Comments on: Key Ingredients for Kare-Kare

By: myra del rosario

myra del rosario — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:20:28 +0000

My kids love kare-kare but they get it only at handaan elsewhere. I have never in my entire life made it. I love to cook but not on the scale required to come up with kare-kare. Wish I had the patience. I always thought kare-kare was from Cavite because i remember it referred to as kare-kareng Cavite while i was growing up. Now it’s simply called kare-kare period.

By: MasPinaSarap

MasPinaSarap — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:35:15 +0000

After making Kare-Kare yesterday, I’m afraid I might have gave you the wrong information on what to eat on the saging ng puso. Just to be sure, discard all the purple outer casings, the little white stamens can be eaten, but they must be freshly white and not discolored, and you must pinch the end off and pull the white string from within out, if you don’t it will be really bitter. The actual white core is edible, slice it crosswise around the entire core to loosen it, and then it can be chopped and cooked. My nang showed me first hand. Sorry, if this caused anyone trouble.

By: gonzo

gonzo — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:05:41 +0000

oops richard, not robert! haha

By: gonzo

gonzo — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:01:15 +0000

oh and that just reminded me, some people collect stamps; i collect pestles and mortars. every culture, every country has a version of it, so wherever i go i pick one up for my collection. i now have ‘molcajetes’ from all over the world!

By: gonzo

gonzo — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:57:54 +0000

Robert, all good questions, and i’m relieved that there is at least one person other than myself on this earth that ponders these very questions. The origins of kare kare may never be known, only, as you have pointed, surmised. it’s one of those questions in which the answer is lost in time, like “what did the dinosaurs really look like?” we can only guess.

and if its any consolation to you, everyone in my family (and most of the family friends and our social network) still uses a pestle and mortar. you should see the one in my mother’s kitchen: made of stone but worn down from decades of use.