31 Jan, 2009
The day after Christmas we left Manila for a short trip to Siem Reap in Cambodia and a one day stop in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) on the way home. Armed with a tiny “Luxe” Guide to Cambodia that was left by Santa in Mrs. MM’s stocking, we boarded a small Philippine…
31 Jan, 2009
Betty q. made her first comment on marketmanila.com on July 2, 2007. And from that point on, she has gone on to make 800(!) comments that have given us recipes, tips, laughter, amusement, awe, etc. I and many of marketmanila’s readers are grateful for this incredible generosity and willingness to share such…
30 Jan, 2009
I am often surprised by the amounts of money people are willing to pay for a decent, and more likely, convenient meal. Many office workers who eat out are likely to spend between PHP50-80 for a fast food meal which might include one piece of fried chicken with more batter than volume of…
29 Jan, 2009
Occasionally I run across some golden zucchini at the Saturday markets. I have written about the vegetable before, here, but I don’t think I have done a post about the simple way we like to prepare this vegetable at home. Simply wash and slice the vegetable into 1/3 inch thick disks (discard…
29 Jan, 2009
Sorry fans of condensada flan, leche flan made with milk/cream or carabao’s milk just beats condensada flan by a mile, in my personal opinion. :) One of our company lawyers, who is based in Bohol, was so intrigued by the current posts on leche flan, that he sent me a text the…
28 Jan, 2009
Fried fish or meat with a sweet and sour sauce of some sort is a favorite combination of mine. Escabeche style anything as a kid meant I could survive on the sauce and rice alone, even if the underlying protein was fried frog’s legs… Escabeche, according to Wikipedia, from the Spanish or Persian…
28 Jan, 2009
What is the shortest interval that has passed from the time an ear of corn was picked right off the stalk to the time you sink your teeth into freshly cooked corn on the cob? When I spent summers on Long Island as a kid with my sister and her family, we would…
27 Jan, 2009
Okay, I have figured out my recipe for Condensada Flan a la Marketman. Here are six versions of the dessert, and if you read through to the bottom of this post, you will know which one I thought was the best of them all. Now I completely understand that roughly 50% of…