Archive for February, 2007
PonteFino Hotel in Batangas City
While there is quite a number of Hotels in Batangas, Hotel PonteFino has proven to really stand out among others. The finest hotel in Batangas City, where there are 40 premium rooms plus suites. Located at Gulod Labac, Batangas City, you can have easy access to main places such as public markets, malls, churches, schools and all.
How to cook Bulanglang
One of the easy-to-cook Batangueño delicacies is the ‘Bulanglang’. Bulanglang is a mixed vegetable recipe that tastes very naturally and very nutritious. This has been an everyday cooking in Batangas specially on places where there is abundance of native vegetables.
Last Sunday, I picked up some ingredients from the grocery and promised my wife to cook Bulanglang for her. My wife is not very familiar about this recipe and she actually heard it first from me. The first time she tasted that specialty was last year, one time when we’re in Batangas. And she liked it.
My wife knows me as a veg-’hate’-arian as she can rarely see me eat vegetables. Most of the times, when she cook viands with vegetables, she will see me removing every strand of greens from my plate. I don’t eat vegetable salads as well. But little did she know that Bulanglang is one of my favorites. And last night I cooked it and it’s my breakfast this morning and my today’s lunch.
Here’s the list of the primary ingredients of Bulanglang:
- 1 Papaya fruit
- ¼ regular-sized squash (kalabasa)
- 5 Okra
- 5 tomatoes (kamatis)
- ¼ Garlic bulb (bawang)
- 2 tsp. salt
- patani (i don’t know the en.
it belongs to beans family)
- sigarilyas (in Batangas, it is called as kalamismis I don’t know the en.)
- string beans
- malunggay leaves
- squash flower and leaves
I lacked 7 – 11 but it still tasted fairly good.
How to cook Bulanglang
Preparing ingredients
- Peel off the papaya fruit. Divide it into several cuts. *Tip: before peeling a papaya, slightly cut it first on its vertical lines so you have the marks where to cut it when you already peeled it. Make french-fries-like cuts from each part.
- Peel off the squash. Slice it into thin chunks.
- Slice the Okra diagonally into 3 parts.
- Slice the tomatoes into 4.
- Press the garlics.
- Separate the patani beans from its skin.
- Chop the sigarilyas into several chunks.
- Chop the string beans about 2 inches each.
- Separate the malunggay leaves from its stem
How I cooked my Bulanglang
- Boil tomato cuts and garlic on a pot of 1.5L water until tomatoes become saggy.
- Add 2 tsp of salt. Adding salts, btw, depends on your taste.
- Put other vegetables in the cooking pot. Normally, those that are easily get cooked should be put first. But it depends on you. You can put them all at once as well. Vegetables normally get cooked for about 10-15 mins only depending on the amount of heat.
- Wait until all vegetables are cooked. Serve hot.
- That’s it.
Beach Resorts in Anilao Batangas
You’ve probably heard of ’Anilao’ many times but somehow curious what it is or where it is. Anilao is a Barangay located at the west coast of the small town of Mabini, Batangas. It actually has two main branches, Anilao East and Anilao Proper. It is popularly known for its beach resorts and probably one of the best summer spots in the Philippines. SCUBA diving is one of the things that visitors do in Anilao. Because of its clear seawater and beautiful underwater corals, Anilao has been featured several times on national televisions as well.
Would you spend your summer with a Virgin?
Guys watch out! Wanna have a HOTTER SUMMER? Now, shut your eyes wider as it won’t be good to miss this.
Just around La Luz Beach resort, lies a virgin. Yes! You heard it right! She’s white and she’s very beautiful. For the prize of as low as 2,800 Php, you can spend 2 days and a night. Good enough for a weekend pleasure, isn’t it? Now, let me tell you. I am not kiddin. I have no time for it. Me as well is planning to spend my summer with her. You can bring friends with you if you want. It’s not a problem as long as you pay her.
Oooops… Don’t turn your flesh to rock just yet… You first have to know her contact numbers and make your reservations. But before you make one, you may have a good look at her pictures first. Read more…