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Art in its Variety of Forms

In today’s time, and in our current situation, our way of living has never been easier. Our actions have been limited, and we cannot fully enjoy what is happening around us, even so, this does not stop us from doing what we want. As matter of fact, this situation has made us to be more innovative of how we want to enjoy our lives even at the midst of this pandemic. Ever since the pandemic had started, a lot of people began doing different types of activities to alleviate the feeling of boredom. Some people used this time as an opportunity to finally do what they have always wanted to do. For instance, hobbies like painting, due to the pandemic, we were mandated to stay in our homes for our safety, for this reason, we have all the time in our hands to do whatever we want. Learning how to paint, its techniques or even improving it can be possible for the allotted time we have because of the pandemic. Also, if you are into art and are planning to go the art galleries but was cancelled
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MALUNGGAY BALLS

MALUNGGAY BALLS Gem Orogo The main ingredients is the malunggay and studies have shown that malunggay can be used to treat a number of illnesses. “Malunggay leaves are good for headache, bleeding from a shallow cut, bacterial and fungal skin complaints, anti-inflammatory gastric ulcers, diarrhea, and malnutrition,” said Legarda.Jul 22, 2010 It is once, referred to as the "poor man's" vegetable, Malunggay is now prized for its potent nutritional and medicinal value. The Malunggay, botanically known as Moringa oleifera is commonly referred to as the Miracle tree. The name "Miracle" is derived from the vast multi-use and multi-purpose nature of it's parts. This dish is a no-meat carrot and potato vegetable ball with malunggay filling coated with breadcrumbs and deep fried until golden brown. Contains eggs as binder. It can be a substitute to meat balls. On of the advantages of this is that, it is cheaper and healthy compare to meatbal
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TURON

TURON Ivan Venerable Bananas, you can see it everywhere you go. You can also make them as a delicious snack with them. Also, it is easy to make it into delicious snacks as it requires minimal amount of ingredients, time, and effort. Turon is one of the best and most delicious snack that you can make with bananas. Turon is a type of Filipino snack. It is also called deep-fried banana rolls or banana lumpia. A typical Filipino meryenda and dessert. Turon has gained its popularity throughout the years. This sweet snack can usually be seen on the streets being peddled along with bananacue or even vegetable lumpia. It is easy to make and the ingredients are inexpensive. Therefore, I conclude that this sweet Filipino snack can help reduce the poverty rate in our country as we can make or use it to start a small business. Aside from its popularity among Filipinos, its selling or starting price is pretty affordable so, I recommend this sweet recipe if you’re about to start
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KALAMARES

KALAMARES / CALAMARES (Deep fried sliced squid) Angelo Boyles Most Filipinos are always down to street foods. When we are still young, our mother said that it would be bad for us, because it's not clean enough and vendors puts plenty of oil which is consumed by the food itself, even though our mother told that to us we still intend to buy it. Why? Because we’re filipinos, it's our thing and culture. Even if we know the possible consequences we still eat and buy it. One of the most famous street food in the Philippines is Kalamares or deep fried squid. Calamares is the Filipino version of the Mediterranean breaded fried squid dish, Calamari. So, what is the difference between Calamares and Calamari besides the spelling? Well, there is no big difference at all. The only difference that I noticed is the dipping sauce. Calamari is often dipped in marina or other tomato based sauce while Filipino Calamares is dipped in spiced vinegar or toyo mansi (© 2009 - 2019 ·
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PALITAW

PALITAW Christine Alinea Philippines is known in having different 'kakanin specialties'. Palitaw is an example of this kakanin dishes. It is   a soft steamed rice dough cake that sweet in taste. It is also one of the popular Filipino recipe that is cooked for special occasions. Palitaw is a term used to call a sweet flat rice cake that is eaten in the Philippines as a snack or dessert. Originally, grounded or pounded sticky rice is used to make this rice cake (called kakanin in the local language) – however, the practice of using packaged rice flour became common because it is more efficient. This is made by simply mixing rice flour and water until a dough is formed. The dough is divided into small pieces then manually molded into a ball-shape figure and flattened. The flattened dough are cooked in boiling water until they float – this is the reason why it was called as such. The name was derived from the Filipino word “litaw”, which means “to float or to surfac
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CASSAVA BALLS

CASSAVA BALLS Klyd Roy Bunsol                Cassava is the basic component of root vegetables. There is many food combination and variety that can be used. According to the adults this is best in boiled and fried and good for coffee in the Philippines, and most of all in some dishes like punchero, caldereta and etc. It can be dessert or even breakfast. An example is Cassava balls.                Cassava balls is fried grated Cassava. It can be coated by sugar. But it can also be good even it is eaten plain. This food is very simple and can be bought by anyone in an affordable price. This food is so delicious and yummy for our tummy. You can actually get full instantly if you eat at least 8 pieces of cassava balls. This food is better eaten especially when you are really hungry, it is also easy to make and most of all it can be sell for business to gain profit. It can help alleviate poverty. Because they can use cassava balls in business instead of increasing their popu
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SUMAN

SUMAN John Cedrick Latoza Suman history traces all the way before the arrival of colonizers. Although the Philippines is much influenced by Spanish and American culture many fields including cuisine, the fundamentals of suman remain the same. Suman originates from the harvest feasting of early Filipinos before the histories with the Spanish, American, and Japanese colonizers existed Suman is a rice cake originating in the Philippines. It is made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, often wrapped in banana leaves or buli or buri palm leaves for steaming. It is usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik. Suman is also known as budbod in the Visayan languages that dominate the central half of the country. A widespread variant of suman uses cassava instead of glutinous rice. Suman is traditionally served with sugar for the consumer to dip the rice cake in it. Sometimes, it is also served with fresh ripe mangoes for added flavor. Suman easily fulfills
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