Food blogging by post
Posted by kathryn in Blogging
My Food Blogging By Post (FBBP) parcel arrived this morning – all the way from Sugar Cocoon in Los Angeles. Andrea is originally from the Philippines and so her parcel contained an assortment of Filipino goodies.
This is my first FBBP and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was hoping for some foods or ingredients that I’d never tried before – something new to play with. Well my parcel is exactly what I wanted. While there is definitely a good-sized Filipino community, a fair few Filipino grocers in Australia and my cooking is quite ethnically diverse , I’ve never tried any food from the Philippines. I’ve even had to email Andrea for some advice on how to use a couple of the foods.
The most exciting thing for me was the packet of jackfruit crisps. I’ve wrestled with fresh jackfruit before, inadvertantly getting covered with the glue-like substance it exudes, but I didn’t know they were turned into crisps.
- Cassava chips ((both sweet and salty, with a pretty pinky-browny border around the edge of each chip)
- Egg crackers
- Garlic flavoured crispy fried corn
- Jacobina biscuits
- A packet of instant Bihon Guisado (which is a noodle and vegetable mix)
- Chocolate rice porridge mix
- Choc-nut lollies (which are like eating slightly-chocolatey-set peanut butter)
- Choc mallows (chocolate covered marshmallow biscuits) – these look very similar to Tunnock’s Tea Cakes that I’ve had in the UK
So, thank you to Andrea for her considerate and intriguing parcel, I’ll blog some more as I use up the foods.
21 September, 2006
Comments
hi Kathryn,
You’re so very welcome! I’m so glad you liked it. One of the things I like doing is trying out food from different parts of the world and introducing other people to it. Yes, I agree with you, new food experiences are always exciting.
I’m not a fanatic of fresh jackfruit, hehehe, but if its sweetened or in any other form, like the jackfruit crip, I eat it. Sweetened jackfruit I think is just cooking the fresh jackfruit in syrup (sugar and water), I haven’t really done this, all I do is buy the cooked or prepared version.
The egg cracklets is a type of biscuit that could be eaten by itself or maybe with coffee or tea? But for the most part I always eat it by itself as a snack when I was growing up.
For the crispy fried corn, it can also be eaten by itself or sometimes I eat it with rice (I think I’m the only one who does this though).
For the jacobina, now this is really good eaten with a cup of coffee or tea, yum!
Yup, you can mix any veggie or tofu with the bihon guisado noodles. Here’s a link to a recipe, please disregard the meat portion, I just simply pile up more veggies and use water to substitute any chicken stock.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1826,145168-238197,00.html
Wow, thanks for the wilb hibiscus tip! I’m still wondering how to try out stuff with the package I received.
For the choco mallows, I like to eat it really cold, so I put it in the freezer for maybe an hour and then take it out and eat it. sometimes I forget, and I end up having frozen choco mallows, I have to wait till its a little bit thawed.
The choc nut is great, I pop one after the other, just can’t stop eating it. very addicting.
The cassava chips is a great alternative, and maybe a bit healthier to potato chips.
The champorado is great eaten with a drizzle of milk. Below is a link to a recipe for champorado:
http://manila.metblogs.com/archives/2006/08/champorado.phtml
Enjoy your Filipino food package.
C=:-) andrea
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