Livelihood

Cut Flowers Production

Jun 20th, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood
cut-flowers Cut flowers are generally grown throughout the Philippines.  The diversity of cut flowers found in the Philippines reflects our rich flora resources.  Some of cut… [more...]


How to make Tamarind Balls

Jun 20th, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Food, How to Make
tamarind_balls-pic The fruit of the tamarind is one of most commonly reserved for consumption, whether raw, cooked, or prepared in some pre-packaged snacks. The fleshy, juicy… [more...]


Growing Lima Beans or Patani

Jun 13th, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood
lima-beans Lima Beans (Phaseolus lunatus)  is a type of legume grown for their flat, crescent-oval-shaped seeds, which is eaten as a vegetable.  It is popularly… [more...]


How to make Puto Pao

Jun 13th, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Food, How to Make
puto-pao Puto is one of the favorite native delicacy of many Filipinos.  It has many variations, sizes, colors, flavors and toppings. One of the newest variation… [more...]


Growing Chinese Water Chesnut or Apulid

Jun 8th, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood
chinese-water-chesnut-pix The Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), more often called simply the water chestnut, is a grass-like sedge  cultivated for its edible root. The water chestnut… [more...]


How to make Pansit Palabok

Jun 8th, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Food, How to Make
palabok-pansit Among the most favorite meal snack of many Filipino today is  Pansit Palabok or Pansit Luglug.  It is also one of the favorite noodle preparations… [more...]


Passionfruit Production

Jun 3rd, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood
passion-fruit Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis), is a vine edible fruit of the passion flower that is native to Paraguay, Brazil  and northeastern Argentina.   The passion fruit is… [more...]


Celery or Kinchay Production

May 29th, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood
celery Celery (Apium graveolens) or popularly known as Kinchay in the Philippines,  is a crunchy biennial plant belong  in the family Apiaceae and is native to… [more...]


Yam Bean or Singkamas Production

May 21st, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Farming & Production, Livelihood
jicama-or-singkamas Yam Bean or Jícama in Spanish,  is the name of a native Mexican vine, although the name most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous… [more...]


How to make Takoyaki (Japanese Octopus Fried Balls)

May 21st, 2010 | By pinoyentre | Category: Food, How to Make
takoyaki Takoyaki is  one of the  popular dumpling today in the Philippines which was first popularized in Taisho-era Osaka, Japan.  It was invented by a street… [more...]