My Favorite Filipino Delicacy is “CHECKIN ADOBO”

NOTES

To save some time, ask your butcher to break down a whole chicken into 10 parts (breasts, wings, thighs, and legs, cutting the breast pieces in half).

INGREDIENTS

1/2 tablespoon neutral oil
1 (3 1/2 pound) whole chicken, cut into 10 parts
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 cup apple cider vinegar
12 cloves peeled garlic
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
4 dried bay leaves
1 scallion, thinly sliced, optional
Steamed jasmine rice, optional, for serving

DIRECTIONS

1.      Add the oil to a large straight-sided skillet or dutch oven; heat over medium-high heat until shimmering. Pat the chicken dry with a paper towel before browning it in the skillet, skin-side-down first. (Work in batches if your skillet isn't large enough to accommodate all of the chicken at once.) Transfer the browned chicken to a plate.

2.      Add the soy sauce and cider vinegar to the skillet, using a wooden spoon to scrape up any brown bits. Add the chicken to the braising liquid, skin-side-down first, then add the garlic, peppercorns, and bay leaves. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce to medium-low. Cover the skillet and simmer until the chicken is thoroughly cooked (the meat will be firm, the juices will run clear, and a thermometer inserted will read 165°F), about 20 minutes. Flip the chicken halfway through for even cooking.

3.      Transfer the cooked chicken to a clean plate. Continue to cook the sauce until it's reduced to about 1 cup, about 10 minutes.

4.      Strain the sauce, reserving the garlic cloves, then add the chicken back to the sauce and toss to coat completely. Transfer to a serving platter and garnish with the garlic cloves and scallion. Serve with steamed jasmine rice.

Why I choice CHICKEN ADOBO my Favorite Food?

1. I love chicken

2. Because my Grand Mother cook very delicious Chicken Adobo.
3. And I love Filipino foods.   

   My Favorite Poet

José Corazón de Jesús (November 22, 1896 – May 26, 1932), also known by his pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino poet who used Tagalog poetry to express the Filipinos' desire for independence during the American occupation of the Philippines, a period that lasted from 1901 to 1946. He is best known for being the lyricist of the Filipino song Bayan Ko.
Buhay Huseng Batute was born on November 22, 1896 in Santa Cruz, Manila to Vicente de Jesús, the first health bureau director of the American occupation government, and Susana Pangilinan of Pampanga. He was christened José Cecilio de Jesús but he later dropped Cecilio and replaced it with the Spanish name Corazón (heart) because he said it best described his character.

 My Favorite Poem IS “Itanong Mo SA    Bituin (Ask the Stars)”
By Jose CoraZON DE JESU


I choice this poem because I love the way he make it. And It is easy to understand and very meaningful. And I can relate this poem. It’s happen in a real life story.   

 My Favorite Filipino Poem

Jose Corazon de Jesus

Itanong Mo Sa Bituin (Ask the Stars)

Isang gabi'y manungaw ka. Sa bunton ng panganorin

ay tanawin ang ulila't naglalamay na bituin;

Sa bitui'y itanong mo ang ngalan ng aking giliw

at kung siya'y magtatapat, ngalan mo ang sasabihin.

Ang bitui'y kapatid mo. Kung siya ma'y nasa langit,

ikaw'y ditong nasa lupa't bituin ka ng pag-ibig;

dahil diya'y itanong mo sa bituin mong kapatid

kundi ikaw ang dalagang minamahal ko nang labis.

Itanong mo sa bitui't bituin ang nakakita

nang ako ay umagahin sa piling ng mga dusa;

minagdamag ang palad ko sa pagtawag ng Amada,

ngunit ikaw na tinawag, lumayo na't nagtago pa.

Bienvenido Lumbera

Servant

On the shut door of the mind

We knock, we of soul and body torn;

We who serve and are ignored,

Broken into pieces to be of use.

Our heads nod, our arms lift,

Our feet are quick, our faces turn:

We scatter our parts to the beck

And call of those higher than us.

Deep within, we have a name,

A story to tell. Against a harsh life

We've put up a fight, only

To end up with a servant's life.

We serve the strong, we are

Feet and arms wanting to climb,

Heads and faces used to fool the law,

Will we be whole again tomorrow?

Up ahead the new day shines,

The change-of-fate we seek-

Then we shall rise again,

With our names and bodies back.

Jose Garcia Villa

Lyrics 18

From Jose Garcia Villa 55 Poems

Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant,

Who bore the storms as he bore the sun,

Wearing neither gown nor helmet,

Though he was archbishop and soldier:

Wore only his own flesh.

Salute characters with gracious dignity:

Though what these are is left to

Your own terms. Exact: the universe is

Not so small but these will be found

Somewhere: Exact: they will be found.

.

Speak with great moderation: but think

With great fierceness, burning passion:

Though what the ant thought

No annals reveal, nor his descendants

Break the seal.

Trace the tracelessness of the ant,

Every ant has reached this perfection.

As he comes, so he goes,

Flowing as water flows,

Essential but secret like a rose.

Bienvenido Lumbera

Sadness

Sweet little songs I make,

Tunes so pure and full of love.

When lovers are timid and mute,

I give them voice, I make them bold.

Once I bid a word to come

And help me put together a poem.

From far and near, from wherever,

The word brought the poem warmth.

Each word I painstakingly refine,

And I wash the impoverished tongue.

I soothe and salve the cry of pain,

I banish any trace of tears.

But sadness I cannot send away—

Its little waves lap and leave,

Lap and leave the shore of the heart,

This moment a whisper, next a storm.

Cirilo Bautista

Pedagogic

I walked towards the falling woods

to teach the trees all that I could

of time and birth, the language of men,

the virtues of hate and loving.

They stood with their fingers flaming,

Listened to me with a serious mien:

I knew the footnotes, all the text,

my words were precise and correct-

I was sure that they were learning-

till one tree spoke, speaking in dolor,

to ask why I never changed color.

My Favorite Filipino Hero Is “Jose Rizal”

José Rizal was born on June 19, 1861, in Calamba, Philippines. While living in Europe, Rizal wrote about the discrimination that accompanied Spain's colonial rule of his country. He returned to the Philippines in 1892, but was exiled due to his desire for reform. Although he supported peaceful change, Rizal was convicted of sedition and executed on December 30, 1896, at age 35.

Early Life

On June 19, 1861, José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born in Calamba in the Philippines' Laguna Province. A brilliant student who became proficient in multiple languages, José Rizal studied medicine in Manila. In 1882, he traveled to Spain to complete his medical degree.

Writing and Reform

While in Europe, José Rizal became part of the Propaganda Movement, connecting with other Filipinos who wanted reform. He also wrote his first novel, Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not/The Social Cancer), a work that detailed the dark aspects of Spain's colonial rule in the Philippines, with particular focus on the role of Catholic friars. The book was banned in the Philippines, though copies were smuggled in. Because of this novel, Rizal's return to the Philippines in 1887 was cut short when he was targeted by police.

Rizal returned to Europe and continued to write, releasing his follow-up novel,El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed) in 1891. He also published articles inLa Solidaridad, a paper aligned with the Propaganda Movement. The reforms Rizal advocated for did not include independence—he called for equal treatment of Filipinos, limiting the power of Spanish friars and representation for the Philippines in the Spanish Cortes (Spain's parliament).

Exile in the Philippines

Rizal returned to the Philippines in 1892, feeling he needed to be in the country to effect change. Although the reform society he founded, the Liga Filipino (Philippine League), supported non-violent action, Rizal was still exiled to Dapitan, on the island of Mindanao. During the four years Rizal was in exile, he practiced medicine and took on students.

Execution and Legacy

In 1895, Rizal asked for permission to travel to Cuba as an army doctor. His request was approved, but in August 1896, Katipunan, a nationalist Filipino society founded by Andres Bonifacio, revolted. Though he had no ties to the group, and disapproved of its violent methods, Rizal was arrested shortly thereafter.

After a show trial, Rizal was convicted of sedition and sentenced to death by firing squad. Rizal's public execution was carried out in Manila on December 30, 1896, when he was 35 years old. His execution created more opposition to Spanish rule.

Spain's control of the Philippines ended in 1898, though the country did not gain lasting independence until after World War II. Rizal remains a nationalist icon in the Philippines for helping the country take its first steps toward independence.

Why I choice Jose Rizal as my favorite Filipino Hero?

I choice him because he really love Philippines and Filipino. That why I choice him as my favorite Filipino hero.   Rizal was the greatest Filipino hero that ever lived because he was the most intelligent, most courageous, and most dangerous enemy of the reactionaries and the tyrants; and the main reason why Rizal is our greatest Filipino hero is that he is “a man that honored after death by public worship because of the exceptional service to mankind”. 

Rizal’s leadership was recognized by his countrymen here and abroad, he because as honorary president of the “La Solidaridad”, he organized and became chief of the Indios Bravos, he was chosen as responsible (chief) of the Spanish Filipino Association and Rizal was the founder and moving spirit in the of the Liga Filipina in Manila on July 3, 1892.

 His memory will never perish in his fatherland, and future generations of Spaniards will yet learn to utter his name with respect and reverence. And throughout the Islands the public schools teach the young Filipinos to revere his memory as the greatest of Filipino patriots “Rizal Avenue” one of the longest and most important streets in Manila has been named.  

Now and then some Filipinos who said that Andres Bonifacio deserves to be acknowledged and canonized as our first National hero, and yet Dr. Jose Rizal. Its because that Rizal never held a gun, a rifle or a sword in fighting for the liberty in the battlefield they further assert is that in other countries are soldier-generals, like George Washington of USA as their National hero but people in excising their good sense, independent judgment etc., have not followed the examples of other nations in selecting and acknowledging a military leader being a greatest hero. 

 Who made Rizal the foremost hero of the Philippines? No amount of adulation and canonization by both Filipinos and foreigners could convert Rizal into a great hero if he did not possess in himself that was ‘Palma calls “excellent qualities and merits”. No single person or groups of persons were responsible for making the Civeatest Hero, Rizal himself, his own people and the foreigners all together contributed to make him the greatest hero and martyr of his countrymen.