In the past few days we just celebrated all souls day which we remembered our love ones who already passed away. The sky today is covered with thick clouds and sun's rays can't penetrate it. Anytime rain may pour down to moisten the dry lands of this planet. I've shared in my past article that we will harvest our cassava crops to make something when the all souls day come. On November 1 we went to the fields where the cassavas are planted and it's a wonderful thing that we have so much to harvest. I pick up our shovel, bolo and enjoyed the fun of cassava treasure hunting.
It's in our tradition to cook something every celebration of all souls day and we visit their graves to be with them but due to our situation now we can't be with them on the exact day so the goverment advice us to visit them earlier. We visited their graves on October 28 and it's such a nice feeling to be with them again after a long time of not able to visit them. We cleaned their tombs and it's surrounding to make them looking good as always even they're already sleeping eternally.
Going back to what I'm telling a while ago with the cassava, we bagan to start the harvesting early in the morning so that we can finish it early. My lola accompanied me in digging up those treasures. It's a bit hard to dig them up because they went too deep in the soil. Also the soil is not the easy type to dig in.
In the process of finding them it will test your patience because your hands will get dirty and you have to dig them carefully so that you can't damage the crop. Also you can be demotivated along the process because not every stem will develop big good crops. You can find small ones but as you go deeper and search for them carefully, you can be rewarded at the end of the process. Luckily we harvested big cassavas despite the struggles. Our hands get dirty but that's life, in order for you to survive you must be willing to get your hands dirty(not in a wrong way).
So guys these are the cassavas we harvested. I almost forgot to take a picture of it and started grating it. This recipe is popular in Filipinos especially in provinces during fiestas and other occasions. This one is so easy to cook and it's ingredients are not that hard to find.
The ingredients of this recipe are Cassava crops to be grated, brown sugar or any sugar, grated coconut and coconut milk- this one is optional, we tried it before but the product spoils fast. You need also young banana leaves to be use in wrapping the mixture after.
As you can see the image above those are the cassava suman that I made. I made those and my lola was laughing because they are too fat haha but I said that it's okay because when you eat you will be satisfied with just only one or two haha. Since I was a child we're making this recipe so wrapping it is just a piece of cake. Did you also tried this in your existence?
I forgot to take a picture of the final product but the taste was just so satisfying and delicious. It's really fun to cook something like this because you can learn something at the same time. You can also spend memorable time with your family while wrapping. How about you guys what did you prepare last November 2?
Christmas vibes is really in the air and look what I did with the Rambutans they gave to us by my tito. They harvested a lot and can't eat it all so they gave us a lot also. It's just so cool to see these christmas lanterns once again in the streets giving off positive vibes.
Closing thought
All souls day has been a important day to us Filipinos and we do anything just to celebrate it with our deceased love once but the true essence of all souls day is to remember them, to be with them and share to them your journey beside their tombs. It's not important if you prepared something or not. Also let's not forget the power of giving as what my tito did. It's a simple thing but it's impact is so powerful that cab even change someones life.
Lead image: I made it in Canva same with the image above.
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Nagimasen :) We haven't been able to visit our grandma's grave.