being juicy and the wondrous rapture of flavors I never knew pork had, before entering my mouth. Cooked over a wood burning, or was it charcoal, pot in oil, they were tender enough that one never needed to look for a knife. (I didn't use one anyway nor did I use any utensils, except for the spoon for the soup. But I ended up slopping up the soup from the tiny bowls!) Clearly, the amount of time to cook the pork was taken into consideration so as not use a large flame to slowly cook the pork.
As for the soured milkfish, (aka Sinigang Bangus) the soup was just sour enough using real tamarinds (thanks to timmy for this) and avoiding the powdered version to really bring out the flavors of the tamarind and fish. The fish was also boiled in the soup for just the right amount of time so as the meat was literally just falling off the bones upon dissection with my spoon and fork but still maintain enough structural integrity for it not to melt in the soup and become mush. For my personal taste, I love soured anything really sour. (One of the reasons I rarely eat other people's Sinigang because I find them not sour enough and just completely miss the point of cooking such a dish.) Again, the fish used was boneless so it was happy eating all the way through.
We had bananas and the fruit salad from the other meal (see earlier post). The bananas were a bit hard but sweet nonetheless.
Another thing different with this meal was the special shake that Tita Chit provided. It was a papaya shake. The papaya shake was blended. But something different from regular shakes that I have tasted. The shake or juice didn't have sugar, didn't have crushed ice, and didn't have milk. The consistency of the drink was thick with small chunks of papaya. The drink was cold (but not cold enough for my taste) and sweet. (Not sweet like sugary sweet, but rather sweet like fruit sweet) It was again fresh papaya literally picked from the backyard a few minutes before lunch was served.
This was truly something different. What an experience. (I have the extra pounds and inches to prove it!) Something definitely worth doing again. The pork was just terrific and sourness of the soured milk fish was in my taste perfect. (it was really sour.) The papaya shake was unique and the over-all experience was just great.
And of course, what comes better with a good, yummy meal would be great conversation. Couldn't ask for anything more, good food, good times. Maybe even in life that's the key, find a group of people you'd feel comfortable with. Have good food, good conversation, and good times.
Simple. Fun. Fantastic.
Good times!
Cheers & Happy Eating!
Ok since I only have one picture of our lunch, I decided to post the picture really big to show off the awesome food that we had.
For our main course we had breaded pork chops and Soured Milk Fish.
The breaded pork chops were juicy and tender. With every bite promising a healthy helping of oily, artery clogging, goodness. Despite every known fact that this will inevitably contribute to an impending illness somewhere in the near future, it was just too good to pass from. (Needless to say I had 4-5 pieces.) They were not marinated. They just had a quick dip in soy sauce and calamansi with a thin coat of flour right before they entered the pot.. The pork chops ended up being juicy and the wondrous rapture of flavors I never knew pork had, before entering my mouth. Cooked over a wood burning, or was it charcoal, pot in oil, they were tender enough that one never needed to look for a knife. (I didn't use one anyway nor did I use any utensils, except for the spoon for the soup. But I ended up slopping up the soup from the tiny bowls!) Clearly, the amount of time to cook the pork was taken into consideration so as not use a large flame to slowly cook the pork.
As for the soured milkfish, (aka Sinigang Bangus) the soup was just sour enough using real tamarinds (thanks to timmy for this) and avoiding the powdered version to really bring out the flavors of the tamarind and fish. The fish was also boiled in the soup for just the right amount of time so as the meat was literally just falling off the bones upon dissection with my spoon and fork but still maintain enough structural integrity for it not to melt in the soup and become mush. For my personal taste, I love soured anything really sour. (One of the reasons I rarely eat other people's Sinigang because I find them not sour enough and just completely miss the point of cooking such a dish.) Again, the fish used was boneless so it was happy eating all the way through.
We had bananas and the fruit salad from the other meal (see earlier post). The bananas were a bit hard but sweet nonetheless.
Another thing different with this meal was the special shake that Tita Chit provided. It was a papaya shake. The papaya shake was blended. But something different from regular shakes that I have tasted. The shake or juice didn't have sugar, didn't have crushed ice, and didn't have milk. The consistency of the drink was thick with small chunks of papaya. The drink was cold (but not cold enough for my taste) and sweet. (Not sweet like sugary sweet, but rather sweet like fruit sweet) It was again fresh papaya literally picked from the backyard a few minutes before lunch was served.
This was truly something different. What an experience. (I have the extra pounds and inches to prove it!) Something definitely worth doing again. The pork was just terrific and sourness of the soured milk fish was in my taste perfect. (it was really sour.) The papaya shake was unique and the over-all experience was just great.
And of course, what comes better with a good, yummy meal would be great conversation. Couldn't ask for anything more, good food, good times. Maybe even in life that's the key, find a group of people you'd feel comfortable with. Have good food, good conversation, and good times.
Simple. Fun. Fantastic.
Good times!
Cheers & Happy Eating!