Yes, it’s nice to indulge in the fancy pastry creations of Delifrance and The French Baker but for Filipinos, there’s nothing like starting your morning with the good ‘ol pandesal baked fresh right in your neighborhood, peddled by the bread boy in his ‘potpot’ (beep beep) bicycle. In my case, I get my pandesal fix straight from a neighborhood bakery.
The original pandesal, influenced by the Spanish was lean bread flavored with salt baked in the floors of a wood-fired oven. This is according to Ginny Roces de Guzman in her Rogue Magazine article. Today, with modern baking innovations taking place, the pandesal is mass produced to serve more people creating bustling business for bakeries.
Thank God for small, neighborhood bakeries who still get it right. A small bakery discreetly opened in our community without any hoopla. It didn’t even have a signage on its shop! All that called our attention was the bright yellow paint of its facade that seemingly popped out in of the pavements all of a sudden. With its quiet birth, people in the neighborhood flocked to the bakery from 5 AM to 7 AM to bring home freshly baked goodies for breakfast.
Breads
Fruits too
Yesterday, I went to the bakery for the first time this year, I held the brown paper filled with sweet smelling pandesal and traditional ensaimada. It was a sign that I’m back to our daily routine, more than ready to start the new year.
Pandesal, Enasaimada and Coffee
thriftysenyorita
ensaymada <3 nam nam!
A Gracious Life
I like the traditional, simple ones as opposed to those complicated ensaimadas nowadays…=>
Valerie
Such great photos!!
And I love little, local places like that. I wish we had more of them here, but unfortunately most are not. :/
exceedingspeed
Yummy! There used to be so many of those in Milwaukee. When I was a little girl my dad would take me to the bakery every Sunday for poppy seed horns. Boy,,do I miss those. Lovely photos.
A Gracious Life
The old and traditional, I miss a lot of those. =>
Don't We Look Alike?
Yum!!!!!!
Everyday Commotion
This looks great! I wish I had anywhere I could walk to, but all that is in my neighborhood is other suburban houses. The streets that would lead me to a place of business aren’t safe to walk. We got a new bakery in our town recently, too, it’s great!
bunnyandporkbelly
yummmmm
rommel
Na-ah! It is anywhere. Local bakery is way better than corporate businesses.
rommel
Ahhhhh I’m eying pandesal. I’m sinking from my chair.
A Gracious Life
Lol…not easy to find the good ol pandesal here! …I can imagine how harder it is to find it there.
MariaKarenina Es
Wahhhhh – wala akong ganyan dito =( ang mahal mahal tapos either walang lasa or masyadong matamis. Miss ko ang pandesal =(
A Gracious Life
Marinel’s tsaka ung sa sunshine bakery!