Pulutan- from the Soldiers’ Kitchen is going worldwide! Reuters, an international news agency featured it. It was carried in Star (malaysia), yahoo asia news, yahoo philippines and Malaysia Sun, among others.
Here’s the Reuters’ article.
Coup accused cook up a tasty plot in the Philippines
by Carmel Crimmins
MANILA (Reuters Life!) – Two Philippine navy officers in detention for their role in a failed 2003 coup have taken a novel approach to dealing with jail: they’ve written a cook book.
The culinary manifesto is filled with over 100 recipes gleaned from fellow plotters, friends, family and even their prison guards during breaks in court hearings and long days in their cells.
Entitled “Pulutan — From the Soldiers’ Kitchen”, authors Elmer Cruz and Emerson Rosales, focus on tasty small meals, known as pulutan, to accompany drinking sessions.
“Our contributors have tried out the pulutan recipes in this book and stake their honour on them,” the authors say.
“As to the state of their intoxication, that is an altogether different matter.”
The recipes are not for the weak of stomach.
There is “Insectxotic”, which is beetle stirfried in soy sauce, “Kinilaw na Tamilok” or woodworm served with freshly squeezed calamansi juice as well as the innocent-sounding “Soup No.5”, which involves a bull’s penis and testicles.
The penis and the woodworm are believed to be aphrodisiacs, as is a seafood stirfry called “Gising Gising” or “Wake Up”.
Meat dishes — often involving intestines and innards — abound and the cooking instructions are no-nonsense.
For “French Kiss”, which requires a beef tongue, the reader is told to scald the organ thoroughly before scraping it clean.
For “Vampire’s Delight”, three cups of fresh pig’s blood is called for.
The authors, who have been in detention since 2003, preface each chapter with some background on the recipes.
“My stomach grumbled while I was taking down notes,” Cruz says of a particularly delicious recipe for leftover roast pig which was given to him by a fellow detainee during a court session.
The authors agreed to a plea bargain this year for their role in seizing an apartment block in Manila’s financial district for several hours in 2003 and calling for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
The siege, involving over 200 soldiers, ended without violence. Rosales and Cruz will be released in January and discharged from the military.
The officers, whose original title for the cookbook was “Drunkards’ Delight”, lament their inability to wash down the recipes, including Tequila Combo and Groggy Chicken, with the requisite cold beer or spirit.
But they warn their readers to behave sensibly.
“Drink responsibly. Remember: Don’t take the throttle when you’ve come
from the bottle.”
talaga naman.
bilis ng pagsikat nitong kinatakutang “niluluto” daw ng mga oakwood officials.
kaya lalong maglalasing sa inis si gloria.
dali, bigyan agad ng soup no. 9. ‘yung nilagang balls and penis ni esPWEron!
Very good. If it doesn’t work in the Philippines which the victims usually don’t, then bring it to the world. Spread it like a Gospel. Baka ang international community pa ang magbapagsak kay GMA finally. Perhaps those based abroad can help spread it too by sending it to their local papers and media. Malapit na…malapit nang mawala ang salot. In fact, Bush snubbed GMA during the last APEC meeting in Australia. Who would want to be identified with a loser these days? Ang lahat ay naghihintay…sabik na sabik na sa dakilang araw na iyon sa kanyang pagbagsak.
Bakit may natitirang bayag pa si Assperon?
Mayroon naman. May natitira pa siyang bayag kaya lang kasing laki ng unggoy.
maarte,
malaki pa nga ‘yun! meron siyang natitira. kasing lakiit ng sa kuting.
ngihihihiyawwww!
Oyyyyyyy, kayo diyan Magno ha, maaga pa dito sa amin, kung anu-ano na ang pinaaalmusal n’yo sa amin! Pulutan lang ang sinimulan…napunta na sa kabayagan….(maaga na naman akong mapa-UTS nito sa katatawa!)
at dahil nga kasing lakiit lamang ng sa kuting ‘yung yagbols ni esPWEron ay kailangang gumamit ng salaang parang kulambo para mahuli sa pinaglagaan.
at para makita, gagamit ka pa ng maykroskop!
iiiihihihhiyyyyaaawwww!
Kayo talaga. Kaya tayo na ha-hack.
“at para makita, gagamit ka pa ng maykroskop!”
Hehehehehe!
Kaya pala duwag – nagtatapangtapangan lang, pero noong challenge siya ng MILF, atras ang pu&ç_)(_çà=&à)=à)&nang iyan…
ellen naman, huwag mo nang pigilin ‘yang nararamdaman mo. ikaw din, kabag ang labas niyan!
buti nga nagagawa pa nating pasayahin ang ating mga sarili kahit nag-uumusok na ang bunbunan natin sa galit sa kawan ng mga anay na ‘yan.