Bukid is Life: Have you tried to eat this foods?

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When you're living in the province, there are lots of foods you will get in there for free. No need to buy vegetables unlike in the city. If you're in the province and you're hard working and diligent enough, you will not be hungry at all cause you will just go to the farm to plant vegetables or wander there to find food.

I can say that we have eaten this food during those days that we don't have something to eat. We're thankful that we able to have this food during those times that we don't have money to spend for food.

These are the foods that we eat as a supplement for rice we don't have rice for a meal.

  • Banana

We're eating this fruit during times that we don't have rice or sometimes our snacks. It's the food we can easily have when we don't have anything in the table. It can be eaten even if no viand at all. You can eat this too when it's ripe. And I prefer to eat ripe banana. Ripe bananas cam be a snack too, you can make banana cue, banana chips, and minatamis from it. We also done a nilupak from it.

Saging hilaw.
  • Sweet Potato

We called this as camote. There are lots of ways how to cook camote, you can cook this plain , camote cue, maruya , ang camote chips. It depends on you how you cooked it. This is my favorite crops, I can even eat lots of it. I don't care if we don't have rice at all as long as we have camote in the table. I still remember my mom plant this crop and it's color violet. And it can easily found under the ground that's why my favorite kind of camote is color purple.

Nilagang kamote.
  • Cassava

I love eating this crop when it was cooked with coconut milk and sugar to make it taste sweet. My Mom knows that we'll not going to it this crop if she will not cooked it that way. It is also our snack during our elementary days when we don't have a penny to bring. Our Mom will cooked it in different kind. She will make it suman, dancing pie, puto and cassava cake. I cam say that we're blessed for having this crop that our father plant cause we can eat foods that is being sell by our neighborhood. We don't need to buy from them cause Mom is making those. I still remember Ate Elvy went to our house, she brought 5kilos of rice as barter with the suman but Papa declined to accept the rice, but Ate Elvy insisted it. Until now, she'll go in our house everytime we have crops and fruits and do some barter.

Cassava suman.

These are the foods that serves as our viand.

  • Dried Fish

We call this one as tuyo. This one is salty so you can't have lots of it cause one tuyo can make you eat lots of rice. If we don't have rice, we pair it to banana or cassava. I prefer fried tuyo and with spicy vinegar. (Magutom din kayo ahaha).

Buwad pinikas.
  • Bagoong (I don't know the english of it haha)

It's my father's favorite one to eat. I don't know what's with him but he really likes it especially when he puts it vinegar and lost of chilli. I also love it when we make it a ginisang bagoong with lots of onion, garlic and chilli. It's so delicious when we make it as our sawsawan of the saging. You will surely love it when you try to it this one with banana or cassava.

Tugnos na ginamos.
  • Ginataang Pako

I am not eating the pako itself, but I love the soup especially if it's spicy. My father loves ginataan so my mom always cooked this food and she will put gabi on it to make it a little sticky. And she'll put a sardines on it to make it more tasty.

Pako na may sardinas.
  • Ginataang langka

This one is my favorite. I still remember when I was in high school, every Saturday I and my siblings always cooked this food as our viand for the whole day or sometimes until Sunday. We always see to it that we still have 5 pesos in our pocket and add it all to make 20 pesos. We buy sardines, onion , garlic and ginger for it. It's nit easy cooked this one because it have lots of sticky stuff inside when you cut it. But still, when it's cook, you will be satisfied and will be full.

Sarap nito, ginataang langka na may sili.
  • Ginataang suso

Since we're living near the rice field and near of it is a small river, we get lots of snail there. We call it suso here. This food is addictive too. And it's funny eating this one because you're going to sip the inside of it that makes a sound. I remember that I got my jaw aching because of it. Some suso were hard to come out so you need to sip it with force. But I'll tell you, it's so worth it.

Ginataang suso na may gabi.
  • Ginataan, prito o adobong palaka (frog)

This one is my favorite. Yes, I am a girl but I love eating this kind of foods. My father and brother loves to get some frogs in rice fields. I still remember that we only have cassava and ginataang palaka as our meal in the table, and still we're all thankful with it. If you're not eating this food, ahh you miss half of your life joke, you don't know how delicious are these foods. And know what? I am craving now. I like these food when it's spicy. As you can read, I love spicy foods and it make me eat lots of rice or cassava when we pair these foods.

Adobong froggy.

Closing thoughts

Having simple foods in the table is still a blessings. We should be thankful with foods we have as long as we're not hungry. God will always provide even those times that we thought we don't have.

I can say that being in the highlands is a blessings to us. Why? Because we can have food without spending money unless we want to eat meat. Anyway, we had our little pond before and my father have lots of native chicken in the farm so it's a big help to us. But now, we don't have a pond and chickens already. So, we are going to the farm or to forest to get some wild vegetables like pako or fern. There are lots of foods in highland areas or bukid. You will not be hungry if you know how to do actions to have food in the table.

So, have you eaten those foods? You can share your experience in the comments section.

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Naku kulang, walang tubรณ. Hehe. I have eaten some of those but not the palaka. Huhu. Sabi nila lasang chicken pero ayaw ko kumain unless wla na ibang makain siguro haha. But of course if those frogs are from the rice fields then they are fresh and eat only good food, meaning the frogs are healthy and indeed can be eaten too.

What is pako pala? Sitaw ba yan? Alin ang pako?

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2 years ago

Sarap ng mga minention mong pagkain. Lalo na ngayong tag ulan. Uso ang palaka nanaman sa mga palayan โค๏ธ kumakain din kasi ako non lalo na kapag malalaki mga nahuhuli ๐Ÿ˜

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2 years ago

Ang sarap nga sis nuh? Haayyy sana makakain ulit ๐Ÿคค

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2 years ago

Natikman ko na po yang lahat noong nasa province pa po ako and masasabi ko po na masasarap po yan especially Yung mga ginataan. Nakakamiss kumain Ng ganyan at mamuhay sa province, simple but sobrang Saya at memorable

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Oo subrang layo ng ambiance ng city at province. Masaya talaga basta sa probinsya hihihi

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Yung iba lang natitikman ko dyan haha. Yung iba kasi ayaw kong tikman pag nakikita ko palang haha. Lalo na yung palaka๐Ÿคฃ. Di pa ako nakaka kain nyan Kasi takot ako sa palaka haha.

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2 years ago

Nako sis pahka nakakain ka ng adobonv palaka, babalik balikan mo dfor sure hahah

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Province is better parin๐Ÿ’•.lalo na adobong palaka๐Ÿ˜Š Proudly from Province of nueva vizcaya

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2 years ago

Ay totoo. Subrang sarap talaga lalo na pag maanghang ๐Ÿ˜

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Nun lumipat kami dito sa probinsiya galing sa malaking siyudad sa Luzon dun ko lng naranasan ang napakasarap mamuhay ng simple, Ang sarap ng simoy ng hangin, at ang pagkain ay sariwa pa lalo na prutas, gulay at isda. Minsan tinanong ako ng aking magulang kung gustuhin ba namin bumalik ng Maynila ay sabi ko talaga na dito na lng sa probinsiya at ang sarap ng buhay nde mausok at wala gaano traffic higit sa lahat ang sasarap ng pagkain.

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2 years ago

Ang lalim mo naman magtagalog sis hihihi pero totoo, mas masarap mamuhay dito sa province talaga kesa sa syudad na subrang init.

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2 years ago

Ay taga bukid ka din pala po. Tunay na iba kapag nasa bukid, talagang kapag wala nang makain ay pwede pa manghingi ng malunggay sa kapitbahay tapos pag masipag ka pa, at may tanim, basta na lang pipitas at ayun may kakainin na hahaha. Sa lahat ng foods na nashare mo po, yung frog lang yung wala sa amin, the rest ay laging natitikman ๐Ÿฅฐ

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Nakoo subrang sarap nung frog. Try mi. ๐Ÿ˜

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Hahaha wala pong frog dito eh๐Ÿ˜‚ nareply pa din pala yun, akala ko po hindi dahil may lumabas na palitan ko daw yung comment dahil parang may kagaya daw hahahah

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2 years ago

Haha nalabas naman sya. Pero yung syempre d ko makita hahah delete mo yata ๐Ÿ˜

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Dinelete ko po after ko makita yung reply mo dahil lumabas na pala itong una hahaha

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2 years ago

Hahah kaya pala. ๐Ÿ˜ Saglit ahh. Hugas plato lng ako ๐Ÿ˜…

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2 years ago

Sigiii po hahaha, ako naman ay kakain muna๐Ÿ˜‚

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2 years ago

Sheeemsss. Ginutom mo ako sis. Hahaha. Miss ko na kumain ng pako, madalang kasi may nagtitinda dito samin e. Tapos yung palaka diiin, walang nanghuhuliii. Nakakamiss haha. Bet ko almusal yung kamoteee ๐Ÿ˜

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Haha ngayon di na kami nakakain ng palaka Kasi madalang na sila manguha ehh. May work na din kasi. ๐Ÿ˜

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