Comments on: Saturday Morning “Whacking Carabaos”…

By: peanut

peanut — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:01:10 +0000

Hi MM.Tried your recipe for ensaymada yesteray.Goodness,even my daughter was impressed which is saying a lot ’cause she doesn’t get impressed easily.And it’s true,yeast did grow even if refrigerated!Thanks so much for sharing the recipe.Also we originally come from Ormoc City so Cebu is our shopping destination when we go home.Once again thanks for sharing.
Did a few modifications too.I made some with ube halaya filling,some with cheese filling and some with ham and some with macapuno.Proud to say it turned out well.

By: Ria

Ria — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:23:51 +0000

Those Quiapo stores would be Killion and Nuts something in Orozco St. New Sin Kian Heng has KitchenAid mixers cheaper than mall prices definitely, but I wonder about after sales service. Local KitchenAid distributor refuses to touch 110 machines, I dont know about 220 v mixers.

But you swap the prices with the difficulty of parking, the hassle of going there, lugging your stuff from the shop to where you park etc.

MM, my grocery Pioneer Centre carries the rice paper for Viet rolls, I think its P57 per pack. Mahusay din.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:58:35 +0000

Rowena, frankly, I have been pretty bad about finding the cheapest retailer, I am just so happy when I find the items I am looking for. However, I understand there are parts of quiapo that have incredible equipment for baking but I have not been there myself. For ingredients, I sometimes buy primera flour at wholesale baker suppliers like in Nasugbu town proper and the prices a re cheap, the flour is better than supermarket flour and I buy by the sack!

By: Rowena

Rowena — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:41:40 +0000

Hi Mr Marketman!Can you recommend a baking stores that offer much cheaper baking ingredients, I intend to go Quiapo to buy those baking ingredients but I been hearing a lot about those stores you mentioned in your post. thanks

By: chrissy

chrissy — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:02:02 +0000

For girls, it’s shoes and clothes, for Marketman, it’s food ingredients and equipment. I can’t decide which one I’d enjoy more! hehehe Love to putong ube! It’s hard to keep myself from finishing the whole box in a sitting…

By: lori

lori — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:47:36 +0000

Now that’s what I call some SERIOUS retail therapy.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:48:27 +0000

Roselyn, our pantry is one messy walk-in closet! Connie, I like the single serving sizes as well… Ria, I was at Sweetcraft at about 1130-1145…could you have been at the counter just ahead of me…heehee, now you wonder… Risa, amazing coincidences, no? Gigi, I remember you mentioning the Vargas cassava cake, that’s one of the reasons I got some to try…they are good. Corrine, we have to wait for the right flour…

By: corrine

corrine — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:46:04 +0000

Me too! I like to learn how to make good pizza dough like they do in Italy….thin!

By: Gigi

Gigi — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:52:31 +0000

Wow, MM. Next time you do this, offer naman a shuttle service to your choice blogreaders/fans — count me in, ahem ….

Love the cassava cake of Vargas and true — pahirapan ang apat na kagat sa liit at sarap.

By: Risa

Risa — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:22:12 +0000

Yep! Was at that Sweetcraft too last Saturday but ’twas a lil’ bit late around 5:00. Should have met u Marketman, Ria. Well, when I arrived, the place was full of customers.It really has a complete line of baking supplies.
Definitely worth your trip. Bought flour, macadamia nuts, pecans, hazelnuts. They ran out of pistachios though.But they sell it for P820/kg. Will definitely come back next saturday!