Comments on: Kolo or Rimas / Breadfruit

By: cres villahermosa

cres villahermosa — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:30:58 +0000

Sweet rimas, brown and pyramid shaped was one of my favorite treats as a child. While seemingly dry outside it turns juicy sweet in the mouth. Even in the Philippines it is quite rare. As an adult I had to venture to Manila’s Chinatown to find it although occasionally a vendor in a public market may have it.
I suspect that sweet rimas is cooked by dipping it into a “kawa” or huge wok of cooking molasses or brown sugar also called “muscovado” in Negros. I am now in the US and am wishing I could taste sweet rimas again.

By: debbie r enarle

debbie r enarle — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:11:30 +0000

Plus, i have many camansi (breadnut) seedlings. Camansi is so easy to plant because it is seed…but it is also very sensitive to wind and touch, and to the nasty fruit flies…if anyone out there is interested to join my movement for food of the future security my organization’s name is swamps and rivers…we shall advocate for the planting of breadfruit, breadnut, lumboy, and all other endemic evergreen fruit-bearing trees that are being decimated by charcoal “loggers”…e mail me at swamps.rivers@yahoo.com.ph…submit your biodata pls…these breadfruit and breadnut trees will hopefully also restore water abundance in my island province of Guimaras…thanks and best regards to you all…

By: debbie r enarle

debbie r enarle — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:03:49 +0000

Hello i live here in Iloilo City Philippines and I have started what I call The Breadfruit Movement..I have tried various ways of propagating breadfruit and these have all failed except one: cut out roots that are as thick as your forefinger or like circumference of a fat black pencil into 8″ lengths…then stick it on prepared soil (meaning you should have dug a hole already, burnt some dried leave in it to sort of sanitize it, and filled it with compost-rich soil) about 30-45 degrees inclination, just like the way they plant cassava..then surround the hole with a sturdy 2′ high fence with fine mesh to prevent the flies that love biting on the tender shoots…wait for at least a month (pls water the root cutting diligently). When you see tender shoots don’t EVER touch the plant with anything…

By: babylyn

babylyn — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:54:39 +0000

where can i buy rimas? or breadfruit? or kolo?
am 2 weeks pregnant and I feel like eating fried rimas … pls help!!!!!

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:00:12 +0000

When I was in high school, the madres in our school used to fry thinly sliced camansi and sprinkle it with some sugar until the sugar would start to caramelize. They would sell it at 2 pesos apiece.