For today's lunch, one of the ingredients is ginger. I always have a list of all the ingredients I need for the whole week's meal plan but for some reason, I overlooked the ginger. Good thing I have planted some last year. They're not yet really ready for harvesting but since I haven't tried harvesting ginger before, I got excited.
As you can see, the roots I pulled out are obviously still very young. I kind of feel bad but what's done ia done. XD
So when is it really okay to harvest ginger?
According to this, it should be done at fall. Since I'm in the Philippines and we don't have fall here, the next marker should be when the flowers dried out. Kinda like an indicator that it's the fall season already. But hey, I didn't know gingers have flowers! Now that, I'll have to wait and see. Good thing I didn't pull out all the shoots and roots. There's still some more left in the pot. I just hope I didn't hurt them earlier.
Since I've mentioned I cooked Paksiw na Tilapia for lunch today, let me go ahead and share the recipe.
Paksiw is my favorite food ever since I can remember. It maybe because I love eating sour food. According to wikipedia definition, paksiw literally means to simmer in vinegar. That's because that's all you need to do. It's really very easy to cook any type of fish paksiw style.
All you need is half a cup of vinegar. I usually would use apple cider but since the supermarket ran out of supply, I had to make do with cane vinegar. You'll also need 2 cups of water. My mom doesn't add water to her paksiw that's why it's my favorite of them all. But my husband doesn't want his paksiw to be to sour so I had to adjust the recipe. You'll also need garlic, ginger and onions. I like adding veggies to my paksiw and if you prefer vegetables too, you may add okra or eggplant or string beans or all three of them. You'd want your paksiw to be a bit spicy so yoy might want to add one or two pieces of green chillis. Of course, don't forget the fish, some salt and pepper to taste.
All you have to do is to put all the ingrediebts in a cooking pot and let it cook on low heat until the fish is cooked. Make sure to add the veggies when the fish is already cooked so you don't end up with limp veggies.
I was able to pick 1 string of string beans earluer from my minifarm ao I added it to the string beans I bought in the market. My chillis are still producing fruits upnto niw so I just picked one.
It feels so amazing to be able to cook with the ingredients picked fresh from your own farm. 😊 Richt now I am only able to pick just a few ingredients but I'd still consoder it an achievement since all my plants are just grown on pots. The ultimate goal would be to be able to cook using home grown produce. And I guess I'm one step closer to that goal. 😊😊😊