Garden Fresh Salad
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
April 6, 2021 8:51pm CST
The lockdown is in place. Unfortunately for me and my daughter, the food supply depleted. Twice now we've been to the bank for cash. The first time, the traffic was horrendous we had to abort the highway and take another route home. The second time, the bank was closed. Ha ha. So that was why there was a pile up Monday! We deserve it for not tuning in to the news.
Today, I have to concoct something to sustain nourishment. So out in my garden I went and harvest some Romaine lettuce. Added some chicken strips, salted egg, and a tomato. Caesar salad for a dressing.
That would be my lunch.
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@RasmaSandra (73241)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Apr 21
Looks and sound slike a delicious salad,
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
My daughter doesn't like Romaine lettuce because of the after taste bitterness. I love it though. It's cooling in the ref now. Lunch in an hour.
My daughter is probably eating steamed spinach (locally called kangkong) with a dash of lemon and soy. With rice.
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@RasmaSandra (73241)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Apr 21
@eileenleyva the steamed spinach sound delicious I love spinach
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
@RasmaSandra Yup. Sometimes, we cook the leaves adobo style. It means saute garlic, add the leaves, a little vinegar and a little soy, with a dash of pepper and dry bay leaf. Quick cooking and very nutritious.
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@kaylachan (57383)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Apr 21
You found something to eat. Having a garden sure comes in handy sometimes.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
Yup. For fruits, I picked some Jamaican Berry (locally called aratelis). That was my breakfast, with a slice of bread with peanut butter.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
The current wave is actually worse than the initial wave, according to local medical practitioners.
My daughter, the doctor, ordered me and her sister to use the KN95. She wore one all the duration of her few hours in our home. I asked why. She said the variant is more lethal.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
@msdivkar The KN95 masks my daughter purchased online are all right. We wear the masks only when we are near each other. Otherwise, we just keep the distance and sit tight on our respective spots in the house without the masks on.
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@msdivkar (23359)
• India
7 Apr 21
@eileenleyva That is very true but difficult to use the mask all the time. It is suffocating sometimes.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
Thank you. I ate it all in no time. Not even lunch time yet.
Trying to turn my garden into a vegetable patch. Removed some of the decorative santan and gumamela. I have a papaya that thrived despite the heat. Hope to make a harvest soon.
Trying to turn my garden into a vegetable patch. Removed some of the decorative santan and gumamela. I have a papaya that thrived despite the heat. Hope to make a harvest soon.2 people like this
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
@rakski 
Plants need sunlight and water everyday. Plus a little tender loving care.
. Plants are beneficial to the health also in the sense that these gives oxygen we need and secretes the carbon dioxide. I have kangkong stalks in water bottles. The leaves have grown and I could put some in sinigang.
Lemon does not grow easily in our climate. Perhaps calamansi is better. Bell pepper is also difficult to grow. But ginger is easy.
Plants need sunlight and water everyday. Plus a little tender loving care.
. Plants are beneficial to the health also in the sense that these gives oxygen we need and secretes the carbon dioxide. I have kangkong stalks in water bottles. The leaves have grown and I could put some in sinigang.
Lemon does not grow easily in our climate. Perhaps calamansi is better. Bell pepper is also difficult to grow. But ginger is easy.2 people like this
@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
@eileenleyva I have lemon and calamansi, they both die
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@gamayngbaki (1602)
• Cebu, Philippines
7 Apr 21
It's always nice to be able to go out to our garden and harvest something to eat. Your Romaine lettuce look very green and your salad looks so mouth watering.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
I do my best to tend to my garden each day. Once, I whispered to the Romaine lettuce 'Hurry up and grow more leaves so I can eat you.' My daughter heard and reprimanded me - 'Not a nice thing to tell your plants.'
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
@gamayngbaki Gosh, that is true. My voice is naturally very loud. To my shame many times, especially at the confessional box. Everyone hears my sins.
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Your whisper was a little bit louder ... somebody overheard
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
14 Apr 21
It was.
The lettuce in the garden has fresh leaves again.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
14 Apr 21
@Bubba90 I'll probably cook the new leaves in sour broth called 'sinigang.' It's a dish with meat or fish.
@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
@eileenleyva why? I thought it would be a great ingredient to add flavor and texture to the salad.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
It was. Though I should not have added the salted egg.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
@allen0187 Nothing salty and spicy for me any longer.
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@ptrikha_2 (45422)
• India
7 Apr 21
Lockdowns can restrict so much !
Glad to see you enjoying your salad.
Here we have a slightly cooler although a dusty morning.
Enjoy your day.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
Yup. Have consumed it all in a jiffy. Gosh! I was really hungry!
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@ptrikha_2 (45422)
• India
7 Apr 21
@eileenleyva
That happens at times. Plus sometimes we are so thirsty that we drink water very quickly.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
After a long pandemic year, many of my friends have their own vegetable patches in their yards now. At least two friends have grown their own farms, complete with free-range chickens. That means everyday supply of eggs.
Yes, with lots of papayas and bananas, we could easily exchange crops to sustain our food.
I have four varieties of vines - like spinach.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
I also do. Except that I will plant plain lettuce next time. Romaine lettuce has an after bitter taste.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
@thelme55 That's a good thing. Probably the bitter is even healthier.
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@thelme55 (76477)
• Germany
9 Apr 21
@eileenleyva I like the bitter taste of it.
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@almostoveryou (4175)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
I wouldn't mind having that for lunch. Yum.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
Yup. Come to think of it, that salad costs around PhP250 already in restaurants.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
@almostoveryou Yup. That's one lesson given my family this pandemic time - gourmet preparations ala Cibo or Italiani's. 
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@almostoveryou (4175)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
@eileenleyva true! You can get a huge pack of lettuce for less than a hundred pesos. Add whatever's in your pantry and drizzle with prepared dressing. Heaven!
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@peachpurple (13880)
• Malaysia
11 Apr 21
I love your salad, you made it? looks very delicious and tempting
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
11 Apr 21
Thank you. That salad is really good I was surprised I made it myself.
@Robinhuut (457)
• Bogor, Indonesia
8 Apr 21
If you look at the picture, it looks like it's still raw, right?
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@RebeccasFarm (86520)
• United States
7 Apr 21
I am glad you have the garden with the fresh produce.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
I enjoy tending my garden each day. Not as much produce yet to sustain daily nourishment but at least I get to pick fruits and vegetables from my own trees.
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@aureategloom (8344)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
7 Apr 21
i hope you managed to get to the bank haha the lunch looks nice!
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@merrybelle2021 (1389)
• Philippines
7 Apr 21
Good thing you have a garden. This pandemic has reminded us to always have enough food and non-food supplies at home, including cash.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
I have the local kangkong and Japanese kangkong in my vegetable patch. Easy to grow. Easy to cook. Filling to the stomach. Beneficial to the health.
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