Marvin's Ideas

During these Holy Week our family is planning to have a church visit in several parishes in our place. I was hoping that I can go with them because maybe I will be the one who will be left in the house in order to secure our residence because we were so afraid of the news that several home owners in our village found out that their house was attacked by the thieves.

Currently the whole Christian community is commemorating the last week of Jesus Christ’s stay on earth as a mortal being and we call it as the Holy Week. I few memorable days of history happened many centuries ago. It is a whole week of penitence, abstinence, and sacrifice with an observance towards our religious beliefs and scriptures. Fasting is a must for everybody except those sickly people, the aged ones, and the children under the suggested age bracket. Abstaining from eating meat is strictly advised.

So as a faithful religious being my mother used to prepare her very own holiday recipes. Last week mother was able to fix everything. We went to the market to buy the food stocks that we will need during the Holy Week. For best results mother used to have a checklist of the things that we will be purchasing over the market. A was able to saw that list and it was filled with veggies and seafood such as fish, crabs, and other kinds of it. Mother has a lot of holiday recipes which depends on the different kinds of holidays and celebrations. When we arrived at the house mother immediately took time to prepare her recipes, store it in a plastic containers, and put it into the refrigerator. It was a budgeted food preparation that she does during Holy Week. It thinks there were ten different dishes that mother were able to prepare with the help of her holiday recipes. There were no meats at all because everything was packed up with veggies while some are seafood. I asked her what specific foods she will be cooking for this week. And she said that she will be cooking our favorite Filipino foods like grilled garlic fish, fried fish, sweet and sour fish, spicy prawns, mussel soup, and several veggies after. Yesterday, I helped her in the kitchen and she was cooking the grilled garlic fish for our breakfast. After a half hour of cooking time, we then shared it on the table for out early morning meal.