Blog #4

Tonight my Mom had made a traditional Filipino dessert for me and the rest of the family and it is called "Halo Halo".  In today's dessert of the day Halo Halo has become a world wide known dessert, it is now very popular in cultural festivals and other places. The dessert Halo Halo translates into mixture, that's because it's a mixture of many ingredients. This dessert can be eaten during anytime of the day, it could be eaten during lunch time, as a snack, or as a dessert. But the most common time to eat this is after dinner. This is a very family-oriented dessert, and can be eaten by anyone in the family.

Halo Halo has shaved ice, milk, ice cream, sweet beans, and fruit in it, all put into one big bowl or maybe a tall glass. Those are the typical ingredients put into this dessert, but really you can put anything you like in it. You can pick from mung beans, kidney beans, garbanzo beans, coconut, purple yam, and all kinds of different fruits. Although you can pick your favorite ingredients to put into this dessert, there is a certain order you have to follow to make the dessert delicious, and organized. First you would but the beans, fruits, and other sweets at the bottom of the cup, then the shaved ice is on top of that, after sugar is put on top of the shaved ice, then ice cream or flan is put on top of that, and the last step would be to pour milk on top of everything.

Recipe:

• 2 tablespoons kaong or...
  2 tablespoons nangka (jackfruit)
• 2 tablespoons macapuno (a variety of coconut meat sold in bottles)
• 2 tablespoons sweetened kidney beans
• 2 tablespoons sweetened garabanzos
• 2 tablespoons sweetened plantains
• 2 tablespoons ube or yam
• 2 tablespoons custard or creme caramel
• 2 tablespoons sweetened corn kernels
• crushed ice  to fill glass
• 2/3 evaporated milk
• a scoop of ice cream on top
  
  

Sources for pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/imago2007/3370467246/
http://islandcruzer.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/highlights-from-philippines/

Source for recipe: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_Default_files/Philippine_Culture/halo_halo.htm