We would devour the sweetest mangoes.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
I've always loved to travel. But it wasn't the sights that caught my fancy. It was the food. But of course, isn't it obvious? hahahaha...
I would travel to Batangas as a kid to visit my grandparents. We would drop all the lansones we could, straight from the tree into the opened baggage compartment of our car, ants and all!
We would devour the sweetest mangoes.
But what excited me most was gathering fresh eggs from the chicken coop and have my lola
fry them in a big kawali over a wood-burning stove. Eggs with pan de
sal and kapeng barako would be our merienda. That, was the
Batangas way of life that I loved so much. Simple farm living, all fresh food.
We would devour the sweetest mangoes.
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Didn't know Batangas ang ancestral province mo? At akala ko sa Laguna lang may lansones? Saan sa Batangas exactly? Ganyan din ang lutuan namin sa Cupang. Dapugan yata ang tawag dyan.
ReplyDeleteSan Jose, Batangas... Barrio Lumil to be exact. All my grandmothers farms had groves of lansones and mango trees. They were the sweetest you can have. That's why I can't find myself enjoying the lansones and mangos that we get here in Baguio. They come from Pangasinan I think. They're bland compared to the kind I grew up on.
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