Chasing Sheep: May 3, 2013 - Food Blog Test Day 1

Eras (designer), Forest (chef), and I (photographer) are planning on making a food blog! We met up on a Friday to discuss our plans over a home-cooked lunch. We have exciting things in store for our upcoming site and until things have been finalized, I cannot reveal our main concept as of yet.

We (by we, I mean mostly Forest) made focaccia bread, sinigang fried chicken, and liver in onion gravy. He is currently a culinary student of DLSU-CSB and naturally, he is fond of experimenting with food. Eras and I, however, are still currently unemployed. Eras is still job hunting, while I am freelancing because I will be leaving for the States in August and will be there until around November so I can’t hold a full-time job just yet.

So I leave you with this for now! Here is how the meal came together:

CLICKY

We enter Forest's abode and we are greeted by one of his dogs. He is named Ugly.......

The lab

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Eras and I gearing up as well. Domestic-style.

This is Ice Cream, the parent of Ugly.

Focaccia Bread PART 1

We made the dough first and allowed it to rise as we made the rest of the food.

Herbies.

Focaccia bread is basically made out of flour, yeast, sugar, rosemary, oregano, and basil.
Dip: Balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil.

4 cups

Open up that packet of dry yeast and dissolve in lukewarm water.

Shove it in your friend's face.

Forest: They say you shouldn't mix it but I do it anyway.

Forest: Yeast is alive and has been put to sleep much like a dying dog. You just need to put it in warm water. That doesn't apply to dead dogs though.

Combine dry ingredients in a big-ass bowl.

Add in that yeast.

Mix.

And maybe even ask a woman to do it.

Cover it up and let that pretty little thang rise.

Sinigang Fried Chicken

Basically fried chicken with a sinigang mix coating.

Gather!
Chicken, flour, sinigang mix, eggs, bread crumbs, cooking oil.

Crack dem eggs and beat.

Combine sinigang mix, flour, and bread crumbs in a separate plate.

First coat with egg then with the dry mixture so it sticks. When they're all nicely covered fry them babies!!

Done! Sinigang fried chicken.

Liver in Onion Gravy

I don't normally eat liver, but now I do!!

All you need: Liver, onions, butter, cornstarch, sugar, cooking oil, salt and pepper.

Threaten your onion so it knows its place.

Mince!

Heat up your pan and melt the butter.

Make sure your liver is ready.

Bring your onions in.

Add salt.

Add more salt.

Add cornstarch to thicken.

Add more cornstarch to thicken.

Set your gravy aside and in another pan, heat up some oil.

Fry your liver until cooked all the way through.

Salt.

Take a baby strainer and pour the gravy you just prepared over your liver leaving the onions behind.
You can always make more gravy later on if you want onions in your dish.

Let it sit for a bit longer.

And... here it is! Liver in Onion Gravy.

Focaccia Bread PART 2

The dough has risen!

Punch it.

Then knead.

Poke holes so it doesn't turn into a loaf.

Well hello there sexy.

Brush olive oil on top.

This is quite interesting. Forest says that metal is too hot to cook bread properly so while his house as being renovated, he took a spare tile from his living room. He cleaned it up and he now uses it as a baking tile!