10 Jun, 2008
Some of you may be reading this post and thinking, “what was he thinking, duhhh…” but hopefully many others will see a little lightbulb switch on just above their coconuts and say, “wow, that sounds simple enough to do.” But the ultimate test is the taste, and this grilled corn taken up a…
09 Jun, 2008
Sometimes we feel like eating some paella but don’t have all of the ingredients of a full blown meat and seafood paella. This is a simpler version, that incorporates whatever ingredietns we had in the house, and it turned out very well. My detailed recipe for a paella a la Marketman is…
08 Jun, 2008
We cook paella in the Marketman household at least once a month, on aveage. It is one of our “easy entertaining dishes” that almost always comes out brilliantly and can feed up to 20+ guests for the largest paellera we have in the house. It is relatively easy to do, yet is…
07 Jun, 2008
Some things we just take for granted. Take the walis tingting, for example. Practically every single day of my life in the Philippines, I have seen someone using a walis tingting to sweep away leaves or other garbage from streets, lawns, etc. And I actually knew it was theoretically made from…
07 Jun, 2008
I just couldn’t resist. We left Greece this morning and at the Athens airport, they had free internet kiosks so I logged onto marketmanila.com and realized that today’s post was on the turkey attacks on Malapascua island. Talk about timing… we were boarding a plane for Turkey in just a few minutes,…
06 Jun, 2008
Who would have thought we would be attacked by turkeys in the interior fields of Malapascua island?! Out on a walk one day, we ran across a small home with lots of chickens and these two turkeys milling about. When the male turkey spotted us, it immediately flared its feathers and made…
05 Jun, 2008
There is something so peaceful, hopeful and positive about listening to kids at play, the occasional unbridled shrieks of joy and laughter, the apparent innocence, the more likely masked mischievousness. And this is all amplified when it is observed on a beautiful beach on a remote island. A late afternoon walk on…
04 Jun, 2008
For Marketman, the biggest advantage of being on an island in the middle of abundant seas was the incredible amounts of freshly caught seafood. I realize I was coveting the exact creatures that the divers around me wanted to view swimming in their natural habitat. But I am sure if the fish…