Yesterday, Linda M and her nephew Jimmy Evaristo (from Concord,CA) visited me here at THD bringing with them, Kalderetta and Leche Flan per my request. In exchange for this delicious lunch, I gave them my THD lunch of egg salad sandwich with Chips and ice cream. It was not a Fair exchange, but my appreciation for the visit and for the food makes it an equitable and fair exchange. Linda's ancestral roots is from Marinduque, Philippines-my second home. http://marinduqueawaitsyou.blogspot.com/
Thanks again Linda and Jimmy for the visit and the Pinoy delicacies. They also brought two Filipino-American Newspaper-The Asian Journal and the Philippine News-Today. Here are the photos of the Kalderetta, Leche flan and the newspapers.
For those of you not familiar with Filipino Food:
Kalderetta is one of my favorite Filipino dish. It is a hearty meat dish using chevon (goat meat), beef, or pork combined with potatoes, carrots, tomato sauce, and liver spread or liver paste. This is a popular dish served during special occasions and a regular in every Filipino cookbook. https://panlasangpinoy.com/beef-kaldereta/
Leche Flan is a dessert made-up of eggs and milk with a soft caramel on top. It resembles crème caramel and caramel custard. This delicious dessert is known throughout the world. It has been a regular item in the menu of most Filipino restaurants because of its taste, ease in preparation and long shelf life. https://panlasangpinoy.com/leche-flan/
Lessons for Today: What is Filipino Food? Filipino cuisine has developed from the different cultures that shaped its history; it is like other Southeast Asian cuisines but with heavy Spanish influence. Some ingredients of the Mexican cuisine, such as corn, tomato and chili, have also found their way to the Philippines.
Though its cuisine is not as renowned as many of its neighbours, such as that of Thailand and Vietnam, Filipino cooking is nonetheless distinct in that it is possibly the least spicy of all South East Asian cuisines.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that Filipino food is bland, though. It is just that instead of spices, Filipino food depends more on garlic, onions and ginger to add flavor to the dishes. Painstaking preparation and prolonged cooking time is also a characteristic of most Filipino dishes, and when done properly is often what brings out the flavor of the food, as opposed to a healthy dose of spices.
With over 7,500 islands, the cuisine of the Philippines is rather a mish-mash of hundreds of local, regional, and ethnic cuisines, and without any qualifiers, you would often think of ubiquitous dishes such as adobo, sinigang, lechon, and Filipino-Chinese dishes.
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