Comments on: Pastillas de Macapuno

By: jake

jake — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:56:27 +0000

hahahaha! this gave me a good laugh!
have you tried putting rice flour or “galapong” instead of cornstarch? (might work, though i personally haven’t tried it)… or maybe try cooking it with finely shredded cassava, like what they use in pichi-pichi (cause they almost share the same texture)….

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:23:54 +0000

Katrina, yes, I did hear about this. And maybe next year, I will manage to get an entry into the contest… The gentleman is based in Bacolod, so he is doing our local produce a great favor… :) Artisan, chocolate dipped balls indeed… hahaha.

By: Artisan Chocolatier

Artisan Chocolatier — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:09:49 +0000

MM, try dipping your balls (hahahaha, i meant your failed macapuno balls) in 70% tempered dark chocolate. The bitter chocolate will cut the sweetness of the condensed milk.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:42:44 +0000

Off-topic, but, MM, have you heard about this?
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/ph-marmalade-places-second-world-tilt-133334887.html

I’m happy that a local fruit was used and promoted abroad, and I certainly DON’T begrudge the chef his victory. It was his recipe, and his idea to enter the contest, so he deserves acclaim. I just can’t help but wish, though, that a Filipino had done it. YOU made calamansi marmalade years ago! But then again, it’s a relatively new competition, so not that well-known yet in other countries.

Once again, I lament how we don’t maximize our unique local fruits. :-/

But, for now, I’m just glad to have calamansi get more recognition. :-D

By: alilay

alilay — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:19:00 +0000

yeah love the candy dish i was looking for something like that in the swap meet and i found a pair of chalice shaped glass with cover for $7 i washed it up and i found wax inside so it must be a candle holder, anyway i use it as candy dish and put the pair on my mantle. my husband said puede na daw ako mag -misa dahil mukhang lalagyan ng ostia .

By: marie

marie — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:01:14 +0000

hi, market man. i’m new to your site and i know it is totally out of the topic but where do you think i can buy rose water? i’m from cebu city. is it available in big supermarkets like shopwise? thanks a lot!

By: kristin-on-kidney-diet

kristin-on-kidney-diet — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:17:31 +0000

when our small coconut tree in front of our house will bear these macapuno.. my mom will make a lot of stuff from it (macapuno jam,pastillas,macapuno pie,fruit salad,halo-halo,ice candy,etc) as far as i can remember the pastillas was made with the primary ingredients of macapuno meat shredded,sugar and tapioca starch however, the proportions i never knew because we were just contented tasting the end products as our snacks/baon :) and never caring about the process, now…i wish i had..if ever your experiment will be A,ok and will be fit for consumption..hehehe….please, please MM and Ms.Bettyq post it here…thanks a lot.

By: betty q.

betty q. — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:24:06 +0000

Oh, yeah… those were my favorite too! You had a post on it in your archives and someone made a comment that the tindera’s mom just made the candy with only sugar amd macapuno as the ingredients. But it had a chewy texture too as I remember….so maybe adding something like cassava flour like the one used in pichi pichi. or subbing tapioca starch probably would give it the chewy texture…If I had macapuno here, I will join your experiments! But I will go first with the macapuno vendor’s mom as the base recipe.

By: sunflowii

sunflowii — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:40:13 +0000

carla, ice buko with monggo!!! i’d forgotten about them already and had to try to picture that in my mind. and then i remembered!!! will have to attempt to replicate that although our popsicle molds here are not the nice round ones.

By: Carla

Carla — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:01:36 +0000

I love this post! My friends and I were talking about our childhood food favorites the other day. Some of the things that came up were the Magnolia chocolate milk that came in a bottle, the mocha ice cream cup with the paper cover, and ice buko with the monggo on top. Can’t say I remember macapuno candy though. We always had the ube ones. I hope your quest works out :)