Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Some Like It Hot and Spicy

My husband was about to fix the fence at the backyard ruined by the great storm and continuous idiotic rain for weeks and weeks as if there's no more tomorrow of sunshine that loosened the ground and becomes soggy and muddy. Then suddenly the sun shines so he took his carpentry tools at the backyard to build the fence again. The next day, the plan to keep the foundation sturdy and strong by putting cement or concrete foundation on every post (which supposedly need double foundation of concrete cement). Actually the fence had concrete cement when it was built 2 years ago however, you know how strong the wind during the storm here is unimaginable so what kind of fence to build here, should be fence or wall of concrete hollow blocks with steel not wooden fence. It's really up to the property manager or owner to decide, we are just renting the house, remember? 

I'm getting hungry just by telling you such story.

For a change, I cooked my specialty; a yummy exotic viand for lunch is absolutely amazing. How about "laing?" It's a viand made or cooked from dry taro (gabi) leaves sliced to small pieces simmered with desired meat (pork) and seafood (shrimps, scallops, dry salted fish, any kind of fish as long as its dried). At least two cans of coconut milk is used to simmer the laing properly until it is cooked. Don't forget to add dash of salt and black pepper plus ginger, and hot green chili peppers.

Use an iron wok to cook this special viand. Watch this viand while you cook it because you don't like the ingredients sticking on the pan and you don't like it getting burn.



Laing is a viand, specialized by the people of the Bicol region and Quezon province and I can cook it better! Ha ha! j/k

Enjoy the spice and have an icy cold refreshing coca-cola drinks at your side.