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Yan ang Jolly Love: 5 Recipes that are Sure to be Your Family’s Next Favorites

Do you know what your love language is? For those of you not familiar with it, a love language refers to the ways that we prefer to give and receive affection. There are five different types of love languages—words of affirmation, receiving gifts, quality time, physical touch, and acts of service. All these are very different from each other, which can also make one think: is there one particular love language that can encompass all these five and roll them into one?

Well, the answer is yes. Shockingly enough, this type of expression of love is something you might be doing on a regular basis. What is it you might ask?

It’s cooking, plain and simple.

For a culture that is so centered and grounded in family and community, Filipinos have always used food as a direct way to show their care for their loved ones. Cooking is so common and mundane that it can sometimes come off as routine, but you can see how love is woven through every step of doing it. When you think of a good recipe to make for your family, that’s a sign of love. When you put the time and effort into making a dish healthy and delicious, that’s a show of affection. When you put great food on the table for the rest of the family to enjoy, it’s a gift. And finally, when your loved ones let you know how much they appreciate all of it, that’s affirmation.

One brand that perfectly encapsulates this love language is Jolly. As a consistent leader in the packaged vegetables category, the brand has made it easier for homemakers to be more creative with their cooking by making freshly packed ingredients accessible to everyone. Now on its 25th year, Jolly offers a wide range of kitchen pantry favorites from their best-selling canned mushrooms and corn, packaged fruits, to their canned soups and other condiments.

For Jolly, love can be felt the most in actions. ‘Yan ang Jolly Love’ is when you take the time to cook delicious and healthy dishes for your family. It’s when you take the extra mile to make sure that you never run out of ideas in the kitchen and when you use your creativity to create the most amazing recipes. As a kitchen favorite, Jolly wants to help every homemaker who wants to express their affection by providing products that they can turn into delicious expressions of love.

And since we’re already talking about food as the best way to touch someone’s heart, here are some recipes that you can create for your family as a show of your affection. Fair warning: they are so easy to do and so delicious that they are most likely going to be your next meal favorites!

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Ice Scramble

I used to buy this back in my elementary days. That was like ten years ago. Now, you see people eating/sipping it but not in that small pink cup anymore.

I first tasted the mall version in Farmers Cubao one Saturday. The taste is almost the same as the one I used to buy but this time, apart from the chocolate syrup, there is an option to add candy sprinkles, marshmallows, rice crispies and others. It attracted me.

Last week, hubby found its recipe and made some at home. I super enjoyed that asked him to make it again. The whole family liked it, specially Ayex. Maybe this could be a start of another business for us in the future.

Maxyn turns 2 months today

She’s one big adorable baby. Many say she looks like a 6-month old baby that I sometimes feel she’s no longer a baby. She now weighs 13.7lbs. She can keep her head steady for some time already and follows the talking person with her eyes.

To celebrate, hubby cooked pork barbeque and palabok.

Hubby prepared this last night using Clara Ole Barbeque Marinade. I like its taste and tenderness.

For this sauce, hubby used Mama Sita’s palabok mix. I never knew palabok can be done this easy. It was my sister-in-law who taught us this when she was here last summer.

Thank God that almost everyone in the family in now sore eyes-free, we were able to truly celebrate.