These days, when going to the market comes with the risk of getting contaminated with the dreaded coronavirus, I mostly stay at home and let the market come to me. Thank goodness for online sellers who deliver vegetables, seafood and meat right to their customers’ front doors.
But sometimes there are missteps, such as recently, when instead of delivering kalabasa (native squash), our online suki delivered squash flowers. I was actually planning to use the kalabasa to make pinakbet. Alas, the delicate squash flowers simply won’t do for this rustic Ilocano dish. And it was too late to return them to our suki because they had driven off to their next destination.
But as they say, if t…
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