Saturday, September 13, 2008 Khok: Cooking fiascos By Ober Khok Sira-sira store
CRISP fried bacon, moist grilled beef, and boiled knuckles. Is your mouth watering yet?
Better hold it. I’m talking about my belly, my arm and my fingers. Hot oil sputters gave my exposed belly a bad blister when I took over the kitchen. That’s what you get for going bare-top like Tarzan while cooking with oil.
What was I thinking? Superman? More like Super-clumsy Uncle, according to my niece Joy who surveyed my disaster as if she were the Philippine Department of National Defense Secretary.
The beef fiasco had to do with my forearm when I accidentally touched it on the hot grill while showing off to the girls my cooking prowess.
You may find it easy to figure out the boiled knuckles now.
I volunteered to drain the spaghetti for my aunt, and forgot that steam can give you a good scalding. It may not be a first-aid case, but it teaches you the cat-on-the-hot-tin-roof lesson.
It will be long time before I ever help in the kitchen. I’m just thankful the fiascos only cost my bruised ego but not my job; and I’m glad I’m not a public servant in Thailand.
A cooking fiasco placed a Thai leader in hot water, according to The Associated Press.
Prime Minister (PM) Samak Sundaravej was forced to resign after the “Constitutional Court ruled that he had broken a conflict-of-interest law by hosting a television cooking show while in office.”
I wonder if the Philippine Legislative Office has a law against politicians doing sitcoms or movies or appearing in commercials.
Samak certainly was hit by a law for hosting the cooking show “Tasting and Complaining.” I don’t know if he complained, but his supporters are making noise.
They promised to bring him back to power. No, there was no mention whether they would follow up the status of his television hosting.
Like me, Samak is a self-proclaimed foodie although I don’t have cooking show—yet.
He was the host of the cooking show for seven years before becoming PM earlier this year. However, thousands benefited from his recipes. There is no constitutional law against that so far.
To vindicate him, here’s a reproduction of his famous pork knuckles and fried rice recipes from www.guardian.co.uk.
