Good day, dear Hivers of @asean.hive community!
Today, me and my sister are a bit busy in preparing meals for our papa and the workers he hired to plow our corn fields. We prepared first "maruya". Some call it banana cue. We peeled the banana, fried it and then when it turned brownish, we take it and melt brown sugar in the pan. When the sugar is melted we then put the fried banana and mix it til the sugar sticks to the banana.
Not long after, we then prepared the food for lunch. Our menu is just tinolang isda. It is a soup recipe with fish as the major ingredient.
Before cooking we prepared the ingredients first. It includes the fish we cleaned. While cleaning it, my sister found a small fish inside the mouth in one of the fishes!
While my sister is cleaning the fish, I went to our backyard to pick some vegetables to be added in the recipe. I got some lemon grass for aroma and added flavor.
Then I went on and grabbed some spinach and pechay.
I also got some tomatoes.
I proceeded on washing them and sliced it all. I added some spices like onion and garlic for more flavor.
Just in time, my sister finished cleaning and washing the fishes.
We thought it lacks something so I went out again and got some malunggay or moringa from our neighbor. Because the morniga we planted is still not big and has not grown much yet.
It is really better to have some vegetable garden so when we think of cooking something that needs vegetables, we can just easily pick from it. We can enjoy food for free. No hustle buying outside at bigger prices.
A few minutes later we finished cooking the dish. My sister thought may be the workers may want some more viand so so fried the remaining fish. She did not cooked all of it earlier because she thought we can have it for our dinner, haha.
At quarter to 12, my father came and got everything we cooked which I already put in containers so it's easy for him to bring it all.
That's how we value our hired workers here in our barangay from the Philippines. We always prepare food for them because we know their work is not easy. Even though they are paid, we always treat them as our family too. Because my father believes if we treat them well, they will do their best as well, it will bring a better yield for us also.
Farming has been my father's bread and butter. And so in anyway we help him, too because it was what helped us become professionals. Even the garden we have is his influence to us. See, we have prepared a meal from the vegetable garden we have. We just get what we need from there and work our hands to prepare something delicious and also nutritious.
That's all for today. Til next time my fellow Hivers! Thank you for reading this far.
Note: Photos and words are mine. Photos are edited in Canva.
