HOME cooking has become necessary with the implementation of community quarantine due to the spread of coronavirus disease.
Restaurants and cafeterias were prohibited from accepting customers except for takeout orders as social distancing is still a must in Bacolod City as well as in the whole Philippines.
Families now take turns in cooking their favorite foods at home so that they can enjoy partaking the food using their own recipes.
When home cooking is regularly done in every home, of course, there will be someone who will take care of the marketing for ingredients. One has to list down what he needs for a particular meal and then match it to how many people in the family will eat it.
Then the cooking proper begins and ends with everyone sharing the meal.
Maricar Davao developed a new skill in cooking suman and valenciana.
Former Bacolod City councilor Sonya M. Verdeflor said her grandchildren love to cook and eat.
"When everybody is on home quarantine, the food consumption and cooking preparations increase and the budget increases too," she said.
Atty. Eli Gatanela also shared that it is not only the food consumption that increases also the electricity where his children will stay in their rooms with airconditions on as they watch movie marathon.
Juvy Tee said, she is not a good cook so food is prepared the easiest way such as boiled, fried such as scrambled eggs, fried Bangus, fried dried fish, steamed crabs, and shrimps and the best is salmon sashimi.
Sometimes, the simplest comes out to be the best, she added.
On the other hand, restaurant owners have their own skeletal force working to accept takeout orders.
Most of the restaurants in Bacolod City were closed during the enhanced community quarantine which will expire on May 15.
But even if Bacolod City will be downgraded to general community quarantine, restaurants cannot fully open as they are still not allowed under the new guidelines, Bacolod City councilor Archie Baribar.
From the looks of it, home cooking is becoming part of the new normal even in a highly urbanized city like Bacolod.