Agriculture Business Week

The use of TVP can bring down the cost of this old-fashioned recipe by 50%.

Menudo is an old-fashioned recipe which is normally served for fiesta, carinderia and special occasions. Pork and chicken are the varieties of meat that are being used for this recipe. For every preparation, one kilogram of meat is used in the amount of Php 150 per kilogram which can produce a yield of 12-14 serving portions.

The use of Textured Vegetable Protein Chunks (from Legacy USA) can bring down the cost of the recipe by 50%, by including i5o grams of TVP hydrated with 300 cc of water for three minutes. The hydrated TVP chunks can bring down the cost of the meat by 50% but the number of serving portions is still 12 - 14.
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Posted on August 6th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Recipes. Comments: None

Your favorite hearty breakfast staple can be made at home in very simple steps.

Bacon, as the Wikepedia free encyclopedia defines it, refers to any certain cuts of meat taken from the sides, belly or back of a pig that may be cured and/or smoked. Meat from other animals may also be cured or otherwise prepared to resemble bacon, such as chicken, goat, or turkey bacon. In continental Europe, it is used primarily in cubes (lardons) as a cooking ingredients valued both as a source of fat and for its flavour. In Italy, besides being used in cooking, bacon (pancetta) is also served uncooked and thinly sliced as part of an antipasto.

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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Bacon, Meat, Recipes. Comments: None

It takes only a thousand pesos to start this enterprise.

Healthy burgers now are preferred for business by replacing backfat with ground mushrooms to make the hamburger juicy and higher in yield.

Beef, pork and chicken are in the amount of 70% or 700 grams per kilo and 30% (30 grams) to replace the backfat.

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Posted on August 1st, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Burger, Mushroom, Recipes. Comments: None

Here’s a yummier way to make your own breakfast hotdogs.

Sausage is one of the oldest forms of processed food, and is also called by names: frankfurters, frank, weenie, wienie, wiener, dog, and red hot. A cooked sausage that consists of a combination of beef and pork or all beef, which is cured, smoked, and cooked. Seasoning may include coriander, garlic, ground mustard, nutmeg, salt, sugar, and white pepper. They are fully cooked but are usually served hot. Sizes range from big dinner frankfurters to tiny cocktail size.

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Posted on July 30th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Hotdog, Recipes, Sausage. Comments: 1

Learn the right way to make your own authentic longganisa the way Cebuanos do.

Sausage (longganisa) is a word that has a sizzling, succulent sound, Sausages are also classified according to regions and countries.

Sausage or longganisa is a combination of ground lean pork (70%) and pork backfat (30%). It is processed with curing mix (salt, curing salt, phosphate and chilled water). Extenders and seasonings are added, cured, stuffed and linked according to desired ages.

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Posted on July 29th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Cebu, Longganisa, Recipes. Comments: None

Let’s give the Spanish favorite beef tapa a brand new twist.

Tapa comes from the Spanish word tapas, meaning light finger food. Traditionally, tapa is dried or cured beef although other meat like pork or chicken maybe used. It is best when fried or even grilled, often served with fried rice, fried egg and atchara (pickled papaya strips).

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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Beef, Recipes. Comments: None

There surely is business in lechon manok/roasted chicken.

Lechong Manok is a favorite recipe of Filipinos to give value added cost to the dressed chicken that we normally buy from the market or supermarket. It is our meat of choice and at the same time, healthy and affordable. Roasted chicken is a universally accepted dish that is enjoyed by all cultures.

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Posted on July 17th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Chicken, Recipes. Comments: 1

In Hungary, true “csaba” sausage, particularly in rural regions, is a homemade product. A number of factors influence the character of this sausage: for example, the breed and age of the pork, the quality and quantity of the paprika used the proportion of ingredients, the method of smoking, storage methods etc. In the end, you’ll find as many variations as there are sausage makers. However, there are certain unchanging principles: the sausage must be seasoned with paprika and must be made exclusively with pork. It is neither hard nor soft. The meat is juicy, the flavor spicy and slightly smoked. Its keeping time is relatively long.

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Posted on July 16th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Sausage. Comments: None

Learn the right way of making your own chicken nuggets, without the transfat.

A chicken nugget is either whole or composed from a paste of finely minced chicken and purposefully added chicken skin, which is then coated in batter or breadcrumbs before being cooked. Fast-food restaurants typically deep-fry their nuggets in oil. Oven-baking is the usual method of preparation at home.

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Posted on June 30th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Recipes. Comments: None