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FOOD HACK

Nov

Oct Food: FOMO, Pad Thai, Carrot Bread, Roasted Peanuts, Pizza Dough, Pizza, Taho

Oct

Sep

Aug Food Odyssey: Pizza, Sikwate, Puto Maya, Budbud

Aug

Kitchen Hacks: Wheat Loaf, Rosti, Pancit Canton, Pizza, Fruit Breakfast

Jul

Kitchen Indulgence: Wheat Bread, Pizza, Lechon Sandwich, French Toast

June

May

Mar

Jan '24

Oct Food Hack: Pizza, Kinilaw, Coconut Bread, Fish Okuy, Carrot Omelette,Lemon-Grass Tea

Oct

Sep Food Hack: Fish Tinola, Ratatouille, Chayote Omelette, Flat Bread

Sep '23

September 2024

Thai Food for September?

Location : Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines

Thai Food
For September, I think I'll do a little more of Thai-cooking - not from scratch since not all ingredients are locally available. I'll use the bottled sauce/paste imported from Thailand. It should spice things up.

...cooking on a carbon-steel wok on a cast-iron stove

Lechon Manok Pizza

(September 23, 2023 Tagbilaran, Bohol Island, Philippines) Pizza will always be my staple and my comfort food. As many pizzas as I post here, there are more I don't - that's how much pizza I make. Usually, I default to roasted chicken leftovers for my pizza topping. But of course, there is always the olives, mushroom and shallots interspersed with the cheese. Yummy!

Carrot Juicing

(September 16, 2023 Tagbilaran, Bohol Island, Philippines) My vision has been challenged for many years now but I still defy using prescription glasses. I do just about everything to optimize my eyes - daily trataka cleansing, eye exercises, and now carrot juicing. I tried carrot juicing decades ago and my eyes reverted back to 20/20 - even my eye doctor was astonished. Westinghouse had a 20% discount on its juicer. It was my long awaited chance. 3 big carrots fill up my 500ml cup. Local carrots, no matter how fresh off the farm, don't taste as sweet as the imported variety. But I'm not sure if that is also a measure of the beta carotene nutrition it has. Still, carrot juice in pure form is very refreshing...and healthy!

Carrot Bread

(September 17, 2023 Tagbilaran, Bohol Island, Philippines) After juicing the carrots, what do you do with all that pulp? Commercial juicing outlets simply throw that out. Not me. It's still nutritious food and great fiber. I make carrot bread! You can buy the commercial carrot cake, but you can never find carrot bread. And this bread has more carrot than flour - it's as healthy as it gets.

Pad Thai

(September 26, 2024) After my Tom Yum Soup, next Thai food is equally famous on the global stage - Pad Thai, again, using Real-Thai pad-thai paste. Looking at the ingredients, they can all be locally obtained. Next time, I'll do it the DIY way. For a change, I'm using shrimps....more »»

Tom Yum Soup

(September 6, 2024) I miss Thailand and I miss Tom Yum Soup. In Bohol, Philippines, it's challenging to make this soup from scratch since not all ingredients are locally available. Luckily, prepackaged Thai sauces, pastes, coconut cream and noodles are available at ICM Mall in Tagbilaran. This is the first time I'll be cooking Thai cuisine. Crossing my fingers....more »»

Perfect-Crust Pizza

(September 4, 2023 Tagbilaran, Bohol Island, Philippines) I did something different this time with my pizza dough. I didn't 'rolling pin' it too hard leaving a slightly thicker pizza dough. Then I put it on the wok, covered, to rise the 3rd time. The outcome was pizza-joint style crust that was crusty on the outside and chewy on the inside.

Another lesson: since the wok has a round bottom, all the melted cheese accumulated at the center. Next time, put the cheese on the outer edge of the dough, nothing on the center. When it cooks, the cheese should have flowed with equal distribution on the entire pizza pie.

Ending Thoughts
Tom Yum Soup, Pad Thai, hmmm, not too bad for a change. Next, perhaps Masaman Curry.

--- Gigit (TheLoneRider)
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Sunrise Yoga at Bantawan, Old Airport

(September 2024) On my 4 am alarm, I do Trataka before leaving the house. When I can help it, I begin my practice at the Bantawan Old Airport at 5 am - this gives me more time until the sun begins to hurt. More cardio than before with rope skipping. After the practice, I listen to noteworthy podcasts. September has been a month of intense learning...more »»

Next Food Odyssey:

Oct Food: FOMO, Pad Thai, Carrot Bread, Roasted Peanuts, Pizza Dough, Pizza, Taho

(October 2024) Aside from my usual staples (pizza, bread), I've added my flare for taho, Pad Thai and roasted peanuts for my trail mix....more »»

Bohol, Philippines

tourist attractions

Danao Adventure Park - zip lining, cable car ride, caving, river rides/trekking, off-road buggy ride, root climbing, rappelling and ultra-glide rides
Alona Beach - hub for tourists with hotels, resorts, restos, bars and dive shops
Chocolate Hills - hills side-by-side shaped like giant Kisses chocolate
Tarsier - pocket-sized marsupia looking like a monkey
Balicasag Island - one of the best dive spots in the Philippines
Loboc River - river cruise on a boat
Anda Beach - fine white sand beach with resorts, restos and cottages, 3 hours by bus from Tagbilaran
Cabagnow Cave Pool - brackish water pool about 5ft deep inside a limestone opening on the ground, 8 feet deep, P50
Lamanok Island - walk on a 100m bamboo bridge on stilts to a resto area to take a boat tour to caves and nearly attractions, P300
Combento Cave Pool - cave pool with underwater cave system, P20
Can-umantad Falls - long narrow drop until it hits a bulbous mound spreading it into a a curtain-like water canopy and down into a splash pool
Canawa Cold Spring - deep refreshing cold spring with developed pool area
Firefly Tour - evening boat ride into the river to watch fireflies

hotel

Fox & The Firefly Cottages - SUP paddle boarding, luxury riverside native cottages, mountain bike tours, SUP yoga
Baranggay Valladolid, Loboc, Bohol
Bohol Tropics Resort - seafront location, manicured surroundings, swimming pool, resto/bar
0133 Graham Avenue, Brgy. Cogon, Tagbilaran, Bohol 6300
Oasis Resort - Alona Beach location, dive center, resto / bar
Alona Beach, Panglao, Bohol

yoga

Jing Yoga - health & well being through yoga
The Courtyard - Airport Road fronting the church
Bohol Meditation and Yoga Center - 2nd Floor Lim Magtajas Bldg. CPG Avenue

Bohol Travel Info/Tips

Bohol FYI / Tips

the tourist area where most of the hotels, restaurants, ticket offices, tour operators are, is located within the Alona Beach area
the tourist attractions in Bohol are far apart and spread-out. It would be difficult to visit them all using public mass transit. Better hire a van (P3500/day) if in a big group, or rent a motorcycle (P400/day + gas)
Bohol relies on its tourism for revenue. As expected, everything they can capitalize on from tourism is extensively used and developed

Tagbilaran Port to Panglao

You can charter any tricycle from the port all the way to Panglao (~P300), but if you want to do it on the cheap,

don't take the tricycles lined-up inside the port. Walk past the port gate and immediately outside, you'll see many tricycles. Take one to the bus terminal in Dao (~P15)
in Dao, take the jeep that plies the Panglao route (~P20)

Tagbilaran (Bohol) to Cebu City by boat

** schedules and rates keep changing, call for latest schedule

Weesam Express - departs 6:15 AM, 11:30 AM, 4:00 PM
one way: Economy (aircon) P500.00, Economy (non-aircon) P400.00, First Class P600.00
round trip promo (at least 2 days advance booking): Economy (aircon) P600, Economy(non-aircon) P500, First Class P1200
round trip promo (1 day or on the day booking): Economy (aircon) P800, Economy (non-aircon) P700, First Class P1200
Ocean Jet - departs 6-7:05-8:20-9:20-10:40-11:40AM, 1-2-3:30-4:20-5:30-6:30PM, 2 hours, arrives Pier 1 in Cebu
Open Air / Tourist Class P800, Business Class P1000
+63(32)255 7560 / +63 (32) 255 0115 / 0917 638 0000
SuperCat (2GO) - departs 5:50-11AM, 3:45-5:25-8:15PM, arrives Pier 1 in Cebu
P 500.00
+63 32 233 7000

Things to do, Places to go in Bohol

Chocolate Hills - this is a clustering of more than 1200 hills within a 50km² area. They range in height from 30-50 meters. What's unusual is their near-perfect conical shape resembling an individual chocolate chip. No one knows how they were formed. Entrance is P50/pax.
Tarsier Conservation Area - located Upper Bonbon, Loboc. The tarsiers are no longer being played at by tourists as circus props, but instead, visitors now view them in cordoned-off areas in their natural 6ha habitat. As they are territorial and nocturnal, they are predictable on where they can be viewed. P50/pax.
Alona Beach (Panglao) - Alona Beach is the tourist hub of Bohol. It has 1.5 kms of white sand beach lined-up by bars, hotels and restos. Alona is also the jump-off point for Balicasag Island, a world class dive destination.
Danao Adventure Park - located in Barangay Magtangtang, 72 kms (2 hours ride) from Tagbilaran. Adventure activities include river trekking, tyrolean traverse, rappelling, bouldering, rock climbing and ziplining.

Blogs

Bohol blogs