Filipino cooking at its worst

For the three of you who still care, I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been so busy in school.. it’s the time of  year again where we gather pretty much everything we’ve learnt for the past 4 months and cram it all in a 36 page report and prepare for exams.  I’ve been stressing over it for the past couple of weeks if we’d finish on time, but yesterday at 7pm when the last piece of paper was printed and bounded was assurance that we’d make the deadline. You’d think after 12 years of primary education and high school we’d be good at this by now but really it just thought us to get used to stress.

Anywyas, apart from the school related stuff, I’ve been playing around in my kitchen trying to cook Filipino food or something that resembled it. I started off with Palitaw (rice cake patties covered in sugar and coconut shreds), which was kind of a success, I can’t say it’s my favourite Filipno snack but it was the easiest one I found online.

And yes, it come with pictures.. that’s a warning, not for viewing pleasure

Palitaw

And of course there were some rejects:

My next attempt was making Lumpia (Filipno version of spring rolls I think?). Since there was no Asia shop near by where I can buy the wraps I figured I could make it myself.  It couldn’t be that hard right?? I could never have been more wrong. It was hard! I could never get them thin enough without falling apart and most of the time they were too thick, that when I tried to fold them they kept on.. un-folding?

It looked nothing like my what my aunts used to make. But this is the closest I could get…

Then I moved on the Adobo, I’ve been trying to make adobo for the past couple of months but somehow I could never get it to taste like well.. good I’ve tried different version, with pineapple juice, without pineapple juice and yeah last nights adobo was probably the closest I got to something that resembles adobo the way I remember it to be.

I ended up with something looking like this:

For someone who could barely make sunny side up eggs without fucking them up, I believe I did good. I still have to work on my presentation skills though. I hope the pictures didn’t make you throw up or something.