30 Nov, 2007
Banana cake is another one of my childhood comfort foods. I like this even more than eating bananas. In the same way I like lechon paksiw more than lechon (except that crisp lechon skin is simply heaven in epidermis). I buy lots of lakatan bananas at the market on Saturdays, and…
29 Nov, 2007
I will be away from my desk and computer for a few days over the long weekend (Friday, Nov. 30 is Bonifacio Day/Heroes Day in the Philippines). I will be checking the website occasionally but will not respond to any emails until I get back. I will also probably be unable to…
29 Nov, 2007
Fishpan alert. Skip this post if you are offended by single-use silver implements. You were forewarned.
I lived and worked in Indonesia for several years in the early 1990’s and continued to visit the country frequently until a few years ago. Based in Jakarta during the week, we (Mrs. MM and…
28 Nov, 2007
Roshan is a home-based baker with spectacular cakes, desserts, and sweets. I featured some of her cakes last year. And I have since ordered her chocolate cupcakes (photographed above and below, delicious and fairly priced!) and have tasted several of her other baked goodies. In the past, her contact details were…
28 Nov, 2007
There are still lots of shirts and a few totes left over for the Marketmanila.com Public School Feeding Program that I have been sponsoring/facilitating for the last few weeks!!! I realize we have had so few pick-up points so far, (the longest at S&R, last Nov 17) so I have decided to add…
28 Nov, 2007
Mrs. Marketman is a huge fan of puto bumbong. But like, a HUGE FAN. I like puto bumbong, but would rather have a nice bibingka instead, if given a choice. Puto bumbong seems like one of those things that are better purchased from a specialist vendor, or at least one that appears…
27 Nov, 2007
I know the Christmas holidays are near when my suki Michael, at the FTI AANI Saturday Market, has new stock of extremely fresh pirurutong (purple upland glutinous rice) and really creamy/milky looking tapol or malagkit, both from Mindoro. At PHP80 a kilo, these are wickedly expensive in comparison to everyday rice, but they…
27 Nov, 2007
Please read my previous post on an article on budbud kabog in the November issue of the Mabuhay Magazine of Philippine Airlines before you continue reading this post.
I received this very prompt response from Ms. Ira Inquimboy to an email I sent her this morning and the previous post that I wrote on the…