FILIPINO COMFORT FOOD FOR RAINY SEASONS

COMFORT FOODS for RAINY SEASONS

"A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."

Thomas Keller

I woke up from taking an afternoon nap and I notice the rain and the wet window of our house. I feel like happy when it rains. When raining, I really miss eating some Filipino comfort food like the way my mother cooks our family for afternoon merienda. It's so nice to wake up in the morning or from an afternoon nap, when there is a food that is in the table waiting for you to eat. 

I list some of the Filipino comfort food and how Filipino cooks it:

ARROZ CALDO

 

CHAMPORADO

GINATAANG BILO-BILO("Kenerel") with Langka("Jackfruit")

Big Jackfruit

DINUGUAN AT PUTO

SUMAN

CALASIAO: Yummy Puto Festival

TELL ME WHAT YOU EAT, AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

PUTO

In a province, its so nice to wake up early with your family. Taking Pinoy breakfast consists of puto, tsokolate or kapeng barako in a cold or rainy morning. Its an instant good vibes after Pinoy breakfast, isn't it? Nowadays, puto is already have a lots of color variety, it has a color of yellow, green, violet and the brown one which is PUTO KUTSINTA. 

PUTO Man

PUTO CALASIAO is one of the proof of how Filipinos love to eat rice. It is a native delicacy of Calasiao in Pangasinan. It is made of a long grain rice or glutinous rice(malagkit) soaked in water, feremented and ground for three days, added with sugar and steam for its perfection.

Philippine Flag made of PUTO

Yearly at the month of December from 26-28, in Calasiao Pangasinan is the celebration of PUTO FESTIVAL that the town major produces, the rice cakes(PUTO).  

BEST PUTO DESIGN is one of the highlights of PUTO FESTIVAL.

SIDE TRIP: Take or bring home some tasty and delicious variants of PUTO CALASIAO. The vendor strip is located is next to Parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul.  The plain puto is cost of Php 20 per 1/4 kilo while the puto with cheese is Php 25 per 1/4 kilo. 

Hometown Products of San Fabian

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul." 

- DOROTHY DAY 

San Fabian is a first class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. In Pangasinan, San Fabian is called as " BALEY NA SAN FABIAN" while in Ilocano they call it "Lii ti San Fabian". The town has 34 barangays all in all. 

Along the highway of San Fabian, you can see a lot of bundled of coconuts or copra tree as it was planted by the townpeople of San Fabian, Pangasinan. Those green colored big nuts or also known as coconuts is the proudly assets of people of San Fabian. 

TUBA (Coconut Vinegar)

If you are coming from Baguio or La Union, you will pass Barangay Tocok in San Fabian. The people in Barangay Tocok are the ones who made the tuba. There are many stores that is located at the highway of Barangay Tocok who is selling a lots of plastic bottled of tuba made by tuba wine maker. 

Tuba wine makers will cut the stem of the coconut tree where they attached. It is more better if the trees are with flowers and they will extracted the juice from those stems so that is the reason why everyone and even foreigner enjoys the TUBA in San Fabian. 

Those tuba in plastic bottles are sell in different size of the bottles. For small bottles of tuba, it is cost of Php 70-100 while those big bottles of tuba is Php 160-200 per bottles. 

Tuba is usually used for making kinilaw, sawsawan for lumpia, barbecue, singkamas or other that needs tuba vinegar. 

The tuba has many benefits for us. It can low on the glycemic index which tuba is a food appropriate for a person that  has a diabetes. as it lowers your glycemic index by only 35 on the scale. Tuba is also rich in minerals. The sap of the coconut vinegar or tuba contains phosphorous, potassium, iron, magnesium, sulfur, boron zinc, manganese and copper. And last it contains Amino acids 

TUPIG

TUPIG

Another one product of Barangay Tocok San Fabian, Pangasinan is no other than TUPIG, A native delicacy of San Fabian, Tupig is made of coconut meat that is shredded into thin coconut meats, glutinous rice, margarine, brown sugar, coconut milk and banana leaves. One piece of tupig is Php 3.00 only. 

DRIED FISH

You can see many dried fish stalls in the highway of Barangay Cayanga after you will pass by the Cayanga bridge. You can buy many dried fish like tuyo (proudly product of San Fabian), daing na bangus, tilapia, dried pusit or squid, dilis and a lot more of dried fish. 

DRIED FISH

DRIED FISH

DRIED FISH

This is how they make dried f

TUYO Makers

Tuyo!!! Good for breakfast, lunch of dinner with a cup of black coffee.,,,