Chapter 268: The Way I Miss You
"Do you want to go visit them today?" asked Jeru from the other line. He called Thea to deliver the good news about Zach and Keira as he was driving to his office right after he dropped Thea off at work.
"It’s okay. I will visit them tomorrow. I’m sure they just want to spend time with their family now, and I’m sure they will need more time to rest. Let’s visit them tomorrow instead," Thea answered from the other line. She was reviewing some news items when Jeru called.
"By the way, don’t forget to deliver the food to dad," she reminded him, to which Jeru smiled. His wife was so thoughtful of his father.
"How come dad gets his lunch prepared, and I don’t?" Jeru asked in jest and could not help but feel a tinge of jealousy, nor did he try to hide it. Thea could only bite her lip as she did not know how to answer her husband’s question. Her face flushed.
She was flustered by Jeru’s sudden question. She had prepared those lunch boxes for her father-in-law because he had called her, requesting her to cook him a particular meat dish. He didn’t know what the dish was called but had described how the dish tasted like and what kind of meat should be used.
Thea was not sure if it was the same dish, but upon hearing Senior Liu’s description, she was immediately reminded of Auntie Sheila’s signature dish that she had once taught her.
It was a dish of a tender and flavorful bovine, where the beef was slowly simmered with coconut milk and a mixture of lemongrass, galanga, garlic, turmeric, ginger, and chilies, then left to stew for a few hours.
She only hoped that what she made was close enough to the dish that her father-in-law had in mind.
"Are you there?" asked Jeru when he didn’t hear anything anymore from the other line. "Oh yeah, I’m still here. I’m sorry, I will prepare a lunch box for you tomorrow. It didn’t cross my mind because I thought you are often out for a lunch meeting," explained Thea with an apologetic tone.