KITCHEN MISADVENTURES 6: PORK CURRY

For the past three weeks, we have tried our best to stay away from chicken dishes in deference to our family members who have had a bout with chickenpox. But lately, I have started to run out of ideas and dishes to cook. And so this time, I decided to convert a favorite chicken meal (of the kids!) but instead use pork… but I used the same procedure: Saute the garlic, onion and ginger.

Add the pork and let it brown a bit. You may add the seasonings at this point – salt, pepper and the curry powder. When the pork is partially cooked, add the potatoes and/or carrots then the cream or coconut milk. Let the vegetables cook a bit before adding the kakang gata and the red bell peppers and voila! It is done… serve with steaming hot rice!

A BOUT WITH CHICKENPOX!

I don’t really know for sure how she got it…maybe from our neighbor, Michelle but they say her chickenpox happened about a month ago (in May pa) so I wonder if it was possible for a virus to last that long??? Well, anyway no matter how she got it I guess there’s really nothing I could do about it but wait it out until the virus decides to leave her body. Meanwhile, I would try my best to relieve the itchiness that is sure to come with chickenpox…oh dear, why did she have to have this disease now when school will be opening next week??? The good news though is that Kaye had the pox for only a week and then she started scabbing and healing quite well so that only very few marks were left on her body, most of them on her legs and back (thank God there were only a few on her face!) The bad news, however, is that she infected her father…oh no! I thought he already had chickenpox when he was younger…and Inang thought so too …but apparently he hasn’t had it yet and so now he’s suffering from it. They say an adult’s bout with chickenpox is much worse than when he had it as a child and this proved so true with my hubby. In fact, he had chickenpox marks all over his body – even inside his mouth. And what’s worse is that they itch all the time and all at the same time…I don’t even know how to help him…calamine lotion doesn’t seem to work anymore! He also doesn’t want to go to the doctor since he’s afraid to infect all the other patients there! Oh dear…what am I supposed to do??? But I guess what made his situation worse was the fact that his pox lasted for so long…like three weeks or almost a month!!! I learned later on when he got well na there were moments when he felt like just wanting to die… I guess that’s the way he is…he very rarely gets sick and when he does, he has it so bad that I wouldn’t really know what to do to ease his pain and give him comfort…I try my best to just be there…because I guess that’s all I could really give him…

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