Nicole is still staying here with me at the Garcia's because Ate Eena has just gotten better today I think. So that has been fun! But she wished she could have gone to her house which is understandable. I probably wouldn't have liked to be her. On Saturday evening we went to Calamba and we watched Transformers 2 in the movie theatre there! It was pretty fun. Kuya Fred (BA's dad) drove us home so that we didn't have to travel alone at night. On Sunday, we had church in the morning and then we went to Calamba CRC for their 20th anniversary celebration of their church. It was very fun! Great music and we had food too haha :) The things I will miss the most about the Philippines are the food and the people I have met. Not the traffic! But I do love public transportation here - jeepneys and tricycles.
So yeah Sunday after church we had Sunday school which we have every week. The college-aged kids are in one class. We get assignments sometimes and when I'm not going to be there, I have to give the assignment to my ate, Hapi. So that's what I have to do this week because I won't be at LBCRC next week Sunday. I will have to do my assignment tonight! After Sunday school, Nicole and I went to Ate Gladys's house for lunch and then we went to Calamba together. After the service, we went to the Bravo's and then we were bored so we decided to go to the main road and take the first jeep we saw. The first one was to San Pablo but that was too far...the second one was to Santa Cruz but that was even farther...so then the 3rd one was to UPLB in Los Banos so we went there! We got some food - I had isau which is chicken intestines. Nicole had it too. Eric and Karlynn had adidas which is chicken feet. We hung out at Freedom Park after that and took pictures under the fertility tree haha! Then we went home and ate some squid and chicken adobo and rice. I love rice! I also love chicken adobo and pork adobo...anything adobo actually, and Hapi taught me how to cook it.
This morning I got to talk to my family on the phone! The Garcia's got a landline and they get 30 minutes of free international calling as a promo so I got ten of them :) I made my family put me on speaker and I said "ok, everyone say hi to me" and as soon as they started I just burst into tears haha. I really miss my family!! I am very excited to be back home, but I am loving it here. It will be very sad to leave but I will be incredibly happy to see my fam again! This morning we had training at LBCRC for the peer educators that are coming with us to LB National high school next week Monday. We were supposed to go today to LBNHS but the classes were cancelled due to swine flu. So we had training until lunch time then went to IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) to a rice museum. After that we did some other stuff around LB and now I am home again. It is my last dinner with the Garcia's tonight! It's very sad. They are cooking up a storm. It smells delicious.
Oh yeah, I got a package from Aunt Jeanette today! It had swedish berries, fuzzy peaches, and sour watermelons in it and I've been sharing the candy. They don't have that kind of candy here! And there were ear plugs in the package which my family thought was just hilarious! I am used to the roosters now though :)
Anyways I'm not sure if I'll have internet in Bohol so yeah, maybe I'll post next week or something.
Hi Kelly,
ReplyDeleteanother excellent and informative post Kelly.
Godspeed to Bohol. I trust Phillipinos are excellent pilots!!
Love, Aunt Gina and Uncle Tim
Hi Kelly,
ReplyDeleteAnother simply wonderful post. You do seem to be "bursting into tears" a little too often for my liking though. kidding. I am curious as to who eats the normal parts of the chicken. I'm also nominating you for chef for our camping trip this summer...I'll be expecting some gourmet adobo, whatever that is.
Eagerly awaiting your next post,
Graham
In Filipino cuisine, adobo refers to a common and very popular cooking process indigenous to the Philippines.[1]
ReplyDeleteWhen Spanish colonizers first took administration over the Philippines in the late 1500s and early 1600s, they encountered an indigenous cooking process which involved stewing with vinegar, which they then referred to as "adobo," which is the Spanish word for seasoning or marinade. Dishes prepared in this manner eventually came to be known by this name, with the original term for the dish now lost to history.[1]
Thus, the adobo dish and cooking process in Filipino cuisine and the general description "adobo" in Spanish cuisine share similar characteristics, but in fact refer to different things with different cultural roots. While Philippine adobo can be considered adobo - a marinated dish - in the Spanish sense, the Philippine usage is much more specific. The dish is also strongly associated with large Filipino communities, notably in Hawai'i.
Typically, pork or chicken, or a combination of both, is slowly cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, crushed garlic, bay leaf, and black peppercorns, and often browned in the oven or pan-fried afterward to get the desirable crisped edges. This dish originates from the northern region of the Philippines, where dog was originally a prominent protein source for adobo-style dishes. It is commonly packed for Filipino mountaineers and travelers. Its relatively long shelf-life is due to one of its primary ingredients, vinegar, which inhibits the growth of bacteria.
The standard accompaniment to adobo is white rice or pancit noodles.
Outside the home-cooked dish, the essence of adobo has been developed commercially and adapted to other foods. A number of successful local Philippine snack products usually mark their items "adobo-flavored." This assortment includes, but is not limited to nuts, chips, noodle soups, and corn crackers.
wow, that was an overly informative comment.. i just skimmed, it was too much to take in. what i gather is that kelly has a new love for vinegar.
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