Kitchen is where My Heart Is

The Filipinos are naturally born food lovers. We love to serve our best recipe on the table to our friends. We are simply hospitable and so generous with our favorite food. We eat three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus two more meriendas (snack): in between, that is 10:30am and 3:00pm. Hmm, not to mention, midnight snacks. Can I even include that? Thus, I can say that it is food that keeps us together.

Filipinos love to cook and we love to make it perfect for our loved ones. The fiestas can prove that. This particular love for food makes me love the kitchen so dearly! The kitchen is where we prepare our food. For me, it is the center of family activities. It is the busiest part of the house. Somewhere all folks gather and share recipes, cook together, clean together, talk, laugh, eat and drink. Thus, with conviction, I will say that the kitchen is the most important room in the house.

Needless to say, the kitchen is where more homekeeping concerns are focused. Since it is a work place, we don't ran out of things to do in the kitchen all day long. We clean, we cook, we eat, then we clean again. That is a routine.

My parents are good cook themselves. But unlike my mom, Papa is more of a cook than a homemaker. He loves to cook but didn't like cleaning. Aw, men! So, I enjoy watching mom clean up the mess helping her with my tiny hands when I was still little. I am always fascinated with the things around this space. So growing up means, loving more every activity there, may it be eating or plainly washing the dishes.

In this blog, I'll be posting more things about organizing, renovating and keeping our kitchen clean to make it last a lifetime.