Warm meals

1. As Vietnamese, to grow up, almost everyone depends on small grains of rice. From childhood, to adulthood, and even to old age, everyone needs meals. In a lifetime, how many people can count how many meals they have had?

For people in my hometown of Phan Thiet, enjoying meals with fresh seafood every day is a happiness. Because, family meals made from fresh seafood will be very different from fermented seafood!

Meals, with food prepared from fresh seafood, through the skillful hands of capable women, will attract many people in the family. Pots of rustic braised fish, bowls of simple but very sweet soup. Pans of fried fish, hot and crispy. Along with many other ways of preparation. There are countless simple family meals that bring happiness to loved ones. There are also more sumptuous dishes on death anniversaries, when many children and grandchildren gather at the temple.

Just talking about daily meals in each family, cooking also requires the skill of the housewife. Most of the time, it is women who take care of this job. However, nowadays, there are quite a few men who take care of cooking, and cook very well. Quite a few men also take on the part of going to the market!

To be able to prepare simple dishes that are still attractive to users, the person in charge of cooking needs to learn from their mother, grandmother, and experienced predecessors, along with love and diligence in practicing. Nowadays, people can also learn how to prepare dishes online.

Having a family, fortunately, has women - and even men - who cook well. Family members have the joy of having delicious meals every day under the skillful hands of the cook. Usually, doing anything, if the recipient accepts and praises it, the person doing it will be very happy. Cooking is probably no exception. When the person who eats compliments the food on being delicious, attractive, and truly enjoying it, the person who cooks it will feel very happy. This is a real psychological state for skilled cooks!

2. My husband and I received the house that my parents left behind. On the anniversary of my death, the children and grandchildren gathered. One grandchild, who called me grandpa, honestly said: “Grandma Nam cooks very well! On the anniversary of my father’s death, I often took my grandmother to my father’s house to eat at the anniversary!”. Another grandchild, who called me uncle, said: “Aunt Nam, Uncle Nam cook very well. I like the duck noodle soup, ragu Aunt Nam cooks very well!”. Some of my colleagues who had eaten at my family’s anniversary kept talking about the duck noodle soup they had enjoyed!

The compliments from children, grandchildren, and friends about my wife's cooking skills are a source of happiness, not only for my wife but also for the whole family. Because my father and I feel it very clearly from the meals we eat every day. After hours of work and school, my father and I have delicious meals, cooked by my wife, although simple, but really suitable for the taste of all family members. Hot meals, whether lunch or dinner, are always an occasion for loved ones to gather, exchange some news, some stories, so that family members can understand each other better, connect with each other more.

A pot of hot rice, a plate of braised fish, a bowl of sweet soup, so simple, nothing fancy, yet still has such an attraction for our loved ones in our family! So when we are away from home, when my children go to advanced studies, when I go on business trips, our hearts still yearn for our old home with simple meals, but always so warm and full of love!

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