Did you know that recent research suggests that chocolate was discovered 500 years earlier than it is commonly known (about 3000 years ago)? Archaeologists studied ruins of pots from Honduras and found a chemical linked with cacao plants. From the pot form, chocolate was said to be served on important occasions.
Related link http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/12/ancient.chocolate.ap/index.html
Plus! $25000 dessert and your choco dosage for Thanksgiving!
http://bakingbites.com/2007/11/25000-haute-chocolate/
http://bakingbites.com/2007/11/turkey-cake-with-chocolate-maple-glaze/
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Do Not Torture My Chicken!
Pinikpikang manok. I was reminded of the dish on a recent article by MarketManila and have heard about it previously on TV featured on some documentary. For those who are not familiar with the delicacy, see below description/procedure from edwink:
"A delicacy to the Igorot (local tribes men) the "pinikpikang manok" is prepared by hitting a live chicken with a small stick again and again until it dies. Then it is roasted over open fire, and it's feathers plucked by hand. Roasted until it turns a bit brown, they cook it in different ways "Tinola" boiled in soup with ginger or "Adobo" cooked in soy sauce. They say the pinikpikang manok is very tasty. I never tried it. Hehehe... ;) "
If this is the way it is prepared, then I do not want to eat pinikpikang manok (or baboy, baka, etc.) no matter how exotic and delicious they say it is particularly because of the distinct taste and blackened meat from beating. No to animal cruelty! It is hard itself to be a vegan, so I allow myself to eat some fish and meat. But to the extent of torturing these animals to death just to achieve a taste is going overboard already.
"A delicacy to the Igorot (local tribes men) the "pinikpikang manok" is prepared by hitting a live chicken with a small stick again and again until it dies. Then it is roasted over open fire, and it's feathers plucked by hand. Roasted until it turns a bit brown, they cook it in different ways "Tinola" boiled in soup with ginger or "Adobo" cooked in soy sauce. They say the pinikpikang manok is very tasty. I never tried it. Hehehe... ;) "
If this is the way it is prepared, then I do not want to eat pinikpikang manok (or baboy, baka, etc.) no matter how exotic and delicious they say it is particularly because of the distinct taste and blackened meat from beating. No to animal cruelty! It is hard itself to be a vegan, so I allow myself to eat some fish and meat. But to the extent of torturing these animals to death just to achieve a taste is going overboard already.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Of Cereals and Leftover Milk
I was eating cereal for dinner yesterday when I recall a habit of mine from way back.
During my younger days, I used to soak and bath my cereal with milk so that the taste would stay with the milk and I would end up eating the soft and mushy lump of cereal. The best part is drinking the milk afterwards-by then, it is flavored milk. I particularly like doing this when I am eating Coco Pops so that I will end up with chocolate milk (put lots of Coco Pops to get a darker chocolate milk). Yummy.
Certainly, that was when I was younger. Now, I enjoy my cereal just as it should be. Crispy and crunchy, with cold milk.
*By the way, I also have a weird habit with powdered milk. I would not fully dilute the milk with water. I just put as much milk on my glass and pour water (without mixing) and then glass up! I love spooning the milk which stays at the bottom of my glass.
Images from google.com and lindamoran.net
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