Comments on: Hillsides Brimming with Kabog…

By: Eugene Baldespinosa

Eugene Baldespinosa — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 07:45:53 +0000

We are from Catmon, We have stocks of Kabog or millet seeds (P450/Ganta only) just call or txt @ 0928-731-3136

By: Eugene Baldespinosa

Eugene Baldespinosa — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:04:33 +0000

Hi, for those who want to buy kabog or “millet seeds” just give us a call/text. 0928-731-3136

By: farida

farida — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:09:25 +0000

MM, my sister saw your packaged millet seeds. /she was tempted to buy one so she could plant them at the farm. I discouraged her as she has her plate full already. She still has to harvest her mongo (now all harvested) and then has peanuts to plant after. regretted later as they looked so freshly packed. Hope you still have them when I come back. I was just reviewing your post of your trip to Catmon. Beautiful pictures of the kabog plants.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 13:56:31 +0000

millet, I had no idea obviously. But so glad you did get to make the budbud. A poignant recipe for the family now perhaps. Faust, it’s millet.

By: Faust

Faust — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 13:41:06 +0000

Looks like a variety of rice?

By: millet

millet — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 06:41:30 +0000

i have never forgotten the kilo of kabog you airmailed to me simply because i told you i wanted to try the recipe but could not find any kabog here. this was ten years ago, and we had just lost my Dad then, and i needed to do something, anything at all, to get my mind off my grief, and the recipe came out a couple of weeks after we buried my Dad. so receiving the package in the mail was a very happy surprise for me.

after making the budbud, i sent some to my Mom’s home, and when we talked about it later, we both said, “sayang, Dad would have loved this”, and of course, that brought us to tears once more. I have never told you this before, MM, but you don’t know how much your gesture meant to me, and brought some joy at that painful time.Thank you, MM, and thank you for continuing to bring us to interesting places and insights.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:27:30 +0000

What a nice post! Enjoyed reading this.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 21:58:25 +0000

pinkytab, I remember the line. And now that I have watched Manang Lima make it dozens of times in our air-conditioned commissary kitchen, she NEVER seems to break a sweat, and she makes 4-5 times the amount I make in one go! I think I am just a break a sweat kind of cook. :) Lee, amongst my other wish lists of tracking down to source are the elusive wild mushrooms in Albay, would love to watch muscovado making in Negros, lansones at harvest season in Camiguin… the list could go on and on. :)

By: pinkytab

pinkytab — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 20:56:34 +0000

MM, budbud kabog was how I discovered your blog. I was yearning for budbud kabog and since they don’t sell that here in the US, I had to figure out how to make it. I searched the web and found your recipe. There is one part in the instructions that amuses me to no end. That part where you say to keep on stirring but you don’t know how long in minutes but to know that you are almost there when you start to feel perspiration in your armpits. Classic MM!!!!

By: lee

lee — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 09:46:16 +0000

It is really amazing to see the lengths you have to take to get to the very source of the food you write about and this is the reason why we still read your blog.
Marketmanila Field Notes: Kabog.