While having a meeting on a Tuesday afternoon with my co-planners, I asked out of the blue and way out of the topic of ERP, meiruka, scheduling, blah blah being discussed at the moment of where I could buy fresh strawberries. Punky, always accommodating of my sometimes off-topic, crazy outbursts answered that it could be found in SM Bacoor, Hypermarket or Megamall. So I started the hunt at SM Bacoor, unfortunately, the fruit guy told me that it was not yet the season for strawberry. Well I understand that and so I went next to SM Hypermarket which is supposed to be SM mall conglomerate's biggest supermarket, fruit season or not. It's thirty miles and two hours ride from Cavite. Well at least thats that's still nearer than SM Baguio, where I can bet with my life, they have strawberries. But that prove to be my unlucky day. I still can't believe SM Hypermarket don't have strawberries! With some tweaking on the web (yes, I can be obsessive). I learned that Robinson's Supermarket supposed to have the freshest and the not so easy to find fruits and delis, so the next day I visited Robinson's Imus and I was not disappointed and found the sweet rubies.
On a tropical country like this, these rubies could be really so hard to find. How I wish I could walk again in the strawberry fields of La Trinidad and smell the luscious scent of ripen strawberry. The Benguet region, specifically, the La Trinidad valley is the only zone in the Philippines that has considerable large plots of strawberry farm. In 2004, President Arroyo declared March 18 as the strawberry festival of La Trinidad. The harvest is on the month of the Festival but there is also another harvest around November. But maybe it's nice to try planting them on other places too since Benguet is so far.Tagaytay is a cold place and fit for strawberry growing but I only see miles and miles of pineapple fields there, no strawberries. But anyways, I'm really no expert with growing strawberry.
But now that I have them on the fridge, I at least don't really have to imagine about La Trinidad. And I even made myself a Strawberry Bavarian. And because of this hunt, I learned some things about strawberry.
Strawberry is good for you because:
It can cure digestive upsets like diarheaa and dyspepsia
It can also cure stomach worms ( ewww??)
It's good for arthritis and gout and even for bladder stones and liver problems
Click here for Strawberry Bavarian Recipe
Related Links:
Cheesy Chicken Lollipop with Creamy Corn and Mashed Potato
Other Recipes
On a tropical country like this, these rubies could be really so hard to find. How I wish I could walk again in the strawberry fields of La Trinidad and smell the luscious scent of ripen strawberry. The Benguet region, specifically, the La Trinidad valley is the only zone in the Philippines that has considerable large plots of strawberry farm. In 2004, President Arroyo declared March 18 as the strawberry festival of La Trinidad. The harvest is on the month of the Festival but there is also another harvest around November. But maybe it's nice to try planting them on other places too since Benguet is so far.Tagaytay is a cold place and fit for strawberry growing but I only see miles and miles of pineapple fields there, no strawberries. But anyways, I'm really no expert with growing strawberry.
But now that I have them on the fridge, I at least don't really have to imagine about La Trinidad. And I even made myself a Strawberry Bavarian. And because of this hunt, I learned some things about strawberry.
Strawberry is good for you because:
It can cure digestive upsets like diarheaa and dyspepsia
It can also cure stomach worms ( ewww??)
It's good for arthritis and gout and even for bladder stones and liver problems
Click here for Strawberry Bavarian Recipe
Related Links:
Cheesy Chicken Lollipop with Creamy Corn and Mashed Potato
Other Recipes
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