The Filipino Entrepreneur

I just like to say Happy Halloween! to everyone although this ocassion originated and celebrated in the western society. Tomorrow will also be a busy day because most people will visit their departed love ones (All Saint’s Day). Just take care and enjoy your trip and stay.

I don’t know what came into my mind when I search in Google the phrase “How To Be Rich”. Typing those words will surely tell you that I’m deperate. But I did found something that might help us get rich after reading the aritcle From The Sunday Times : If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened it was written by Felix Dennis, a publishing tycoon. It’s not easy but at least we will learn how he aquires his wealth. The bottom line is confidence. We should have confidence to achieve wealth. But there is also some disadvantages of being rich and the author stressed that it won’t make you happy, it will just improve your sex life.

I think everyone knows this vegetable. This is commonly added to a dish called chop suey where it is mixed with vegetables like cauliflower, chinese cabbage, cabbage, bell pepper, sayote, carrots and added with squid and some chicken meat or pork.I guess there is a good income opportunity in producing baby corn because I don’t see it often in the wet market or in a supermarket so there is a possibility that producers were seldom also. So if you want to know something about producing baby corn, below is a guide I found in Bureau of Plant Industry website.

Young cob corn (Zea mays L.), the newly developed corn, has been used by Chinese as vegetable for generations and this practice has spread to other Asian countries. It is used as ingredient in most food preparations. It has nutritive value similar to that of non-legume vegetable such as cauliflower, tomato, cucumber and cabbage (Yodpetch and Bautista, 1983). This vegetable has a great potential for cooking purposes and for processing as a canned product. Canned cob corn export to Thailand, Japan and Europe is increasing and has a good future.

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Preparation Of Potato-Dextrose-Agar (Pda)

Raw Materials

Fresh good quality potatoes 200 g
Dextrose powder 20 g
Agar bar (gulaman) 20 g
Distilled water 1 L

Procedure

1. Wash, peel and dice the potatoes. Place 200 g in a casserole where water has started to boil and allow to boil until potatoes are soft enough for the pallate.
2. Strain the broth (decoction) through cheesecloth. Restore the volume of decoction to 1 L and put back into the casserole.
3. Add the agar (chipped) and the dextrose powder. Heat while stirring occasionally until the agar dissolves.
4. Dispense 30 mL in each flat rhum bottle and plug the mouth with the bottle cotton.
5. Sterilize the medium in a pressure cooker at 121°C or 15-lb. pressure for 15 minutes. Immediately after sterilization, slant the test tubes at an angle of 20 to 25 degrees, making sure that the agar does not touch the cotton plug.
6. Lay the bottles flat on the table until the agar congeals.

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Soy sauce is one of the most popular seasonings and it is well adapted here in our country. it is one of the world’s oldest condiments and has been used in China for more than 2,500 years. It is made from fermenting a mixture of mashed soybeans, salt, and enzymes. It is also made artificially through a chemical process known as acid hydrolysis.

Although this product is widespread, seen in almost any supermarket, sari sari store or wet market making your own soy sauce at home can also be a sideline income specially if you can make a better one. But for starters, you can start a simple procedure like the one I got below before you can experiment on your own. Just remember, even a simple product like these and having so many competition can be overcome by creativity. Again remember the saying ” A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”.

Procedure on How to Make Soy Sauce:

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