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FILIPINO “ADOBO”-STYLE CHICKEN

FILIPINO “ADOBO”-STYLE CHICKEN
source: epicurious.com

8 whole chicken legs (about 4 pounds), cut into drumstick and thigh sections
1 1/2 cups distilled white vinegar
3 garlic cloves, crushed
2 bay leaves
1/2 tablespoon whole black peppercorns, crushed lightly
3/4 cup soy sauce
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
cooked rice as an accompaniment

In a large kettle combine the chicken, the vinegar, the garlic, the bay leaves, the peppercorns, and 1 cup water, bring the mixture to a boil, and simmer it, covered, for 20 minutes. Add the soy sauce and simmer the mixture, covered, for 20 minutes. Transfer the chicken with tongs to a plate and boil the liquid for 10 minutes, or until it is reduced to about 1 cup. Let the sauce cool, remove the bay leaves, and skim the fat from the surface.
In a large skillet heat the oil over high heat until it is hot but not smoking and in it sauté the chicken, patted dry, in batches, turning it, for 5 minutes, or until it is browned well. Transfer the chicken to a rimmed platter, pour the sauce, heated, over it, and serve the chicken with the rice. 

Adobo with pan de sal

This is a quintessential Filipino dish made by slow-cooking pork in a mixture of vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaf and black peppercorns, then pan-frying it for extra crispiness. It’s one of our favourite foods!

Recipe

Ted’s adobo

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups water
1 cup vinegar (palm vinegar or, in this case, apple cider vinegar)
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
1 head garlic, crushed
1 kg pork belly
2 bay leaves

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large pot, combine the water, vinegar, soy sauce, peppercorns, garlic and bay leaves then stir. Soak the meat in this vinegar mixture for 1 hour.

2. Place the pot over low heat and simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes.

3. Brown the meat by transferring it to a skillet over high heat and frying for a few minutes, turning so that all sides are browned. (Keep the vinegar mixture in the pot.)

4. After browning, return the meat to the pot with the vinegar mixture and simmer over low heat until only a small amount of sauce is left.

5. Serve with garlic rice and sliced tomatoes.

Note: chicken, or a combination of chicken and pork, can also be used.

Mango & Coconut lumpia

A country as it was said it is a Christian country?

I hale “NOT” to mine nor to your beloved country. This is not what the son and daughter of the son and daughter of a man in the future who would be living to his country. Some country is not a Christian country as there were so many woman and man engaged to the putrefactive decay or rottenness of corruption nor they are engaged to the unworthy use of prostitution in exchange of living and pleasure. Thousands of porn websites viewed by childrens, hundres of child women being raped every hour.  So many established building of gambles that caused rich people to waste a lot of money instead of giving their hands to the poor people of our Repuplic country.  These rich people, who are they making rich and who are they making poor? I have realized that a servant of a Law of this Republic country is only a hipocrate. They have promised that they shall served and protect but even a child is afraid of their guns and bullet. I have witnessed that fellow meagers are afraid to their voices when they shout. Our youth of the truth is always shouting to these hipocrates that they shall shout and speak of evidence of the falsehood. Hipocrates kill, hipocrates lie and making blind the eyes of the public. Hundreds of media men were killed because of publishing truths to the public. Another problem is the drug addction that some poeple make it as a habit and making it as a business. Drug kills, making the mind of a person be blanked and it really sadden me knowing that  some youth who were at their young age are also engaging to this grimy addiction. We cannot lie and we can never hide these dirts we see. Father have killed his children, cheated his family and mother cheated his husband and sons and yet sons killed his family. There are so many “Beer Houses”on the streets for every cities and town. Both man and woman, lesbians and gays are using chatting network nor a Text network and became one of a medium of message of bi-sexual and wanted to seek a dirty service from their kind.And Why are there so many stores on the streets selling distilled or spirituous beverage that makes people drunk and caused them to fight with each other, kill and do something that is injustice and bad. So many abortionists were living behind, that also kills behind. 

(To be continued…………)

What Causes Cervical Cancer?

We don’t know exactly what causes cervical cancer, but certain risk factors are believed to have an effect. Medical history and lifestyle - especially sexual habits - play a role in a woman’s chances of developing cervical cancer.

The most significant risk factors are:

• Human papillomavirus (HPV)
• Sexual history

Various other risk factors have also been identified.

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a virus that can infect:

• The genital tract
• The external genitals
• The area around the anus

HPV has nothing to do with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. There are 46 genetic types of HPV, but not all are dangerous. Only certain types of HPV, which can be transmitted from one person to another during sexual contact, increase the risk of cell dysplasia (abnormal cell growth) and/or progression to cervical cancer.

The HPV types that produce genital warts (lesions that are raised and bumpy, or flat and almost impossible to see) are different from those that cause cervical cancer. However, women who have a history of genital warts have almost twice the risk of an abnormal Pap smear as other women.

Nice To Know:

Hybrid Capture Test

This new test, approved by the FDA in 1999, is able to detect 14 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can infect the cervix. It uses chemoluminescence (transfer of chemical energy into light) techniques to accurately determine the presence or absence of HPV viruses of low risk or medium-high risk for cervical cancer.

Sexual History

A woman has a higher-than-average risk of developing cervical if she:

• Has had multiple sexual partners
• Began having sexual relations before the age of 18
• Has a partner who has had sexual contact with a woman with cervical cancer

Other Risk Factors

It is probable that other factors contribute to cervical cancer, such as:

• Poverty. Women who are poor may not have access to medical services that detect and treat precancerous cervical conditions. When such women develop cervical cancer, the disease usually remains undiagnosed and untreated until it has spread to other parts of the body. Women who are poor are often undernourished, and poor nutrition can also increase cervical cancer risk.
• Pap test history. Not having regular Pap tests increases the chance of unrecognized cervical cancer. Between 60% and 80% of women with newly diagnosed cervical cancer have not had a Pap test in at least five years.
• Tobacco use. Women who smoke are about twice as likely to develop cervical cancer as women who do not. The more a woman smokes - and the longer she has been smoking - the greater the risk.
• Eating habits. A diet that doesn’t include ample amounts of fruits and vegetables can increase a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer.
• Weakened immune system. A woman whose immune system is weakened has a higher-than-average risk of developing cervical lesions that can become cancerous. This includes women who are HIV-positive (infected with the virus that causes AIDS). It also includes women who have received organ transplants and must take drugs to suppress the immune system so that the body won’t reject the new organ.

  For more detailed information about AIDS, go to AIDS And Women.

• Hormonal medications. Some experts suggest that hormones in oral contraceptives (birth control pills) can make women more susceptible to Human papillomavirus (HPV). At least one study has indicated that taking birth control pills significantly increases a woman’s risk of developing HPV-related genital warts. Other research suggests that using oral contraceptives for five years or longer slightly elevates a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer, especially if she began taking the Pill before the age of 25.
• Diethylstilberstrol (DES). A rare type of cervical cancer has been diagnosed in a small number of women whose mothers took diethylstilbestrol (DES), a medicine that was once used to prevent miscarriage.
• Douching. Because douching may destroy natural antiviral agents normally present in the vagina, women who douche every week are more apt to develop cervical cancer than women who do not.
• Chemical exposure. Women who work on farms or in the manufacturing industry may be exposed to chemicals that can increase their risk of cervical cancer.

Women with a weakened immune system due to the virus that causes AIDS are more likely to develop cervical cancer:

• Cervical cancer is very common in women who are positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
• Cervical cancer is sometimes the disease that first suggests a diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
• HIV can compound the effects of Human papillomavirus (HPV), causing cervical changes to progress more rapidly into cervical cancer than they otherwise might.

Who Develops Cervical Cancer?

Cervical cancer is most often diagnosed in women who are between the ages of 50 and 55.

• Girls under age 15 rarely develop the disease, but the risk of cervical cancer does rise between the late teen years and the early 30’s.
• In both white and black women, cervical carcinoma in situ (a benign tumor) is most common between the ages of 25 and 30.

Some individuals are more likely to develop cervical cancer:

• City-dwellers and women who are members of racial or cultural minorities develop cervical cancer more often than other women do.
• Vietnamese women have the highest cervical cancer rate in the United States.
• Hispanics, Native Americans, and African Americans develop cervical cancer more often than white women do.

These statistics may reflect that:

• Many recent immigrants and other minority groups wrongly believe that a woman who isn’t sexually promiscuous doesn’t need to have a Pap test.
• African American women tend to have Pap tests less often than white women.

What Is Cervical Cancer?

Cervical cancer is a disease caused by the abnormal growth and division of cells that make up the cervix, which is the narrow, lower end of the uterus (womb).

“Cancer” is the name for a group of diseases in which certain cells in the body have changed in appearance and function. Instead of dividing and growing in a controlled and orderly way, these abnormal cells can grow out of control and form a mass or “tumor.”

A tumor is considered benign (not cancerous) if it is limited to a few cell layers and does not invade surrounding tissues or organs. But if the tumor spreads - or has the potential to spread - to surrounding tissues or organs, it is considered malignant, or cancerous.

The cervix is composed of three layers of tissue:

• An outer lining known as the serous membrane (slippery covering)
• A middle, muscular layer
• An inner lining known as the mucous membrane, which is composed of thin, flat, scaly cells called squamous cells. This inner lining has many tiny glands that secrete a clear, lubricating mucous.

Nearly all cervical cancers arise from the cells of the inner lining of the cervix.

Normally, cervical cells grow in an orderly fashion. However, when control of that growth is lost, cells divide too frequently and too fast.

Certain well-defined cellular changes may progress to cervical cancer:

• Mild cervical dysplasia results when irregular cells are limited to the deepest one-third of the surface cell layer (known as the epithelium) that lines the cervix.
• Moderate cervical dysplasia occurs when uncontrolled cell growth continues, and up to two-thirds of the surface cell layer is abnormal.
• If abnormal cell growth progresses to include the full thickness of the surface cell layer, the condition is known as severe cervical dysplasia, or carcinoma in situ, or CIS. Carcinoma in situ does not penetrate surrounding tissues, stays within the confines of the epithelium, and is considered benign.

A tumor is considered malignant (cancerous) if abnormal cells:

• Penetrate the membrane that separates the surface cell layer and the underlying supportive tissue (called the stroma) of the cervix.
• Spread to the surrounding tissues or organs.

There are several types of cervical cancer:

• Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common type of cervical cancer, accounting for 85% to 90% of all cases. It develops from the cells that line the inner part of the cervix, called the squamous cells. It usually begins where the part of the cervix that connects with the vagina (called the ectocervix) meets the part of the cervix that opens into the uterus (called the endocervix).
• Adenocarcinoma develops from the column-shaped cells that line the mucous-producing glands of the cervix. In rare instances, adenocarcinoma originates in the supportive tissue around the cervix. Adenocarcinoma accounts for about 10% of all cervical cancers.
• Mixed carcinomas (for example, adenosquamous carcinomas) combine features of both squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma.

Nice To Know:

Q. Is cervical cancer curable?

A. If caught in the early stages, cervical cancer is almost 100% curable. The chances of detecting cervical cancer at an early stage are greatly increased by having regular. Pap smears are probably the most successful of all screening procedures ever devised to detect early cancer.

For more detailed information about pap smear, go to PAP smears.

Facts About Cervical Cancer

• Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer of the female reproductive system. It accounts for 6% of all cancers in women.

• About 128,000 cases of cervical cancer will be diagnosed this year.

• Early-stage cervical cancer and precancerous (tending to become cancerous) cervical conditions are almost 100% curable.

• The five-year relative survival rate for earliest-stage cervical cancer is 91%.

• Cervical cancer death rates fell by 74% between 1955 and 1992 and continue to drop by about 2% a year.

• The increased use of the Pap test is mostly responsible for the decrease in the number of cervical cancer deaths. This simple, highly effective screening procedure can detect precancerous conditions of the cervix and more than 90% of all cervical cancers. The fact that thousands of women die each year of a disease that can be prevented or cured reflects widespread failure to have Pap tests as often as experts recommend.

• About one-third of women who should have regular Pap tests do not. Women who don’t have Pap tests at recommended intervals are far more likely to develop cervical cancer than women who regularly undergo the procedure.

• Between 60% and 80% of women newly diagnosed with cervical cancer have not had a Pap test within five years. Some of these women have never had a Pap test.

Researchers are investigating new methods of preventing, detecting, and treating cervical cancer and the precancerous conditions that can lead to it.

Promising Anti-cancer Foods!

Back in 1949, the American Medical Association declared, “There is no scientific evidence that food or other nutritional essentials are of any specific value in the control of cancer.” Today, that relationship is well established, as scientists have identified many anti-cancer properties in fruits and vegetables. Check these tips to make sure you’re getting the optimal nutrition.

1. Pesticides, fillers, food dyes, and nitrates are some of the chemicals lurking in our everyday foods. Give yourself the gift of non-toxic nutrition by washing your fruits and vegetables thoroughly, buying organic produce, eating whole grains, cutting out processed meats, buying “free range” chicken and hormone-free beef and dairy products, and giving dyes, sugars, and artificial ingredients the heave-ho. If you are not near a health food store or food coop, you might want to find a service that delivers organic food to your home or office. One such company is Urban Organic while another is Organic Express.
2. Red grapes and grape juice. Grape skins contain resveratrol, a phytoalexin, and other potent anti-cancer chemicals. Grape seeds contain pycnogenol, which is reputed to have anti-cancer properties, so if you can, crunch them rather than spitting them out. 
3. Almonds and especially almond extract contain benzaldehyde, shown in Japanese clinical studies to exert an anti-cancer effect. So splash some into drinks and find creative ways to work this nut and flavoring into your diet. Brazil nuts are in the news too. In animal studies, they’ve been found to be more protective against cancer than pure selenium selenite. They also contain ellagic acid, which may remove or block cancer causing toxins. Adding a few of them a day to your diet sounds like a smart idea.
4. Most of us know by now that broccoli is a powerful food. It contains indoles, including sulfurophane, an isothiocyanate that seems to be a blocker of breast tumors. Are you getting enough of this great green food?
5. Tomatoes contain lycopene, an antioxidant with strong anti-cancer effects. For absorption, remember that they must be eaten with a small amount of oil, as in tomato sauce, ketchup, or a fresh tomato salad with a drizzle of olive oil.
6. Garlic is in the category of allium vegetables which contain organosulfur compounds and have many health benefits, including inhibiting cancer. Garlic also contains selenium, which can block early stage breast cancer.
7. Did you know that eating citrus fruits, including the peel, will help boost your cancer fighting ability? They contain chemicals called monoterpenes, including d-limonene, and have shown particular value in preventing breast, liver and lung cancer. Try kumquats which you can eat rind and all.
8. Shitake, maitake, mu ehr (tree ears), oysters, and other mushrooms contain anti-cancer lectins and should be added to your diet.
9. Green tea contains catechins such as EGCG as well as other anti-cancer bioflavonoids. Decaffeinated green tea is available, and makes an excellent healthy drink. If you have a coffee or black tea habit, try replacing them with green tea.

Pools and Resorts

Pools and Resorts

Aside from beaches and diving spots, the Philippines also has other beautiful places. You can either take a dip in the refreshing waters of modern resort facilities, feel the gush of volcanic hot springs or just have fun under the waterfalls.

There are local flights to Camuigin island.

White-Sand Beaches

White-Sand Beaches

Boracay Island

Ilocos Norte also has fine resorts such as D’Coral Beach Resort and Fort Ilocandia.

Strange

“Sometimes we are looking for somethig, for a perfect time to seek, for a woman that we are looking for,for a career, for conducive to sumptuous living,for indulgence or enjoyment, for love, for a devotion, to the dream that one might fulfill but It’s all stupidity; as if a man or a woman who are looking for something didn’t want to seek first the one who can give all the blessings to him. It is all stupidity.”

Chicken Parmesan