Last Monday we went to SM where the 2009 Kadayawan sa Dabaw Agro-Trade Fair is being held. I and Che2x went to the fair while Donald and Carol were inside the mall. My purpose in going to the trade fair is to buy herbs because the ones that I bought last March during Araw ng Dabaw withered. It was my first time to plant herbs and I planted it in pure garden soil. I didn’t know it has to be planted in a mixture of soil and rice hull or sand so the planting medium is loose and it will dry up easily for herbs don’t thrive well on soil with high moisture or should I say, wet all-the-time. Aside from the herbs that I’d use in cooking, I also got some mint for our tea as Che2x has been telling me she wanted to seriously drink tea for cleansing. Mint leaves are perfect for tea so I got different mint plants (and I hope they will all grow in my hands).

After shopping for herbs, I and Che2x bought a tea set. Talking about seriously getting a colon cleanse, now we’ve got a tea set, some mint that could go together with tea, and the lacking thing is our tea! I should have bought a Tsaang Gubat (Wild Tea) so we could just pick its leaves (like what my aunts are doing back in our hometown) and boil them when we wanted to have a tea. I guess fresh is better than the processed so I am looking forward to go home and harvest the Tsaang Gubat that grew in Mamang’s lot so we could drink tea as often as we wanted without costing us so much.

Our weekend went well. Ace sees to it that we go out every weekend to break the monotony of life…me being at home all the time, and him – at work. Last weekend, we went to see the Christmas Bazaar in Davao Convention and Trade Center. I was hoping to see hand-crafted and homemade food products to be given as gifts this holiday season. When we were there, we were quite disappointed to see many booths selling ready to wear items. The least that I am expecting to see in a bazaar are those garments that can be bought in the malls. Anyway, what we bought from the bazaar are food products that we have never seen in the groceries like this one…the El Fuego.

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Literally, I had one meal yesterday. I woke up really feeling bad and when I got out of the room to eat, I cannot take the smell of the food in the table. I don’t know but I want to throw up with the smell of sauted onion and garlic when in fact it’s one of my fave when I am cooking. At lunch, Ace was home to check on me but I hardly ate one spoonful of rice. I asked Che2x beforehand to fry the soup pack (chicken back) hoping that I could finally eat but I ended up munching a slice of the Goldilocks bread I asked her to buy in the mall the other day. I can’t understand what I am up to, or what I am feeling. I also don’t know what I wanted to eat until at last I want something salty.  I am craving for a steamed alugbati leaves (Malabar nightshage) dipped in fish paste so I sent Che2x to the store so I could eat dinner early. She went on store hopping but she went home without the Alugbati I am craving for. Hence she got some Kangkong (Water spinach) tops in the vacant lot outside the yard. I cooked Pork Binagoongan for their dinner while Che2x steamed my Kangkong. Read more…