Would You Like My Viands ?

The bitter gourd salad is a bit bitter , there's some left . Yes, i like it better too when it's sauteed with eggs. But i super love the anchovies , so delicious . Then my officemate gave me "tuyo" (dried fish) , that i also asked for some more rice . So what's for your lunch ? It seems you just eat , sleep and myLot there at your house ha?

you wake up late because you slept late too, hija?

@SIMPLYD my mom cooked some veggies, i dont know what its called but theres potato, sayote(vegetable pear), and i cant identify the rest. she made Chicken adobo too, i wish it was tinola. and yes, my life is pretty routinized the last 1 year, 5 months, and 2 weeks now. haay.. but hey, cant complain haha..

A viand is food or a dish . In this particular picture , my viands are bitter gourd salad and spicy sauteed anchovies. Have you tasted anchovies ?

@TheHorse I like anchovies too, but not on pizza though .

@SIMPLYD I love anchovies on my pizza. But most people don't, alas.

The anchovies was very delicious . But the bitter gourd salad , i don't like much because it seems too bitter for me . Do you eat rice also , as your staple food , the one that goes with viands ?

Yes, the ampalaya (bitter gourd) salad is good for an anemic person . So you are anemic ? But i found it a bit bitter though . The sauteed dilis (anchovies ) , ir's delicious . And my officemate had plenty of packed lunch he made me choose from them and i choose the tuyo . It made me eat more rice that my packed rice lacked . I asked for some rice because he had a lot of that too.

@ridingbet Why can't you eat dilis ? Really, the tuyo can be washed before frying them and it would make it crunchier , wow that's nice to know . I will buy tuyo so hubby and i can eat voraciously That would be next week, when my in-law swill be for a week again at my brod-in-law's reneted house in Sorsogon , where he works . Yes, biter gourd is good for the anemics because it increases their hemoglobin level .

@SIMPLYD do you wash your 'tuyo' before you fry them? washing them will remove that excess salt, and the 'tuyo' will be crunchier too. the dilis, oh! how i wish i can eat them. bitter gourd is best for me to increase my hemoglobin level.

Do you like anchovies ? What about the bitter gourd ? Some people don't eat bitter gourd because they are deterred by its bitter taste . One just have to know in choosing a bitter gourd not bitter .

I am glad that even though bitter gourd is a bit bitter to the taste , a lot of people like it when cooked . This salad though turned out a bit bitter to me yesterday . Though , i was able to eat them all . And the anchovies , was surprisingly delicious .

I went to look it up, so you taught me something.

@SIMPLYD It's not an English word used in America. Perhaps they do in Great Britain, but not in America. What you call viand, we call sides.

Actually , you weren't the only one who asked for the meaning of viands . I wonder , why some of you don't know the word . It's an English word and i have know about that since my elementary days . Welcome. At least my using that word introduced you to a word you never heard ever .

@SIMPLYD I mean when we compared the price of food, we must always compare to the hourly rate of the fast food worker. If they have to work 2 hours to buy a meal, then that meal is an expensive meal.

@scheng1 I don't know, since i don't know their hourly rate . But i guess , that's expensive indeed if you base that on an hourly rate .

I think the fast food employees gets to eat free . Some employees , just buy the veggie because they have a packed lunch of rice and fried foods . They only buy when they don't have packed lunch . That's already okay for me , for my viands .

@SIMPLYD I have no problem when it comes to eating Ampalaya. I love it.

So you like this kind of viand too . What about the ampalaya salad , do you like that too ?

@LdeL0318 Oh that's good . I like it cooked not raw as in the above . I find it a bit bitter , but i have to eat them too .

I guess , when we have nothing to eat , we can eat even the food we abhor . And that's what happened to you and turned out be a blessing in disguise . Actually , we can make bitter gourd lose a bit of its bitterness by putting them first in a bowl of water with lots of slat , after we sliced them . I like bitter gourd specially when it's cooked in black beans (tausi ) or when it's sauteed with egg . Though i have read that we should choose a younger ampalaya than the matured ones because it hasn't developed its bitterness yet .

@moirai Yes try making one and try the one i read about - younger bitter gourd . Good luck then .

@SIMPLYD Hehe. That's true. It was a blessing in disguise because it made me give the vegetable a second chance. And it is a very healthful food! I guess I just grew up to it being bitter because that's the way my mother prepared it. Maybe one of these days I'll do some experimenting and prepare it myself until I am able to get the trick to make it less bitter.

Yes , for me it is indeed a healthy meal . Do you eat bitter gourd and anchovies also ?

@pgiblett Oh no , we don't put anchovies indeed on bitter gourd . But as you can see i have another set of viand which is the spicy sauteed anchovies . So given the chance , which of the two would you like to have , the sauteed anchovies or the bitter gourd salad ?

@SIMPLYD I have anchovies occasionally, maybe on a pizza, but not into bitter gourds.

Thank you . Why have you never tasted bitter gourd ? I suppose there's none in your place ?

@LadyDuck At least he knows what Europeans like . So , ,maybe the ones who buys are Asians ?

@SIMPLYD There was a man who sold them at the market where I lived in France. He told me that it was not for European taste and I would have not liked it.

Which of the two viands are you trying to mean my dear ?

@Lucky15 So it's that . I didn't like mine because it was a bit too bitter for my taste though . Good thing , i still have the sauteed spicy anchovies and my officemate gave me "tuyo" .

@SIMPLYD this one hehe

Really , you don't eat rice anymore ? I also eat camote (sweet potato ) along with my dinner sometimes . Hubby likes it that way ,

@Yar_Joey That's good . They are by itself nutritious . Camote is even being packed for snacks by Gretchen Barreto in her shootings , because she's on diet .

@SIMPLYD Yes, my friend, and I am already accustomed to eating my meals with root crops.

@SIMPLYD Well...now that I've had my lunch...I'm having second thoughts on the anchovies

@jcj_111776 But why ? It's so good being sauteed in lots of tomatoes , some shrimp paste and chopped finger chili .

You both like them , the bitter gourd salad and the spicy sauteed anchovies ?

@SIMPLYD honestly i don't like veggies, especially filipino cooked style veggies. I like kimchi though and other korean cooked or thai cooked vegetables.

@toniganzon Kimchi , my hubby and i love that too . We buy the packed one at the K-store .

So what veggies do you like Toni ?

I also do sometimes when there is a viand to pack together with the rice . But i always have a packed rice , because i always cook it in the rice cooker , in the morning .

@SIMPLYD yeah, that saves money

Really you still have to look it up in the dictionary ? I thought everyone knows this word . So , which of the two viands would you like more , the spicy sauteed anchovies or the bitter gourd salad?

@cmoneyspinner But you know , i cannot eat veggies alone . It has to be that i have to have another meat or fish dish .

@SIMPLYD - The bitter gourd salad. I can eat anchovies. But they wouldn't be my first choice for a viand.

Really you don't eat bitter gours ? What about the sauteed anchovies ? I am more of a carnivore too , before . But now that is already tapering . I want fish and chicken and veggies .

@sol_cee Yes, that one is delicious . Also the ampalaya con carne , wow it's delicious .

@SIMPLYD ampalaya with egg please. lol

That's good that you like bitter gourd too . It's a very nutritious vegetable , right ? What about the spicy sauteed anchovies , do you like that too ?

@babeskoy1977 But just a mild spiciness would be okay for you already ? Here in Bicol , we like eating spicy foods . We would crush Thai chili to our viands to make it spicy .

@SIMPLYD i really don't loke much spicy foods.