Dear Diary: I Am Craving For My Favorite Foods

My Mother and her siblings and sister-in-law

My mother told me yesterday before I go to dialysis that she will fry the chicken that she marinated the day before but I told her not to cook it since it will spoil my appetite in during dialysis because I have to eat well in dialysis for me not to get a low blood pressure. Today she cooked it and fried the chicken as my lunch. The chicken doesn't taste good because it wasn't marinated well. It is bland and tough even for a fried chicken dish.

I told myself that I just have to endure this kind of cooking by my mother and she just don't get the desired results even for a simple dish as a fried chicken. I marinated chicken meat before and fried it, the taste is enjoyable and not like this simple chicken dish by my mother.

Marinating meat has two purposes. One is to make a good taste out of the meat by putting some salt, soysauce, or even fish sauce and also some pepper, garlic, and onions plus some strong citrus juice or vinegar. The other function of marinating is to tenderize the meat by putting vinegar or citrus juice in it. The meat tenderizes in the process but if you do not put enough acid in the meat then it goes tough and does't taste as good.

This is what happens in our dishes in my home. My mother just doesn't put enough vinegar on the food that needs it. So more often the adobo dis and the fried chicken gets spoiled if not eaten in a few days which shouldn't happen in such foods in my opinion. The dishes actually gets slimy so it is not edible after.

It makes me crave for the foods that I wanted and it is all good to me if only I was the one cooking it. My mother has some trouble cooking because it wasn't her line of work in the first place. She actually just learned from my godmother and the people she asked information from. But people just cannot cook if they are not cooks, so it is either you are or you aren't.

This is just seemingly a minor issue regarding my foods in the house but it just affects me as I cannot enjoy dishes unlike before that I was the one cooking our dishes and enjoying it. And it is something that I have to endure as my hands are now tied in even doing a simple task as cooking.