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Yacon, Apple of the Earth

Last Sunday, when we went to Market One Sunday Market, I chanced upon some root crops being sold. I thought it was “kamoteng kahoy” or cassava and I thought about buying several pieces. The salesperson told me it is in fact yacon. And I asked what it was again. She told me it is called yacon and it is good for those who are likely to suffer diabetes.

Hmm…I have heard about this a few months back from a student’s mom who buys the same root crop in the same place.

I asked the salesperson what it tastes like and she said it tastes like “singkamas” or what is erroneously referred to as turnips. Singkamas is in fact called jicama (pachyrhizus erosus). I got curious since I love munching on this singkamas.

I got one piece only. It was a bit expensive, compared to singkamas which can be bought for PhP25.00 for a bunch of 5-6 pieces. The one piece I got was PhP40.00(almost USD1.00).

I peeled the yacon around noon today. And took photos of the sliced flesh.

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After a while, I noticed that the flesh discolored. I didn’t know that discoloration happens the flesh has been exposed to air, like apples and eggplants.

I tasted one piece and it tasted good. Sweetish, like a part apple, a part jicama and a part pear. So that is why it is also called the Apple of the Earth. It is also dubbed as the Healing Crop.

I didn’t want to eat it as it is so I thought about making a salad and putting some pieces which I sliced in strips. This was what I got:

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Click here to read about more about this root crop called yacon.


Market One at Lung Center in Quezon City

It has been a longtime since we last visited Sidcor, now called the Market One, located at the Lung Center in Quezon City. Here, one can find a lot of fresh produce, freshly baked goodies, organic food, live crabs and other fish products, cooked food, plants, pets, furnitures and the usual stuff like accessories, clothes and knick-knacks.

This is a few minutes from where we live.

Why we chose to go there yesterday resulted in both good and bad decisions.

It was a bad decision because it rained a just after we got there. Hubby and the two younger kids just got themselves a box of pizza, some drinks and went to eat in the car. Trixie and I went around to look for things to bring home. I wasn’t able to take photos too.

On the other hand, it was a good decision because we were able to get good fish parts. We had a “maya-maya ulo sinigang sa miso” or snapper (head) sour soup with miso. We also got vegetables, a tray of eggs (30 pieces), a grilled tuna for lunch and a piece of yakon (this is going to be another post).

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One of the many fish stalls at Market One. This was where I got my snapper head and other fish parts (upper right side of photo).

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Grilled fish. The stall’s tarp sign says it is Grilled Tuna but it doesn’t taste like tuna to me. Anyway, we still enjoyed it for lunch. I had it with fresh tomatoes and raw onions (gah!).

Blog Events in Metro Manila

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Friday and Saturday were full of blog events for me. You can click that -> Spot Pass Trinoma Bloggers Food Trip for more details about the blog event where we went to 18, yes, 18 restaurants from 2pm-8pm I am so thankful that I was with Cookie (and Wenchie too though she went home earlier) because she is a perfect companion for this kind of event.

Here is 343rd photo I took from that event:

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GreenBucks at Five Cows Resto and Ice Cream Bar.

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IBlog4 Summit at the Malcolm Theater in UP Diliman. I went with hubby, my son Julian and Jazz with Kevin who made the worksheets I brought for him.

I saw Dine, Jane, Noemi, Alice, Joni, AJ, Benj, Dexter, Joy, and a lot more other bloggers who look familiar to me and some who also participated in the Friday’s affair.

See another entry here. View more Weekend Snapshots here.

Have a great week everyone.

Here are some entries about iBlog4: