Comments on: Battle of the Balls, revisited…

By: Ana

Ana — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:27:24 +0000

MM, I found this blog entry on QdB: https://lactography.blogspot.com/2009/11/cheese-of-week-queso-de-bola-de.html

From the article it seems, the Edam recipe had a play in QdB recipe of Mexicans. Maybe we got it via that route from being administered from Mexico?

Or from this article https://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20090902-223260/Our-one-of-a-kind-queso-de-bola ….it seems an enterprising Swiss immigrant brought to our shores

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:09:48 +0000

Rain, that is WAY COOL. Thanks for that bit of knowledge… :)

By: Tony Lee

Tony Lee — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:16:42 +0000

I just go to Santi’s and buy about 200gms of Dutch Edam. It’s always amongst the goodies weighing down our Noche Buena dinner table but every year I am the only one who eats any of it. Humbug as Scrooge said.

Stay away from the Aussie Edam. In my opinion it is dry and tasteless.

By: ontogeny

ontogeny — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:21:43 +0000

I love queso de bola! Well, I love many kinds of cheeses but I’ve been programmed to favor it during the christmas season. I’m the weird one in my family because I actually like the part near the skin, the slightly gummy areas. I last bought Pato a couple of years ago in the grocery of Landmark, surprised that it was available because I normally just see PiÃ±a. For some reason, I didn’t like it. I’ve stuck to PiÃ±a ever since. Lazy me, I nuke it in the microwave on a piece of bread (particularly good with a raisin loaf) until it bubbles, sarap! My pop likes a few slices with the dreaded fruit cake, a nice counter to the often too sweet christmas treat (me too, okay, there are two oddballs in my family). If my pockets are flush, I grate some over beef caldereta. I love local stuff but sadly, queso de bola is not something we can do well. The local brands may have the right shape, right packaging, but they taste wrong.

By: Rain

Rain — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:13:44 +0000

In 1646 after the great Dutch Armada composed of 18 ships sent from protestant Batavia, Indonesia to attack and conquer Catholic Spanish Manila lost to the “Encarnacion and the Rosario”….The dutch sent a galleon of “Queso De Bola ” among the reparations…thus during Christmas and The La Naval…we celebrate and eat Queso de Bola :P

By: tonceq

tonceq — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:20:22 +0000

haven’t really developed a taste for these “balls”, i remember trying one of these as a youngster(out of the wax covering and into the o’le hatch) and i think it tasted bland? might reconcile with these just to see if my now more mature tastebuds will appreciate them! i heard that putting these on toast is a winner! :)

By: ntgerald

ntgerald — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:29:46 +0000

At S&R Aseana this afternoon, the queso de bola stacks had prices for Marca Pato, at Php 400 ++ and Marca Pina at Php 800++.

The Marca Pato brand is all gone, it’s all Marca Pina left.

I think a reader of this blog bought all of the Marca Pato queso de bola.

By: millet

millet — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:14:57 +0000

and that is why to most Pinoys, most foreign cheeses are “matabang” because the bar is set at Marca Pina. my kids love to grate QdB over a hot skillet, or to microwave it a bit, so that it develops a slight crust.

By: millet

millet — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:07:26 +0000

this is such a funny post, MM! I had to read it thrice because I kept stumbling over your one-liners and ending up giggling!

By: ECJ

ECJ — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:38:58 +0000

Dubliner, made by Kerrygold of Ireland reminds me of queso de bola…