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. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/beans http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/beans#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:04:29 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=10693 The looked a bit like, but not quite, common sitaw. I had never seen them for sale this way before, and the when asked, the vendor gave me this irritated look like "how should I know what they are?" So I got some just to photograph and record, but I am not sure what they actually are. The pods look like young sitaw, but the beans are incredibly big and fairly close to each other. Apparently, one can include them in sautes or other such dishes...]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/beans/feed 24 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/lettuce-lima-bean-patani-tomato-salad-a-la-marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/lettuce-lima-bean-patani-tomato-salad-a-la-marketman#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:58:20 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=10677 There are probably a gajillion ways to make a salad of greens and vegetables, and yet we tend to be creatures of habit and simply repeat the basic salads we eat a lot of. Variety is the spice of life, so lately we have been throwing together more and more salads based on what we happen to find in the markets, have in the fridge or in the pantry. And rarely has this experimentation resulted in something inedible. As long as your ingredients are fresh top quality greens and vegetables, and you have a simple dressing made up of quality oils and acids, it's almost always worth the effort...]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/lettuce-lima-bean-patani-tomato-salad-a-la-marketman/feed 11 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/young-malunggay http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/young-malunggay#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:49:06 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=10669 I came across little plastic bags filled with a half-cup full each of the fleshy contents and immature seeds of the malunggay tree seed pods. While I have used the apparently "medium" matured seed pods in pinakbet before, as well as featured the nearly over-the-hill and ready to plant dried seed pods here, I have never come across the young, vibrantly natural light green of the fleshy young things in the photos in this post... ]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/young-malunggay/feed 36 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/caldo-verde-a-la-marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/caldo-verde-a-la-marketman#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:00:31 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=10623 I managed to get roughly 15-18 medium sized collard leaves after "de-bugging" them from the earlier purchase, here. The obvious use might have been slowly stewed collards with some salt pork, but actually the sound of that wasn't too appealing to me. So I went on the hunt for alternative recipes. I found a couple of references to a Portuguese soup called Caldo Verde (literally "hot greens") and I figured I could make a pretty decent version with the ingredients we had in the fridge and larder, so a Caldo Verde it would be.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/caldo-verde-a-la-marketman/feed 18 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/organic-collard-greens http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/organic-collard-greens#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:21:22 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=10615 Several folks have emailed me over the years to ask if I knew where to buy collard greens locally. Until today, I have always answered that I had never seen collard greens in local markets. At one point or another, I was thrilled to find swiss chard or chard, even kale, but never collard greens. So when I zipped through the Salcedo market this morning, and ran into Gil Carandang and JT Gonzalez of Herbana Farms (a double treat), I was pleasantly surprised when Gil thrust a small bunch of collard greens my way. I asked if he had more and I bought the three bunches of collard greens he had for sale.]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/organic-collard-greens/feed 17