Home Made Real Goodness! Provincial Life! Day 1 & 2 (Holy Week - Maundy Thursday and Good Friday)

Comfort Food!! Home is where the Heart is!

Many of you haven't tried any home made provincial food especially if you grew up in the city. I'm fortunate that I'm able to go to our province and relax to get away from the stressful life of the city. It's always a must for my aunts and my grandmother to cook many local foods that are not found in the city. 

It is always a customary to cook in a clay pot using charcoals. Cooking in a clay pot and charcoals takes a lot of patience because it takes some time unlike stoves. However, cooking in clay pot especially if it is soup based is better and more flavorful than stove.

It's an opportunity for me (working in a bank) to have a 2 days off + weekend = 4 days vacation! it's such a nice opportunity to de-stress!

Halo-Halo. It may not be as fancy as those if Iceberg or Chowking but this home made Halo-Halo taste sooo good! ingredients are all tasty: Ube Halaya, Leche Flan,  Sweetened Bananas, Jelly, Beans, Sweet Jack fruit. On top of that is Crushed Ice and Milk! No need for sugar since ingredients are sweet! Now, once all the ingredients are placed you have to mixed them and savor the cold, sweet, and delicious dessert to beat the summer heat! Cost: P20 / $.48 now that is waaaay cheap!!

Cheese Bread from a local Bakeshop - yellow bread w/ crumbs (P5 / $.12) / Pan de Coco - little brown bread (Bread with coconut filling - P5 / $.12)  / Puto ( P10 / $.24) These local pastries are so good especially during Afternoon Tea / Coffee

My chunky little cousin

Jack Fruit!!!

Plenty of Jack Fruits in our backyard. It was planted with love :)

Fire Ants. They are big! I bet they bite painfully.

Bilimbi / Kamias in tagalog. Very Sour Fruit If you have the tongue for it then this is will approve your liking.

Some backyard tomatos. 

Flowers

Sky

Blue Sky

Home made sweet delicacy. Sticky rice-cake like dessert with sauteed coconut on top sweet and yet heavy :)

Blazing Sun

Domestic Chickens that used for Cock fighting

Sauteed Sweet Corn with small local guava and moringa. First, saute with garlic and onions. Second, add the grated corn and Guava. Let it simmer until it boils and add the moringa leaves until it's cook. 

Moringa Leaves are proven to be very healthy and gives a lot of vitamins and minerals.

Pansit Palabok. Yummy noodle based dish that taste very yummy and not like other asian noodle dish. Must Try.

Cunchinta - Sticky rice-cake like dish that is not too sweet, just right. Best if topped with dried coconut :)

Ice Candy. Like Ice Pops but with real fruit and Milk. This one is sweet coconut with milk and ice cold like treat for the summer heat.

Coconut Milk / Gata - This is different with Coconut Juice. Coconut Milk is usually for cooking,

Ginataang Langka with Chicharon. A very very yummy dish. Unripe Jack Fruit & Coconut Milk. Saute Garlic and Onion, put the jack fruit, put the coconut milk, add some salt / pepper, then sautee until cook.

Bean Sprout with Quail Egg. Saute Based Dish. Good for vegetarians or abstaining from meat.

Bean Sprout Noodles.

Shrimp Paste. Salty dip that is best partner with Green Mangos. A favorite snack for Filipinos. The Salty taste balances the sourness of the mangos.

Grilled Fish with Onions, Ginger, and Tomato. :)