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| Utan Bisaya, anyone? |
Oh, hello there.
So what should you expect from The Utan Bisaya Project?
Every so often, I end up being too preachy or admittingly, self-righteous (to the horror of the person on the other end of the conversation!) about food, nutrition, and by and large, how to eat for your health.
Nutritionist. Dietician. Vegan. Chef.
I am not all these personas. I am not even close to being a vegetarian because as a true blue Cebuana, I still look forward to the occasional juicy piece of Alejo’s Lechon in Labangon and of course, Zubuchon! (this is not a sponsored post haha) But on most days, I aim to choose plant-based meals and avoid heavily processed food items as much as possible.
So how exactly did I become so involved in this “choose plant-based and whole food” crusade? It all began when I met The Boyfriend who for some reason could come up with a very awesome dish from an all-star vegetable cast. I was like blown away because I’ve always thought, all this time, that meat is king! And then I stumbled upon Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food and I started to go mad with my research skills and lo and behold! it turns out that going green with your eating habits while pleasing your taste buds at the same time is actually possible.
Like that filling bowl of utan bisaya (local vegetable stew), this blog will hopefully house posts of whatever is natural, green, healthy (as if there’s a health-o-meter to help us figure out because admit it, healthy is not really just a black and white concept), and oozing with goodness when it comes to food. The posts would probably serve as a guide but recipes won’t be regularly featured (I’m not really that methodical with what I cook. Excuses, right?). Besides, I can point you to awesome sites housing recipes which are equal parts easy to prepare, nourishing, and most of all, delish!
Simply put, The Utan Bisaya Project will hopefully shut me up when I’m in a conversation about food because I’ve already put all my energy in between writing and research for the posts here. :D
Photo by the shutterer.
