[DAY 6 FRIDAY] MENU PLANNING AND UNEXPECTED SITUATION
For our 6th day in Barangay Maliksi 1, we arrived with our hands full of our things for our overnight. Upon arriving to Mama Jemma’s house, we saw Arlene, Jack and Mama Jemma. It’s Friday that day so we know that Arlene have classes so we asked her why is she home. She told us that her ears are aching and that it bled last night so she didn’t went to school.
After that, we planned our menu for tonight’s dinner, tomorrow morning’s breakfast and lunch for the afternoon. We have decided that we will have Adobong Kangkong together with the Maling that Em has brought. Mama Jemma told us that her kids were picky eaters and that they don’t like eating vegetables so we purposely agreed to cook Adobong Kangkong for dinner and aside from that, it was also cheap plus its sauce can already be the partner of the rice. For breakfast, we have decided to go for sinangag with soysauce and scrambled egg and as for lunch, we asked Wayne to cook tuna sisig and bring it tomorrow since he was absent that day.
After finishing our menu, we decided to buy the ingredients we needed so that we can cook early since the last overnight, we had a late dinner. Eveth, Em, Eddie and me went out together with Arlene and Jack to buy Kangkong, Soysauce, Onion and Garlic. The talipapa nearby was close so we left Jack and Arlene at the barangay and told them to not wait for us if we took some time.
After walking for several minutes, we still haven’t found a talipapa so we decided to just buy the ingredients for tuna sisig at the nearby alfamart. On our way to the convenient store, we happen to pass by a talipapa so we returned to our Plan A which is to buy ingredients for Adobong Kangkong. After buying the four things we needed, we returned home but we first bought a dozen of egg for our breakfast and a kilo of rice.
When we arrived home, we decided to buy snacks at the nearby sari-sari store. We bought 3 packs of bread which has 3 pieces per pack and a liter of juice. The bread was not enough so we bought another pack and an ice for the juice. Aihla and Sarah arrived after some minutes from fetching water so we bought again another 2 packs of bread and juice. We ate the snacks while Bea cooked the Adobong Kangkong since she’s the only one who knows how to cook that.
While Bea was cooking, she noticed that we are missing some ingredients and since I am the one who’s keeping the money, I bought the needed ingredients which are vinegar and sugar. We requested to Bea that she put lots of sauce to the Adobo so the sauce itself can be the viand.
It was already past 4 in the afternoon when Bea finished cooking. Pau, Eveth and I were left in the house to clean and to cook the maling and rice while the rest will go to the court and the barangay. We cleaned the house first then rested for a while. After some minutes, Eddie, Em, Sarah and Aihla returned with a bad news. They told us that we can’t sleep in the barangay because there are police there and they will stay for the night.
We didn’t expect this to happen so we immediately planned if we will return home or push our overnight. We have decided that we will spend our overnight in Sarah’s place to wrap our giveaways. We contacted Ma’am Eullo to tell her the problem and she allowed us. But before that, while we wait for Ma’am Eullo’s reply, I cooked rice while Pau fry the luncheon meat.
Dinner time and our food is all ready. Bea’s Adobong Kangkong was unexpectedly a blockbuster but to us not to the kids. After dinner, Mama Jemma told us to not wash the dishes because there is no light outside and that she will take care of it tomorrow. Before leaving, we gave to her our gift for her which is groceries. She thanked us and we can see contentment in her eyes. After that, we left and headed to Sarah’s house.
