Two goals in just one occasion? How did this happen? My dear Hivers I will share with you my experience of achieving this. How did I do this? I have not planned these goals in advance. These suddenly came to my mind when we had surprise visitors at our house. These guests are my in laws or my wife's family. Just a little background about my wife. She has a close relationship with her parents along with her siblings, nieces and nephews.
When we got married, we immediately lived in a separate place that is 75 kilometers away from my wife's family. His other sisters and nephew live in the same place of her parents. Because of that distance, it is difficult to visit each other. But if his family misses us, they will surprise us with a visit.
There was a weekend when many of them travelled together to visit us. Along with her sister who got married in another place and with her nephew and nieces.
This is the occasion I said at the beginning of this article. But, how did the goal of one occasion become two? As part of hospitality we are thinking of ways to treat them. When they arrived at our house, we immediately suggested of a picnic at the beach.
They agreed and happy for the suggestion to bathe in the beautiful white sand beach of San Remigio. This is my first goal, on the way to bathe in the beach so that all the family members will enjoy their visit. Our 4-year-old son is very excited at the mere mention of the beach because it is his favorite.
Since our son can't swim yet, he needs to be watched. To make the bonding of my wife and her family and nieces complete, I have to be on watch to our son when it's time to bathe.
My brother in law helped me watching our child. Because I'm used to multitasking, I feel like I have to do something aside from watching our child. If I have something else to do aside from watching while bathing, I will do it so that the time spent will be worthwhile.
Suddenly, I remembered one of the superfoods in the sea that has a very high nutritional value. This is called sea cucumber and believed to have therapeutic properties. This is my second goal, which is to gather sea cucumbers. How did I make it?
The sea at this time is shallow because it is going to be low tide. The weather was fine so the sea was crystal clear and the white sand on the seafloor was very clear. The sky was partly cloudy so we didn't worry too much.
I know there are many sea cucumbers on the beach where we bathed. So I brought an ecobag to get hold of the sea cucumbers I gathered.
I immediately took our child who was very excited to bathe in the clear seawater. Our son is very sweet. He likes to ride on my back while taking a bath. I let him ride on my back while I was crawling and at the same time searching for sea cucumbers by scratching in the sand.
I noticed that our child was having a lot of fun riding on my back. I was having fun too because I eventually collected a lot of sea cucumbers while randomly scratching the sand. The sea cucumber will cover itself with sand that is enough to cover its body so that it cannot be seen easily. It's easy to gather this delicious superfood. We can get it just by scratching the sand. More than an hour passed and I gathered a lot of sea cucumbers. As I noticed the small size ecobag is almost full. On that moment our child was totally satisfied bathing and wanted to go home as my in-laws do.
When we got home, I cleaned all the sea cucumbers and sliced it into pieces. Sea cucumber can be eaten raw and can also be cooked. This time I will prepare a cooked recipe of sea cucumber.
After slicing all of them ,I prepared spices to use like onions, garlic, long chilli and ginger. Then after all the preparations done, I put the frying pan in a burning flame. After the pan is heated, I poured down a little edible oil. Then add all the sliced spices. As the spices turned to golden brown, it's time to add the sliced sea cucumbers. Then add the salt, seasoning mix and oyster sauce. Lastly, add a spoonful of sugar. Boil it for 3 minutes then it's done. Our delicious sea cucumber recipe is ready to serve.
My dear Hivers there are many recipes we can make from sea cucumbers depending on our preferrence. That's all I can share for this blog. Thank you for your support.