Cooking for your Loved-Ones January 3, 2009
My mother used to advise me during my youth (hehehe) that I should learn how to cook. This will bring pleasure and delight to my future husband, she says. At first I would disagree to this fact for I thought it was unneccessary and old fashioned in the sense. I would often reason out, “well, I might as well hire myself a nanny to do that…” I used to believe that women are not always meant to serve their husbands. I find this a little bit unfair of course, on the part of the women.
But then I’ve come to realize where my mother was coming from when she said that, now that I am married with kids. It wasn’t that my mom wanted me to enslave myself to my husband and be miserable about it but there was more into that. Learning to cook and to be acquianted with household chores for that matter are just few of the many things that you can do as a wife and a homemaker, all for the love for your family. In my six years of marriage with my husband Bono, I had nothing but the intentions of making him happy and doing things for him and of course for my kids.
And so I have attempted to cook tinola, a very simple dish made of chicken, papaya, ginger, chili leaves and soup that goes with it. It wasn’t as tedious as it seems but seeing my kids and my husband taking delight on the cooking was very rewarding and it somehow made me feel good not only about myself but with the love behind the act.
Because of this, I would ask my mom and lola to text me some recipes that I’ve grown up with… Yeah, I know it’s a little lame but one is not too old to learn, right? And of course the net is always loaded up with lots of free recipes anyways.
And so as a conclusion, learning these household chores should not be seen as a mere responsibility but as a labor of love. From there, creativity would be unleashed.
So we’ll see more of what I can prepare soon… for my boys! hihihi!
