Last February 28, I had lakatan banana in fresh fruit salad for breakfast. For morning snacks, I had one boiled saging na saba. Before lunch, I had a little latundan banana in our room ( I don't know why. Maybe I just felt guilty about the growing stash of uneaten bananas in our room!) For merienda, I had 2 pieces of bananacue and followed later by one leftover boiled saba. That would be roughly 6 pieces for someone who isn't even crazy about bananasI Dessert for dinner was... you guessed it, bananas! Suko na ako!!!But whatever the nuns serve, no matter what or how much, you seem compelled to eat them. Like I was transported back to the days I was a half-intern in St.Joseph's College in my elementary years. Then, you risked getting an invitation to visit Purgatory if you as much left a crumb on your plate!
So after a a few days of (forced) banana bingeing, I realized that there were so many variety of banana that were available to us and that I actually liked some of them. The saba would probably be first in line, considering the many ways I have enjoyed them: pritong saging (sliced horizontally & fried), bananacue (fried whole with brown sugar & then skewered like a barbeque), turon (sliced, put inside spring roll wrappers and then fried with brown sugar, sometimes with jackfruit slivers), maruya (sliced like coins, put in batter and then fried and then when done, sprinkled with white sugar) , boiled or steamed, baked with panocha (block of raw sugar) in an earthenware pot , minatamis na saging (cooked in brown sugar syrup), inihaw (grilled over charcoal, with or without the banana skin), and my all-time childhood favorite, nilupak (semi-ripe banana combined with fresh, shredded coconut, margarine and brown sugar and then pound together into a yummy mass using a big mortar and pestle). Whew, I've never felt so blessed!
To my dear friends and high school classmates who live abroad and shared in my FB account that they long for Philippine bananas, I have only one thing to say .... Eat your puso ng saging (banana heart) out, guys! Hehehehe!
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ReplyDeleteSira ka pa rin, Jun! Akala ko pa naman puedeng nang masabing food blogger ako!
ReplyDeleteIf I know, inggit ka lang at hindi mo na nakakain ang mga yan! Pakainin kita ng turon at bananacue dito sa UP pag bisita mo!
Aba eh, mayroon nang almost lahat nang mga 'yan dito. Ang namimis ko lang talaga ay yoong santol, green magoes, at lanzones. 'Yan ang mga kakainin natin. Siguruhin mo lang in-season. Teka, para tuloy ako ang naglilihi. Mayroon ba niyan sa UP? Punta na lang tayo sa talipapa. Yoong magoes should be with bagoong, tapos santol juice, at lanzones ang dessert. Ayos ba!
ReplyDeleteAyos! Pero para meron lahat yung pinaglililihan mo, dapat nandito ka sa Pilipinas mula May hanggang September. Dahil summer lang maraming santol at mula lang September magkakaoon ng lanzones. Yung manngang hilaw at bagoong - no problem yan dahil available year-round. At meron pa sa UP!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....pa UPS mo na lang kaya.
ReplyDeleteOk, abangan mo ha!
ReplyDeleteok, siguraduhin mo lang na hilaw pa rin yung mangga pag-dating dito.
ReplyDeleteBasta ikaw! Hehehe! Once, I smuggled 2 pieces of green mangoes in my jacket when I visited my sister in New York. Kabadong-kabado ako but that's what you do for people you love ("What I Did for Love" playing in the background)!
ReplyDeleteWell, you know you can no longer do that especially with those x-ray machines. Pati mga implants mo sa katawan makikita. Otherwise, the background music would be "Di Na Natuto" by APO. ..."What I Did for Love" is much better though. Sino na nga ba ang kumanta niyan?
ReplyDeleteIt's from the Broadway musical "Chorus Line". But lately, it was sung by Lea Michele of GLEE.
ReplyDeleteOh...Glee is shown in the Phil.? When is Charice appearing again?
ReplyDeleteCharice will be back Tuesday this week in the US and here on Wednesday.
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