Method:
1) Go to FoodBuzz Featured Publisher dinner at Gochi Japanese Tapas in Cupertino. Enjoy wonderful and inventive tapas Japanese-style. Try the pizza (on a very light cracker-like crust), the onigiri yaki (with salmon mayonnaise), the fried chicken with eggplant and the delicious unagi fried rice. Meet a few great folks from FoodBuzz (thanks folks!).
Yaki Onigiri, much better than my own attempt
2) Go home and try to make binatog. Binatog is a Filipino snack made from hominy, sugar, coconut and milk, served sort of like a corn parfait.
3) Turn on the wrong burner on an electric stove and not notice that a different burner from the one you intended is glowing red.
4) Smell the noxious fumes from burning dish towel.
5) Panic.
In addition to not leaving a dish towel directly on a burner (gas or electric), do not leave microfiber dish towels on hot stainless steel pot lid, or else they will smolder and ruin your pretty, stainless steel pot lid.
By the way: the binatog attempt failed because ignorant as I was about how to prepare hominy, I did not boil my dried corn in lime-water to remove the corn germ. I will try again this weekend.
5 comments:
Ooooooh, careful. I have a few melted/singed things from turning on the wrong burner, too.
I usually don't curse aloud when I'm at work, but that picture of the lid elicited a pejorative snippet from my cubicle area. Are you OK?
Could there be any relation between your recent cooking activities and the forest fires in Santa Cruz area?
I am glad to know that there is a fire extinguisher next to your stove!
Hi! can you send me or post your binatog recipe. I've been looking for it in the net and I couldn't find it. Hope you don't mind. :)
Hi, listen, I tried to read your post, but there's a huge banner in front of my screen and I can't take it off! I already closed the window and opened it again and it won't work.
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