Sugpo Saturday Experiment

I was able to get my hands on some fresh prawns last Saturday.

I dealt with them using a recipe I edited in my head on my way home. Jeep rides are good for this kind of mental activity.


1. Behead! Shell! Aaand Devein! cut a slit along the back, pick out the black vein thingmajig with a toothpick. Arrange in a shallow container, splash in some vodka, add pepper, smashed garlic cloves and pop in the ref while you

2. chop fistfuls of basil, parsley, cilantro (i imagine other green things would work here just as well, like dill or rosemary...), some garlic and slice some hot peppers (i used one green finger sili and two red birdseye..ahem, labuyo). I don't remember if I added some slivers of onion. mm.

3. Cut two sexy red tomatoes into rounds and arrange them in a deep-ish baking sheet. Put in the oven and turn on the broiler. You want to get them all wrinkly and juicy.

4. Melt lots of butter in a pan, add the garlic and stir around until they start getting a bit brown. pop in the shrimp heads and press 'em down. Fish them out after a while then add the herbs, turn off the heat. Mix.

5. Drain the prawns, reserving a bit of the vodka. Add this to the green sauce and toss lightly.

5. Arrange the lot over the lovely wrinkled tomatoes, shower with pepper and spinkle with a bit of salt then broil for a minute or two on each side. Don't overcook, duck, stringy seafood is the worst.

Serve as soon as possible, with slivers of lemon mixed throughout.

Mr. Mansi

Another of my food-related hobbies. I like toying with what I eat :D And now that I'm all grown up and living away from home, there's no Nanay or Tatay to tell me to stop. Mwahahahaha!

This is multi-tasking. She's soaking monggo for a bean-sprout dish and reviving some sitaw while I'm playing with a calamansi.


This is salvaged, shakespearean calamondin.

thwarted

to market, to market!

What we have here is a Tofuhead doing a little tumble among some squash flowers I bought. The flowers were going to be dipped in tempura batter and deep-fried, but sadly, I was too tired (wait..I didn't mean to rhyme back there!)

They served as table-decoration for an afternoon, and spent the week waiting for me, carefully wrapped in newspaper sheets, but by the time I got to them, they were too far gone.

I have a couple more shots from that morning, some taken by Tars, showing some other stuff that I bought. The place where I work is near Farmer's Market, so it's quite easy to drop by after a shift.





I have to tell you, it's so much fun, wandering around the market at 6, 7 am--- watching the people ready their wares, weighing produce, arranging the day's vegetables, fruits and other edibles. It takes some of the stress away, in my case. I've always loved going to the market, I think it's exciting. I had always accompanied my Nanay when she'd go to the palengke in BF, so this brings back nice memories (for me. I don't know if the stall owners appreciated my poking at their veggies, fruits, fish...meat.. hahaha)

That time I was able to get some fresh mushrooms, lettuce, several sexy tomatoes, a bouquet of squash flowers, large heads of garlic and onion, a bunch of gorgeous, juicy grapes, wansoy/cilantro ( I love, love cilantro!!), all for a little less than 200php. Cooking for two has its good points.





here's the tumbling tofu head again!



After being held hostage by the nearby Champion Grocery (which seems stuck in time, overpriced and besieged by cockroaches), you can imagine my excitement!

I sauteed the 'shrooms in butter and garlic, and made a salad. Tar made the soup. And took this shot :