Linaga nga Pata sang Baka
Featuring my PERSONAL HERO on our fourth week of National Heroes Day Cookfest. My father was the chief cook when we were growing up and long before the word chef became a household word. He always saw to it then that we do have soup every day. He claims that the soup will make sure that our brains won't dry up and we will score high in our tests. Higup sabaw para indi magmala ang utok niyo. So, on the occasion of his 66th birthday, we had his sinfully delicious pata nga linaga since tasting this dish will always remind us of his cooking and his love of feeding his children. In fact, I was lucky to have reserved the pata from the meatshop whose owners were his friends. They gave me a good young portion and cleaned. Bag-ong ihaw gid kag limpyo na. Pata is the part which consists of the knee and down. The beef pata is best for linaga because it is bigger and won't easily fall off when boiled for hours to bring out the beefy taste in the broth. The jelly-like colla...