http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-49059 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:12:01 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-49059 thank you, i am definitely learning more about fruits and vegetable indigenous to the philippine countryside. have you tried posting or adding some of your fruit/vegetable finds to wikipedia? it would be fun to see you do the wiki thing. you've got some very interesting finds from your trips. are you aware of any local lab or agricultural agency banking any seeds from these plants? it would be great to learn more about it. thanks, again. thank you, i am definitely learning more about fruits and vegetable indigenous to the philippine countryside. have you tried posting or adding some of your fruit/vegetable finds to wikipedia? it would be fun to see you do the wiki thing. you’ve got some very interesting finds from your trips. are you aware of any local lab or agricultural agency banking any seeds from these plants? it would be great to learn more about it. thanks, again.

]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-49057 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:55:16 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-49057 Sam, I think these particular morados, the chicos and grandes are meant to be eating (sans cooking) bananas. They have a pretty soft ripe consistency, so my guess is that they would be pretty limp and soft when stewed or fried. However, the larger red bananas in the U.S. and European markets are more often a variety of plantain, in which case they hold up better to frying or stewing. Our cook says this variety is never cooked where they come from in Cebu... Sam, I think these particular morados, the chicos and grandes are meant to be eating (sans cooking) bananas. They have a pretty soft ripe consistency, so my guess is that they would be pretty limp and soft when stewed or fried. However, the larger red bananas in the U.S. and European markets are more often a variety of plantain, in which case they hold up better to frying or stewing. Our cook says this variety is never cooked where they come from in Cebu…

]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-49056 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:46:37 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-49056 just curious, i've seen these red bananas, never tried them ripe. they're pretty to look at, and i wonder if they can actually stand stewing in sumple brown sugar syrup? any ideas, mr.mm? when you had your stash, did you eat them fresh or tried cooking with a few? just curious, i’ve seen these red bananas, never tried them ripe. they’re pretty to look at, and i wonder if they can actually stand stewing in sumple brown sugar syrup? any ideas, mr.mm? when you had your stash, did you eat them fresh or tried cooking with a few?

]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-48951 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:28:19 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-48951 On my trip to Sri Lanka I often see red bananas on roadside vendors and in markets, they say it is common there, I only saw this bananas once in philippines, looked exotic, but it tastes good. . . nice to have a fruit basket with diff kinds of bananas in it. . . . On my trip to Sri Lanka I often see red bananas on roadside vendors and in markets, they say it is common there, I only saw this bananas once in philippines, looked exotic, but it tastes good. . . nice to have a fruit basket with diff kinds of bananas in it. . . .

]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-48928 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:01:02 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/morado-bananas#comment-48928 You will be interested to know that buto, as described by the greener of you, and which I did not know the meaning until readers commented on this, has a very clear linguistic provenance it seems... "butoh" or "butuh" in Malay refers to the same thing... and I suspect the Malay word made its way to Cebu and thereabouts at some point several hundred years ago... You will be interested to know that buto, as described by the greener of you, and which I did not know the meaning until readers commented on this, has a very clear linguistic provenance it seems… “butoh” or “butuh” in Malay refers to the same thing… and I suspect the Malay word made its way to Cebu and thereabouts at some point several hundred years ago…

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