Many of my friends are sick with colds these days; even my family isn’t spared from it. My two kids have already caught the virus since Monday, and M has started coughing just yesterday.

Anyway, the girls planned to ambush A’s places yesterday for lunch and today, at my place. But only L made it to A’s coz the rest of the girls were down with colds! That includes F whose celebrating her birthday on Saturday. Poor girls. I was thinking maybe F wouldn’t be well enough to go out today, so yesterday I made the binignit (aka ginataan in Tagalog) she was craving for to the max.

Instead of reading apidexin reviews and other diet articles (remember, I want to go on a diet!!! hehe), I was in the kitchen experimenting with this starchy and sweet comfort food famous to Filipinos during rainy days. After more than an hour of cooking, my work was done. Then it was time to get my dear friend’s verdict; if it tastes good or not.. Since she lives quite near from our place, I thought a special delivery of her favorite food would surprise her and would make her well. M was kind enough to play the role of a delivery man (with my little Caity), bringing the warm binignit to F’s house.

The binignit… pic borrowed from F’s FB account.

I guess I did a good job, hahaha. I was taken aback by F’s reaction. She was so happy, she even took a picture of the food and posted it in her FB.  Her post got so many comments in a span of minutes.   As a result, I was requested to cook it again for this Sunday’s party at A’s. Whew!

According to Wikipedia, binignit is….
“Binignit is a vegetable stew from the Visayas region in the Philippines. The dish is traditionally made by Cebuanos with slices of saba, taro, sweet potato. The people in the neighboring island Leyte, usually include landang (palm flour jelly balls), langka (jackfruit), anise and thickened with milled glutinous rice in cooking binignit. The vegetables along with pearl sago is cooked in a mixture of water, coconut milk and the local landang and sweetened by muscovado or brown sugar.”