The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans

Food blogging synchronicity happens so often that we just take it for granted. When it happens in real life, it’s almost surreal.

Auntie L. brought slices of ube-macapuno cake the other day. Ube is purple yam and macapuno is coconut sport or freak coconut. It is a variety of coconut (Cocos nucifera) without a cavity and found only in the Philippines. It is filled with soft, chewy flesh that is favoured by sweets makers. I love buco (young coconut flesh) and macapuno is a special treat.

I was contented with the cake which had real macapuno until Auntie T. arrived with a gallon of ube-macapuno ice cream! Under ordinary circumstances, I wouldn’t buy the same flavour of cake and ice cream togehter but this amusing coincidence had me taking bites of one after the other. Hmmm… it’s not something I do or want to do everyday but at that moment, the pair came out very novel. Purple sweetness!