Puto

It tastes like heaven when you taste a food that you are longing for a long time. Thanks to my future BIL who cooked puto for us. Pinoy foods are still the best!

~oOo~

Corn

This is one of my mom’s favorite foods. Every time I see vendors selling corn I will always buy for her. This food brings out the child in her (LOL)

Just a little fact:

Corn fiber is also good for reducing LDL (low density lipoproteins) or commonly known as “bad cholesterol”. My colleagues, especially those who have high bad cholesterol, eat corn as substitute to rice. Our canteen, before the management changed, served corn for lunch, but I haven’t tried it (*_*).

Corn is also good for diabetics according to the Department of Science and Technology- Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DoST-FNRI).

White corn contains low glycemic index (GI), which is the rank of food based on blood glucose response. Food that can easily be digested and could rapidly increase glucose in the blood are ranked 55 and up in terms of GI.

Food that is lower than 55 in GI cannot be digested easily. Therefore, the increase of glucose level in blood is slow and minimal. (Mitch Arceo) (Source)

Loaded with Fruits

It’s harvest time!

I might be late in posting these pics of fruits… Quiet busy doing my projects. Anyway, it’s still September I think the season of fruits has not yet ended. Because I can still see lots of my favorite fruits in the market with very low price ever. As far as I know, it’s between the month of July to October where fruits flooded anywhere.

Just like the succulent lansoses fruits. We’re lucky because we have a tree of lansones at our backyard. And where able to harvest more or less two crates of it. But this fruit is high in uric acid that’s why it’s better to eat moderately.

 

Rambutan – we also have a tree of it. Unfortunately it only bore few fruits this year. It’s already more than a decade old. My cousin who has three trees of rambutans gave us this red hairy fruit to fill our fruit basket.

Marang – another favorite fruit of mine. It’s like a microphone. A BIG green microphone… LOL… the inside of a marang fruit is a cluster of seeds covered with white flesh. It’s sweet and delicious. This reminds me of my Lola. She has several trees of marang and we always had a great harvest of it. Too bad her land was converted into banana plantation now.

 

 

Purple fruit?… hmmm… Mangosteen! A fruit that is advertise as a good supplements and was proven [?] to cure diseases. Brace yourself because the price of this medicinal purple fruit that usually ranges Php 200 to 400 when not in season is now Php 20 to 35 per kilo ONLY… Lowest price ever this year…

I was intrigued with this cute purplish round fruits sold in the market of Bankerohan. Due to curiosity I bought one kilo of it. Anyway Php20.00 is not expensive at all. They called it black berry, Philippine black berry. Unfortunately we do not like the taste of it; sour and “aplod”.. Aplod? I don’t know the English of it. LOL..  “Aplod” is “Astringent” – according to binisaya.com. LOL…

Of course my favorite devilish food, the smell-so-bad-OH!-so-yummy fruit – Durian. It’s very cheap these days; pricing as low as Php 20.00 per kilo. When it’s not in its season the cost ranges from Php 80.00 to 100.00 per kilo. But to those who love this, just eat enough for your craving because it’s rich in cholesterol. Not good for those who are high blood.

Fresh and Green………But not Ripe!

 Soon this cluster of fruits will be ready for harvest. And I can’t wait it!

I’ m so happy to see the lanzones bearing fruits. The last time it bore, early this year, was affected by El Niño. The fruits were small and when it ripens it breaks…

I remember our first harvest of lanzones fruit from our backyard, that was way back August 2008. We’re able to fill more or less two craters of lanzones fruits out from one tree. We do not sell it instead we share our blessings to the entire neighborhood.

French Fries: The Banana Republic Version

I once called our place - the banana republic, because we live inside the banana plantation; we export quality [of course] banana, particularly the Cavendish.

Okay! About the French fries-banana republic version: My mom discovered a new recipe which the kids will surely love. It’s a French fries using green banana as main ingredients. It is cut into strips [just like the French fries], sprinkled with salt, and then deep fried. We loved it, we can hardly tell it was banana. The crunchy and salty taste of the banana French fries taste good… even better than the potato fries…

P.S. By the way it is best serve when hot…

Around the World with Ethnic Foods

My sister is working in Canada; I know apart from us, she misses a lot from Philippines including Filipino foods. I know her pretty well when it comes to food, she’s not the picky type, and she’s adventurous and willing to try new foods. She was the one who introduces to me new restaurants or new recipes for us to prepare for our family. Now that she’s away from us, I thought she will no longer or will take her longer to eat Filipino foods. Thanks to EfoodDepot.com through this site they will bring my sister closer to Philippines through Filipino foods and other Pinoy food products. But it does not limit to Filipino food products, for they offer over 4500 various ethnic food products from all over the world and counting more recipes or products everyday. It’s indeed the largest ethnic supermarket.

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