farmeric January 23rd, 2010

Lady luck has got nothing to do with brewing a great tasting coffee. There are tips or should I say “good habits” in making a delicious  cup of coffee.

I don’t profess to be an expert barista ( a person who prepares and serves coffee), but I give you the following guide to making great coffee which I actually saw from the back of the coffee bag which I bought.

1. All coffee equipment should be spotlessly clean prior to brewing.

2. Always use filtered water.

3. Use the right amount of fresh good quality coffee with the right amount of water.

4. user the proper grind for each type of coffee equipment.

- Drip grind for drip or filtered coffee machines.

- Regular grind for percolators and coffee press.

5. Freshly brewed coffee must be served immediately.

6. Never reheat coffee.

7. Store coffee grounds in an airtight container.

A good cup of coffee is like tasting a fine wine and so brewing coffee ends up being a matter of your own personal taste!

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farmeric November 6th, 2009

This is a story as told by Dr. Vivencio Mamaril, a member of the Bureau of Plant Industry Biotech Core Team.

Among the vegetables we eat, malunggay has already earned various tags- healthiest vegetable, a miracle tree, lowly but high in nutrition, and many others. It’s now even tagged as the most healthiest food and miracle food as well.

Malunggay Vitamins and Minerals

There must be something and someone in malunggay that made it as the most popular vegetable in the country today.

Here comes the story, as it happened and is happening before Dr. Vivencio Mamaril very own eyes.

The basic, malunggay has seven times in amount of vitamin C as compared with orange fruit, four times the calcium in milk, four times the vitamin A in carrot and three times the potassium in banana.

According to Dr. Mamaril, it has been so long time that we were not aware of the vitamins and other nutrients malunggay can provide not until the Department of Agriculture (DA) made some noise about malunggay.

The Department of Agriculture (DA), through its Biotechnology Program Implementation Unit, were surprised to learned that there is a business enterprise that is much interested to buy malunggay foliage and seeds. The demand for foliage and seeds is so huge that no single grower or an aggregate of growers can fill the demand.

The truth is, there are no malunggay growers who can produce seeds and foliage in great quantity, and there is no existing technology for it as well. Due to this challenge, Continue Reading »

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farmeric September 19th, 2009

Moringa (Malunggay) Shanghai Rolls

Ingredients:

• 12 ½ cups ground pork
• 2 ½ cups onion



• 2 ½ cups garlic
• 10 cups carrots (cubed)
• 2 ½ cups flour
• 10 pcs. egg
• 1 ¼ cups tomato sauce
• 5 cups malunggay leaves
• 10 tsp iodized salt
• 100 pcs. lumpia wrapper
• 7 ½ cups cooking oil
• kinchay

Procedures:

1. In a mixture bowl, place the ground pork, garlic, onion, carrots, flour, eggs, tomato sauce, kinchay and malunggay leaves. Continue Reading »

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farmeric September 13th, 2009

Eating, Drinking Your Way To A Healthy Life

An interview with Dr. Maxima Flavier of UPLB
By   VIRGINIA   ANN   BURGOS

A HEALTHY lifestyle today is associated with the use of natural compounds derived from food crops. Nutraceuticals, the food substances that provide medical or health benefits including prevention and treatment of diseases, and cosmeceuticals, substances that bank on natural ingredients to enhance beauty, are the emerging trend in health and wellness, especially in the US and in Europe.

The use of traditional components is not new to Filipinos. Long before researches on nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals were undertaken, traditional herbs were already being used as health remedies, especially in the rural areas. Some of the most common herbs used in the rural areas include banaba, for urinary tract infection, lagundi, commonly used as expectorant but also has many benefits, and ginger, for arthritis, these herbs are now being developed for commercial consumption by other pharmaceutical companies.

The utilization of natural medicines is one of the advocacies of Dr. Maxima Flavier, director of the Institute of Chemistry (IC) at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB). “I prefer to use traditional natural products; you get them by eating their sources,” she told Biolife as she discussed the benefits of natural products like rice bran and siling labuyo.

Dr. Flavier was also the co-adviser of a study undertaken by IC on the health and medicinal benefits of rice bran as an angiogenic. Before this, she stayed in Japan for a year as a visiting professor conducting research on the effective utilization of rice bran.

Their study in UPLB showed that rice bran contains Phytosterols. Phytosterols are now being incorporated in the production of food and beverage, as studies have showed that they help prevent heart diseases by reducing the level of bad Continue Reading »

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farmeric September 5th, 2009

Pochero A La Berding Gulay

Ingredients:

• 1 c. peeled & sliced unripe papaya
• 1 c. malunggay leaves
• 1 c. green beans or winged beans
• 3 pcs. ripe tomato
• 3 pcs ripe banana
• 1 c. dried minnow
• 1 clove garlic
• 3 stems green onions
• 1 small pc ginger (thinly sliced)
• 1 T. cooking oil
• 5 black pepper, whole
• 3 c. water
• salt to taste

Preparation:

Saute the garlic and ginger in cooking oil until slight brown. Add the water and bring to a boil. Add the banana, beans and black pepper. Cover, and continue boil. When half-done add the sliced papaya, dried minnow, tomatoes, green onions, and salt to taste. Lastly, add the malunggay leaves. Remove from heat when done, and serve while hot. Servers 8.

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farmeric August 28th, 2009

This is a very simple and quick to cook malunggay recipe and no need for any fish or meat.

Corn with Malunggay Leaves - Simple Malunggay Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 c. grated young corn
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 head onion
• 3 c. water
• 1 small sponge gourd (luffa)
• 1 c. malunggay leaves
• 1-1/2 Accent
• salt to taste

Preparations:

Saute garlic and onion in medium fry pan. Add water and let it boil. Then add the corn, stirring often to avoid burning. When cooked, add the gourd and malunggay.

That’s all! A simple and quick malunggay recipe.

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farmeric August 17th, 2009

Sauted Malunggay Pods

Ingredients:

• 2 c. fresh Malunggay Pods
• 2 T. shortening
• 1 tsp. minced garlic
• 2 T. sliced onion
• 1/2 c. sliced tomatoes
• 1 c. boiled beef, diced
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 c. fresh lima or butter bean seeds, peeled
• 1 c. green cowpea or yard-long bean pods cut into 1-1/2″ lengths

Preparation:
Cut malunggay pods lengthwise into 4 piececs. Slice white pulp including tender seeds. Discard outer covering. Cut pulp into 1-1/2 inch lenghts. Saute garlic, onion, and tomatoes. Add beef. Cover, and cook 2 minutes. Season with fish paste and salt. Add lima or butter beans, and cook 3 minutes. Add malunggay pulp and cowpea or yard-liong bean. Cover, and cook 10 minutes. Serves 6.

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farmeric August 15th, 2009

How Much Malunggay Should You Eat?

• One half cup of cooked  leaves  will meet your daily recommendation for Vitamins A and C.
• One half cup of pods(raw) will supply your Vitamin C quota for the day.

Server Malunggay in Daily Meals.

In cooking any dishes with malunggay using coconut milk, the coconut milk  is extracted  by squeezing  the meat of a freshly grated coconut. The first squeezing  is called kakang gata or coconut milk. A second squeezing is used after water is added to the remaining coconut meat, and then is called gata or coconut reserve. The green pods of malunggay can be used as a substitute for Okra.

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farmeric August 11th, 2009

Ingredients:

• 1 c. pure coconut milk
• 1/3 c. pure coconut milk reserve
• 5 pcs. fish, preferably tilapia
• 1 onion bulb, sliced
• 1 head garlic, crushed
• 3 tomatoes , quartered
• 8-10 winged beans or string beans, quartered
• 1 small pc ginger
• 3 pcs bell pepper, green and red, quartered
• 1/2 c. Malunggay leaves
• 1-2 T cooking oil
• 1 t. crushed  black pepper
• 1/2 c. pigeon or Congo peas
• 1 c. cubed yellow  sweet potato

Preparation:

Saute garlic in oil until brown. Add onion. Continue Reading »

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farmeric August 1st, 2009

Ingredients:

• 1/2 c. dried pigeon pea or Congo pea boiled in 1 c. water
• 2 c. water
• 2 c. cowpea or yard-long bean cut into 2″ lenghts
• 2 c. malunggay leaves
• 1/2 medium onion, sliced
• 2 large tomatoes, sliced
• 1 medium-size fish cut into slices and boiled
• 10 young okra, cut into 1″ lengths
• 1/4 c. fish paste

Preparation:

Add water to cooked piegon pea or Congo pea in large saucepan. Boil, and add cowpea or yard-long bean. Cover and cook for 3 minutes. Add fish paste, onion, tomatoes, fish and okra. Cover and boil for 2 minutes. Do not stir vegetables. Add malunggay leaves, cover, and cook for 5 minutes more. Serve hot. Serves 6.

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