DINING IN A FIESTA

I was invited just this morning to a barangay fiesta. According to my friend, their barangay is celebrating their foundation day and he added that their house will be the host of all the eating that is going to happen. He invited me as guest and not as a chef. I think sometimes I deserve to be the person lifting the spoon and fork rather than doing the cooking. Their barangay is close to ours and I don't need to ride. I only need is a good shoes and that's it.

My friend told me that they are preparing several dishes for the fiesta. There is lechon baboy, kinilaw, adobo, pancit, lumpia and others more. The fiesta focuses on local dishes of their barangay. There are no chefs of people with culinary background, except me. But I will be going as guest and not as a chef. The event happens annually and as I recall, I never missed their fiesta. I am always present to eat their dishes that they prepared for their guests.

Before their actual fiesta, my friend borrowed my recipe books and he told me that he wanted to study the dishes so that he can cook it in their fiesta. My friend is very thankful that I lend him my recipe books because he was able to prepare dishes that are made by chefs. The recipes in the book are very easy to follow. Just reading it, you don't need a chef's schooling in order to understand the terms in the cook book.