Another LP is at hand. this time, dealing with the notoriously atrocious veggies! The never-ending predicament of feeding them to kids is akin to the quest for the holy grail. But in some funny ways, God shows us a little glint of that holy grail in some of our common tasks.
This is one recipe
that came to me by accident. One of the very few accidents that my mom is
actually pleased with. :)
If I recall
correctly, this was during 'pamamanhikan' of my sister's hubby. I had to wake
up early to prepare the dishes to be served at lunch. My mom can't cook since
she had a mild stroke so it was up to myself and the rest of the family who
(pretended to) know how to cook to make some mayhem in the kitchen.
Well, as a standard
'specialty', there was fried chicken. What made it particularly special in this
kitchen was that it was breaded! (yeah, yeah… stop covering your mouths and
laugh out loud now) after what I think was about 200 parts of 2 whole chicken (sobrang
tinipid ano po?) deep fried, there was some left-over egg, cornstarch and some
of that breading mix.
Then I just
remembered some of the left-over kangkong leaves that didn't make it through
quality control (my mom. She's really good at bossing people around the
kitchen, demanding 3 dishes being cooked simultaneously in a 2-burner gas
stove). I got them from the kitchen table and started deep-frying kangkong in a
batter of fried chicken mix and eggs. Once finished with about a dozen or so, I
served them on the table, with some ketchup and mayo (I didn't exactly know
what dip would go nice with it).
My mom stared at the
dark, fried leaves. Took one, took a bite at the crispy crunchy kangkong and
asked, "where did you learn this?"
"ummm… on
TV?" just to avoid getting blamed for a probable disaster.
"they're quite
good. Maybe next time we cook sinigang, you could fry the extra leaves
again"
Sigh of relief!
Experiment number one a success!!! After that, the rest of the family started
jabbing at the little fritters on the table. Even my pamangkin enjoyed snacking
on the kangkong leaves! That was, to me, a great accomplishment. 1.)make food
out of 'waste'; 2.)cook something that my family ACTUALLY liked; and 3.)get my
niece to eat veggies!
Oh My Gulay indeed!
:)
Photos to follow. :D hopefully i could 'recreate' the actual recipe, hence, i should be cooking fried chicken soon. :P
