QUEEN VICTORIA'S CHILDHOOD MEMORY

 by: MisS VictoriA DaviD

My mind has been filled with memories from the past

and thoughts in the now.

What a delicate dreg contrast!

From time to time, I could lucidly feel how protective my father was

and how loving my mother was to me, too.

Then, the mirror image of dwelling into the past flared in a leap.

I love being intimately transported to how facile

and breezy it was to be a child once again.

Don’t you think for one second?

My toys were my greatest possessions and I shared them with my friends.

When they weren’t in used, my prudent parents gathered

and kept all of them with no muttering under their breath.

It was their way of retaining my toys from the predatory eyes

and wayward hands of my childhood friends.

The unvarnished truth about being my childhood is,
that it was very carefree and delightful.

You don't have the duty on your shoulder or responsibility for others

and even taking good care of yourself is left in the hands of parents.

What a threshold for children to play!

If and when memory lane ingratiates into my mind,

it usually brings forth seventh-heaven and joyfulness.

Either picturing-out with my newfangled toys (solely playing)

or reminiscing the never-ending laughter with my friends.

Those were hilarity flashes in me
that added euphoria to the healthy hearts of my parents.

The rivet core of my childhood memory resides forever

deep in my heart and soul.

When revives, it can breath a trajectory of new life

but delving excessively can rhapsody lead to

a series of adverse comparisons; unhappiness and pain.

Childhood memory lane is a penetrating quagmire.

It separates yourself from the even-handed paths of reality

and draws you closer and abut into the spectra of fantasy.

Truth be told but I dearly love how insouciant and unsullied

being a child who is free from woes was.

On the other hand, the wishful fantasy of manipulating back the

“tick tock”clock is a chagrin diversion

which will separate you from appreciating more

the eyrie of beauty and security
of the life you have in the now! 

QUEEN VICTORIA'S BAKED/GRILLED BONED PORK LEG

by: MisS VictoriA DaviD

 

As an old saying goes, “A way to a man’s heart is to fill his empty stomach.”

Sistahs, it is time for you to prepare your kitchen and check the needed ingredients for this scrumptiously meaty recipe. It gives a succulent cooking experience and also, warms up your kitchen in this type of weather. More importantly, it will truly indulge your man’s appetite... STOP HIS AGONY!!!

Ingredients:

• Boned Pork Leg 
• 3 cloves of garlic; crashed/sliced
• ginger; crashed/sliced
• mixed herbs
• 2 tbsps. of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 tbsp. of Sunflower Oil
• 1 tbsp. of Lemon juice
• 1 tbsp. of Worcester sauce
• salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and vegetable stock granules to taste
•  1 medium cooking onion; slice into 4 and separate each layer 
• 4 medium-sized mushrooms; cut each into 2 

Cooking Procedure:

1. Thaw your meat, if needed.
2. Prepare the chopping board and place your meat on it. Use a sharp knife to scar on top and turn-over to do the same. Just set it aside.
3. Prepare your crashed/sliced garlic and ginger, then insert most of the slices in the created scars of the meat. Dont throw away the excess garlic and ginger, just scatter and arrange evenly in the bottom of the pyrex glass.
4. Rub the whole meat with mixed herbs. 
5. Prepare your cooking dish (Pyrex-glass cooking dish is good) and lay the prepared meat in the centre to create an art. Just set it aside.
6. Mix and whisk the Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sunflower Oil, Lemon juice and Worcester sauce in a bowl. After that, add the condiments for additional flavours and make sure they are all well blended.
7. Gradually, pour the mixture you made from cooking procedure 6. Just make sure it is distributed evenly over the meat.
8. Design it with layers of onions and slices of mushrooms around it (Be Imaginative!) Then, cover the pyrex either with foil or its lid.
9. Place it in a safe area and marinate it for 1 hour before placing it in the oven.
10. Preheat the oven to 150ºC under bake mode (electric). 
11. Place the cooking dish (with the marinated meat) in the preheated oven, then bake it for 30 minutes. In 15 minutes time, glaze the meat with its own sauce and turn it over for the other side to be soaked in its sauce, too. 
12. After that, remove the foil or lid and change the Bake to Grill as well as adjust the temperature down to 120ºC. 
13. Place and grill it for 30 minutes. Check it every 10 minutes and glaze the meat using its own sauce.

Eat it with joy in your heart and share your dish with loved-ones as the scrumptiousness will be revealed when all are together around the table.

I miss my loving Tatay because of this Filipino inspired cuisine of mine.