My father was quite overprotective of me, as I was the youngest. He always told me to stay away from the kitchen for fear that I might hurt myself. This is why the kitchen was a no-no place for me to be in when I was young.
As a teenager, all I wanted to do was to eat the hearty feasts that Dad made for us. He was always cooking in a palayok because, he said, meats end up more tender and tasty when cooked in an earthen pot. And he was right.
The sad part is, Dad failed to leave any of his recipes behind. When he passed away, people who knew him told us that aside from his good heart, they would also miss his cooking, most especially his versions of kare-kare, kuhol and pinakbet…
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