I love
fruitcakes! With my cravings for it
and at my age, God has blessed me with a lot of it to taste
from different stores, different people , and even from different countries on
different occasions. But last night, I
have tasted one of the best fruitcakes I ever had.
Together
with Rosette, Phen, Cynthia, Myrna and Ara, we gathered yesterday, January 11, 2013 at Mann Hann SM North for a
simple get together basically to
celebrate Marilou Villaruel Almazan’s birthday ( though it was already a few days late
because Malou’s birthday is January 8
and we were not able to join the others who celebrated her birthday with
her on that day ). But the occasion
turned out to be a post Christmas and New Year celebration as well . As each one of us arrived, Rosette greeted us
with an apple pie ( also one of the best in town and you should taste it ) followed by a shell necklace ( direct from Hawaii ) and a chopstick set made of
kamagong with mother-of-pearl inlay from Cynthia Admana. While waiting for the others, Rosette served
the fruitcake and the apple pie. We
tried to look for some birthday candles
for Malou to blow. Unfortunately, there
was none.
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| the fruitcake baked with so much love by Rosette |
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| and the APPLE PIE |
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| L-R Ara, Cynthia, Phen, Rosette, Malou , Fler & . . . |
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| Myrna Ferriol Verdudazo |
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| The pie, the baker, and the celebrator |
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| Cynthia, Malou & Phen together with the apple pie . . . |
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| Ara... seriously listening to Malou's story about fortune telling while Phen is busy looking as her palms . . . |
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| hayan na....looking for the life lines and treasure lines... |
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| the celebrator sharing her "unexected calls" during her birthday |
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| My take-home apple pie |
Being biased towards the
fruitcake, I tasted it first and so with the others. Everyone who took a slice of it said nothing
but . . . ANG SARAP! And truly,
it was! As I have posted in my FB
status, it must have been baked with so
much love that made it taste so different from the rest. I am quite aware that fruitcakes are not baked instantly for it to taste good. It takes months to work on the ingredients (as Rosette claimed it, the glazed fruits were dipped in wine for almost a year ).
Rosette was more than willing to share her
recipe especially to Cynthia who wishes to bake some for herself. Likewise, she has no plans of commercializing her products at the moment. The celebration ended with a raffle of one
box of apple pie who fortunately went to
the celebrator and I won the last few slices of the fruitcake ( as I have
prayed for ).
We had the best sellers in Mann Hann that night and we had the best apple pie and fruitcake in town. Much more, we had the best company that we had missed for soooooo long (Thanks to FB!)
Maybe later, when Rosette retires, she will bake her fruitcakes and apples pies for business. And if ever Cynthia will finally come up with her own masterpiece , by then, fruitcakes and apples pies will be for sale to everyone. But the friendship that we have for each other will never be sold. It will always be for
keeps . . . forever!
HAVE A
FRUITFUL 2013 FRIENDS!
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