The cooking mom got the time to prepare something special for our noche buena. Prepared a good amount of food to feast on but I've got a piece I considered extraordinary - the biko (glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk and sugar). What makes it so special?
Well, basically it's a simple delicacy but it was embedded with so much love and passion from the mountains of Capas, Tarlac to our kitchen here in General Santos City.
The Aeta foster family of my daughter during their immersion program in the mountains of Tarlac gave her a bagful of mountain violet sticky rice as token. These good Aetas were the former settlers around Mt. Pinatubo who resettled in Tarlac to find a living. Aside from the sticky rice, they also gave my daughter sinfully delicious newly harvested brown rice. It was so generous of them.
the so unselfish, so generous foster family of my daughter
(Nanay Melinda, Tatay Gaspar and their kids with my daughter and other ADMU students)
(Nanay Melinda, Tatay Gaspar and their kids with my daughter and other ADMU students)
Rafee handcarried the gifts all the way from Manila to Gensan. I was almost in tears when I heard her story of where these products came from. I wanted very much to say THANK YOU to her foster family and let them know how I appreciated their gesture but it's impossible to get through them.
So on christmas eve, I cooked the very precious gifts from our Aeta friends and shared these with people dear to us whom we requested to say a little prayer for this family who epitomizes the true spirit of christmas - to give and share without expecting anything in return!
To you, my dear friends from the mountains of Tarlac, our paths may not cross very soon but you will always be included in our prayers for God to keep you safe and healthy always!
Thank you for reminding us the true essence of Christmas!
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