Comments on: Macapuno Pandan a la Marketman

By: khrishyne

khrishyne — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:49:38 +0000

i made this with store brought macapuno, i overdid the cream, so its very bidli, lots of leftovers. since typhoon is all over Visayas, work was cancelled after lunch . upon getting home, i thot of making pie. since the salad has been occupying freezer space for some time, i reduced it. after reduction,i added milk, eggs and sugar, with more whites to lend firmness. im using it as filling. tomorrow will come the verdict

By: janmarc

janmarc — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:11:59 +0000

i love pandan

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:05:56 +0000

Tried making this tonight. Store bought macapuno just doesn’t cut it. I ended up delaying the dish for tomorrow when we’ve got buko instead. :s

By: Mandy

Mandy — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:15:30 +0000

I agree with you on buco pandan being a new phenomenon. I don’t think I’ve ever tried buco pandan till I was in my 30s (and I’m still in my 30s), or perhaps I exaggerate, maybe I’ve had some pandan flavored food when I was in my 20s (and it was not even rice).

By: Rina

Rina — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:55:02 +0000

hi MM, I think this dessert was first served at Cafe Adriatico in the 80’s as Claude’s Dream (after Claude Tayag) so you are right that its origins were in the last 20-30 years lang.

By: ConnieC

ConnieC — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:59:27 +0000

Yes, MM, thanks. My sister called me about it this morning.

By: cris l.

cris l. — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:54:16 +0000

hi marketman! long time no post. work seems to be getting all my time. anyway, in one of the farms near ours in lanao, there’s a variety of coconut called buko pandan. I think they got it from malaysia or indonesia (i’m not so sure anymore) but the juice of the nut is still buko juice but it has a very very faint pandan flavor, as a result of some cross pollination or some other agri-experiment. We were lucky enough to purchase a seedling before and have had one tree near our house for our natural buko pandan. :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:02:55 +0000

Connie C, if you haven’t heard yet, the whole ivory/priest issue has BLOWN UP in Cebu… read story in Inquirer…

By: mitzuy

mitzuy — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:50:19 +0000

Hi, MM – Beautiful pictures as always. I’d like to share my story about a buko pandan I prepared for the Office Int’l Day. Almost everyone liked it except one of the bosses who said,’ it’s nice but it’s too green’. Of course, I have to put a few drops of green pandan flavour to my buko pandan to make it look colorful.

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:24:49 +0000

I have always used fresh pandan to make mine, but I find the flavor a bit lacking though. So I cheat and add some of the pandan extract. And to think I use around 10 leaves of pandan for mine, and strip them into long strips. Maybe I need to follow your extraction process more :)