Eat to Live, Live to Eat
In my tiny boardinghouse, there is a shared kitchen. Now, most people are familiar with my lack of cooking skills...they consist of sandwiches, spaghetti, heated soup, cereal, chocolate chip cookies, and an occasional stir fry. When it comes to cooking, I am basically a man. Oh well.
Luckily, I know one man who is a fabulous cook. Ghay used to work as a cook in Sea Slugs, and he often is in charge of cooking the lunch while on the tours. Therefore, I reap the rewards of heathly, cheap, and delicious meals.
Market day is Wednesday and Saturday, and though we often buy food in town at the local stores, it is a little cheaper to go to the Corong Corong market. I'm sorry to say I have no pictures of the market because the last 2 times it was raining fairly heavy...typhoon rains, you know. After perusing the goods for 3o minutes, this is what we carried home with us: 3 mangoes, 4 potatoes, once batch of water spinach, 3 bananas, 4 eggplant, 8 onions, 5 green bell peppers that actually look more like jalapeno peppers to me, 5 garlic clove thingies (whats a unit of garlic called??), and a dozen small tomatoes (See pic). Guess how much we paid for all of that? 310 pesos. That's about $7.00. Amazing, right? We also decided to splurge and buy a milk fish to make sinigang, for an exorbitant 92 pesos.
Sinigang is a soup which can be cooked with different meats, but we used the fish obviously. Other ingredients are onion, tomato, eggplant, a few leaves of water spinach, Sinigang powder soup mix for flavor that's a bit sour, our milk fish, and green bell pepper. Ghay was upset we forgot the radish, but it tasted wonderful to me! And of course, you serve the meal with a plate full of white
rice. Here's the finished product:
And what did I do, you wonder, while Ghay slaved away at cooking? Well, I was allowed to cut one onion, and one tomato, but I was told I was doing it wrong...sigh. Cutting is cutting, right? Apparently not. So, as soon as Ghay finished with each dish or utensil...I cleaned. Demoted to dishwasher!! Seems my Dad and I have another thing in common.
Luckily, I know one man who is a fabulous cook. Ghay used to work as a cook in Sea Slugs, and he often is in charge of cooking the lunch while on the tours. Therefore, I reap the rewards of heathly, cheap, and delicious meals.Market day is Wednesday and Saturday, and though we often buy food in town at the local stores, it is a little cheaper to go to the Corong Corong market. I'm sorry to say I have no pictures of the market because the last 2 times it was raining fairly heavy...typhoon rains, you know. After perusing the goods for 3o minutes, this is what we carried home with us: 3 mangoes, 4 potatoes, once batch of water spinach, 3 bananas, 4 eggplant, 8 onions, 5 green bell peppers that actually look more like jalapeno peppers to me, 5 garlic clove thingies (whats a unit of garlic called??), and a dozen small tomatoes (See pic). Guess how much we paid for all of that? 310 pesos. That's about $7.00. Amazing, right? We also decided to splurge and buy a milk fish to make sinigang, for an exorbitant 92 pesos.
Sinigang is a soup which can be cooked with different meats, but we used the fish obviously. Other ingredients are onion, tomato, eggplant, a few leaves of water spinach, Sinigang powder soup mix for flavor that's a bit sour, our milk fish, and green bell pepper. Ghay was upset we forgot the radish, but it tasted wonderful to me! And of course, you serve the meal with a plate full of white
rice. Here's the finished product:
And what did I do, you wonder, while Ghay slaved away at cooking? Well, I was allowed to cut one onion, and one tomato, but I was told I was doing it wrong...sigh. Cutting is cutting, right? Apparently not. So, as soon as Ghay finished with each dish or utensil...I cleaned. Demoted to dishwasher!! Seems my Dad and I have another thing in common.
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