home-cooked meals: pancit luglug

“A parent — especially a mother (yes, I am being sexist here but hey a man cannot mother as a mother) should indulge the children when they come home from college (or from their own apartments) to keep the allure of home burning. The children may be out there in the cold world, but when they think of home, they must always equate it with homecooked meals to specification, a warm bed, and mothers who will cosset and spoil them no matter how old they have become. We all want to go home. And I want my children always longing for home.”

Tinapa flakes

Fried tofu (or tokwa)

Green onions (or sang)

our dear atcheng C shared this on FB recently and i found myself nodding in agreement. every time i go back to NJ to visit my parents, they make every effort to prepare my favorite foods. i used to tell them not to bother, but they never listened. these days, i just enjoy the food and offer my thanks in hugs and kisses 😛

Hard-boiled eggs

Fried garlic

Crushed chicharon

this weekend, my mom made pata tim; i’ll post about that later. she also prepped some ingredients for pancit luglug (aka pancit palabok) but left the final “steps” for me and my dad. you’ve heard this a number of times, but cooking is a family affair at my parents’ place. so i made the sauce and cooked the noodles (a particularly challenging task). for the toppings, we had tinapa flakes (which my dad made), crushed chicharon, fried tofu, green onions, garlic chips, hard-boiled eggs and sauteed shrimp. 

the pièce de résistance: sauteed shrimp