A Yummy Graduation Month Celebration
(Flickr photo by isadora_photography)
Ok, you’re probably wondering what I mean by this. Well, we all know that March is Graduation Month in our country and whenever a member of the family graduates, it always calls for a celebration.
As we spend time celebrating with the graduates of 2010, I would like to reach out to the food lovers here in Answers. Let’s create a Filipino menu that’s fit for a graduation celebration! This menu will include the best recipes for cooking a starter, a main course and dessert (imagine a 3-course meal). I’ve seen some amazing questions and answers about Filipino food and cooking here in Answers so I know that we can come up with a great meal based on your answers. In short, let’s come up with a user-generated menu for a graduation celebration!
There are two ways to suggest great recipes:
Either…
A) Send us a great open question about a recipe you’d like to know for a starter, a main course or a dessert by emailing me at y_answrs_jonas@yahoo.com.ph
Or…
B) You can either answer each one of the Team questions (here: starter, main course or dessert)
If you can help us with this project, you might find yourself published in the Best of Answers module on our frontpage for a week. Even better, if your open question or answer is selected for Best of Answers or as a Best Answer, you’ll receive 50 bonus points! Choose carefully a great best answer to one of your submitted food questions and at the end of the period and we’ll give you 20 extra points.
I definitely look forward to receiving your suggestions. Keep an eye on our blog where we’ll reveal more details about this initiative in the next few days. Many thanks!
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If your wearing to find a 3 course meal based on Traditional filipino cuisine, you can try these recipes there great and always common at the Buffet table.
for a starter you could have ararosep and gorgormot with tomatoes and onionswith alamang . these are kinds of seeweed found in your common market. you could also try fried tofu with mixed soy sauce and vinegar and topped with minced onions although its just an adopted filipino dish.
for the main course you can have rilyenong bangus , bulalo, kaldereta, menudo and dinuguan. Meat is always present at the table you could also add vegetables dishes like pakbet, dinengdeng, abraw and lagat.
and for dessert you could make ube jams and leche flans, rice cakes and latiks and inirubans for a sweet treat.
i cant reccomend im canadian
I love celebrations and fiestas. Time to bring out those hidden family recipes. When I was growing up, our clan (Kapampangans) used to hold yearly family reunions (which we eagerly look forward to): On the usual menu are:
Starters: Ensaladang Manggang Hilaw (Green Mangoes with chopped tomato and white onions, sprinkled slightly with patis and a little bit of sugar to counter the sourness of the mango.)
Main Menu: Bringhe (Rice stew with just about everything from seafood to chicken to pork, and veggies. much like the paella or arroz valenciana), Estofadong Dila ng Baka, Menudo, Morcon, Embutido and of course, who would snub the Chopsuey? Then there’s Palabok and pancit.
Dessert: Still have some space for dessert? Try some Tibok-tibok, Gulaman at sago, leche flan (a must for every occasion), ube halaya, and if the budget calls for it: Halo-halo!
hay, love those times….
For handaan fare i would recommend the following: can include pinsik frito and/or lumpia shanghai as appetizer, halaan (clam) soup or hototay soup or chicken binakol (stewed chicked in coco water), pinakbet or adobong kangkong, chicken (paa or pecho) or pork barbeque, relyenong bangus or fish (lapu-lapu) escabeche, crispy pata (deep fried leg of pork ) or pata-tim (stewed leg of pork), inihaw na isda (broiled fish preferably tuna belly or tanguigue or pomfret), steamed crabs and shrimp, side dishes can be jumping salad (baby shrimp marinated in vinegar), lato (seaweed), green mango strips with bagoong, with steamed rice or arroz valenciana (a must for Ilonggos). For dessert you have selections of puto manapla, leche flan, buco-pandan salad topped with vanilla ice cream, halo-halo (for summer), washing them down with buko juice or buko-watermelon juice or your favorite soda.
These are a few of my favorite things having lived all over the archipelago. Hungry yet?
such a delicious food,great preparation for outdoor and good food for the graduates!
Don’t forget the king of all pinoy foods, the “Lechon”. Not only it is an all time favorite but also a symbol of something worthwhile to celebrate.
for a starter you can serve green mangoes with bagoong or vegetable salads with vinegar or with mayonnaise on top. For the main course you can serve all barbecued foods like pork barbecue,chicken barbecue,liver barbecue,hotdogs/longanisa barbecue and fish barbecue. We can also add pancit noodles like canton or bam-i or else,sotanghon. And, for dessert,well, sweet mangoes,watermelon,apples and grapes for a change.
Its great recipe i’ve read while im here in hongkong
Starter= Molo soap, lumpia shanghai, enseladang manga, manga with bagoong, pansit.
Main= Lechon kawali, Chicken Inasal, Sisig, bangus belly, kare-kare, Hamonado, chopsuey with quail eggs and of course lechon.
Dessert= Buko Salad, leche plan, macapuno and sago at gulaman.
“whenever someone graduates from a family…” (first paragraph)
Huh. I understand graduating from school but I didn’t know you could earn a diploma from your family as well.
wow ang sarap ng naka picture na yan. sana matikman ko yan. ay alam ko na gagawa ako nyan para atikman ko…
first you serve is “calamares”[squid cut into rings deep into scramble eggs and cornstarch salt to taste] deep fry in oil until golden brown…. sarap pulutan for d boys teenagers graduates…………. they like also sweets like; macaroons,puto cheese, chocolate cake, buko pie, serve with ice tea drinks………
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