Rough Draft: Chicken and pork Adobo

Delia Narvaez
ENg: 121
Food Essay Rough Draft
2/21/2011
Chicken and Pork Adobo



Every Filipino I know loves to eat. We celebrate like birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and other occasions. We cook all kinds of our favorite dishes. We always invite our close friends and relatives. We eat three meals a day. While eating breakfast, we are already thinking what's going to be for lunch and dinner.
Chicken and pork Adobo is well known Filipino food. We consider it as our national dish, it is easy to prepare and does not need a lot of ingredients. As long as a I have soy sauce, vinegar, salt, and pepper, i can cook my Adobo. Most people I know love adobo except my husband. It does not surprise me because he is no fan of Filipino food. A friend of mine teaches me how to cook her version of Adobo. I must admit, her recipe tastes better than mine. Or is it the saying that food that tastes better when you eat at your friend’s house.
Adobo is well known among Filipinos. In fact, there is a running program thru Filipino Channel here in United States, they call it Adobo Nation.
There are several varieties of cooking adobo. Some people like to sauté it in onion and garlic. Some preferred by mixing all the ingredients, marinate for a couple of hours and simmer for an hour.
I remembered one time, I was eating Adobo and rice (we eat rice three times a day) my husband asked me a funny question. He asked me "Why don’t you eat regular foods." I answered "Hey, I am Asian and this is our regular dish." Before i forgot, we eat with our own bare hands, no chopstick, no spoon, and fork. We just wash our hands carefully before eating bare hands.