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FRESH PRODUCE -VEGETABLES available in ASIAN MARKET:

There are hundreds of fresh produce out there in the form of vegetables and I could only remember 47 of them.

Among this long list there are at least three veggies I don't eat such as Katuray, Saluyot and Alukbati.The three vegetables I mentioned are favorite veggies by the Ilocanos (people fron the Northern part of Luzon).

　

VEGETABLES: Vegetables known for human consumption.

Petchay(Bokchoy), Long beans, Eggplant, Squash, Squash flowers,String beans, Green beans, Green peas, Corn, Bittermelon, Radish, Carrots, Jincamas(Singkamas, Young corn or baby corn, young bamboo shoot, young coconut shoot, Beansprout, Breadfruit, Camias, Malunggay, Katuray, Patola (long squash) Sigarilyas, Peanuts, Upo, Moqua, Dikon, Longqua, Bataw, Patani, Sweet peas, Cassava young leaves, Camote leaves, Kangkong, Tomatoes, Young jackfruit, Banana heart, Saba, Mushrooms, Brocolli, Brocollini, Caulliflower, Alukbati, Saluyot, Okra, Celery, Cabbage, Taro leaves.

What Veggies not available in the Canadian supermarket? So many...such as:

Cassava leaves, Camote sweet potato leaves, Kangkong, Alukbati, Saluyot, Saba, Banana heart. Jackfruit, Breadfruit, Bamboo shoots, Malunggay, Sigarilyas, Moqua, Bataw, Patani, Camias, Katuray.

So, when somebody gave gabi, kangkong, or taro leaves or flowers from the squash plant I have to cook these veggies right away. Savor the flavor immediately so that it's fresh and when it's FRESH it must be very delicious. Di ba?

 fresh Squash flowers

Who would have thought that these yellow-orange flowers are edible?

They are handpicked fresh from the garden of my Sister Emmy and brother-in-law Romy.
Hah! Pang Emmy award daw! lol

 

 

 

This is how I cooked it with fresh Chinook salmon. The best method is cook or grill the salmon first on your grill bbq. Then let the coconut milk ( one can- 1 cup) boil on your pan, heating the coconut milk, stir it gently first  before you add the grilled salmon and the rest of the ingredients: flowers, jalapenos, salt, pepper, and sliced ginger. Cooking time: 40 minutes on medium heat. The coco milk not enough? Add another can of coconut milk that's been heated before to make it creamy and tasty. The Chinook is a variety or species of salmon that has a different taste (tambakol), color of skin, scale, and size and shape from among other salmon species. Other salmons have orange or peach salmon features and colors and this kind of fish -Chinook has white or cream colored, grey outside but white color inside. To tell you the truth the taste is simply irresistible "parang lasang tuna."

Tutuo nga!

 

 

Now I know why somebody said that the taste of tuna and salmon is just the same. It turned out he cooked and tasted the Chinook not the sockeye, coho, and pink. I don't know how many variety or species of salmon. Why don't you go to the Pier and find it out from the posters posted on the wall? Or you can google them on your computer. Nah, let me google it for you.

 

There are 6 known or popular SALMONS in Canada such as:

CHINOOK, SOCKEYE, COHO, CHUM, PINK, STEELHEAD

 

 

Visit: http://www.pacificangler.ca/bc for more info.

 

It will be SOCKEYE Fishing Season soon and so many fishermen and avid anglers are waiting for this event to happen and manifest along the waters of British Columbia. Sockeye is the world's prized fish because it's the most expensive salmon. 

 

Cook, Eat and Pray

Everyone's becoming a COOK in this time and age! What's goin' on? Every television show's on TV have a spot or extra space reserved for a special guest cook to cook something for them.

Cook and CHEF is different? Cook is the English term for Chef. Chef is just the "French" cook master of French cuisines.

What about Italian Chef? Italian chef is a cook knowledgeable in the preparation of Italian and French cuisines. Italian food is nothing without pasta and sauce.

French cuisines are known for its "small portion" of food delicately cooked and arranged to bring out sumptous delicious tantalizing food that will make you crave for another bite. It was specially arranged food like a small gift box with bow tie or scroll with a ribbon < that's the correct description for French cuisine.

Cook is somebody either male or female who can cook food.

In our home, it's our parents who cooked our food. Sometimes or most of the times it's our Mother who cooked our food. Usually and normally it's the MOTHER who goes to market to buy the raw food, prepares the raw food to be cooked and it's the Mother who cooks the food for breakfast, lunch and supper. The Father helps most of the time when the Mother is  doing other tasks at home. The Father took over the cooking at home when the Mother works at the office or some other employment outside the house. That's always been the case.

In other case or situation: Whoever has the knowledge and technique to cook and has better method cooking the best and delicious food then he or she is the official cook.

Is cooking easy? To the most knowledgeable cook,  cooking is just easy peasy nothing but real easy. However for those without knowledge or no experience in cooking it would be too hard and complicated and most of all too tiring and boring. It becomes a burden and stressful for those who lack the knowledge of cookery.

It is for this reason that there are too many TV Shows that teach those would- be cook to learn the technique. New concept are being admitted and absorbed by those who are mindful interested in cooking something new. Learning new concept and method is as good as learning Science. Cooking is like studying Science. It becomes an Art when you tend to add effort in "beautifying the food, adding colors and arrangement" of how food are served on the plate and on your table that's why it's called Culinary Arts. The Science of cooking is simply the result of how those ingredients are mixed and blend, cooked and digested by humans. The chemistry of all ingredients and its nutrients that affect your body's metabolism is therefore considered as Science. Whatever you consumed for body intake depends on your health and it will affect your health and which of course most of those food are beneficial for your health. I hope the chosen food you eat are good and benefit your health in a good way.

So okay keep on cooking! We all have to eat anyway!!

What Really Happened?

FIREWORKS in Campbell River for July 1st 2014? Oh my! Sorry! I don't have any photo of the fireworks. My family used to watch fireworks for the past four years before and then stop simply because my kids are no longer kids they are into their 20's. Going 20's! They can decide if they want to watch it or not.

The first fireworks that happened in Campbell River was recorded by me in the digital painting I painted and it's now the "theme of my blog format." I used it as a "background" for my blog to remind me of how spectacular the fireworks and what the secret message has been relayed through successive outburst of colors, arrangement, structural organizational account and what your eyes and mind can perceive. Do you need to have ESP?

Yesterday as if nothing happened for July 1, 2014 Canada Day celebration in Campbell River. I didn't get out from my house. I have my own kind of celebration with my family, with my three teens and husband who works even if its holiday. I don't think he's got a day-off.

Yesterday July 2, 2014 I was surprised at how clean the roads, every street and corners of the downtown area. It looks polished. The area is super clean as if its been vacuumed spotlessly clean and in order.  Wow! As if nothing happened last Tuesday. They didn't celebrate the 147th birthday of Canada? It's very strange. Uhm... I was amazed!

The only way to find out now what transpired and what happened on July 1st  in Campbell River Canada's birthday is through the local newspapers: Campbell River Mirror and  Courier Islander. Or ask your friends and neighbors who are volunteers and participants to the event.