Kids with Malunggay(horseradish tree)

I remember growing up when we are cooking tinolang manok and it calls for malunggay, we just go ask our neighbors who has a malunggay tree and then strip every tiny branches since we only use the tiny leaves for the soup. 

And now that I'm here residing in the US I hardly cook this recipe and I was surprise one time when my hubby cooked tinolang manok for my birthday and came home with a fresh malunggay which most of the time the Asian store have those frozen.  Today I asked my kids to help me and they were excited and happy to help stripping the leaves off.

Quentin is the first one to offer help and he was happy. 

Then Manang came and offered help and they both work together nicely.

Kids helping fixed dinner

Matt was fixing dinner last night and Beatrice insisted to help him and one tasked Matt introduced Beatrice to was slicing an olive with a knife and teaching the proper way to use it, she really enjoyed it and felt like a big girl.

Of course Quentin doesn't want to be left behind so he offered to help by picking the olives from the jar and all 3 of them assembled the dinner together while I'm busy nursing Hazel.