The sayote fruits are abundant this time of year in my garden, I don’t know if it is the season for sayote.
I love sayote. I used it in all kinds of recipes like Chicken Tinola, Chop Suey or stir fry mix vegetables, pancit and fresh vegetable lumpia or fried vegetable lumpia.
One thing about sayote, when you peel it, it leaves a sticky residue in your hands. It will go away eventually.
Water chestnuts are synonymous to Chinese cuisine. They are the ones that makes water chestnuts popular all over the world except we only see them mostly in cans. Once in a while you will see them in Chinatown but you probably will not recognize it because they look like the corms of certain flowering plants…
The arugulas after a few days have their true leaves and ready for transplanting.
The popularity of kale as a cancer-fighting vegetable made me decide to plant some. I started with seeds and the variety is called “Toscano”. It is a plain-leaf type. Some kales have curly leaves. Some are called ornamental kales because of their different colors and mostly used as decorative plant in the garden. I have…
I have been experimenting on almost every new things that come out of seed catalogs. I find it very interesting and challenging at the same time. One of those experiments is planting this “watermelon” radish. I planted them just like other radish seeds. They grow fast and as soon as you can see the roots…
Kamansi also known as breadnut (bot. name- Artocarpus camansi – blanco) is a relative of breadfruit and jack fruit. The breadfruit has more pulp and small seeds while the kamansi has bigger seeds and less pulp and just like the jack fruit, the seeds are edible and can be boiled or roasted and a…