I love my adobo with rice, but a friend once showed me how to eat it with bread.
Hmmm. Ok, maybe I will if there’s no alternative. But I still would rather have hot, steaming rice.
The Philippines has been eating rice for centuries. Changing an entire nation’s eating habits won’t be easy. But as former socioeconomic planning secretary and UP professor Felipe Medalla pointed out to me a few weeks ago half-jokingly, if Filipinos won’t eat too much rice, there will be no shortage!
So experts are now pushing for rice alternatives and extenders, namely sweet potato and corn, which actually have more fiber content and thus more nutritional value.
Here are some recipe/blog entries on kamote and other alternatives from my favorite food blogger Market Manila. I hope you don’t mind if many of them are snacks or desserts! The last recipe is my favorite breakfast alternative to sinangag. Enjoy!
Minatamis na kamote
Deep friend bananas with caramelized sugar
Roast duck with sweet potatoes
Battered and friend bananas
French Toast / Eggy Bread / Pain Perdu a la Marketman
June 13th, 2008 at 6:43 am
hmm… Salve u think one day we’ll have “soylent green”?
April 28th, 2008 at 6:34 am
P.S. I’ve read somewhere before (I think it was Dido who was quoted for this. Yes, the singer.) that it is bad to eat too much banana kasi too much of potassium can kill you.
Hinay-hinay lang po sa saging. ^_^v
April 28th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Ever since the rice shortage news broke out, I did not eat rice na. Ever. I’m now sticking to fruits.
One good thing brought about by this rice shortage is that I can now stick to a diet. Hihi (^_^)v
April 25th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Yesterday, I went to a Filipino store in Florida and bought a 25 pound bag of rice for $20 which is pretty steep, because I could buy the same bag for $10-12 in California some months back. Checked Costco and Sam’s Club and they currently sell at $16.99, however, they are now limiting the sale of the 25 pound bag (due to the current worldwide trend, they said). The bigger wholesale size bags are exempt from the limit based on past (frequency/volume history?)purchase. Husband said, “Maybe Filipinos are buying them in bulk and shipping them back to the Philippines,” you think? Good thing, last week, I bought a $10 two-feet tall banana plant (at my lola’s house in Abra, the darn thing grew like weeds and it’s free), hopefully its not the ornamental kind…
April 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Its just an adjustment you know i am an OFW here in Taiwan to tell u the truth after i arrived here i say i always felt hungry coz they dont eat rice too much i think only in dinner time but after 2 months i say oh my God i forgot eating we used to eat noodles, dumplings, steam buns with variety inside either meat,vegetables,green and red bean or any kind of veggies,bihon too is an alternative since i learn to eat all of this even i dont eat rice for one day is okey.