Comments on: Boiled Saba Bananas

By: Rey

Rey — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:07:25 +0000

My wife knows how to make a very good ginamus that is why i decided to make a sideline selling clean homemde ginamus if you want to order just give me an email.

By: agnesdv

agnesdv — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:22:30 +0000

Here in the Waray region, boiled sab-a bananas are commonly eaten with lawlaw (our white ginamos version). I prefer to eat it with (real) butter while the banana is still hot. We eat lupak (linusak) only mostly after typhoons, to make use of the fallen unripe bananas that are not ready to eat/cook yet. Oh, and to know if it’s already cooked, test it with a fork (like you do with a cake). If part of the banana sticks to the fork, then it’s still not done. ps I could be wrong, but that picture doesn’t look like a sab-a. Just making sure.. haha.

By: Langga

Langga — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:04:19 +0000

Boiled saba is terrific with ginamus or bagoong especially if the saba was boiled when it is not too unripe and not ripe also. Saba banana is one of my all-time favorite snacks,beats sandwiches anytime of day :-)

By: sha

sha — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:31:20 +0000

I missed this post… where I was growing up in Cebu whenever we go to the beach we always have saging and gianamos together….

By: kaye

kaye — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:34:38 +0000

i also love these saba bananas in nilaga.. it gives it a sweet taste in addition to the sweetness the camote gives.. haay! love to slurp the broth on a rainy day..

By: Bay_leaf

Bay_leaf — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:13:28 +0000

hi, MM, haven’t been here in a while, too busy, but seeing these boiled bananas today made me really homesick especially as it’s cold and dark outside! :(
I’d love one right now—comfort food, indeed!

and the almost ripe boiled version with matching ginamos squeezed with biasong and siling labuyo…pagkalami!!!!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:19:44 +0000

Sorry Gonzo, one of the things we all have to accept with the wide array of readers…and better everyone feels like participating than not. And I, for one, have pretty appalling grammar and spelling skills as well…

By: gonzo

gonzo — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:07:41 +0000

whew MM, i wish your site had grammar check (like spellcheck) for your posters. Would make the cringe factor a bit less, well, cringey..

By: choy

choy — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:14:19 +0000

saging na saba is indeed comfort food. in the waray region, we even have it as “ulam” paired with fried fish or pork or bistek tagalog.

boiled saba with guinamos is still a favored pulutan by my visayan drinking buddies. we normally use the slightly unripe ones for this.

salud!

By: tulip

tulip — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:02:49 +0000

Marketman, with the name, there comes a wide explanation to it e.g. taste, composition but that is another story! Goin’ bananas over bananas ppfft! Marketman, if you ever resume your diet after the holidays, those saba will be enough-highest source of enzyme and filling too. And one question though, I saw some red looking plantains in some markets and seen it more frequently in provinces, are those also “saba”?