Comments on: Butternut Squash With Butter & Maple Syrup

By: cochise

cochise — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:19:13 +0000

I actually saw Bob Blumer do this recipe back when TLC was still running his show the Surreal Gourmet. He paired this with duck confit. It looked really yummy!

By: Jelo

Jelo — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:06:30 +0000

Betty Q, thanks for responding. If by texture you mean that our local calabazas are more fibrous then I think I understand why people prefer the butternut. I think the Parco at Quezon Ave has some butternut squash or acorn squash, I will go check there and try this recipe out.

MarketMan, it’s unfortunate but you will always be accused of being an elitist simply because you feature some high-end places (I would hardly consider S&R high-end though). Some people just see the world through a very small peep-hole and are quite myopic to boot. Have a laugh and don’t let them rile you up.

Nohiddenagenda, e kung sa naiinis siya (MM) sa service ng SM, ganon talaga. Kung may ibang mapupuntahan maliban sa SM para bumili, bakit hindi? Wag kang mainis dahil yung preferrence ng tao hindi “masa”. Gusto niya lang mag-share sa blog niya, hindi niya sinabing wag kang bumili don.

By: atbnorge

atbnorge — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:29:43 +0000

Baka si NOHIDDENAGENDA ay si dimaculangan, ‘di kaya?

By: atbnorge

atbnorge — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:57:24 +0000

Incidentally, kanina ko lang nabasa ‘yung tungkol kay dimaculangan—o, binanggit ko na, kasi, tila kulang ang comment kapag walang name-dropping, hahahaha. I didn’t want to comment on that blog because it is such an old issue. Then, reading about the butternut squash…voila! Elitismo, mismo! I love all kinds of gourds and I used to eat the flowers and young shoots, too…Like betty_q, I am also in blueberry mode. I’ll be driving off to this forest southwest of Oslo for my annual blueberry picking (excited!)…Oh, we’ve been on a camping caravan tour along the old roads of Central Norway and found this charming store,up on the mountains on the way to Voss, selling all sorts of Scandinavian charcuterie. It was a delight to find that they don’t take credit cards (no signal at 1500 m osl), Then about 2 miles along the road (it’s Route 13), a cottage selling goat’s cheese!!! Then the unthinkable happened, we were out of cash. Who says Visa, Diners, Mastercard, or the mighty American Express can get you everything?

By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:49:35 +0000

Your photo made me crave MM! Now I have to find a way to conveniently go to SM Makati, aargh…and just so you know, I tried your Okra with Aligue and it tastes ‘refreshingly different’, I like it! I will post it on my newbie-blog soon (plugging, hehe). Hope you can visit. Thanks for sharing your recipes, much appreciated specially now that i’m trying to expand my very limited list of dishes :) Maybe you can post more 30-minute (or less) Meals for on-the-go moms like me.

By: Mila

Mila — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:25:51 +0000

Oh lordy, another fishpan in the works.
Both you and Lori wrote about butternut squash! And with few exceptions, roast b/nut squash! Talk about koinkidinks.

By: nohiddenagenda

nohiddenagenda — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:57:04 +0000

GOOD RIDDANCE!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:28:25 +0000

nohiddenagenda, I only suggest S&R for selfish reasons, as I tend to do much of our grocery shopping there, as many readers of this blog are familiar. Besides, any intelligent enough consumer who factors in their PHP700+ annual fee into their grocery bill will find that it might be MUCH cheaper to shop at S&R than at other groceries such as SM or Rustans in the long run, depending on total expenditure… I don’t mind at all that Dizon sells at SM, but since i was talking to the lady that manages dizon, I was surprised when she said they chose SM for veggies, and their own outlets for fruit as the main distribution points. I also suggest S&R, as they have ample refrigerated sections and thus the veggies are treated better before buyers purchase them. Chard isn’t left out in the open to wilt in the warm air (albeit airconditioned in the lobby of SM) and has to be rehydrated to look a lot better. I have nothing against SM besides their stupid cart/basket rules that I have written about before. Oh, and their non-people friendly employment policies of churning staff every 5.9 months. Oh, and please, let’s not go down the elitist path again, it’s tiresome and so overused at this point. My views on elitism are on a post years ago. And really, am I to assume you are such a wizard so as to divine nuances of one’s character by knowing where I prefer to do my groceries? Hahaha. Tsk. tsk. I NEVER said Dizon should ONLY use S&R, that is your conclusion, and A DUMB one not based on fact. Dizon should sell in as many outlets as they like, the more the merrier. The veggies I featured from dizon are EXTRAORDINARY as far as the local veggie scene is at the moment. And as such, they are also premium priced relative to local equivalents kalabasa vs. butternut, celery vs. celeriac or even cardoons, pechay vs. chard… so, if as you say you are an ordinary consumer, with ordinary needs, why would you be so hot and bothered by where EXTRAORDINARY veggies are made available for sale? Maybe you need to eat more vegetables so you don’t get so hung up on who is an elitist or not… :) And just in case in you are wondering, I shop at S&R, Metro Market!Market!, the market outdoors at Market!Market!, Rustan’s, SM, Landmark, Cash & Carry, Unimart, the FTI Taguig Saturday Market, The Seaside Market at Baclaran, Salcedo Market, Legazpi Market, rarely due to distance at Farmer’s Market, Lung center Sunday Market, Divisoria 2-3x a year, Binondo, The Carbon in Cebu on occasion, the Tabuan or dried fish market in Cebu and markets in all the major and minor towns that I get to visit in my travels. Many of them I have featured on this blog. They are high end, low end, retail, wholesale, produce, seafood and others… so please don’t be so sure you know me enough to conclude anything based on where I choose to get my supplies. If you don’t like what you read, go read something else.

By: nohiddenagenda

nohiddenagenda — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:37:00 +0000

Why do you suggest S&R as Dizon’s main distribution site? We all know that you have to pay membership fees just to patronize S&R stores. Not everyone would want to pay those fees. If Dizon’s products are only available at S&R then won’t that deprive non-members of their products? You sound so elitist. I can see your real character now. What have you got against SM Supermarket? Sure,they have their faults at times but they try to rectify them. I’m not a paid hack of SM. I’m just an ordinary consumer and a regular reader of this blog.

By: pinkytab

pinkytab — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:22:56 +0000

Did not bother with this gourd before but tried it after reading your post. I brushed olive oil and baked it in the oven but not for 40 minutes. I think it was only 20 or 30 minutes. Then I sauted chopped onions, garlic, lean ground beef, seasoned it with soy sauce and pepper, piled it on the squash and garnished it with parsley and basil and it was DELICIOUS! Thanks Marketman.