There are some occasions that I exclusively spend with family and relatives, one of those are Holy Week and Easter, for the simple reason that my clan usually have some activities planned during this time and it is tradition that we celebrate the Easter festivities together.
It is of normal occurrence that my Grandma’s birthday falls on the week of Holy Week. On Holy Monday, we celebrated her 81st birthday .
On the morning of Good Friday, we were at the airport to pick up my uncle who vacationed in the Phils for a few days.
From the airport, we drove back to their place where my Husband and I spent the whole day catching up with our relatives as we enjoyed eating Baked Salmon, Ginataang Hipon with Kalabasa for lunch and dinner and homemade Turon for afternoon snack.
Black Saturday, since our goal is to have a more relaxing weekend with less household and cooking chores, we decided to have breakfast at one of our favorite cafes. We arrived at the cafe early to avoid the morning crowd and to have a more peaceful breakfast. We just shared a slice of toasted banana bread as we sipped our cups of Choffee.
Back at home for lunch, I cooked half a kilo of Green King Prawns in butter and garlic, dipped in Calamansi sauce. It was fresh and delicious, with a taste of sweetness.
For dinner, we had Blue Swimmer Crabs, again dipped in Calamansi sauce. Another winner. It’s so fat, we were so full after devouring them.
On Easter Sunday, we all trooped down to church to attend mass, then went straight to Prospect Reservoir for our Easter Lunch party.
Every year, someone wears the Easter bunny costume and we have our photos taken with the “bunny”.
Other than chit chat, laugh and eat, we also played Bingo!
We went home happy and well-spent with lots of chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies in tow.
Photos by Chris and Ivy Sanchez, Copyright 2010
Canon 7D with 17-85mm lens and Canon 400D with Fujinon 55mm lens.
8 Comments
witsandnuts
Ginataang hipon with kalabasa is a comfort food for me. It brings me home.
RicAdeMus
Happy Birthday Grandma!!!
You have a great family, I’m glad you had such a nice time.
sheng
Ginataang hipon with kalabasa is my dad’s precious recipe. I miss home.
princess_dyanie
Ah so madami pala kayo diyan sa Aussie?
Ibyang
@witsandnuts: me too 🙂
@Rick: thank you!
@sheng: in our family naman, our lola cooks yummy ginataang hipon with kalabasa
@dyanie: yup! hindi pa yan complete…dumami na rin kami dito 🙂
Nicole Jarecz
that coffee looks like it came out of a magazine , so perfect!
HalfCrazy
Hi there!
Aww, I love it when families get together. Happy Birthday sa Lola mo! 🙂 Grabe ang sarap ng itsura ng mga pagkain!
Favorite ko hipon, mukhang masarap yang luto mo ah!
I see a really happy family in here!
Heart of Rachel
It’s good to know you had a wonderful family get together. We had one too during Holy Week. What a coincidence, we played Bingo too. My son insisted to be the Bingo master (one who calls out the numbers). We all had a nice time.
Those bunny chocolates are so nice.