You have regular access to the following ingredients:
Rice (lots and lots and lots)
Mie (think ramen noodles)
Carrots
Cucumbers
Various leafy greens (similar to chard and spinach)
Green beans
Cabbage
Papaya flowers (have a slight bitter taste, but supposed to have anti-malarial properties)
Papaya
Bananas
Tomatoes
Tofu
Tempe
Eggs
Flour
Sugar
Salt
Pepper
Chile peppers (these sure pack a punch)
Yeast (no baking soda or baking powder)
Powdered milk
Butter
Rice oil (for cooking)
The next list is of ingredients you can get with some effort and if you splurge.
Sweetened condensed milk
Cheese (similar to a sharp cheddar)
Bread
Brownie Mix
Chicken (quality is often questionable, though)
Fish (tiny freshwater, bony things)
Big Fish (if we track down a fisherman and pay him well)
Pork (only if someone dies, a pig is sacrificed, and you are invited to the funeral)
Potatoes
Apples
Eggplant
Coconut (young or dried)
There are also some other vegetables and fruits available depending on the “season.”
Mangoes
Cassava (root vegetable; similar to potatoes)
Kelari (root vegetable; sliced, soaked overnight, and fried for breakfast)
Jambu (a small fruit; flavor is melon like with a hint of plum)
I have made flour tortillas, banana pancakes, and pan-fried biscuits with some success. The girls that work for us make pretty much the same thing everyday with little variation. Though, Novi did try her hand at biscuits this morning! We have eaten roughly 153 plates of nasi goreng (fried rice), 12 dozen omelets, and 15 kilos of sautéed cabbage, carrots, and green beans. There has to be something else we can make with these ingredients!!!
HELP!
There's a dish called arrozcaldo (filipino version) and juk (southeast asian)... Basically boil rice, then in a separate pan, saute chicken with garlic, ginger, salt, pepper and mix into the rice soup. In order to add more flavor, debone the chicken and make chicken stock with the bones and use the chicken stock to cook the rice. If you have a garden, look into growing some green onions. It's traditionally served with green onions and citrus juice like lime for acidity.
ReplyDeleteSome things to consider is learning to salt and dry your fish. salt and dried fish with sliced tomatoes and green onions is always a pleasure to eat. Also pickling your vegetables will always add some depth to your flavor profiles. Your setup there is very reminiscent of how my parents lived in the Philippines, i'll ask them what else you could make. Hope this helped.
Sending happiness from hawaii,
Christian
I'll start working on it as soon as possible. Hope you all are great.
ReplyDeleteTry a website called Foodpair.com. You input the ingredients you have, and they'll suggest recipes. Do you have access to beans of any kind? You could make tons of great soups. Maybe rudimentary hummus, if you can find garbanzos and garlic (tahini might be impossible but we're talking 'rudimentary' hummus), and pita (flour, water, yeast and salt - pan fried). Shoot me an email at svsilentsun AT yahoo and I'll send you a really good bread recipe.
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