#HAWMC Day 10: Comfort Food
Disclosure: I don’t cook.
I used to cook our simple inexpensive meals back in college to
economize, but after that I realize that I am too absent-minded or too
preoccupied to pay attention to cooking.
One time I set out to boil an egg, I left it cooking on the stove
thinking that it’ll be done in 10 minutes.
So I left to do something else.
When I came back, the kitchen smelled of soot and smoke and burnt egg. The pan looked like a dry charcoal-grill and
I resolved never to cook again, for the safety of my family – both from fire
hazards and from carcinogens found in burnt food.
One time I remember joining the summer camp in Badian, Cebu,
organized by the Cebu City Taskforce on Street children. I love soup, so I volunteered to cook one
dish – to make Chinese oriental egg drop nido soup from scratch, so that the kids
would know what “fine dining” tastes like.
It turned out ok since I put in my full attention so that we don’t waste
the ingredients. It was really good, if
I might say so myself – one of my rare culinary achievements! I proudly scooped up the soup into the kid’s
bowls as they lined up for their share of dinner. To my horror, they crinkled their noses, took
a teeny weeny sip then poured the soup into the “lamaw” (left over scraps for
pigs) bin… so that’s that. I vowed never
to volunteer to cook for streetkids again.
So we’re supposed to talk about comfort food. My primary comfort food is sashimi and other
Japanese cuisine – it’s healthy and yummy and fresh, and NOT “bawal” (prohibited) according to
whatever diet I am on… I don't know technically how to prepare sashimi, but it seems easy to prepare because you can buy a slab of fresh or
frozen salmon from your friendly grocery store, bring it home with wasabi and
kikoman, cut into strips and enjoy! Good thing that Japanese restaurants abound
also so that when I don’t feel like tinkering in the kitchen, I can just order
it like fast food…
Helen Madamba, sashimi lover.
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