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Sina’sa: sarong masiram na kakanon haleng Rinconada

7/23/2009 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post

Minsan-minsan, pag-sawa na kita kan mga pagkakan sa Amerika, naiisip ta an mga masisiram na mga kakanon na hale sa lugar na tinubu’an. An sakong ina na hale sa Rinconada may paboritong kakanon na dae ko maling’wan sa kasiraman!

Por medio ta an Baao, Camarines Sur, parte nin Rinconada sa Bicol (Baao, Balatan, Bato, Buhi, Bula, Nabua, Iriga,) harayo sa dagat---kadaklan kan kakanon na aram kan ina ko, hale sana sa natad, kua sa paroyan, sapa, dakop sa mata’bang na tubigan----danao kan Baao, Bato sagkod Buhi.

An talusog /snakehead (Channa striata,) hito (Clarias sp.,) tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), carpa (Cyprinus carpio,) puyu (Anabas testundines) and sinarapan (Mistichthys luzonensis) iyo an mga sira na gusto kan sakong ina, kaya ako muya man magkakan kan sina’sa.

"There are times when we lose taste for food that is distinctly American. And we think of the tasty food which comes from our place of origin---our home. My deceased mom who comes from Rinconada, has some tasty native food that I can't forget.

Because she is from Baao, Camarines Sur, part of the Rinconada towns in Bicol (Baao, Balatan, Bato, Buhi, Bula, Nabua and Iriga,) she is far from the sea---mostly the diet my mom knows comes from the yard, ricefields, streams, and from the freshwater lakes of Baao, Bato and Buhi.

The snakehead, catfish, tilapia, carp, climbing perch, and sinarapan are fishes that she likes---I too like to eat the sina'sa."

Pagluto nin Sina’sa

Lima (5) o anom (6) sanang pulgada an pakadakula, an saradit na puyu (martiniko; climbing perch) inaasal niya sa kalayo na may baga. Pwede man gamiton an talusog sagkod ibang mga sirang hale sa ta’bang lalo kun daradakula. Pwede man pritoson. Pero mas gusto ni Mama an matunok na puyo na inasal. Hinahale niya ang tutong na kiskis. Mas manamit, lalo na kun luto sa baga nin suro kan niyog.

Hinahali’an niya nin mga dugi an puyu pakatapos asalon, dangan hinahalo nin dakul na preskong kamatis, siling labuyo, sibulyas, sibuyas, tunuktok na laya! Garo hambura (retrato sa itaas)!

Hinahalo’an niya nin suka o lemonsito. Pina-pa-uranan nin asin para makompleto ang timpla.

Napa-kalaga-kaga siya nin ugbos kamote na hale sa natad. Iguang mahamot, mainit na maluto hale sa patag. Presto! Masiram na an karakanan lalo na kun iguang batag sagkod may-malipot (may-hielo) na tubig: contra sa managom na demonyo---init kan siling labuyo!

"Five (5) or six (6) inches in size, the small puyu (climbing perch) is roasted in an open fire. Other fish like the snakehead and those caught from freshwater can be used, especially so if they are bigger. The fish can be fried, but by my mom's stamdard, the roasted perch is better. She removes the burned scales. The fish is tastier, especially if cooked in charcoal made from the coconut's fruit shell.

She removes the perch's fishbones after the roast. She mixes them with lots of fresh tomatoes, hot red peppers, onions, scallion, and a dash of finely chopped ginger. It's similar to fresh tomato salad (see picture above).

She puts vinegar or lemon juice and dusts it with rock salt to taste.

As an option, she boils fresh camote tops harvested from the yard. Cook fragrant white rice harvested from the valley. The food in combination is scrumptious--- particularly if there is a ripe latundan (banana) and ice-cold water---to ward off the red pepper's devil in one's burning tongue.." (Photo Credit: Noonch; Puyu; TonieS; Elsie Bauer) =0=

Fried Tilapia Version of Sina'sa

Labels: bicol, Bicol; hito, carpa, catfish, cuisine, fish, food, martiniko, Naga Camarines Sur. Totie Mesia, puyo, puyu, Rinconada, snakehead, talusog, tilapia, Totie Mesia

Sa ta'bang na mga sira sa Bicol

7/23/2009 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post

Talusog/Snakehead

Puyu/Martiniko

Tilapia

Carpa/Carp

Hito/Catfish

(Photo Credit: Stryker; aquamojo; Stryker; aquafish.net; beautiful victory; hexion x 2; jdmpics.com; mayopersoncount.net) =0=

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Labels: carpa, cuisine, fish, food, hito, martiniko, native, puyo, puyu, snakehead, talusog, Totie Mesia

Calle Natong: Naga City’s populist way of naming a street

8/28/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post

In earlier days, ill-descript Bagumbayan Interior, in Naga City, Philippines could barely be regarded as a street. It was a short and dusty alley close to Ateneo de Naga University (AdenU) campus. The name gave a hint of a semi-wild location where planks of rickety wood served as elevated platforms---like toy bridges over muddy ditches behind the main road leading to Canaman, Bombon, Quipayo, Magarao, and Calabanga, not far from Universidad de Sta Isabel University (USI) and Camarines Sur National High (CSNHS.)

The unpaved alley’s name stuck for years. No one raised any objection or asked for a law or ordinance to change the village path's name where zacate grass and snakeheads (talusog) in muddy pools grew wild. Maybe, it’s because Bagumbayan Interior is secluded. The alley with very confusing boundaries had a neutral reputation. There was no major historical meaning in the street unlike the old great Calle Via Gainza, named after Bishop Francisco Gainza, but later renamed as Penafrancia Avenue.

In the 1970’s, ordinary people started calling Bagumbayan Interior “Calle Natong,” a populist reference to the wild taro plants (dasheen bush) which grew aplenty in that marshy locale. We, the few low-brow barangay residents, didn’t object. Calle Natong was just the right name to keep us reminded of our favorite, Bicolano dish, the spicy ginota’an na natong (laing, sinilihan na katnga) when the proverbial green leaves of the dasheen bush got burning hot with bedeviled red peppers (lada,siling labuyo.)

The informal appellation took root and tricycle drivers who rode the peaceful place knew where Calle Natong was. The building of homes much later altered the course of the street and the landscape. It didn’t take long when more people settled in the place, Calle Natong gave way to a more urbane, but unfamiliar name: Seminary Road then later becoming the Mother Francisca Street, perhaps because a convent was there in the area.

These were confusing changes we didn't understand. Natong which we held dear being our celebrated Bicol regional plant---the source of nourishment of Handiong's children, was waylaid on the side. After our street was renamed, Calle Natong, was never the same.=0=

Labels: Bagumbayan, balao, bicol, Bicol Express, Calabanga, Calle Natong, Canaman, Dasheen bush, food, Handiong, History, laing, Magarao, Naga City, natong, Philippines, Quipayo, sili, snakehead, talusog

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