24 Mar, 2007
Surprisingly, for me at least, this was one of the biggest or fastest “sellers” at the school buffet I did the other night. I have had artichoke dips/spreads before but was never really overwhelmed by them. But I needed variety and interesting flavors so I decided to include this in the buffet….
22 Mar, 2007
Things have been a bit crazed in the Marketmanila household lately. The Kid had a major event at her school this evening, the culmination of a lot of hard work; an elaborate presentation on a notable person, along with all of her classmates. The evening event was to run from 5-8 p.m….
22 Mar, 2007
I always liked the caramel colored guava jelly of my childhood. Always purchased rather than home made, the intense and distinct flavor of the guava, mixed with the sweet sugar was always good on toast with butter. I never once wondered how the pulpy and heavily seeded guava fruit turned into such…
21 Mar, 2007
What would be in your dream outgoing alisbayan box if you resided abroad and relatives back home could send you one? I have posed the question before asking what was in your balikbayan box, so why don’t we turn the tables around… As I type, thousands and thousands of balikbayan boxes are working…
21 Mar, 2007
Banana chips and dried mangoes are the two Filipino fruit snacks that I absolutely love. Anywhere on the planet, doing almost anything, I can launch into a bag of either of these goodies and finish the entire package all by myself. But oddly, for several years, I couldn’t stand the site of…
20 Mar, 2007
I have always been drawn to nature’s genetic whackos (produce wise, that is). There is something so unpredictable about fruits and vegetables that all get bastardized on the whim of a bee, the strength of the prevailing winds, the poop of a small foraging animal or the interference of humans in a college laboratory….
20 Mar, 2007
These were the most enormous mangoes I have EVER seen. Hanging at a vendors stall last weekend at the FTI Taguig market, and weighing in at about 1 to 1.2 kilos per PIECE!, my curiosity was definitely peaked. I purchased two pieces, and at PHP80 a kilo, they cost roughly PHP80 a…
19 Mar, 2007
Delicious!!! This was a great discovery for Marketman! I had never heard of kalitiran and never cooked it, at least not in this cut, before. I wasn’t aware of any specific recipes for this cut of meat so I decided to try and “invent” one…which I have to admit is not really…