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> puTo sa taG-uLan
Author: aLmich
The rain is pounding mercilessly outside. I’m doing a lot of thinking, of what the future may bring. With the thick blanket hugging my body. With the rain drops pounding the roof. I’m just dreaming. Good things, I hope.
That was me earlier today. After I got home from Batangas. It rained again.
Mother Nature liked it rough this weekend. A severe thunderstorm blew through the whole Luzon with enough force to warrant a tornado watch throughout the area.
After all the negativities of having that kind of weather, my high temperature, one bright spot is eating Puto or Kutchinta with little cheese slices. It’s nothing short of heaven.
I used to eat them everyday. My loving Lola Alta will aways wake me up with “Gising na apo, lalamig na gatas mo… pinagluto kita ng paborito mo” - this gave me a tear. I miss my lola. I miss her care and loving arms. I know my friends from the province also do. She has been a great lola to all my friends. She treated them as if her own. I’ll see her this year. I must.
Now, back to puto [hehehe]. The blandness of the puto [steamed rice cake for non-Filipino readers] and the saltiness of the cheese [Eden cheese - a local brand], create an amazing contrast that one can’t get enough of. What would have made the puto snack perfect was steaming hot local chocolate, the kind made from tableas or tablets [yum!] or the gatas that until now I don’t know how my Lola does.
Here in Manila, I get the puto and kuchinta from Banchettos or on the highway [on our way to Batangas], with young vendors standing on the side, arms holding packs of puto, outstretched, hoping to entice the highway traveler into stopping by the road’s shoulder to purchase their wares.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a food post. The puto made me do it.
