december-2011

C HRISTMAS FOOD SPECIAL
Chef JJ Yulo’s
Fruit Salad
After a long stint in graphic design, I too decided to do something different and
enter culinary school at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. It was
the best year of my life, one that expanded my mind.
Try this twist I’m all for reinventing, but fruit salad is just something that’s hard to
touch. It’s a Pinoy classic: canned fruit cocktail, cream, condensed milk — the holy
triumvirate of this Noche Buena staple. Just to keep the essence of it, I still used
canned fruit cocktail (fresh fruits? Never!) and folded it in cream; but I too wanted to
lighten things up a bit, so instead of condensed milk I folded in some plain yogurt
and honey, and topped it with blueberries and candied sunfl ower seeds for that
something extra.
Chef JJ Yulo is a food blogger and entrepreneur behind Pinoy Eats World, a project
that aims to bring Filipino cuisine to the global stage. www.pinoyeatsworld.com
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