Comments on: Pork Chops with Fresh Cherry Chutney

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:22:07 +0000

Thank you Ibalik, thank you Cia for a great site. (I find inspiration here.)

By: ibalik

ibalik — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:27:02 +0000

gregor samsa.

indeed, viajero is a great book.

if you have time/money, i suggest you visit quiapo, intramuros, and other places written in the book viajero.

By: cia

cia — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:08:39 +0000

I actually like chicken liver for pate and chicken hearts for a chicken version of the Filipino bopis dish. (Use this recipe and use them instead of the pig’s http://www.writingwithmymouthfull.com/2006/04/25/filipino-bopis-pig-heart-recipe/)

Viajero is an awesome book. It’s one of those books every Filipino should read, especially Filipino-Americans.

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:54:21 +0000

Hi Cia, well, unfortunately, they really did put these lovely chicken hearts next to the pitted sour cherries. I actually chewed and swallowed a mouthful of this mixture. Oy is right. By the way, where should I go to in the Phillipines this summer? And also, have you read the book VIAJERO by F. Jose Sionil? My seniors read part of it in their Asian Literature Class this past spring.

By: cia

cia — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:38:32 +0000

I *suppose* heart-shaped cherries can look like heart-shaped chicken hearts… or did you mean chicken livers? Oy, that’s a whole different kind of chutney!

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:34:52 +0000

Yes, yes, yes! I also was in the mood for a chutney type thingy. Two nights ago, I had been up all night grading essays written by my 170 high school English students. It was about 4:30 a. m. I thought to me self, Self, you got a nice homemade cranberry sauce (cranberries that have been made into a sort of chutney with turbinado sugar and some star anise) and those nice frozen pitted cherries that you got in the Russian deli on Broadway and 190th Street. So, I nuked the frozen pitted cherries for about two and half minutes in the microwave. Then, I mixed the slightly slushy mixture into the cranberry sauce. Mmmmmm. Dug in. Yummy. Oh no. Not. It turns out that when I had bought the cherries in the deli, I had accidentally bought not cherries but nice plump raw chicken hearts that were now half thawed raw chicken hearts mixed with cranberrry sauce. Oh. Oh. Oh. Still, I have not given up on fruit chutneys.