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I have a confession to make. In the Philippines I have never tasted any freshly picked cherry. I only got to bite the one on top of a smoothie, black forest cake and oh well, the bottled cherries I used in my chilled mango cake.
It’s been more than 5 months since I came here, and still I never appreciated any of the fruits in the market. Probably it’s my loyalty to Philippine brands that’s keeping me. That’s why even I met more than 100 varieties of mangoes during last month’s festival, I still long for the manggang kalabaw back home.
But finally, I met my match. My first munch of Lebanese cherries hit me! It tasted like duhat (blackberry), it’s lightly sweet and perfect when quite chilled and a little sprinkling of iodized salt makes it yummier. I am now starting to enjoy the fruit scene in UAE.
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kayni 07.08.08 at 5:05 pm
mom and i make picked mangoes all the time. yesterday, we were able to get indian mangoes and a jar of bagoong - a combination that tastes heavenly =).
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witsandnuts 07.08.08 at 5:13 pm
Woweee! Ang sarap naman.
The indian mangoes here are the ones literally from that country, not the cute mangoes from the Philippines. The bagoong in Pinoy section in supermarkets is ok naman, but I super miss manggang kalabaw. I’m a big fan of manggang hilaw at bagoong!
iyah 07.08.08 at 10:09 pm
i eat cherries everyday! freshly picked here in california cherry farms..its the season again so eto yan ang merienda ko everyday…walang ganyan sa pinas e…
i like the big and crunchy ones…kahit expensive pa sya..i buy like 3lbs of it! haha….(ngayon mga $4 per lb na sya dito) and with iodized salt syempre!!! yummmmmmieeeeee!
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Vea 07.09.08 at 1:48 am
The pic makes me wanna pic some of those cherries of my monitor and put them in my mouth. I’ve always had this fantasy of picking fruits from a tree or an orchard and filling up the whole basket.
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witsandnuts 07.09.08 at 4:38 am
@Rhea: Cherry season pala dyan. I can imagine how ‘red’ is the market because of that. Lucky you, freshly picked ba naman.
witsandnuts 07.09.08 at 4:40 am
@Vea: Same wish here, I’m looking forward to that moment that I’m in a berry and cherry plantation.