There are at least 3 new Flipinoys joining us in Middle Earth this term. We would have invited them to their first Oxbarrio Gastronomic Protest Society Lunch but as the Spiritual Leader of the group, I need time to have a close look at their papers again. I just want to make sure they are not from some med/engineering/law school in the Philippines. (Ok. The joke is getting stale...Let's call Corazon Aquino a slut instead. In a way, she was, given how her groupies took advantage during her administration, replacing Apo Macoy's cronies. As we say, weather weather lang yan. In this case, I think I need to rephrase it as "Corazon Aquino was a prostitute". It's more accurate as she probably was an unwilling victim of the rape of state coffers by her relathieves.)
Aaaaanywho, enough of this negativity. Let's move on to the better things in life. The things that make life worth living - food and sex.
Our first term lunch consisted of pochero (with free range chicken, smoked chicken in lieu of chorizo, saba, the usual Benguet trio of cabbages, potatoes, and string beans), homemade aioli, onion and eggplant garnish, and purple rice.
HRO Karl Willem and PA/PR Gromit serve the purple rice steamed in a proper clay pot.
Mmmmm. Makes you want to sing "Ang bayan kong Pelepiiiiinassss, lopain ng gento't bolaklak...kaysarap ng kanyang mga putahe...."
PA/PR Gromit volunteered to make dessert......(showing off his molecular gastronomy skills)
...butane torched peaches cooked in syrup and madagascan vanilla ice cream...
I struggled to cycle home as I was sooo full.
....HRO Karl Willem, PA/PR Gromit, and mystery woman are such petrolheads. I wanted to drag them to church but they preferred to watch the new series of Top Gear....