The other day was another exhausting day for me in our house. We have our house renovation and extension, so everything inside the house is a mess…lipat dito, lipat doon is the constant movement inside, its labor day and yes, I was into work the whole day.
The only thing I enjoyed doing in the house is cooking, eto na yata ang pinaka-form of relaxation ko when im home. Though thinking of what to cook is always my dilemma.Since I was so tired of working the whole day in the house I decided on cooking TINOLA, easy to prepare and my children’s favorite -kinakain nila even the papaya.
But to my surprise, nawawala ang papaya na bigay lang ng kapitbahay ko…until I found out that it was in a plastic bag that I shoot in the garbage earlier that day dahil na rin sa mga kalat na tapon ako ng tapon.So in an instant, I became a scavenger, looking for food in the garbage. (buti nalang all the garbage are dried, mostly papers and plastic containers that I threw from my bodega.)
I easily found my precious papaya without them-my family knowing na hinalukay ko lang ito ulit sa basura. (hehehe)I prepared all the ingredients, onions, garlic, ginger, thawed the chicken got some sili leaves from my neighbor’s garden and the last one I peeled was the papaya, and when I sliced it, this is what I found…a star shaped hole inside!
I may be a mababaw kung iisipin, but I really was so amused with what I found! I been cooking tinola for so long and ngayon lang ako naka-encounter ng star shaped ang loob. And it was almost perfect in shape huh! I called my kids to let them see what I found and just like me lahat sila ay natuwa sa shape nito.
They don’t want me to cook it anymore co’z sayang daw..since I have two papayas, I agreed with them. I peeled and sliced the other papaya and guess what?….It also have a star shaped hole inside, not that perfect but a cartoonish star.
Nakakapang-hinayang sirain but my kids and I decided to let go of those two papayas…isipin nalang daw namin na we have them inside our stomach naman e, and that’s where we’ll keep them nalang. So I sliced them and let them swim in my tinola…masakit man sa loob naming mag-aama…we ate dinner and we enjoyed it naman talaga. Savoring the taste of our precious papaya…
Farewell to the STAR of ALL GULAYS!
We’ll surely miss you….huhuhu.
