I am only recently learning the “Filipino” way of eating leaves (like camote tops, sayote tops, alugbati, etc) which is mostly lightly sauteed. I used to do “American” salads more before until I realized that the dressings that I liked wasn’t altogether healthy, since I hate vinegar hence vinaigrette. Thai salad dressings on the other hand, are more on citrus, which I love.

And speaking of fruits now in season at our local markets in ‘Pins, I saw these humungous and inviting atis from Bangkok being sold for P750 per kilo or about US $7.50 a pound! A decently sized one from the display is almost a pound in weight and would cost almost P350 a piece. Much as I love atis, I couldn’t buy them at that price. I told the vendor , merely touching and stroking the fruits would be good enough for me:)

Winged beans occasionally show up in the markets here along with other exotic fruit such as atis, calamansi and lazones, flown in from somewhere in the world under tropic clime. Understandably not at peak condition and always exorbitantly priced so I eschew them except calamansi which knows no substitute for squeezing over any type of pancit.