A Fun Song With a Bonus Recipe

Fish Head Soup

Ingredients :
1 fish head (salmon, lapu-lapu, maya-maya, tanguigue), cleaned
1 whole garlic, crushed and peeled
2 thumb-sized pieces of ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
2 onions, peeled, halved and sliced
6 c. of boiling water
patis
2 tbsps. of cooking oil
a bunch of sili leaves
Cooking procedure :
Heat the cooking oil in a large deep saucepan or casserole. Saute the garlic and ginger until fragrant. Add the onions and cook, stirring, for another 30 seconds. Pour in the boiling water. Lower the fish head into the hot water. Season with patis. Lower the heat, cover and simmer for about 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the fish head.
Meanwhile, pick the sili leaves, discarding the stalks.
Check the fish. Add more patis, is necessary. Turn off the heat, add the sili leaves and cover. Leave for another 10 minutes.
Serve hot.

Hey, Lulu. Let me know how this turns out, okay?

Recipe for Day of the Dead: Sugar Skulls

Receta: Sugar Skulls
Ingredients
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 egg white
• 1 tablespoon corn syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup cornstarch
• Food coloring of different colors
• Candy sprinkles
• 1 fine paintbrush
• Candy sticks

Preparation
Sift sugar into a large mixing bowl. In another bowl, mix the egg white, corn syrup and vanilla.

Slowly pour the liquid into the powdered sugar. Mix with your hands until a sandy dough forms.

Form dough into a ball. At this point you can continue or you can refrigerate dough for later use.

Lightly dust the surface of a cooking board with cornstarch as well as your hands. Pinch off a heaping tablespoon of dough and shape it into a skull.

Press the candy sticks into the bottom of each skull. If you’re using them, lightly press colored sprinkles into the soft candy.
Let the candy dry overnight.

Use the paint brush with food coloring to decorate the skulls when dry. You can also use icing (one that will dry hard) with a fine tip to decorate them.

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Of course, here we have sugar skulls all of the time, as well as pan de muerto and other ghastly treats, but once a year the rest of the world joins us in our morbid state of mind.