Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Reminiscing the Food

JERUK DAUN BAWANG


Both of my grandparents passed away few years back but it seems like they have gone only yesterday. Both of them used to prepare food that they used to eat when they were younger and I had that opportunity to experienced how does those days food taste like. The basic of everything in everyday meal. I wouldn't say all of it were awesome; some of the dishes we even called it "scary food". :).

For a starter, my favorite 'daun bawang jeruk'. I think this is a local spring onion salad kind of thing and not a pickle. It also have a tangy kind of smell. A type of spring onion grows locally around cool climate such as in Togudon along Jalan Tambunan and Kundasang. I can easily get this in any tamu ground and I usually get this in Tamu Donggongon.

To prepare the daun bawang jeruk, cut the spring onion in to an inch length. Take only the green ones and not the brown greenish colour. After cutting and getting rid of the spoiled ones, soak to wash with tap water and rinse it. Make sure you dry it until there is no water left (if its possible). Place the spring onion in to a mixing bawl and squeeze some lime juice on it. Add a bit of salt to taste, chili padi and mix it all. Wallah! its ready to serve. Its best serve with hot rice and salted fish. Now i'm drooling.

Well, I definitely will share the ingredients with all of you and feel free to try! 

Ingredients : spring onion (daun bawang), lime (limau nipis/ kolopis), hot chili (cili padi), salt.



daun bawang jeruk or I called this spring onion salad.




Thursday, July 12, 2012

River Monster

I was actually inspired by Jeremy Wade on this posting. I do like watching anything on discovery channel as it is educational for me. One of my brother's past time activities is going to the river to fish by using a traditional fishing gun. I 'm not so sure about the law part of this gadget but as far as I know,it is still used by villagers here today. Some where in February this year, he actually caught a gigantic river eel! We call it Sinsilog. 

 It was late at night, probably around half passed ten and I could hear dogs barking from far untill at certain time it was our dog's turn to barked at something right infront of our door step. I was curious, of course I heard my brother and his friends talking to each other  and when I open the door, there was that eel which I've never seen as big as this in my whole life.  

Michael standing next to the river monster 
       




comparison, boy, old dog & eel
     




Michael & Zoe in action not to miss this one in a life time opportunity 

After admiring the eel for a while, they started cutting it and dividing it to three portions as three of them actually when for this fishing adventure earlier on. I am amazed at their skills of catching this monster as I heard them talking about how they struggled not to let this monster go. It was not an easy fight for them as they are only using the traditional fish gun and their bare hands to tackled this monster at that moment. Not to forget that it was actually caught at night!


I was excited and still in shocked with the size of this river monster and the first thing came up in to my mind is "where is my camera?". I rushed to my room to get it and wallah! here are some pictures to share with all of you. What happened to this eel, hmm, I can assure you that it end up in a good course. Aramaitii! :)



Hello 2012..

Hi all, its been soooo long since i last posted something on this blog. well I know this is already half of the year gone but I am determine to write something interesting on food and anything related to it. I have gathered some material and hope to blog about it soon. :)