no banzai!

so we finally tucked into the porkchops i left to sleep in a bed of yogurt. and finally figured out the cuisine reference —greek or mediterranean. so it would have been opaaaaahhh porkchops except it was suprisingly subtle. so subtle that you can't even hear the t na! cholo even put A1 sauce!

i was worried that it would be a barrage of flavors when i tasted the marinade yesterday, the garlic was really sharp and loud. i guess the baking did something to the garlic and even the chili oil! kuya said it was the slight aftertaste that told you there was garlic. and it was so pale.

so am thinking that i should have grilled it, made me htink of something i heard on a jaime oliver rerun—if you've been using the oven for meat for so long, anything on the grille is so much more flavorful.

The next time we try this recipe, we'll whip out the charcoal.

outta hiatus

golly, it's been almost seven months, and that definitely doesn't mean that we haven't been eating. we just haven't been eating out, much!

cholo will have to post about his mushroom pasta soon!

and today, i'm trying out a banzai yogurt marinade that's been cribbed off this more because the yogurt is about to go viral*.

but am giddy with the fact that i used whatever was available in the cupboards so that's thyme, rosemary, an upended dijon mustard bottle (looked like a wino if you ask me.)

[yes, there will be more anthropomorphic food popping up, am not an emotional eater for nothing.)

and of course, a generous contribution from the graceful-necked olive oil+chili+cardamom concoction by ferran adria and borges.

yes, they deserve a picture!

i love how that seems like a chef and writer have gone into the business of making love potions.

but just a shoutout to HAI in SM Marikina. Though their service is a ragtag pack of shouting (No! Not that table! Table 4!) and chipped bowls—okay, one chipped bowl—their dimsum is great.

[was trying for an awesome dimsum rhyme, but as you can see, no ninja happening there.)

have pictures of just how jampacked their siomai and siopaos are, but i can't find my card reader. just think fat and meaty, like a hotdog but you know, not.

[edit! here are the pictures! it's from my phone, so really grainy.]




so for a quick and malaman dimsum fix, Hai is good.

we be back soon. will report back on my banzai porkchops.

otherwise, fatchick out.

*panic brought upon by the memories of the strawberry yogurt tin that evolved sentience and led a mutated mutiny in the fridge. zombie fruitcake, renegade fruits and the like.
we all have our battle scars.