Oh yes I love Quark. You can get it at DJ’s city store. I used to buy it and eat it in place of cream cheese and mascarpone. Is the continental cheese one like the cheese strudel filling? I adore that. The pumpkin one sounds heavenly, like pumpkin pie which I also love.

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Yes, my late Mum did make many things from scratch which was how she was taught when she was growing up. I will always remember her pastry which was like filo pastry.. stretched out like a table cloth.. literally hanging well over a big, round kitchen table.. transparent with elasticity. Holes could easily occur! With that she’d make what I guess are very light ‘filo style’ long strudels which had plenty of fleshy “pie skin” on inside when eaten. She’d do continental cottage cheese fillings (is that Quark?)… more tangy than our English style cottage cheese. And she’d also do mashed pumpkin, cinnamon and sugar as a filling. I think I loved the cheese the most back then because I would often get indigestion from the pumpkin one. I’d love both now.. and would probably team the pumpkin one with some icecream.

Wow, your mum would buy chickens alive? She sounds like a real cook! I know of so many European mums that cook everything from scratch and spend a lot of time preparing meals. Was your mum like that?

Hehe I was a little undecided about the unnamed fruits and jellies but they were fantastic. I kept fishing down the bottom of the glass for more!

The caldereta was a little hot but not too hot (for me at least) but it was a bit oily.

Yes I do recall you mentioning cumquats or kumquats. I am not sure how to describe the Adobo sauce, perhaps a blend of soy, vinegar, chili, garlic and herbs. Very good and a little unusual

Thanks! I try and feature anything interesting and sometimes the drinks are very unusual!

The Halo Halo looks like a meal in itself. I’m not sure if I’d like the jellies and unknown fruits though?? You never know, I could be pleasantly surprised?!

That’s good that the rice is unlimited and you just pay per rice-eating head

The Caldereta is probably something I’d just taste.. I like heat..but not hot-hot where my nose starts running! The dish looks quite oily too.

I’ve never had Adobo anything so I’m curious about the taste. My late fathers last wife was Filipino and she put me onto squeezing cumquat juice onto cooked fish..but I may have already mentioned this when you featured cumquats in another post? I see that in the dictionary they’re also spelled kumquats.. so I’m not entirely sure which is the correct way?

You always feature interesting drinks too -muchly appreciated!

Haha yes it was a bit disappointing, especially since the rest of it was nice.