Dinner With Friends
Posted by Belle on 22 Apr 2008 at 08:25 am | Tagged as: AZ, Friends, Pansit bihon, Roosevelt, food
We were invited over at our friends’ house for a last get-together for this year before they head back to WA. to spend the summer. These are retired people who own two homes - one in AZ where they spend the winter to get away from the dark-cold-wet days of Seattle, and one in WA, which offers beautiful weather and long nights during summer.
I usually take charge of the kitchen when I come over. I made eggrolls and pansit.
FYI: I was wearing shorts and a long shirt. Even my husband asked, “do you have anything underneath that shirt?”
Boy, I haven’t even finished deep frying the eggrolls, two of my friends couldn’t seem to get their hands off the cooked eggrolls. For the other gentleman, it was his first time to eat eggroll, and he loved it so much!
Don’t you just love watching them attack the food? It made me feel good as a cook.
And let me show you the weirdness out of this gentleman.
He added catsup to his pansit. Yuck!
Bella!
Oops. Can you give me the recipe for pansit? Minus the catsup of course! It looks so good. Hope it’s not fattening!
Hmmm.. might need to know how to make egg rolls too. They look mighty tasty!
Pat, i will bring you pansit noodles one of these days and will teach you how to cook it. Ray A likes it, too. You will need strips of chicken or pork, some shrimps, finely chopped cabagge, julienned carrots, snow peas (optional)and chopped green onions for garnish.
For eggrolls, you need 1/2 lb minced pork, 1/2 minced beef, 1/4 minced shrimp, carrots, water chestnut, and 3 white stalks of green onions(all finely chopped.) Mix all together. Crack an egg into the mixture, add chopped onions, and season it with salt, pepper.
The wrapping part is a little tricky so I need to demonstrate it to you.
Belle, what kind of noodle is pansit actually?
Whenever you say “pansit” … I always associate it with “pangsit” in Indo culinary language but I think they are not the same thing. Pangsit in Indo is wanton. Egg noodles, char siew and wantons normally served as one package noodles meal here.
Sounds like fun. I, too would also like my pancit (dry-fried) with ketchup. It’s even better with the sunny-side up on top of it, You should try.
Mas pabor ako sa pancit-bihon.
Hi kabayan,
Pancit with ketchup? eww, but if it’s enjoyed with gusto, then hurray for that. By the smiles of the gentlemen, it’s obvious that you’re a great cook. Yan ang pinay.
I read in your comment in angelica’s blog that you’re coming home again a few months from now?wow. My family spent 2 weeks in naga city last April, but bec. we have a tiny baby in tow, imposible pa ang pagpunta sa catanduanes and caramoan (the latter bec. survivor was being shot there, I heard.)
kim
wow, sexybelle!!!
Just dropping by & saying a quick hello. Been really busy lately and my blog is offline for now.
Take care!
Elyani, pansit uses the white rice noodles. i prefer it over the egg noodles.
K, you, too? oh my gosh, i thought my friend C is the weirdest of them all, ikaw din pala..haha. i would rather put a dash of hot chili sauce. but to each his own.
Momoftwomunchkins, hehehe…thanks. hope to see you resume your blogging soon.
When he asked if you had anything under that shirt, you should have given him a naughty look and answered, “What do you think? There’s only one way of finding out, you know…”
It’s always rewarding when you see people enjoying the food that you prepared.
Pancit and catsup, that’s an odd combination.
LOL at your attire! So seductive naman the cook!
They do love eggrolls, don’t they? And pancit too!
And I agree, the best compliment for a cook is when they attack food like that! Catsup and all.
Haha, catsup on pansit - it’s like a weird meeting between the east and the west.
It would be akin to putting calamansi and toyo on french fries!
Yuck is the word. hahaha. Did they catsup the lumpia too? And do you prepare lumpia wrapper from scratch. So tedious ha. I remembered I bathed in sweat the last time I did that.