Christmas dinner.

Nah. I'm allergic to beaf

 

That must suck...

Though my teeth are blunt, so I can't eat steak sadly



Anyway, just cold ham, pasta salad, and some random salad thing (tomatoes and cucumber were in it...and onions) was my LUNCH


My family totally skipped dinner because as usual they broke out into a fight about what to have...Wasn't until 10:30pm that I I had fried rice which was brought home thanks to mum (I went straight to sleep after lunch...).


Life in my family is weird and un-christmas-y.

 

Gulaman(fruit jelly), I think.

 

reminds me of fruit cake that someone decided to turn into "ranger pudding"

 

wow...pretty big....i thought fruit jelly were small...

 

I ate Rice with Fish :
I did have some nice leftover pizza afterwards though :

 

Those red & green bits are one of three things:

1. Gulaman, it's gelatin, but not the flavored kind. Or if it were flavored it would have pandan as its flavor:



2. In the case of how my mom & I prepare it, those red &/or green bits would be Kaong:



or,

3. Nata de Coco:



Here are wikipedia articles on them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nata_de_coco <- Nata de Coco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulaman <- Gulaman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaong <- Arenga pinnata, the palm tree that bears the fruit we call Kaong.

AND, if you're interested, here's a recipe for Filipino fruit salad

Ingredients
5 large cans of Del Monte Fruit Cocktail (Imported)
Grated Coconut meat from 10 buko (young coconut)
1 small bottle nata de coco (green)
1 small bottle nata de coco (red)
1 small bottle kaong (green)
1/4 kilo seedless grapes
3 small china apples , cubed
1/4 kilo seedless grapes
1 can condensed milk
2 packs Nestle Cream
1 can Peaches for topping
Few red or green cherries for topping

fresh bukonata de coco
Fresh Buko, Nata de coco

fruit cocktailpeaches
Fruit Cocktail, Peaches

Procedure
1. Drain the fruits from the can for at least 2 hours. This is to prevent a soggy fruit salad.

2. When all the juices have been drained, mix all the fruits together in a bowl.
mixing fruit salad

3. Add the condensed milk and cream till well blended.

4. Transfer to serving bowls and top with peaches and cherries.

5. Freeze or Refrigerate properly. (Buko spoils if not refrigerated or frozen. I prefer to freeze the rest of the buko salad if it isn’t eaten within the day.