Comments on: Patani / Lima Beans on The Vine

By: WO

WO — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:28:22 +0000

You guys are funny! Indeed, laughter is the best medicine! Thanks Mr. Marketman! I really enjoy your site. Very interesting!

By: Rowi

Rowi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:58:20 +0000

Thanks to you MM, now I know how a patani vine looks like! I’ve only seen the seeds.

You certainly educate us with your diverse and insightful topics, be it food, places and/or politics. I especially appreciate your feature on Bicol as my Mom hails from there. I spent a number of summers near Donsol, Daraga and Albay when I was a child and it was really nostalgic feeling when I read your blogs. I look forward to your publishing a book of your food travels and observations, as well as your experiments with local and sometimes indigenous ingredients.

By: Joey in Dubai

Joey in Dubai — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:25:31 +0000

To be honest with you, I’m just a lurker (although I’ve already written you one comment) but I really find your blogs quite interesting, if not educational. There is, in fact information overload in your blog and I’m not complaining. Keep blogging, keep blogging and I can’t thank you enough for the information you impart to us thru your blogs. Saludo ako sa iyo!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:52:06 +0000

Nobody even dared answer the query on the male equivalent. Aren’t those miniature vegetables from Ilocos for their authentic pinakbet? Hahaha. I am not disparaging anyone, please…

By: lee

lee — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:56:38 +0000

hahahaha…. oh patani!

By: CecileJ

CecileJ — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:44:51 +0000

Lee, did you really try to fight it? Seriously? Why fight such a lovely (green) fire? Heehee, wheeeeee!

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:14:08 +0000

I am your regular with your variety of topics from a produce market through political rallies – do not know what awaits me when I click on your site or do not have the foggiest idea what your article(s) will be on one given day. Surprise, clues, mentoring, learning and fun thatâ€™s all I could say. My breadth of source for learning and never ending honing and mentoring skills. The momentum of your topics plus your legion of commenters sharing their wide array of different views, opinions, hands on experience and stepping back in time on particular subject matter keep me going all day! I believe evolution is part of our constant growth and needs to keep up with time. Lima beans are good addition in baked beans for added color and flavor and in pinakbet, shrimp and fish sinigang and what the rest mentioned dinengdeng.

By: nina

nina — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:08:22 +0000

They look like bataw, only bigger. I see this in supermarkets, now I know what it is. In the past I remember, patani seeds being sold like butong-pakwan or green peas – dried and salted.

By: lee

lee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:58:11 +0000

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Billy Joel

By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:44:27 +0000

HAHAHA!! Ok i think i really need to explain myself here =) well i think its used as a euphemism because of its shape especially when u ‘butterfly’ the patani! hahaha! i can’t explain it anymore than that but it was my grandma who used the term all the time with me =) maybe because it was a cuter term than the ilocano word for it which is ___! As I remember correctly, MM featured an ilocano specialty, an equivalent to tortang talong called puki-puki which he spelt as poqui-poqui. i thought that was sooo polite! hahaha! take away the p and you have the ilocano term for u know what!