The simplest recipe for cooking fish here in my country is to cook it with some vinegar, salt, and mild long chili peppers to come-up with this local recipe we call "Paksiw". It is considered a pauper's viand and not too many people like to have it because they do not prefer it. In fact no feast or occasions will ever serve this viand to their guests although it can be made special by using other types of fish like mudfish, catfish, or other freshwater fishes which are not always available in the market to purchase and there are several of them which I can't enumerate here.
I also had my meal with fermented rice with shrimp as its flavoring. There isn't any special thing about it but being fermented and made like a rice gruel although it can be cooked to be former, i.e. less water content. Not all people likes its taste but for me as I had built a taste for it is just simply yummy.
I had gotten to like its taste because my mother used to prepare it when we were younger. My siblings in the other hand doesn't like it because of its odor but for me it smells exciting and I just regard it as the rice version of cheese although it is just mildly acidic because of the lactic acid caused by the fermentation process of the rice which in turn cooks the additional small shrimps as its main flavoring. Other flavorings consists of fish meat and based on who made the fermented rice with fish/shrimp, t can be truly be so tasty.
To make it, you just add salt to rice and small raw shrimps together neatly packed in an airtight container and wait for about five days until the fermentation had made the rice somewhat like a gruel. Then it is cooked by sautéing it garlic, onions, and sometimes some tomatoes are added. It is made into a side dish and eaten with boiled Okra, string beans, eggplant, and or raw mustard leaves together with the main food of either fried or broiled fish like Tilapia, catfish, or mudfish.
There are already videos from YouTube on how to make it and I fish it easy to do although I would prefer just to buy it because of convenience. For one thing it is clean because otherwise it will rot if not bear "living things". A true fermentation process requires no air to be let in which is why bad bacteria will not thrive while fermentation is on-going which is why even if raw shrimps and fishes are added, toxins are not produced because good bacteria are the ones encouraged to grow in it producing carbon dioxide and lactic acid in the process which also sterilizes it until the main product quality is achieved.
Yesterday I had eaten about a cup of this fermented rice and just one of the fish. I took some Moringa capsules and some passionfruit juice drink and it completed my rather "complete meal" of the day. Later I asked my mother to give me some mayonnaise sandwich to add some calorie in my diet. Meanwhile I skipped eating the banana that my mother give me for my lunch-dinner meal because i am trying to control my potassium intake. It is scary when it gets high because my heart would skip beats and it does make me feel like I would die right then and there.
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