I Found My Old Book
By Thelma
@thelme55 (76476)
Germany
October 20, 2020 9:40am CST
Yay! I found my old Philippines cooking book. It is from this book that I learned cooking Filipino food in my early 20´s.
When I married, I only knew how to cook simple Filipino food like Tinola and Paksiw. Tinola is a soup either made of chicken or fish meat with veggies. Paksiw is made of any kind of meat with the use of vinegar and other spices.
I am happy to find my cooking book again as I have thought I have lost it and maybe borrowed by a friend who didn´t return it. This book was my guide in Filipino cooking away from my home country.
I was reorganizing our living room furniture and cleaning the cupboards where I have some books and other things that I have collected before. One of the things that I have found and forgotten are my scrabble cards, Agatha Christie books, my Genealogy album and my Euro coins collection.
I think it is good to clean and reorganize furniture so I can find things that I have lost and not found anymore.
Have you found something lately in your home which you have searched for a while?
Thanks for reading and have a nice Tuesday everyone.
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@Marilynda1225 (79772)
• United States
20 Oct 20
I'm so happy to hear you found your recipe book.
I'm busy cleaning out drawers and have come across some old photos . It's funny how memories come flooding back just seeing a particular picture
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
20 Oct 20
I agree with you @Marilynda1225. A certain thing can bring a lot of memories we have from the past. Thank you.
@ptrikha_2 (45501)
• India
21 Oct 20
I did found a few things while cleaning a few places quite some time back.
No recent find as such.
Even I had a book which got "set" somewhere the last year and not found till now!
Have a good Thursday ahead !
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@ptrikha_2 (45501)
• India
22 Oct 20
@thelme55
You are welcome. It is 8:10 and I had my morning cup of tea.
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@ptrikha_2 (45501)
• India
23 Oct 20
@thelme55
It was just fine. Today we have a fast as a festival is ongoing.
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but I have to buy grated cassava in the Asian supermarket which is 20 minutes drive from our place.
@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
20 Oct 20
I remember seeing a cooking book similar to that in my grandparent's home.
As for finding something lately, I have been looking for a particular hoodie that I wore a lot the early part of the lockdown while working from home. I knew I had it sent to the laundry shop but since then, I haven't seen it yet. Organized my closet and there it was. Glad that I got it.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
20 Oct 20
This book was published in 1973 @allen0187. Maybe your grandparents have this book at home.
I am glad that you have found your hoodie.
Thank you.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
20 Oct 20
@thelme55 I don't think it is the exact book but both my grandparent's love to cook and my grandmother kept a number of different cookbooks. My mother had some of those books here at our home.
Yup, I'm glad I found the hoodie. I actually thought I forgot it someplace else.
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
23 Oct 20
Oh that is fantastic Thelma. I bet that book is great I would love to look inside.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
23 Oct 20
Yes, it is a great book for me as it helped me a lot with cooking when I was still a young wife. Thank you @RebeccasFarm
@erictsuma (9726)
• Mombasa, Kenya
20 Oct 20
That's nice I also like to eat and cook fresh Kenyan traditional food.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
20 Oct 20
That is good to hear. Thank you @erictsuma
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@GardenGerty (157563)
• United States
21 Oct 20
Old books are like old friends. I do the same and find things. Often books, sometimes pictures and even fabric and half completed projects.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
21 Oct 20
I agree with you @GardenGerty. They have already sentimental value to me. Thank you.
@snowy22315 (170025)
• United States
21 Oct 20
Yes, I found a basting utensil I had forgotten I had. I seem to have lots of things I had forogtten I had.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
21 Oct 20
The same with me here @snowy22315. Thank you and have a nice Wednesday.
@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
21 Oct 20
That is nice you were able to find the old cook book. I have never learned to cook paksiw
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
21 Oct 20
Yes, it is @jobelbojel. Paksiw is very easy to make. You can make that if you want. There are many recipes online about paksiw. I prefer traditional paksiw. Thank you.
@RasmaSandra (73473)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Oct 20
Glad you got some things reorganized and found that book. When I get to reorganizing I often find the most amazing things,
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
21 Oct 20
That´s right @RasmaSandra. Amazing things come out of the blue by surprise when we are reorganizing our things. Thank you.
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
20 Oct 20
It's really nice to rediscover such old treasures like that.Yes, but when I rearrange old things, I spend a lot of tme looking at old photos of my child/our family.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
21 Oct 20
I can relate to that @acelawrites. Instead of half an hour dusting the photo album, a few hours were spent looking at the old photos.
Thank you and have a nice Thursday.
Thank you and have a nice Thursday.
@LindaOHio (156271)
• United States
21 Oct 20
I usually know where everything is. I'm glad you found your cookbook! Enjoy!
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