Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Jumping Salad

Have you ever tasted jumping salad? Or do you know what is jumping salad?
Of course, literally it means the salad is jumping. In food, this is a live shrimps jumping from the bowl while being served in the table.

freshwater
This food is distinction for Filipino particularly of Ilocano in northern Philippines.  This is one of the favourite food of many but not actually a salad recipe but a raw food of marine species particularly of shrimp family—saltwater shrimps, seawater shrimps or maybe even vanamei.

Jumping salad is a recipe for the average size of live shrimps that reacted when poured with vinegar, salt or any citrus fruit like calamansi or lemon. .

Monday, February 6, 2017

Cornik, The Best Crunchy Corn Food

Move over corn flakes and corn delicacies, here is the best corn products... the cornik.

Cornik is deep fried corn kernel with different flavors suite the taste of everyone. Its a hard job to cook cornik. In Candon City, the corn is sun dried and then the outer layer of the kernel is peeled off then the deep frying and adding the desired flavor.

Its crunchy... this best described the food. Flavors include cheese, barbecue, hot chili among others. The crunchiness is unique comparing to the fried corn being sold in sachet in the market. Of course, the peeling off of outer layer is one of a kind process of making this good. (photo is mine)