Comments on: Dried Fruit Compote

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:04:54 +0000

Terrey: you shouldn’t give ham bone to your dog.The nitrites or other preservatives in the ham might cause allergy to your dog.Just save the ham bones and scraps for your next soup dinner!:)
Happy New Year to one and all!

By: Jade186

Jade186 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:59:08 +0000

My mom also use chinese ham, and I remember she used to cook it with beer (and some other stuff I don’t know what) for a looong time.

By: terrey

terrey — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:16:45 +0000

just too bad, we gave the bone leftover from the ham we had for noche buena to our dog…i’ll search for that lentil soup or any soups since for sure we’ll have a leftover again come new year’s eve feast.

By: Jun

Jun — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:44:54 +0000

my heart is working hard now after days of eating ham ;)…well thats the downside of eating good stuff but what the heck I’ll just eat more vegetable after new year.

I remember the chinese ham from quiapo that my nanay use to cook during christmas. It is so hard that if you hit someone with it he’ll experience pacquiao power.

By: diday

diday — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:36:39 +0000

opps..cannellini beans

By: diday

diday — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:33:44 +0000

Thanks eej and fried-neuron, you have given me an idea for tonight’s supper. Leftover Christmas ham-ba and cannelloni beans soup.

By: fried-neurons

fried-neurons — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:44:01 +0000

eej, I just made a huge pot of lentil soup last night, using the ham bone left over from noche buena. Yum :)

By: diday

diday — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:08:43 +0000

Bookmarked this page. Many thanks, sister.

By: eej

eej — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:15:53 +0000

I always look forward to leftover ham for split pea (or any type of beans)soup. After over indulging from the holidays, nothing beats a hodgepodge of vegetables over a simple old soup for homecooked goodness.

By: Mila

Mila — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:23:57 +0000

to Marketfan re: dried persimmon, the Japanese way of drying persimmons is labor intensive and takes a long time to get the persimmons that way, it encourages the fruit’s sugar to crystalize through airdrying. I think our dried mangoes go through a commercial processor/dehydrator. Not sure if mangoes would survive something like the persimmons drying process.
By the way, if you google dried persimmons, you’ll see the air drying process, it’s very cool! There are some farms in Sacramento that still use the traditional style of drying the persimmons, not many left, but some of the Japanese-American farmers that maintain the tradition sell some of the best dried persimmons in the US.