Filipino Recipes: Chef Roland Garcia’s Oven Roast Turkey Breast

Filipino Recipes: Oven Roast Turkey Breast (Illustrado)

Filipino Recipes: Chef Roland Garcia’s Oven Roast Turkey Breast
Photo by Chef Mico Galliguez

Chef Roland Garcia’s Oven Roast Turkey Breast with Foie Gras and Truffle, Manila String Beans, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potato and Cranberry Sauce – Photo by Chef Mico Galliguez

Try Chef Roland Garcia’s – Oven Roast Turkey Breast with Foie Gras and Truffle, Manila String Beans, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potato and Cranberry Sauce.

Chef Roland Garcia

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Puppy Love

Puppy Love from Illustrado

By: Neph Kirong

When the kids start talking about romantic relationships, it signals two things:  One, they are about to cross into adulthood and two, their parents don’t know quite how to handle it. Neph Kirong takes a look at puppy love from the perspective of both parent and child.

Personal experiences on teenage love are probably one of the most exciting stories parents love to tell their children. Of course, for most, the story ends with “Pero anak, bata ka pa ha, di pa pwede (You’re not allowed yet, you’re still young)” or something that goes along that line.
While it certainly sounds funny, it’s a different story altogether when children actually experience their own actual teenage relationships. For most parents and children, it becomes a very serious and sensitive issue.

In this issue of Illustrado magazine, we look at how Filipino parents and teenagers weigh on the issue, and actually suggest ways to avoid what most parents call the “rebellious phase”, and what teenagers call “they can’t understand me.”


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Bellarocca Island Resort and Spa: An island to call your own

Bellarocca Island Resort and Spa: An island to call your own (Illustrado)

By Ana P. Santos

Luxury has a reputation that precedes it. It is commonly perceived to be grandiose, flamboyant and flashy — where everything is over the top. In Marinduque, just a 35 minute plane ride from Manila, one will discover another aspect of luxury borne of quiet relaxation and harmony with nature. Balance and serenity cast a magic spell on white stone structures nestled on a cliffside and create an island paradise known as Bellarocca Island Resort and Spa.



If it is the secret desire of most to have an island all to yourself – somewhere you can spend time doing nothing more strenuous than watching the day unfold and the sun set as it gives way to the night; then it is also a blatant wish to have this seclusion come with the comfort of being pampered in the most indulgent and yet unobtrusive way.

These seemingly celestial pleasures are the promise of Bellarocca.

A speedboat ride takes you from the mainland to the island where Mediterranean style houses sitting as high as 114 meters above sea level conjure images of Santorini, Greece. Here, you are greeted by hotel staff performing a traditional welcoming ceremony called the “putong” – a song and dance meant to wish visitors good health, good luck and long life. It is an indigenous tradition among the people of Marinduque.

A golf cart whisked us away to the reception area which was actually a piano bar, filled with plush sofas and chairs. We filled out the forms sitting down and sipping a cold glass of iced tea.



There are many things that differentiate the experience of having an island to yourself.  One of them is the offer of a tour of the 20 hectare island to orient yourself on your surroundings: the 50 de luxe rooms, suites, terrazas and villas.

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Beautiful Batanes in Philippines: Enchantment, Love and Undeniable Beauty

Beautiful Batanes in Philippines: Enchantment, Love and Undeniable Beauty (Illustrado)

By Nina Terol-Zialcita

Batanes Lighthouse – Photo By Richard Balonglong – Dreamstime.com

In the age of concrete mountains and jungles, of dizzying speeds and polluted streets, a group of islands in the northernmost part of the Philippines lies almost untouched by time. Its lush, emerald-green mountains stand as they always had, and its azure waters flow practically undisturbed by the passing of years and people.

Here, hundred-year-old stone houses sit as proud testaments of an intact culture, its inhabitants living as they had been taught for generations. People who eat organic vegetables grown from their own gardens, co-exist without poverty and crime, and believe that they were separated from the rest of the Philippines because they were “born to fly.”

Ivatan Church – Photo by Laszlo Lim – Dreamstime.com

This is Batanes: a living story of enchantment, love, and undeniable beauty. http://goo.gl/YsaoOH

Vintage Restore: Queen of Restoration

Vintage Restore: Queen of Restoration (Illustrado)

By 

Bernadette Reyes

Your vintage bags can now stand the test of time, albeit with a little help from the “Restoration Queen”.

Do you have a faded Balenciaga City Bag hiding in your closet? Did the sling of your Louis Vuitton Neverfull handbag break off because you always kept it full? Are you always trying to hide the part of your Chanel Quilted Bowler Bag that is peeling off?

Take a trip down Jupiter St. in Makati or visit White Plains in Quezon City and look for a signage that reads Vintage Restore. The shop promises to bring your beaten up bag back to life.
A family business, Vintage Restore came about after their Edna Buenviaje-Cruz, who has over 30 years of experience and technical know- how of the bag manufacture industry began to see a decline in the bag manufacturing business.

“Back in 2004, more and more brands began looking at China to manufacture their bags. I thought of diversifying our family business,” says Trisha Cruz-Cuazon, Edna’s daughter and co-owner of Vintage Restore.

However, their first attempt in the business was a flop. In 2005, the family opened its first shop in Market! Market! in Taguig under the brand Bag Specialist. The mall sought to cater to the high-end clientele of Makati, but was later repositioned to serve the middle class market of Taguig. “Nobody was doing repairs for luxury items so we opened our business there. Turns out the location wasn’t the right fit for our business so we closed shop a year after,” reveals Trisha.


Vintage Restore also began accepting overseas clients...

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Leyende Organic Skincare Business

Leyende Organic Skincare Business - Illustrado

By Bernadette Reyes

 

As an awarded poet, Neva Kares Talladen never really thought about becoming an entrepreneur. She probably never thought that she would transform skin rashes into a homegrown Philippine cosmetics and skin care line that is fast becoming a world-class brand.

In her twenties, while Neva was indulging her fascination for make-up as most girls her age, she suddenly developed severe skin allergies known as eczema and contact dermatitis which are characterized by severe rashes. None of the dermatologists she consulted were able to cure her condition until an allergologist diagnosed she is allergic to phenoxyethanol and sulfate which are chemical compounds commonly used in most commercial skin care products.

 


Named after famous movies and books, Leyende products are an interesting eye-catcher: Clear and Present shampoo named after the movie Clear and Present Danger, Rapunsilk Shampoo after the famous cartoons Rapunzel and Smoothie Operator bath and shower gel after the movie Smooth Operator.

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