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Watermelon “Pakwan” Culture

Aug 25th, 2007 | By champoi | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood

Watermelon, commonly known as pakwan in Tagalog, is probably native to Africa. It is mainly eaten as dessert fruit. The…



How to Make Hollow Blocks from Waste Materials

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: How to Make, Livelihood, Things

A new type of hollow blocks can be fabricated out of wood wastes, agricultural wastes and soil mixed with minimum…



How to Make Soap by Cold Process

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: How to Make, Livelihood, Things

White creamy laundry bar soap with the essence of citronella or other suitable essential oils.

Materials:

  • Coconut oil (primary)
  • Caustic soda (35 Be)


How to Make Candle Wax

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: How to Make, Livelihood, Things

Materials:

  • Paraffin wax (China brand)
  • Polyethylene wax (Japan brand)
  • Thread (for candle wick)
  • Mold
  • Technical dye (desired color)

Procedure:

  1. To 500 g. paraffin wax, add 125 g


How to Make Floor Wax

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: How to Make, Livelihood, Things

Materials:

  • Paraffin wax (China brand)
  • Technical dye
  • Polyethylene wax (Japan brand)
  • Wax crystals
  • Kerosene

Procedure:

  1. Mix 800 g. paraffin wax with 100 g. polyethylene wax.
  2. Melt the materials


How to Make Tomato Paste

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Procedures:

  1. Choose matured ripe and fresh tomatoes.
  2. Immerse 1 or 2 times in boiled water for 2 minutes. Deep in cold water


How to Make Tomato Catsup

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • 1/2 teaspoon Pepper (powdered)
  • 1/2 quart Vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cloves (powdered)
  • 4 cups Sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Allspice (powdered)
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon (powdered)
  • Tomato according to pulp


How to Make Banana Sauce

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • 1 kilo ripe saba bananas
  • 1/4 liter Vinegar
  • 3 3/4 liter Water
  • 100 gm. Salt
  • 1 kilo Sugar
  • 2 pcs. (Red pepper, big)
  • 15-20 pcs. Siling


How to Make Banana Pastillas

Sep 20th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • 1 kilo (5 cups) mashed ripe bananas (saba or cavendish)
  • 300 gm. (2 1/4 cups) sugar
  • Butter or margarine

Utensils Needed:

  • Rolling pin Spatula
  • Frying


How to Make Nata de Coco out of Coconut Water

Sep 14th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • Coconut water
  • Acetic acid
  • Refined sugar
  • Nata starter
  • Ammonium phosphate

Equipments:

  • Weighing scale
  • Strainers
  • Wide-mouthed glass jars or basins
  • Kettles

Procedure:

  1. The collected coconut water is filtered through a cheesecloth. One


How to Make Pork Tocino

Sep 14th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Meat:

  • 1kg. Pork pigue or kasim, with or without skin. Boneless, sliced 1/4 inch thick

Extenders:

  • In 1/2 cup water add 1/4


How to Make Polvoron out of a Crab or Shrimp Shells

Sep 14th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup shrimp/crab shell powder
  • 2 cup all-purpose flour
  • butter & margarine to flavor
  • 2 Tbsp vanilla
  • 1 cup refined sugar
  • 1 cup powdered milk

Preparation:

  1. Soak


How to Make Vinegar out of Banana

Sep 14th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • One part peeled ripe bananas (25 pieces,medium-sized)
  • Two parts water
  • ¼ part sugar

Procedures:

  1. Wash ripe bananas.
  2. Peel and cut into pieces.
  3. Add water and boil


How to Make Dried Banana Blossoms

Sep 14th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Raw Materials:

  • 1 tbsp sodium metabisulfite
  • 4 c water
  • sugar, vinegar, soy sauce (to taste)

Utensils:

  • cheesecloth
  • colander

Procedure:

  1. Dissolve 1 tablespoon sodium metabisulfite in four cups water


Definition of Franchising

Sep 13th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Articles, Franchise-Articles

Franchising (from the French for free) is a method of doing business wherein a franchisor licenses trademarks and tried and…



How to Make Cassava Chips

Sep 13th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • 1 kilo cassava
  • 1 tsp. vetsin
  • 2 1/2 tsp. barbecue spice (for flavoring)
  • 3 tbsp. And 1 pinch salt
  • 9 1/2 cups water

Procedure:

  1. Wash cassava


Freeway

Sep 13th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Fashion and Lifestyle, Franchising

Freeway is a retail store inspired by youthful freedom and teen spirit. Making an outstanding entry to the fashion scene…



Straightforward Salon

Sep 11th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Franchising, Health and Beauty

The Company owns a chain of 12 hair salons and now into franchising.

Voted as most outstanding hair salon in manila…



How to Make Chinese Squid Balls

Sep 8th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Ingredients:

  • 1 kilo Squid cut into rings
  • 250g pound Cooked shrimp
  • 4 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 1/2 cup Water
  • 1 cup Chicken stock
  • 1 tablespoon


How to Make Ice Cream

Sep 8th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 gallon powdered milk
  • 1-1/2 gallon coconut milk
  • 1/3 gallon evaporated milk
  • 2 kilo sugar
  • 1/3 kilo corn starch

Procedures:

  1. Mix all ingredients using mixer (or


How to Make Cuchinta from Squash

Sep 8th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • 1 cup mashed boiled squash
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • ¾ cup all purpose flour, shifted
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 teaspoon lye (dissolved)

Procedure:

  1. Dissolve the sugar


How to Make Kropeck from Shrimp Heads

Sep 8th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Ingredients:

  • 1 kilo shrimp heads (blanched)
  • 1/2 kilo rice
  • 2 tbsp. salt
  • 1 tbsp. vetsin
  • pinch of black pepper
  • 5 tbsp. limewater (prepared by dissolving 1


How to make Fish Sauce (Patis)

Sep 8th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • Fish of assorted species
  • Enzymes from micro-organisms
  • Salt

Equipment:

  • Fermentation vessels provided with stirrer

Procedure:

  1. Wash assorted species of fish to free them from undesirable


How to make Beef Tapa

Sep 8th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Meat Material :

  • Beef lean, round/rump, sliced 1/4 inch thick - 1kg

Extenders:

  • (In 1/2 cup water, add the following)

1 Tbsp…



How to Make Santol Candy

Sep 7th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • santol fruit
  • sugar
  • lye (commercial flakes of sodium hydroxide)

Utensils:

  • aluminum tray
  • wooden spoon for stirring
  • bamboo or wire tray
  • casserole (stainless or porcelain)
  • thermometer
  • knife

Procedure:

  1. Wash the santol in


How to Make Dried Sweet Papaya

Sep 7th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • Half-ripe papaya, 1 kilo
  • Kalamansi juice, 1 tbsp. for every cup of syrup
  • Sodium metabisulfite powder, for every 1/4 tsp. = +


How to make Salted Red Egg (Itlog na Pula)

Sep 7th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Eggs with fissures are sold as sariwa or fresh duck eggs. Eggs with thin shells but have no cracks are…



How to make Balut

Sep 5th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Select duck eggs using the pitik system-tap eggs with the fingers to cull out eggs with cracks or thin-shelled. Eggs…



How to Make Cheese

Sep 5th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • 5 liters goat/carabao milk
  • 30 cc DTRI-IFS-6 (milk coagulant)
  • 125 gms. salt
  • 1 gm. nutmeg powder

Utensils used:

  • 5-liter saucepan
  • Basin, thermometer, cheesecloth
  • Scoop or dipper, kitchen


How to Make Nata de Kalabasa

Sep 5th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials:

  • Kalabasa peels and core Sugar
  • Ammonium sulfate
  • Glacial acetic acid
  • Nata starter (available at ITDI)

Procedure:

  1. Wash the peels and core of kalabasa, add 3


Mango-Tomato Jam Making

Sep 5th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Ingredients:

  • Ripe mangoes
  • Ripe tomatoes
  • Sugar

Procedure:

  1. The mango fruit is peeled and mashed after removing the seeds.
  2. Blanch the tomatoes, remove the seeds and chopped


How to Make Siopao

Sep 5th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Food, How to Make, Livelihood

Materials for the dough:

  • 4 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 1/4 cups warm water 3 tbsp. oil
  • 3/4 cup sugar 1 tbsp. oil
  • 1/4 tsp


David Salon

Sep 4th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Featured, Franchising, Health and Beauty, Salon

David Charlton started hair-dressing in the U. K- at the age of 16. While working in his Uncle’s (Jeffrey) salon…



How to Compute Profit Margin and Markup

Sep 4th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Articles, Business-Articles

Figuring out when you’re making a profit is key to business success.

One of the most important financial concepts you will…



Bonsai Culture

Sep 4th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood

Growing ornamental plants used to be a mere hobby of plant lovers - not any more . It has become…



Zagu Pearl Shake

Sep 4th, 2006 | By champoi | Category: Featured, FoodCart & Kiosk, Franchising, Top Franchise

ZAGU the leader in the pearl shake business, is looking for dynamic entrepreneurs to be part of this dynamic business…