The Filipino food bloggers’ event, Lasang Pinoy celebrates it’s first year anniversary this month of August. Congratulations and here’s to more participants and anniversaries!

 

 

This month’s theme, Definitively Pinoy, was not so easy for me.  I wanted to do  the Ilokano dishes “dinengdeng” or  “pinakbet” that my mother does so well.  I could,  but it just wouldn’t be the same without the best ingredients.  So instead, I decided to feature a very Pinoy food product everyone who grew up in the Philippines will remember from their childhood:  Choc-Nut.  Just the mention of this chocolate and peanut confection elicits happy memories for Pinoys. 

I mentioned this in a previous post on Ben & Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup ice cream of all things.  It’s just one of those things that with just a little bite, conjures up so many memories and faces from your childhood. 

It hasn’t changed at all and I’m grateful for that. Even in Colorado, a world away from my home, it still brings me back and reminds me how definitively Pinoy I’ll always be….no matter where I wake up.