I agree, Sars! I used to look for kinalas during typhoon season. Mmmm, I want it so bad I can almost taste it!
Thanks for looking it up, Mikey! I knew it was made with a pig's head, but I wasn't gonna attempt to make it without a recipe. My family doesn't call me the kitchen disaster for nothing. (I know distracted people can burn water even if they're otherwise great cooks, but I have yet to meet anyone else who's exploded a can of condensed milk all over the kitchen walls/ceiling/behind the fridge/under the stove even). So, anyway, lol, I think I'll badger my older relatives back in Bicol to see if one of them has any idea how to spice kinalas and how to make the gravy. I've already got the siling labuyo and I'm sure it won't be hard to find a pig's head.