Category : DIET, food, foodie, foodist, General Motor's diet, pinakbet, turnips, vegetables
Singkamas... Turnips in English. For someone who loves food, munching on boring, white, watery turnips is suicidal. But I had to eat them because I consider it a vegetable. And It's Day 2 of my General Motor's Diet. It's Vegetables day. My energy is running low so I forgot that I could buy some carrots so I was stuck with the white stuff all day. Good thing, Arriana, my staff nurse here at Bulacan offered some Pinakbet, a local mixed vegetable dish sauteed and stewed in Alamang or shrimp paste. I know I shouldn't eat oily vegetables but I tried to scrape off most of the oil from her food bowl. Besides, I only ate the Ampalayas (Bitter gourds) and the Okras and stayed away from the oil-soaked eggplants. Ate Rita, the cook in the hospital also tried to go with the flow and cooked Lumpiang hubad (Vegetable spring rolls without the wrapper). She knows I am having a hard time because I am a big fan of her cooking and I usually rave about her food every lunch time... good thing she empathized with me.
Turnips for breakfast, Pinakbet vegetables and turnips for lunch... I am totally scrapping dinner. I was already visualizing turnips drenched in chocolate... or how good they tasted when sauteed with carrots or when they are added to spring rolls filling. Yummy. Or turnips with lemon and pepper vinaigrette... or buttered with sayote and of course, some tenderloin steak on the side... Oops... It's making my head dizzy right now.
Oh well... I know, later in my dreams, I will dream of two things: My hunny and MEAT, MEAT, MEAT!
Note to Pillow: I'm sorry but I know I will definitely be salivating on you.
:)