Food!

Growing up in Calbiga, Samar means eating lumo (waray version of beef stew) for breakfast on Sundays, eating presko (bread – baked and sold fresh out of the oven by a local), being home before 6pm for The Angelus, sleeping by 8pm, swimming in the river (for me – I had to snuck out to do that), going to the farm; climbing guava trees and eating silot (fresh buko). Me, reminiscing my childhood, usually happens at times like these – rainy Saturday afternoons; when I had already exhausted myself from watching too much tv series and having an epiphany about what to write…

Well, on this particular rainy Saturday afternoon, I’m thinking about Calbiga and the smells of food in our kitchen. I miss eating Mama’s Caldereta, Lumo, Nilaga and having Presko for breakfast… haaayy… signs of homesickness.

And because I wanted to eat something today that would remind me of home (I blame it on the weather!), I rummaged our fridge and found pork…debated between Adobo and Nilaga but decided to cook Cholitas (w/o the sauce). Friends from work actually go gaga over this – fried marinated pork…

Here’s how it’s done:
pork kasim or pork belly (cut into bite sizes – similar to menudo cut)
soy sauce
garlic
ground pepper
flour or cornstarch

Just combine all ingredients like what’s on this picture. I don’t do measurements, for a kilo of pork I use those soy sauce in pouches (1 and a half pouch), garlic depends on how you love eating them 🙂

Once ingredients are all combined it will look like this:

fry with just enough oil and I have my homesick food ready to eat… I place paper towels on the plate to absorb excess oil…

and I eat that with these:

hey..times like these I’m not caring about calories! 😛