It was 7 in the morning when we started to built this simple structures and before that, we prepared carpentry tools just like Nails, Saw, Hammer, Bar, Plain sheets roof, Steel tape, Pencil chessel. These are the primary tools used for building wooden houses and other kinds of wood structures. The next thing we did is to sight-seeing of the place on where we were going to built and for a few minutes of checking the perfect spots, finally we found the best place. I carefully cut those lumbers while my Father was very busy to get more bamboos for the walls and floors of the pig pen. We decided to elevate the floors of the pig pen so that no dangerous and harmful animals can crawl inside specially the dogs.
It takes many hours before we formed this simple wooden pig pen and it is nearly finished, the only thing we must do is to check if the structure is ready to use. The walls and floors are made of bamboo pieces and the roof is made of plain sheets. We reused the rusty plain sheets so that we will have a less budget. We carefully nailed the lumbers and bamboos and attached together so that the structures will have a good foundation. After a few minutes of checking, it is now ready to use.
Our Simple Vegetable Dish for Lunch:
It was nearly 12 NOON and I already felt hungry, while we are at work My Mother was also very busy cooking this nutritious vegetable dish for our lunch. We called it, Binas-oy in local term or should we say, Vegetable soup. It is made of spinach vegetables, Malunggay leaves and root crops just like Ube. Malunggay or Muringga leaves was brought to my Garden while the Ube and Lutya crops was brought to the supermarket. I also very proud and happy that finally we also harvested our spinach vegetables.
Ingredients:
- Ginger
- Onions
- Lemon Grass
- Other seasonings
- Ube or Lutya crops
- Malunggay leaves
- Spinach vegetables
- Salt
First, it should be pilled the crops and sliced it into cube shapes before washing it with clean water.
The leaves of Malunggay and Spinach must be separated from its stalks and also after removing it from the stalks, wash it with clean water.
The must be smashed so that the aroma or smell will comes out.
In our traditional way of cooking, if we cooked vegetable soup the size of slices of onions is just like this big but when it come of sauted, we sliced it into thin strips.
The lemon grass should be tied just like this so that it can be very easy to out this in the cooking pot.
After that, we boiled it for a few minutes and add some seasonings just like salts to make the taste good.
Our Family Snacks:
After we finished eating our lunch, my Mother decided to cook hot cakes for our snack. We remembered that there are lots of leftover flour last month when I cook Banana fritter that is why we will cook hot cakes today. This is very simple snacks because it contains only few ingredients.
- Wheat flour
- Baking Powder
- Yeast
- Clean water
- Salt
- Cooking oil
First, my Mother add some right amount of clean water to the flour and she mixed it very well. It should be mixed it up until it will turns into a creamy texture.
Next, she add some right amount of yeast and baking powder in the glass contains with clean water. She also stirred carefully and added to the flour. My mother also add a small amount of salt and white sugar before cooking it in the frying pan for a minute. It was very a busy day for us here and it is really important to be productive always to achieved the success.
