Manok Tim & a Giveaway!

Nicely howdy.

Okay, I’m not going to enter how lengthy it has been since I’ve been right here. Or why it was that I’ve been away for therefore lengthy. Or about life and residing and time and busyness and work and household and “the universe”.

You have got lives…so I believe you understand the drill. And I received’t waste each our instances in trying again. Solely simply to say that nothing horrible has occurred, we’re crusing as easily ahead as we are able to handle, and actually, some thrilling issues have been, and are, occurring. However I suppose the extra vital factor, for this little area anyway, is that I’m right here now.

(and hopefully, you’re too)

And I’m right here, as all the time, with a recipe to share.

However first, just a little story, by the use of background.

It was our twenty fifth yr highschool homecoming final yr. The frenzy of preparations, practices, fund-raising occasions, and get-togethers. A whirlwind that may each invigorate and drive one insane…as I’m sure lots of you who’ve gone via homecomings can attest to. In any case, I contributed as a lot as I used to be in a position, and to as a lot as my expertise would permit. Which is to say, I joined the cookbook committee.

Our highschool has been producing cookbooks since time-before-time, so this wasn’t a brand new concept. However with a bunch of meals loving people in our batch, we wished to make one thing totally different. So with cash out of our personal pockets we employed an expert photographer, raised the decision for heirloom recipes, and started working.

As anybody who has printed a cookbook can inform you, it was a troublesome and taxing course of. Capturing meals all day (with the large assist of our classmate, this woman, and the unbelievable meals conglomerate she has constructed!), enhancing recipes (three heads copy-editing till the wee hours!), and I received’t even go into the monetary facet of it (we had an superior finance staff…in a position to juggle numbers and name in receivables with dizzying pace and an iron fist!).

Nevertheless it was fantastic and rewarding and a tremendous expertise altogether. Working with individuals equally obsessed with meals. Engaged on one thing that was purely food-related (as a few of you understand, my precise job has nothing to do with meals). Engaged on one thing that didn’t feeling like work…that left you drained however happy on the finish of the day.

And, in fact, making a pile of cash for our homecoming!

This is among the recipes from the ebook (from our classmate, Racky Torres Manalastas). It’s homey and comforting and easy and filled with taste. Handed down from technology to technology. It’s a scrumptious instance of the timelessness and worth of household recipes.

Manok Tim
(recipe tailored from the Legacy Cookbook of Assumption highschool batch ’92)

• 1/2 kilo ham
• 1/2 cup bamboo shoots
• 1 cup water chestnuts
• 1 dozen dried shiitake mushrooms
• 1 complete rooster
• Calamansi (simply sufficient juice to rub the rooster with)
• 1 teaspoon salt (I exploit sea salt)
• 2-4 cups water (roughly)

– Lower the ham, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and dried mushrooms into strips.
– Rub the rooster with the calamansi and salt.
– Place the rooster, and all the opposite components, in a pot. Add the water – relying on the scale of your pot it’s possible you’ll add roughly. The water ought to come just a little bit greater than midway up the rooster however not cowl it.
– Cowl your pot and simmer over low warmth for about 45 minutes, or till the rooster is finished and beginning to get tender. Style the broth and modify seasoning if wanted solely.
– Uncover the pot and place in a pre-heated 400F oven for about 10-20 minutes till the highest of the rooster has taken on some colour.

The ham you utilize right here needs to be a pleasant savory/salty one, Chinese language ham could be superb. The ham is a giant a part of what flavors the dish so that you need to use a tasty one.

This dish might not win any magnificence contests, however what it lacks in appears it makes up for in taste and ease of preparation. It’s a criminally simple, one-pot meal. All you could do is dump every part within the pot and let the components do their work. And what you get ultimately is a lot greater than what you place in. The rooster, ham, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots produce probably the most superb broth…intense and deeply flavored. That is each a young, slow-braised rooster, and an extremely wealthy rooster soup!

You may get pleasure from this dish in so some ways. Place a chunk of rooster in a bowl and ladle on the soup and different components. Or have your rooster and ham with rice and a cup of the broth on the facet. I typically wish to sneakily combine simply the ham and mushrooms in a bowl with white rice moistened with the broth. The leftovers, shredded, could make a beautiful bowl of noodle soup!

I’ve an further copy of our cookbook so I assumed I’d do a small giveaway. All you could do is go away a touch upon this blogpost! Yup that’s it! Simply touch upon why you’d like this cookbook, or share a household recipe/dish, and even simply say HI! That’s all!! I’ll choose one remark at random (names in a hat type) two weeks from now, and ship the cookbook to the winner! The one situations for entry: it’s essential to enter a legitimate e-mail tackle AND you should be primarily based within the Philippines!

So joyful to be writing right here once more. The top of the yr is coming nevertheless it’s by no means too late, as they are saying. I hope you’re prepared for extra recipes, as a result of I’ve a number of up my sleeve I’m simply tweaking. And excited to share with you!

Maybe in the future I’ll publish my very own cookbook. A set from my kitchen to yours. Wouldn’t that be good? Till then I’ll be sharing recipes right here, as I’ve been doing, as I hope to all the time do.

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