Taro Taro Goodness

Weather: Dark, clear sky, and it's hot.
Feelings: Tired
Mood: I wanna shower

I did something for the first time today. No, not cook taro for the first time. I bought something with the intention to sell. Well, I bought things to sell a couple times already but those are different. Those were cheaper and I know for sure I'll make something out of it, if only 10 or 20 bucks but I know for sure. This time it's a lot of money and I initiated the purchase myself. Oh well, I have 14 days to sell it otherwise I can return it and get a refund. So no risk at all. That's why I bought it in the first place. ^_^  <-- Does that make me look...ummm...what's that controversial term? LOL

I cooked 3 things after I got out of work today. Took me a whole 1 hour and 40 minutes. That's including preparing, cooking, and cleaning. I'll post only one of those dishes today and maybe I'll post the other dishes tomorrow or the next day, if I remember. It's basically a taro soup.

I call this dish: Taro Taro Goodness
Recipes:

About half a dozen taro

About half a cup of dried shrimps

Salt, sugar, pepper, mushroom powder or MSG if you prefer that

Directions:
Add the dried shrimps to water and cook them in a pot.* This will be the broth.
Peel the taro, wash, and cut them into small pieces or any size you want.
Add the taro to the broth.
Season it and wait til the taro turn soft. Season again if needed.

This will make about 4-5 portions. Cooking this alone, preparing, cleaning and all that junk, will take approximately 20 minutes. Enjoy!!

Dang! Took me longer to post this than to cook that taro. Ok, time for that shower!!

*****Tips*****
I like to cut up my dried shrimps and leave it in a hot cup of water for a while, while I peel and cut up the taro. This will ensure your broth tastes better.

Some people like to add "rau om" or whatever it's called to the soup. I admit, it does make it tastes better. I would buy a bunch of it and only use about 5 of them and then throw away the rest. It's cheap but that is such a waste. It's not "that" much better anyway to be wasting like that.
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