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Mainstays of a Typical Boholano Diet
« on: February 16, 2009, 03:59:21 PM »
Where the Roman gods and goddesses had nectar and ambrosia, Filipinos have buwad and ginamos.

With just these, there’s no limit to how much rice we can consume.  Except, perhaps, for the world food crisis.  But this is just to emphasize that a sliver of buwad or a teaspoon of ginamos can go a very long way on the Filipino dinner table.

In their basic process, pag-gamos and pagbuwad are merely ways of preserving the excess of a fisherman’s catch for the day.  Sometimes, though, they are sought and preferred even when fresh fish and other seafood are plentiful.  Both are begun with cleaning and salting but the ginamos are left to soak in a bottle or a jar for days or weeks and the buwad is left to dry under the sun until one gets the desired degree of dryness.  Not far from ginamos is tinabal.  The fish is salted heavily and left to season in its own juices.  Tinabal can be any size, from a labajan to a molmol but I don’t know if just about any fish can be tinabal.

For the farmer or any worker who needs to stock up on carbohydrates for a hard day’s work, ginamos is one of the cheapest ways to build up an appetite.  And what an appetite.  Have you ever tried to stop someone during a meal of ginamos bolinaw, inun-onang borot-borot, and mounds of rice?  Or of ginamos nga ojap sautéed with a few slices of pork and mounds of rice?  Or how about ginamos nga tagimtim, suka, lemonsito, and, again, mounds of rice?

The same is true with buwad.  The Filipino breakfast table seems incomplete without a plateful of buwad bolinaw, potpot, or mangsi fried crisp in edible oil or somewhat blackened after a few minutes on top of red-hot coals.  What is humbang nangka or nilaw-oy without flakes of buwad as subak?  And can you contemplate life without the delicacy of the buwad nokus or danggit.

And don’t get me started on tinabal.  Just imagine a heavily salted molmol about a week away from becoming ginamos.  How glorious would it be when it’s sautéed in oil, garlic, onions, and a lot of red, ripe tomatoes?

When I was still a kid, my father would sometimes joke, whenever we came upon a really good batch of ginamos, that it was tasty because it had fallen into a kanal, was retrieved from it, and then sold to us.  Even in those times that I believed the joke, I would still eat the ginamos.  In the years that have passed I’ve come to learn that the kanal joke is universal and that I was not alone in insisting to eat ginamos in spite of it.

Filipino humor has more to say on ginamos.  We know of a variety of preparations that have been shortened to suggest morbid execution.  There’s the classic gipusil, or ginamos pus-ag sili.  There’s also gipriso, ginamos pritohon nga solo, although I personally believe that it’s better when it’s gikahon, ginamos ug kamatis gisahon.  Then comes gidunggab, ginamos dungag gabi.  Lastly, there’s the dread gitook, ginamos tongtongag ok-ok.

Whether you believe in the kanal joke or not or have personally experienced gitook, if you want to be sure about how sanitary your ginamos is, you can always make your own.  You will need a glass jar, some small fish (your choice of kujog, bolinaw, or mubgas) or tagimtim or sisi, and some salt.  Rub the salt all over the fish.  How much salt you use will depend on your taste.  To this, you can add a few lemonsito leaves or a few cloves of ahos to make the ginamos fragrant.  Put the fish in the jar and let alone for days or weeks until ma-gamos na.  The procedure for making buwad is pretty much evident in its name, just keep it out of the reach of cats and other creatures.

One may be driven to eat them every day out of necessity or, if you’re better off, you can eat them as you please and by choice.  Whatever your status, buwad and ginamos have us Filipinos bound as one people.  It may be through our stomachs, but that’s not much further from our hearts.


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Re: Mainstays of a Typical Boholano Diet
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 04:13:02 PM »
How to make ginamos?

 Place one half kilo bolinao  in a strainer.( Patuloon ang duga)
 Mix with 4 spoonfuls of salt and little vetsin.
 Stir it and place in tighly covered container.
 You can eat after 3 days.


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Re: Mainstays of a Typical Boholano Diet
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2009, 03:18:14 PM »
Sanu fdaray good day ajo!!! kay na post nimu ni kay maggamam ko dire ug ginamos pirme lang ko kaon ug KUBOZ dire oi? dumdum ko sauna bata pako sugoon ko ako Amahan palit ug Ginamos adto Ensi Sejing sa mansasa? humot kajo tong ija Ginamos na nokus ug amahong??? haay paresan ug bahaw... gutom man ko??
How to make ginamos?

 Place one half kilo bolinao  in a strainer.( Patuloon ang duga)
 Mix with 4 spoonfuls of salt and little vetsin.
 Stir it and place in tighly covered container.
 You can eat after 3 days.


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Re: Mainstays of a Typical Boholano Diet
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2009, 06:16:41 PM »
How to make ginamos?

 Place one half kilo bolinao  in a strainer.( Patuloon ang duga)
 Mix with 4 spoonfuls of salt and little vetsin.
 Stir it and place in tighly covered container.
 You can eat after 3 days.


One more thing, ajaw hugasi ang ginamoson sa tap water or tubig tab-ang kay dili maajo nang gimanosa inig kagamos na.

Leave it as is gikan sa dagat or gikamot-kamot sa gakitiw-kitiw nga tigpaninda.

Og di jud makaya, hugasi sa tubig dagat before patulo on

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Re: Mainstays of a Typical Boholano Diet
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2009, 08:14:08 PM »
Thanks Sir Felix sa imong post. Very pinoy ang imong topic.

Mi gaan akong pamati pagkabasa nako ani. Akong imagination murag naa lang ko sa Bohol nag tindog. Nawala ang akong homesick.

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Re: Mainstays of a Typical Boholano Diet
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2009, 09:03:08 AM »
Tinoud na Macky. Pwede na isud-an ang ginamos sagulan sa kamates ug gamay ng suka.

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