Do you like to travel during the holidays or stay close to home?
For all the holidays, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. And celebrating this season with the whole family would be the best option. We Filipinos, have this culture of sticking together with our loved ones, with our family, especially during Christmas Eve.
I remember before when I'm still single and working in Cebu, away from my family in Negros Occidental, I and my sister would take our vacation leave just to be with our family. My father used to call us, confirming the exact day we travel home. But a day before we leave Cebu, we make sure to buy our Christmas present for the whole family.
I can still remember they're happy faces whenever we arrived. The ambiance of our home relaxes us from the long hours of travel. Truly, there's no place like home. This is the only place I know that I can recharge my whole being after the stressful months of working away. Whenever I feel too much pressure and would love to take a deep breath, my option is home.
Even up to now, we were still invited every Christmas to celebrate together with my parents and siblings, while we celebrate New Year's Eve with my in-laws (husband's family).
What is your favorite holiday food and why?
Me and my sister Jen, usually prepare our food for 'Noche Buena'. And my favorite part was to prepare my favorite 'buko salad'. It is widely known for Filipinos as a fruit dessert from strips of fresh young coconut mixed with other fruits, nata de coco, and some dairy products like cream, milk, and cheese. It's my all-time favorite dessert since you can make it any time you want as long as there is enough young coconut fruit to use.
We have at least 7 coconut trees in our backyard and ever since childhood, this is my favorite fruit to eat. And I can even finish drinking 1 liter of its juice in less than an hour. Then I'll expect frequent travel to the comfort room afterward. And that's my way of cleansing my stomach, lol.😅
Celebrating Christmas along with the whole family is considered one of the Filipino traditions that I will forever treasure and will continue from generation to generation.
This is my entry for this week's contest and I'd like to invite @romeskie to join also.
God bless everybody.
Nothing more exciting than arriving home to enjoy Christmas with the family, Buko salad sounds superb not so sure about that amount of coconut water to wash down after, but you know what is best ☺️Happy Christmas.
Indeed. Christmas is about celebration with the family. You can try making buko Salad too, you will surely love it and the water, well they said it's good for anyone who suffer UTI, it really cleanses away. You can try a glass of it's juice, then maybe after 5-10mins you'll able to feel the urge to pee. Anyway, thanks for dropping by @joanstewart. 😊 God bless you and keep safe.
Enjoy the festivities, family and food during time of celebration.
Thank you so much @joanstewart. And you too, enjoy everything with your family and God bless. 😊
Go safe, go well and have a wonderful festive season.
Hola amiga, primera vez que que escucho hablar de la ensalada de buko, pero la verdad se ve deliciosa y me gustaría probarla algún día, esta súper interesante tu relato. ¡Gracias por compartir tu contenido con nosotros!
Gracias por venir. y sí tienes que probarlo porque es un postre realmente delicioso. Dios te bendiga y feliz Navidad @gigi8.🥰
It is never better than being at home and celebrating the holiday with family. ❤️
Welcome to ladiesofhive. Very nice first entry and good luck in the contest :)
Thank you for your nice comment @trangbaby and Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🥰
Hello @jonalyn2020. Welcome to Ladies of Hive. We appreciate you joining in contest #62 with your first entry for the Community contests.
What a lovely thought:
That is as it should be. There's no place like home..and you should always be able to return.
Your holiday food sounds lovely. I especially like the fruit salad. In the U.S., we have a fruit salad with much of the same ingredients. It's most refreshing.
Thanks for taking the time to participate. Hope to see more your entries in the future. Take care, and have a wonderful Christmas holiday with family...at home.
It's an honor to join this contest of LOH. And I am hoping to constantly join more of it. Thank you so much @justclickindiva for this wonderful questions, it reminds us the importance and the true value of our family especially when occasions like this. And yes, buko salad is like having a fruit salad, in addition of shredded young coconut. Merry Christmas and God bless.🥰
Same to you. I see that the photo for the salad is from Facebook. Is it your FB account or someone else?
It wasn't mine, I just search it on the FB and pick a random picture since I'm not really a type of person BEFORE who takes picture with everything that surrounds me, but through Hive, I now appreciate and know the value of taking my own pictures to share. And I'm hoping this Christmas, I would collect some of the unforgettable and beautiful things that is around me.
As a rule, you just can't select any photo you find on the internet and include it in your blog unless the photo is free for you to use. Photos on social media, such as facebook and Pinterest are not free. They belong to someone. In order to use them, you have to get permission to do so. That's why it's always recommended to use your own photos. Alternatively, look for sites that offer free images with copyright restrictions. Sites such as Pixabay, Pexels, Unsplash, Kaboompics, and Wikipedia Commons. As long as the photo has a Creative Commons license that allows you to use it, then be safe and choose a photo from one of those or any other sites.
Thanks for your response.
Oh I see. I thought it's enough to put it's source. By the way, thanks for the information and the samples of sites in which I can freely use the photos. It helps a lot.
And by the way, I'll try to look a photo with the sites you had mentioned and try to edit my post.
Hello @justclickindiva. I tried to look for a buko salad picture on sites that you had mentioned but I can't find one that fit to the ingredients, but I did find a pic on canva, and able to change the picture. Hope it's okay now.😊
By the way, I did message the owner of that 'buko salad' picture, since it happens that she was a friend on my list though I don't exactly knew her, but up to now, she's offline. So I decided to change the picture and pick the one from canva.
You can also use Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_salad
Canva is good for its free images. Just make sure that all the images you created the collage with are free. Since Canva also has premium images for its Pro Members, your reader can't tell whether the images are free to use. If you're changing the images to make a collage in Canva, you need to indicate they images are free. All images have links to them in Canva.
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Oooh, that Buko Salad seems interesting!
We can buy frozen shredded coconut from an Asian Store here.
Maybe I will try it someday!
Thanks for sharing, @jonalyn2020.
Good luck with the contest.
Just give it a try and you will surely love it, plus it's easy to prepare. Thanks for dropping by @silversaver888.😊