sweet tinola

Thinking of what to eat for dinner has been an ordeal for Ramil and me the past few weeks. If you've been reading my previous posts, you already know that I've lost my desire to cook anything because the smell of garlic and onions and such make me nauseous. Because of my husband's limited cooking and experimenting abilities, we would resort to quick fixes like frying porkchops or opening a can of corned beef. This was the reason for a very emotional dinner for me last week. I was almost crying while eating dinner because I was so worried about what I was feeding our baby (plus the pregnancy blues). So when we went to the grocery last Sunday, I made plans of cooking more nutritional dinner meals for us. Hence, I cooked tinola last night.

My routine upon arriving home since we learned we were pregnant was to sleep for an hour or two. Because of this, I gave Ramil the task of cutting up ingredients and preparing other things so that the only thing I have to do when I wake up is to cook. Everything about our tinola went pretty well except for one thing, the papaya was orange inside! We bought a very green papaya but upon opening it up, it was ripe enough to be eaten for dessert. I decided to put it in anyway,hehe! We ended up almost not eating it at all because the sweet taste just didn't go well with the tinola.