And I was in trouble.
The bananas I bought at the supermarket were not ripe enough to put into
the Pochero- a ginger-flavored soup made up of beef shank, saba bananas,
potatoes, cabbage or pechay tagalog.
More often than not, Pochero is the main dish for our Sunday lunches. No
bananas. No can do.
I did not relish the effort of going out early in the
morning for one ingredient. But this was
just the reason I needed to visit one of the Sunday markets in the City. The market used to be located inside the Lung
Center of the Philippines compound but had since relocated about two years ago
to a bigger location closer to the main thoroughfare—EDSA.