The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans

Summer is indeed upon us! Pretty soon, school will be out (the Philippine school year is from June till March) and parents will be hard-pressed thinking of activities to occupy their children’s time at home.

Do you remember what you did on long vacations? Well, I do! I climbed trees, visited relatives, played endless hours with cousins and nieces, read voraciously, watched old movies on TV and let’s see… what else?! I had begun to learn for real cooking under my grandmother’s strict guidance. ‘Real’ meant slicing what seemed like too many onions that brought tears, roasting peanuts, cacao and coffee beans, cleaning fish and slaughtering chickens – all the prep work that I never thought had to be done to prepare a meal. All the tedious steps might have turned me off from cooking but years later, I’m still at it. Hmmm… this website is the evidence, I suppose.

All those memories are brought on by this month’s Lasang Pinoy. Iska in Beijing, with all of her fabulous Edible Experiments is hosting us with the theme Kusinang Bulilit, Lutong Paslit or in short, cooking by children. For non-Filipinos, the words bulilit and paslit are both endearing terms that mean small children. They connote cute and cheerful youngsters.

Iska invites us to write about food and children – how we first started cooking, at mealtimes or how we involve our own children, nephews, nieces in meal preparation and eating of course! I predict a fun and messy Lasang Pinoy 8, hehehe!

Please do join! Entries should be posted by the end of the month, 31 March. Anyone who doesn’t have a blog but would like to join, just let me know. I’ll be glad to host any number of entries!