Comments on: Ripe Tamarind / Sampalok

By: PITS, MANILA

PITS, MANILA — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:35:35 +0000

there’s grilled pork with a sauce using tamarind as base.

By: jakespeed

jakespeed — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:11:09 +0000

In Singapore and Malaysia, stores sell this in handy rectangular blocks with salt as an added preservative or for flavor, perhaps. I use this as an ersatz souring agent for my pork sinigang and it works really well. It’s healthier too.

By: Ruth Tuvilla

Ruth Tuvilla — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:47:29 +0000

Nakaka-homesick naman ang picture ng sampalok na hinog. Makapunta nga bukas sa Asian market at baka suwertihin ay may fresh na sampalok sila. Last month I found some green sampalok at $3./lb-bumili na rin kahit na sobrang mahal because I was craving for pinangat na bangus sa sampalok. Froze some of it for later use. Ang gustong gusto ko sa sampalok ay yong in between na hilaw at hinog- still not too sweet and a little bit tart. Those were the days.

By: Natie

Natie — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:34:56 +0000

My childhood memories always include fruit-bearing trees and many means we used to enjoy their bounty..

By: elaine

elaine — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:11:11 +0000

I love sweet Sampaloc as is, but now I’m salivating at the thought of Tamarind Jam..

By: cat

cat — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:06:18 +0000

Wow! Glad to have inspired you with this post. Read your Sister’s comment on making Tamarind jam too. I haven’t seen a Tamarind fruit here in Singapore so making my own jam is impossible as of the moment. Now, I’m pressuring my brother who’ll be coming here next week to find me a Tamarind jam available in supermarkets there. Sana meron :(

By: manny

manny — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:04:39 +0000

Life is sweet and simple so why complicate things and making it into jam or candy… i remember looking around for stones to toss up the tree and wait for these to fall. Once a bunch of these fall, it only meant it was ripe. Nothing better than eating these straight from the tree. Slightly tangy at the same time sweet. Childhood memories when computers were non existent… ha ha ha .

By: Maki

Maki — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:44:56 +0000

I love tamarind, it reminds me of my younger years, I remember me and my cousins used to throw our slippers to our old tamarind tree and it was fun. We spend the whole afternoon doing that.

By: cora

cora — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:42:07 +0000

Sampaloc champoy and candies aside, here in the Bay Area I like the tamarindo juice made and sold by the Mexican restaurants. Mexican stores sell sweet tamarind from Mexico and not from Thailand. I never bothered to inquire how they make the tamarindo because it’s less work and not expensive to buy the juice.

By: Suzette

Suzette — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:40:21 +0000

Sampaloc candies make me nostalgic for the ones wrapped in cellophane which I used to buy from sari sari stores.