http://www.marketmanila.com A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:12:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/wilted-spinach-salad-farro-salad-for-lunch http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/wilted-spinach-salad-farro-salad-for-lunch#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:59:16 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=22194 After the eating madness that characterises the Filipino holiday season, you have to be mad not to seek more healthy fare to cleanse the system.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/wilted-spinach-salad-farro-salad-for-lunch/feed 17 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/whats-cooking-now-ube-halaya http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/whats-cooking-now-ube-halaya#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:27:45 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=21435 First off, I have to clearly acknowledge that it is in fact very possible to make a ube halaya that is truly purple in color, WITHOUT any food coloring whatsoever.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/whats-cooking-now-ube-halaya/feed 34 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/wild-mushroom-challah-bread-pudding http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/wild-mushroom-challah-bread-pudding#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:39:48 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=21284 This was everyone's favorite dish from our recent Thanksgiving dinner.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/wild-mushroom-challah-bread-pudding/feed 32 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/scallion-sauce-for-noodles-a-la-david-chang-momofuku http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/scallion-sauce-for-noodles-a-la-david-chang-momofuku#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:35:03 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=20286 This dead simple recipe for a "condiment" or "sauce" for noodles and other dishes caught my interest at the same time as experimenting with Momofuku's fried chicken.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/scallion-sauce-for-noodles-a-la-david-chang-momofuku/feed 28 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/puto-buli-steamed-ass-cakes-butt-buns http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/puto-buli-steamed-ass-cakes-butt-buns#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:19:27 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=20060 Actually, technically, they are steamed buri palm starch cakes. Buli in Visayan refers to one's rear end. So I was amused when we came across these rather unusual puto or steamed cakes this morning at a food fair at the Cebu Capitol Building grounds. Puto Buli the vendors referred to them. Landang is a starchy ingredient I have written about before; it is an essential component of a really local guinataan or benignit, and it too is made from buri palm starch.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/puto-buli-steamed-ass-cakes-butt-buns/feed 49