Can you feel it? The cold breeze, holiday songs, festive decorations, and colorful lights and lanterns… it’s Christmas season, everybody!
Filipinos are known to celebrate Christmas the longest – it starts with the BER months and ends in January. Along with parties and get-togethers, we also have different traditions to celebrate the yuletide season.
Since I was a kid, I associated grapes and round fruits with the holiday season. My grandma used to buy a lot of grapes during the BER months and placed them on our table along with other fruits. The grapes were also hung on windows and doors to help bring in good fortune for the coming year.
I remember her asking me who was eating the grapes as she noticed that they were slowly “disappearing” and I said it must have been my aunties and our cat. But… It was silly me all along, of course! My aunties ended up buying more, much to my delight.
For Christmas eve, my aunties and grandma would make their delicious fruit salad – a huge can of fruit cocktail plus different colored grapes. That’s when I found out that not all “green or black colored” fruits are sour, unpleasant, or unripe.
I feel a certain nostalgia now that I’m a mom and I’m in charge of our holiday food prep. I keep the tradition alive in our household. Fruit salad with grapes – check! Hanging grapes on our front door during New Year’s Eve – check!
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My daughter loves snacking on them and even requested that I add it to her lunch box, together with my home-cooked meals. Recently, I added the grapes to our charcuterie board that I made for my husband. Extremely versatile and naturally filled with nutritious goodness, grapes can be used in so many dishes.
That's a quick trip down holiday memory lane. Core memories that I’ll treasure forever. What about you? Do you have family holiday traditions, too?
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