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Category Archives: Produce

Benguet Coffee

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on December 21, 2013

One of the stalls selling coffee beans or ground coffee in Baguio public market.

Heavy duty grinder (that reminds me of a fire hydrant) if you want freshly ground coffee by the kilo.

Benguet, Market, Produce Baguio, Benguet coffee, coffee beans, coffee grinder

Kadios Season

1 Comment Posted by Lana on October 27, 2013

You know you’re an Ilonggo if you eat this bean.

Removing kadios beans from its pod

Ready to measure a glass of it worth Php25

Filling the glass

Pay for 2 glassful of kadios then go home and cook KBL

Food, Negros Occidental, Produce Bacolod, bean, Burgos Market, kadios, KBL, palengke

Roadside Bananas

1 Comment Posted by Lana on October 13, 2013

I like stalls that sell fruits/vegetables from vendors’ own plots. It is the same banana so I buy from them whenever I have the chance helping them also to be sustainable. Truly it is more interesting to buy from these roadside stalls and directly from these small time sellers than in airconditioned supermarkets.

Tree-ripened bananas taste better

Food, Produce banana, roadside stall, sustainability

Vegetable Vendor

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 7, 2013

Retailing vegetables by piece or by tied bundle of those leafy ones. Also the spices and condiments in small plastic packets hanging above the vegetables

Market, Produce condiment, retailing, spices, vegetables

Tangkong

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 3, 2013

Tangkong is the Visayan term (Ilonggo or Cebuano) for water spinach and known as kangkong countrywide.

Here’s a stanza from the Provincial Jail song (radio drama song) that I hear all the time in Bacolod in the past that the lyrics still in my head.

Ang amon na utan ginulot na langka, tinuktok nga tangkong bisan asin wala
Samtang naga kaon ga tulo ang luha, daw ano kasubo kung imo makita

Produce bisaya, kangkong, Provincial Jail song, tangkong, utan, Visayas, water spinach

Lanzones Season

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 30, 2013

Lanzones of Cuenca, Batangas sold at Php45 per kilo in roadside stalls

Batangas, Food, Produce Cuenca, lanzones, roadside stall

Guso

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 16, 2013

There are a number of vinegar based salad variations all over the country and guso is one of the main ingredients of this type of salad.

I prefer the crunchiness of this sea vegetable over lettuce

Food, Produce guso, salad, seaweed, vegetable, vinegar

Alugbati

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 2, 2013

Alugbati is a wonderful green leafy vegetable that tastes good and very easy to grow.

Growing alugbati in a micro garden

Alugbati soup with fresh shrimps, eggplant, string beans and squash

Alugbati salad with dried dilis, tomatoes and onions

Food, Produce alugbati, malabar spinach, vegetable

Rambutan Colors

2 Comments Posted by Lana on July 21, 2013

Each color represents a variety and the best one says the vendor is the RR, the green-red combination.

Food, Laguna, Produce rambutan, rongrein, San Pablo

Batwan

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 17, 2013

This fruit from a tree is used as souring ingredient by crushing it like how you crush a garlic then add it in fish paksiw, tinolang isda, kansi etc
Batwan is common in Panay and Negros and I recently found out that this is also common in Masbate.