Comments on: Dreaming of coconuts

By: Connie

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:40:18 +0000

Thank you, Ruby. Home cooking is such a great way to introduce non-Filipinos to Filipino food. Re “Where I am now, they donÕt sell these young coconuts”—oh, how unfortunate. buko juice and tender coconut meat must be two of the top perks of living in the tropics. mango is still on top of my list though hehehe

By: Ruby

Ruby — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:23:35 +0000

Hi,
I would like to say first of all that I love your website! I’ve been trying out your recipes for a while now and they all turned out great. My in-laws (they are Mexicans) are so impressed. They hadn’t tried any type of Asian cooking until I came to live here.

I miss buko juice a lot more now just by looking at those pictures!! Where I am now, they don’t sell these young coconuts. Yung pang niyog lang. And even that, I mean, they don’t know how to use the meat correctly (like scraping the meat out to make gata). Anyway, naglalaway na ko just thinking about coconuts.

By: Connie

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:54:45 +0000

Belle, we already had a “mini-forest” on the property and there was no space for her coconuts. It was terrible. Weird that when my lola was well into her 80s and her eyesight was failing, she had a lot of trees cut down, including an old, huge ylang-ylang tree.