It’s been months since Carmina last posted on her Google Maps. I started doing it just for fun, exploring new places to dine and travel, and sharing those spots with others. Back in 2017, I wasn’t even blogging yet. Over the years, I received numerous email updates about changes, but in September, the removal of followers on Google Maps felt particularly strange. There’s no point in complaining about it. I decided not to close my account, as it wasn’t an option, but I did delete all the photos I had contributed over the years. I have fond memories of seeing which photos were popular and had hoped to share them with you. It was surprising to see how many views my pictures had accumulated. While deleting them, I noticed that many restaurants and bakeries no longer exist, with some marked as unknown on the map. Most of my photos were from the pandemic period, a time when I could fully express myself and write about the food I enjoyed. Let's take a trip down memory lane with Carmina th...
In the Philippines we have variety of different type of vegetables that are cooked in our Filipino dishes.
Sayote
- Chicken tinola
- Sauté vegetables cooked with shrimp or pork
Upo
- Saute vegetable with shrimp or pork
- Made into a soup
Mungo Beans
- Cooked with spinach and shrimp or pork
Malunggay
- Cooked with mungo beans
- Soup
- Made into pandesal (bread)
Ampalaya (bitter melon)
- Cooked in gata (coconut milk)
- Saute with shrimp
- Salad with vinegar, onion, tomato, salt and black pepper
- Eaten with buro (fermented rice)
Kamote (sweet potato) comes in color purple
or yellow
- Fried
- Boiled
- Baked
- Added in Dessert such as ginatan
- Added in Fresh lumpia
Pechay or Chinese cabbage
- Cooked in Nilagang
- Steam
- Stir-fried
Kangkong
- Cooked with sinigang (sour soup)
- Fried by adding batter
- Steam eaten with bagong (shrimp paste)
Puso ng saging or Banana Blossom
- Cooked has salad
- Soup
Gabi (taro)
- Cooked in singigang (sour soup)
Mustasa
- Cooked in salad
- Soup
- Be boiled and eaten with buro (fermented rice)
Singkamas or Jicama
- Eaten raw by adding it with vinegar, soy sauce
- Salt
Alugbati
- Cooked as soup
- Salad
- Stew cooked with fish
Sigarilyas
- Cooked with coconut milk (gata)
Sitaw or String Beans
- Cooked in singigang (sour soup)
- Sauté with soy sauce, onion, pork and garlic
Kamoteng
kahoy Cassava root
- Cassava cake
- Boiled yucca
Tanglad (Lemon grass)
- Added in rice when cooking in rice cooker
- Dessert
- Juice
Taro Leaves
- Cooked to make Laing and coconut milk
Sweet Potato Leaves
- Stir fry
- Boiled made into salad
Patola
- Cooked soup
- Sautéd vegetable with shrimp
Ubod – (coconut
palm heart)
- Fresh lumpia
Atsuete
- Food coloring
Bawang
- Native garlic – use for longanisa
Green Papaya
- Cooked with chicken tinola
Japanese Eggplant
- Fried dip with vinegar
- Steam made into a salad with vinegar, tomato, onion, salt and black pepper
- Cooked with pinakbet or Kare kare
- Torta (omelette)
Squash
- Pinakbet
- Ukoy
Okra
- Pinakbet
- Sinigang (sour soup)
- Steam
Calamasi (Philippine Lime)
- Citrus juice
- Dipping sauce by adding soy sauce and hot pepper
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