tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post5771901394873973570..comments2023-06-07T07:36:29.060-05:00Comments on Lily Pad: Gunning For the Perfect FlanAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-37866490951778169742009-05-21T23:56:55.709-05:002009-05-21T23:56:55.709-05:00I've always wanted to make flan. But the whole car...I've always wanted to make flan. But the whole caramel making process gives me the creeps! I tried once, and it failed. May be I should give it a try once again bcoz this sounds amazing!Dazyhttp://www.asiarooms.com/thailand/bangkok.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-67268007680994152992008-11-06T21:03:00.000-05:002008-11-06T21:03:00.000-05:00But I am intrigued that here we are in November an...But I am intrigued that here we are in November and someone's still reading the January entry! I am flattered.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-83225911363315405212008-11-06T20:51:00.000-05:002008-11-06T20:51:00.000-05:00So much politics on your blog yet the one entry th...So much politics on your blog yet the one entry that got the most comments was the one about flan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-27382966338736984962008-02-11T14:59:00.000-05:002008-02-11T14:59:00.000-05:00dear lorena: thanks. tell me how your lesson pla...dear lorena: <BR/><BR/>thanks. tell me how your lesson plan demonstration goes; and what the reaction is.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-55257888229120212212008-02-10T07:03:00.000-05:002008-02-10T07:03:00.000-05:00Good day Ninotchka! I am a junior college studen...Good day Ninotchka! I am a junior college student from your homeland. Guess what, I am using your article published in Inquirer (that 'Ninotchka Rosca writes to Nicole) for my lesson plan to be demonstrated next week. 90% of our university's population is women, so I guess it is just right to arouse, organize and mobilize them by exposing them to such kind of writings (they are 'academicians', hehe, we are still on that stage to make them join mobilizations). I admire you so much and you are one of those people who makes me soo inspired to continue the struggle. <BR/><BR/>Kudos to your 'Flan'! I love the last part!!!<BR/><BR/>The women united will never be defeated!<BR/><BR/>Revolution is coming. Padayon!<BR/><BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/><BR/>'Lorena'Thinker Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804317045871990901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-26465568128798897102008-01-17T20:23:00.000-05:002008-01-17T20:23:00.000-05:00Hi Melinda: Sorry for the public response but thi...Hi Melinda: <BR/><BR/>Sorry for the public response but this blogger site won't give me your email address. we're building an archive and library of GABNet materials. actually, i will be in Seattle Jan. 21-23. please send me your contact info; it won't be published.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-5898019865370905252008-01-17T16:22:00.000-05:002008-01-17T16:22:00.000-05:00Hi Ninotchka, It's been a very long time. I am sti...Hi Ninotchka, It's been a very long time. I am still in the Seattle area, same place, two more kids (now 8 and 6) and the older twins started college-one in WA state the other in HI. I have been 'cleaning' my home office, garage, etc. and have years and years of stuff, including some old GABNet stuff. Anybody in Seattle who might want them? Hope you are well.Melissa Ponderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12353182986601477941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-90753319000654901622008-01-07T09:19:00.000-05:002008-01-07T09:19:00.000-05:00Just got a note from Indai who said I was the only...Just got a note from Indai who said I was the only person she knew who could make preparing leche flan seem like overthrowing a government. Yeah, and it took me a protracted year to perfect the process. <BR/><BR/>Apologies; couldn't resist; kind of in-house joke among Filipino activists.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-56964472816490732542008-01-07T06:06:00.000-05:002008-01-07T06:06:00.000-05:00I love leche flan and your social analysis of the ...I love leche flan and your social analysis of the process. It reminds me of my childhood in the Philippines during fiesta in my mom's hometown in Bulacan. My aunt Nena always saves me a whole llanera of flan. But instead of cooking it in an oval flan mold, they just use emptied tin can from the powder milk. But I never learned how to make it. I never perfected anything I cook since I married Willy. He is a better cook so I handed him the pots and pans. Either I have liberated myself from that chore or just got lazy (tamad na burgis). My sister-in-law in Hawaii taught me how to make a custard cake. Just use the leche flan recipe for the bottom (including the caramelized sugar) and the white cake mix for the top. Add a global analogy to that. Just the same, cook it in a water bath in the oven. <BR/>Happy New Year. I would love to taste the NR's leche flan.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>AgnesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-1673953518588538372008-01-05T08:09:00.000-05:002008-01-05T08:09:00.000-05:00about food essays and recipe anthology, this sosya...about food essays and recipe anthology, this sosyal one came out in 2005. "slow food - philippine culinary traditions" (2005 anvil) edited by erlinda enriquez panlilio and felice prudente sta. maria, dedicated to doreen g. fernandez.<BR/><BR/>gilda cordero fernando's back-cover rave reads: "a delicious serving of nostalgic and informative pieces mostly from known gourmets and gourmands. the book gives the background behind slow-cooking family recipes and traces stomach links between grandmas, moms and pops and their cooking daughters and sons. a winner!"<BR/><BR/>i was prepared to enjoy it and learn from it except that the weirdest thing is, the first two or three recipes that called for kakang gata instructs you to add water to the grated coconut and squeeze. big mistake. i'm from quezon so i know that kakang gata is pure cream, the first creamy squeezes from freshly grated coconut, no water added. only after do you add water and squeeze some more but that's not kakang gata anymore, that's more like milk na lang. the fourth or fifth recipe got it right though. <BR/><BR/>i suppose it's also about sons and daughters improving on traditional recipes, like your yummy sounding mexican chocolate flan, but i haven't picked up the book since. well, maybe i will soon, now that i've vented.stuart-santiagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01684291861341131227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-68248679870414030672008-01-04T22:06:00.000-05:002008-01-04T22:06:00.000-05:00I am reminded of the Philippines , ofhome when I h...I am reminded of the Philippines , ofhome when I hear leche plan. In our family making leche plan is always a competition.<BR/><BR/>My Auntie Pacing always wins. She gave her daughters the inheritance-the recipe on how to make the best leche plan and ube.<BR/><BR/>Me, I learned how to make ube in the countryside. Tired from making patupat and linupak, in 1979 a woman comrade taught us how to make ube from ube(yam) mixed with caramelized condensed milk.<BR/><BR/>Well, a good subtitute for a leche plan is caramel made out of condensed milk.<BR/><BR/>Reading Notch work makes my mouth water. How i wish i can still eat the sweet leche plan....<BR/><BR/>It's the best Filipina work of love!<BR/><BR/>Al P.GarciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-58780980901310288082008-01-04T13:01:00.000-05:002008-01-04T13:01:00.000-05:00Baño Maria, so that's what it's called. The first ...Baño Maria, so that's what it's called. The first time I did this, I almost freaked out, and my sister had to assure me by telling me this is how you make a cheesecake, that it wasn't as complicated as it sounded.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the blueberries I haven't tried, but that sounds like it could be interesting. My sister has also made a pumpkin flan for Thanksgiving, and that is neat. <BR/><BR/>I know there are collections of Filipino food fiction; Cecilia Brainard recently edited a collection of recipe and fiction (though I've been told that some of the recipes seem too distantly linked to the stories themselves). I think though, a straight up food essay and recipe anthology would be very cool.bjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-34619135208247883652008-01-04T10:05:00.000-05:002008-01-04T10:05:00.000-05:00ay oo nga. we use a steamer kasi. sorry, low tec...ay oo nga. we use a steamer kasi. sorry, low tech. and yes the term banyo-maria is intriguing. i remember as a child asking my lola why maria, expecting some alamat-like story, but she laughed me off.stuart-santiagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01684291861341131227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-85538687363790488352008-01-04T09:48:00.000-05:002008-01-04T09:48:00.000-05:00yes, banyo-maria -- which can also be done in the ...yes, banyo-maria -- which can also be done in the oven, by placing the mold in a larger pan with an inch of water, in effect bake-steaming it. i wonder where the term banyo-maria came from; it's Spanish, meaning Maria's bath. some hot spring in Europe, perhaps?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-78222947349764464952008-01-04T08:53:00.000-05:002008-01-04T08:53:00.000-05:00bake? hindi ba ban(y)o maria ang leche flan, meani...bake? hindi ba ban(y)o maria ang leche flan, meaning steamed? at least that was my lola's and my nanay's way. 45 minutes tops. and yes, absolutely no water to caramelize sugar. happy new year. i look forward to your rare blogs.stuart-santiagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01684291861341131227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-88523786156519727302008-01-04T08:31:00.000-05:002008-01-04T08:31:00.000-05:00Jack, This was last year's misadventures. It took ...Jack, <BR/><BR/>This was last year's misadventures. It took a whole year to perfect the revolutionary flan process. <BR/><BR/>Cheers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-12307347325908508292008-01-03T17:38:00.000-05:002008-01-03T17:38:00.000-05:00Ninotchka--didn't you make flan at Thanksgiving? T...Ninotchka--didn't you make flan at Thanksgiving? That was great--and a full month before your Christmas troubles.<BR/>Love JackUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01194246839719979943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-22076569410962341762008-01-03T15:22:00.000-05:002008-01-03T15:22:00.000-05:00Happy new year as well. I envy you your tradition...Happy new year as well. I envy you your tradition. My mother couldn't cook and all I remember of my grandmother was that she told me once that the best way to off a husband was to grind some glass in a mortar and pestle and mix it with his flan. Thanks for the nice words. I will try mixing chocolate with the flan mix. Have you tried lining the caramel with blueberries?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-84606853885636369822008-01-03T14:14:00.000-05:002008-01-03T14:14:00.000-05:00Hi Ninotchka, I love this story! Thanks for sharin...Hi Ninotchka, I love this story! Thanks for sharing. You know, I struggle as a Pinay with what is women's work, and whether we are degraded by it, whether we should chuck it aside for "bigger" and more "ambitious" things like being academics, authors, etc. But I have found that in taking on my mother's and grandmother's food traditions for big family gatherings, I actually feel pretty empowered, and think about ways in which to elevate "women's work." It all still confuses me. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, congratulations on a perfect flan. My mother taught me how to make a flan a couple of years ago, and I've since amended her recipe by making mine into Mexican chocolate flan. So yummy!<BR/><BR/>Happy New Year to you! <BR/><BR/>All Best<BR/>Barbara Jane Reyesbjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.com