Birthday
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A birthday is the date on which a person is born, marking the day a life outside the womb begins. It is customary in many cultures to celebrate the anniversary of one's birthday, for example by having a birthday party with family and/or friends. Gifts are often given to the person celebrating the birthday. It is also customary to treat people specially on their birthday, either generally acceding to their wishes, or subjecting them to a rite of transition.***************************************************************************************
So we did celebrate my honey's birthday! And yes, all that mental planning worked out fine - not perfectly but good enough!
My plan was to cook a real homemade, feel good pancit canton. You know the kind your dad brings coming home from work late at night? (for those of you who don't know what I’m talking about, forgive me but one can only describe the savor of food in limited words) So, I had all the ingredients I always wanted in my pancit canton but aren't all there when you buy it from turo-turo. I had the usual chicken, shrimp, & veggies. Then my hungry imagination brought me back in manila from a long time ago. I added strips of beef liver, slices of fish ball and pieces of crispy chicharon. With so many ingredients, I miscalculated my noodles or shall I say I miscalculated the soup I cook the noodles into. I don't measure when I cook bytheway. My noodles drowned albeit it looked so over cooked. Nevertheless, I still managed to present it decent enough. I topped it with green onions and slices of lemon (kalamansi could have been perfect).
I also planned on dinuguan complete with puto. But as I was surfing the net that morning, I saw a picture of tokwa't baboy. Thus I dreamt of it right there. Suffice it to say, when I went food shopping later, I had all the ingredients for both dinuguan and tokwa't baboy. Hey, they have almost the same meat ingredients anyway. Except for the tofu and the pork blood. So, I prepared the meat and still didn't decide on which one to choose. Lo and behold, my laziness dawned and me, dinuguan won just because I wasn't in the mood to fry the tofu anymore.
For appetizer, I had the salmon poke (Hawaiian term). I wanted to blend in wasabi but I also forgot that during shopping. However, I have different kinds of spicy stuff i.e. red pepper paste, chili sauce, tabasco, red pepper flakes, etc. I mixed small amounts of them all to sesame oil & seed, soy sauce, honey and slices of shallots. Slices of fresh salmon enjoyed that marinade in the fridge while I cook the rest of my menu.
Just in time before my honey came home, Enad and Janice drove to the store to buy balloons for their Papa and hid them somewhere in the house. So the celebrant came home and saw right away that I was busy cooking and didn't take him that long to realize all the commotion was for him. He went back out to get some coronas. He came back smiling, happy to find san miguel at last in VA!
We didn't buy him a cake since Janice wants me to bake a brownie instead. I baked that the last minute but just in time for a nice, warm dessert.
My brother and family came. We had dinner, drank beer, chatted, enjoyed their baby Erica, drank beer, kids shared balloons, watched some videos, drank beer, had brownies, drank beer then it’s time for my brother and family to go. But first, I have to make a "to go" for them.
And I still end up with so much food. I opened the fridge only see that I really don't have that much space. There's still so much left over from past dinners. Bytheway, I love leftovers since I don't really enjoy eating them right after I cook them. Oh well, for whatever and however, I made them fit inside the fridge!
The next day, Sunday, his real birthday we went to church. We usually go out for brunch after church but not this time since I teach Sunday school which Janice also attends to. So Janice and I had late lunch and late siesta. I got up around 5pm and it was time for dinner AGAIN! I promised to take him out to Outback so we went! We're not even done with the appetizer yet and we feel so full already. Yah, yah this food story is getting to be boring! We came home with more leftovers to stuff dear fridge of ours.
So you know what's next with this blah-blah... leftovers for the rest of this week!
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