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Here the traditional ways of brushing one’s teeth is by the soft stems of a guava tree as for me I never experienced using them because my parents always buys me a new toothbrush when I need to replace my old ones they never encourage me to use the traditional ways of brushing buy they often tell me tales of their childhood and some practices that is fading away.
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Yes, that’s what we would also do as children , when go up those guava trees to get some ripe guavas. After eating those guavas, we would bend a small twig of the guava =, open one end and rub our teeth of it.
Our mother taught us to do that and it was also taught in school that long ago they are what are used for brushing the teeth.
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I wasn’t aware that you could eat any sort of gourd. Sounds like it would be healthy to eat these, but I’m not sure if I’d be able to cook them good enough to get rid of the bitterness. lol Great informative post. 🙂
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From where are you, my friend? So,I suppose you have bitter gourd in your country.
Actually, there are two kinds of bitter gourds. One type has smaller of those vein-like covering and those are said to be bitter. But those with vein-like structure as big as those in the picture, are not.
We can still lessen their bitterness by soaking them in a bowl with about one tablespoon of salt for 15 minutes the washing them again in plain water before we cook them.
Do you also cook a dish of this bitter gourd.
The recipe I wrote above has a finished product like that in the picture within the post.
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When I was young, my mother would scold me every time she serves Bitter gourd because she can’t forced me to eat it even if she mixed it with more eggs.
I only start tasting it when I was in College and finally liked eating it when I had children of my own. Every time I cook bitter gourd, i add sliced sausages or hotdogs and more eggs so that my children will also try eating it. Nowadays, it is already my children who are requesting me to cook for them bitter gourd.
Another way of cooking it is with coconut milk. You can mix it with string beans and squash.-
I think as we mature our taste buds matures too because we already eat those veggies we previously don’t like .
Actually when I was just a teener, I don’t eat any vegetable except potatoes. How much more bitter gourd.
But after giving birth, it’s as if a lot of hormones in me was awakened, because it’s the start of my loving vegetables specially bitter gourd.
Perhaps our daughter who is now 26 year old and a doctor already , will one day start liking bitter gourd. ha ha ha
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