It’s baseball season! Between that and recent trips to Barrio Baretto by jeepney, I haven’t been making much time to email. I think we left off with lunch at Balanga.
After lunch we drove through Balanga but most shops and business were closed up. Maybe because it was Sunday or maybe because it was the holiday weekend to memorialize the Bataan Death March. In any case, not many people out and about on the main street. We drove on a bit and came to the town of Orani. Carol’s “Tita Mat” ( Aunt Matilda in Tagalog ) lived there and Carol asked if we would mind stopping. Of course not! Before arriving at Tita Mat’s home we stopped at the bakery she has owned for many many years and Carol loaded up on goodies.
Serious shopping! Carol knew if she didn’t stop first, her generous aunt would give her all of the goodies.
I like the araro flour cookies but they are an acquired taste, very floury! These are chopped nuts and honey. Everyone liked these.
You really do eat the paper that I guess might taste like communion wafers though I have never had one so I don’t know why I think that….maybe Carol said that? Hmmmm
Carol and I both roared at this sequence. Randal said the case was just frosted over, that’s why his nose was pressed to the glass. Cute!!!
Carol points the way to her aunt’s house.
Right to left; Aunt Matilda, Uncle, Carol, Cousin Mark, his wife
Mark, Ian, Carol
Off the front room is a small shrine. Aunt Matilda is very religious. With her bakery and I believe a small ice cream shop, she put 5 children through college. She tried to get us to eat ice cream or anything, but we were still very full from lunch. But she packed up mangoes from the tree in the yard and also garlic peanuts.
peanuts garlic salt. Yum. Bad breath!!!