String Bean Pickles (Sitaw)

Easiest way to enjoy dish of string beans (sitaw) is to pickled this vegetable. Not so hard to make, just with vinegar, onions and pepper, the half-cooked string will become one's favorite. Seasons for string beans comes in the month of September, October and November. And best way to cook this, aside from dinengdeng, ginisa, or ginataan, is to pickled it. When in abundance, the price is so high that you can think just to buy meat, but when its season comes, you will think of different ways of cooking sitaw.

Utong is for Ilocanoes, sitaw for Tagalogs, string beans is favorite for every Filipino

How Longanisa Festival is Celebrated?

The month of January is where Vigan City celebrating their Longanisa Festival. Longasina of Vigan is famous because of its distinctive taste and aroma. The garlic not only suppresses the high fats of this food but also giving the amore of the tongue to taste it. Some pictures below demonstrate how this Vigan's favorite is made... and still being craze for every breakfast.

If you have this for breakfast, of course with tapa and kamatis, who would care for  other  delicacy

After mixing all the ingredients (ground pork meat, pork fat, salt, garlic, pepper and vinegar)-- put them in wax paper or pig's intestines to make/form as sausages.