Yes. Cooking is more than following recipes. It is more on putting yourself into your food. Getting inspiration from what is around you, who you are cooking for, the time of year and the best way to put your dish into the table. With this, I hope you get the inspiration to be creative inside the kitchen. Get out of your comfort zone and experiment! Try things never been tried before or just experiment and have fun! You never know what the end results might be.. :) Trust me, I've been cooking for so many reasons. Because it is my job, because I like doing it, because I need to eat, because I feel sad and I need to do something that would take my mind off things... Try it too- cook for your very own reason and there you will find the inspiration to push yourself beyond what you think you can do.
Before anything else, kudos to my dad for showing me how to make fire out of a pile of wood! If that job was left to me, I would have toiled for hours with no avail! Well... I am just being honest ;) But anyway, I am very excited to show you what we cooked earlier, using an earthenware popular in the provinces, but unfortunately (and as far as I know), not here in Manila- especially now that electric stoves/ovens and induction cookers are the trend. Please do contradict me on this if you find my statement quite untrue. But what's amazing is that clay pots have been used for decades all over the globe- from Europe, Africa, Southeast and East Asia. It has been called different names and made into different shapes and sizes, but all of which have one basic purpose- to cook a tender and flavorful dish that would hopefully delight ones taste buds. The Philippine version of the clay pot is called "palayok" in Tagalog or "kulon" in some parts of Visayas. We used to...
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