Comments on: Sibonga Avocados a la Seaman

By: paulo

paulo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:23:55 +0000

This is exactly how I eat avocados since I was a kid!

By: Rose5

Rose5 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:46:38 +0000

my favorite is the same as seaman’s but with chunks of sweet mango

By: peasmom

peasmom — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:18:32 +0000

We had two avocado trees in our yard when I was a kid, along with a star apple tree, a santol tree, a kamias tree and a couple of coconut trees. I was always very proud of the trees in our house because not everyone who lives in the heart of Manila had trees in their house.

When the avocados are ready for picking, we seven siblings will make different kinds of desserts from them. One of our favorites was the avocado ice. We will “osterize” the avocados mixed with milk and sugar and freeze them into ice cubes. After a game of patintero or touch-taya, this is usually our pampalamig. Saraaap the memories of childhood…

By: Roberto Vicencio

Roberto Vicencio — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:43:47 +0000

After being in the US Navy for a few years, our ship, the USS Midway, served some avocados at the salad bar. I quickly took two slices and proceeded to make my avocado dessert ( milk ice and sugar). I was about to dig in when I noticed a threesome of white faces staring at me. They have never seen anybody eat avovadoes that way before.

Oh, the avocadoes were the ones with a very bumpy skin. Not bad.

By: Blaise

Blaise — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:47:55 +0000

We used to have an avocado tree in our front lawn but it eventually was uprooted by a very strong typhoon.. and we also make this to the avocado, it is really good. My grandma used to do it a few hours before mealtime, and takes it out after we have our meal.. YUM! So sweet and cold..

By: Toping

Toping — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:22:26 +0000

Yum! I love avocado! Goes best with bananas, though you must add them right before eating, else they will discolor and look generally unpalatable.

Re: avocado ice cream. Was excited to see that Selecta had that. Brought a gallon home and it was god-awful! Tastes like cornstarch, I kid you not! The tub is currently languishing in deep freeze til I find a way of pepping it up to make it halfway passable (serious doubt). Stay away from this, folks!

By: MasPinaSarap

MasPinaSarap — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:44:04 +0000

Am I the only one who has eaten Magnolia Avocado (sorbetes) ice cream growing up? I’m not one to brandname drop, but it’s sooooooo good. Plus people like to go, “there’s an Avocado ice cream?!”-“why yes there is”. :)

By: Apicio

Apicio — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:40:55 +0000

If I may add a bit more to the above, very few fruit trees, or indeed living beings, reproduce as exact replicas of their parents. Thatâ€™s why we have always resorted to budding for fruits that are commerically grown and lately to meristemic cloning for identical orchids. And then as MM mentioned above, there is also the effect of optimum growing condition.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:02:31 +0000

marga, I’m not sure what the scientific answer is but I suppose it has a lot to do with the conditions where the tree is raised, soil quality, variety of avocado planted and the weather, nutrition, etc. However, there do seem to be more consistent avocados abroad where the integrity of the base seed or seedling is more carefully guarded. In the Philippines, where everyone just keeps planting from seed to seed to seed, there are natural mutations or degradations in the quality of the fruit stock…

By: marga

marga — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:34:13 +0000

HI MM! I am curious as to how come some avocados are “hairy” or has lots of veins in them? Also how come some have a bitter taste? Only for these reasons do I now hesitate to buy them for my family although I grew up loving this fruit. In fact we also used to mke avocado popsicles ( one of those simple pleasures while growing up ).