Our Holy Week Family Tradition: Cooking Bacalao ๐ฒ
For as long as I can remember every Holy Week, my deeply Catholic family would abstain from eating meat. Instead, we'd have veggie ๐ฅ versions of usual dishes we have for our daily meals but the highlight of the week will be when grandma will cook "Bacalao".
The tradition dates back to Spanish times when our ancestors adopted it from the Spaniards who were looking for a way to go meatless and at the same time have a tasty and satisfying meal. Bacalao means codfish ๐ in Spanish and is the protein of the dish. Some recipes have them cooked as is while some have the fish meat picked into flaky pieces. My grandma cooks the latter.
I wanted to capture how lola cooks it but I woke up a bit late ๐ช so I wasn't able to capture the whole process. But I have enough to share that'll give you an idea how it's done. Mind you these are just my observations, a more accurate recipe will be linked at the end. ๐
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The usual ingredients are:
- Dried codfish or daing - soaked in water overnight to remove the saltiness & the meat picked from the bones
- Tomato sauce/paste (free advertising for Del Monte, they should send me something ๐)
- Peppers, cut up like on the right above
- Diced carrots
- Olives
- Black pepper
- Diced Potatoes
- Bay leaves
- Rosemary leaves
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https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bacalao-guisado-codfish-stew-recipe-1952080
It has a few differences but it's close to what my lola cooks.
I hope you enjoyed my lola's cooking demo. ๐
What do you usually do during Holy Week as a family?
Do you have any traditions that you keep in the Lenten Season?
Do share I'd love to know! ๐
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Cheers! Irish Stout sounds lovely, I'll have to look it up. ๐ป๐
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Yes, steemph is already in the tag. Thank you!
Hmmm I dunno but I guess you can answer a question that's bugging me. Which is better University of San Carlos or Silliman Univ?
Totally unrelated to the food post but that somehow popped up in my mind after reading this. ๐
My vote is with Silliman. Why do you ask?
Planning on taking Masters kaso olats di ko makontak mga prof ko dati kahit s FB for reco letter. :(
Ano mganda s Silliman?
I went there once and I just liked it there. Try looking around their website or ask questions in their FB page for more info.
Ok noted. Did that already... Just wanted to do a poll. ๐