Skill Up 13: Comfort Food
Oct 04, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
COMFORT FOOD!
It is food that is enjoyable to eat and makes you feel happier, although it may not be very good for your health.
Comfort food is always developing, yet defies all trends. Whether we crave for a pasta, pizza, burger, meat, and more we want our homespun favorites just the way mom, dad or grandma used to make them. It gives us a nostalgic feeling of what our favorite food tastes like when we were still young and when our parents were still cooking for us.
Normally, kids have their comfort food. When they're sick they tend to look for a stew, soup, etc. which their parents cook on their own version that kids normally believe to give them the comfort they needed.
When I was young, I remember having this comfort food that I miss eating. We call it TINUKTOK here in our Region. Tinuktok is from the word TUKTOK which means "to tap" and it explains the way the food was cooked. It's easy to prepare, you just need to chop the fish into small chunks using a knife and a wood to tap it for chopping. Then, mix it with onion, garlic, and salt. Afterward, get a handful portion of it then mold it to a round shape like a ball. Then put it in a pan with boiling water and some vegetables of your choice normally chili leaves. You can also fry it and it will look like chicken nuggets that we normally buy at McDonalds.
You might be curious why I consider it as my comfort food.
I believe it's not just the taste that makes it special but the cook herself. I'm really close to my grandma on my father's side. She really makes me special maybe because I live far from her and only visits twice a year. Or maybe because I really appreciate all the food she prepared for me. Aside from that, she always makes a cacao chocolate whenever I'm around because I told her that it's my favorite.
And starting that moment I started finding comfort in these food. And now that my grandma is not here anymore, I can't eat my comfort food though I tried eating the ones cooked by my aunt, it doesn't taste the same. Maybe because, the comfort really came from the one preparing it rather than the food itself.
What do you think about it?
How about you? What's your comfort food and how does it give you comfort?
As a challenge, be creative in telling your story by using these vocabulary:
1. COMFORT FOOD - it is food that is enjoyable to eat and makes you feel happier, although it may not be very good for your health. It gives comfort not just for your taste but also for a sense of contentment and nostalgia that it provides
2. HOMESPUN - (adj) simple and unsophisticated.
So what are you waiting for? It's your time to tell me your comfort food.
