Food Choices Wk.3
Spice Up Your Eating
The hunt for the perfect condiment!
What sauces, herbs, condiments do you usually reach out for to spice up your eating?
We Pinoys have such a strong habit for “sawsawan”. We love tasty food and our vast range of condiments at our home (and even in restaurants) are proof of that.
I remember when I was 16 and went to the US for a vacation, my uncle treated us to Outback (a steakhouse). Im a steaklover and was so excited to taste my first authentic prime rib. It was so soft, so thick, but BLAH. It tasted good after A1 and Worcheister sauce though 
I only have two condiments that needs to be IN STOCK all the time at our house or Ill go mad: KETCHUP and PATIS.
Ketchup, or specifically, Del Monte Tomato Ketchup I dont like sweet, I like them sour with a zang (Original please). When I was a kid (say until I was 6 or 7), I used ketchup on EVERYTHING: even on daing na bangus, tocino, tapa, and yes, even food with soup on it (yack, I know). It’s a good thing I grew out of it already otherwise, Im sure you’d be losing an appetite when you see me eat I also gobble them up especially when have fried chicken. Proof that it is all in the genes: Martha makes papak the packets from McDo when she watches TV 
Patis, or fish sauce! Oh what will we do without it?! My mom is such a great patis user – she taught me to use it tocino, tapa with egg, afritada and even eggplant (instead of vinegar). Everything is just tastier with patis – bulalo, nilaga, tinola….yummy! It doesnt help I married a man who is Bicolano and loves sili so the patis became this:
Spicy food makes you consume more rice, dont you know?
done sis: http://www.elegancefoodandwine.com/2008/08/food-choices-3.html
uy ako din i like my ketchup sour. (although del monte and heinz ang choices ko)
uy uy, bicolano din hubby ko (his mother’s side) at ganyan din itsura ng patis namin, bwahaha. (sadly i don’t eat bicol express and laing, their specialty) meron din kami chili sauce (from saudi) yung pula at greenish white. sus amoy pa lng, sumasakit na tenga ko. hahaha.
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