Amansinaya Cookbook
Staying in our resort combines an eco friendly lifestyle close to nature without giving up infrastructure (we have electricity, tapwater and warm watershowers and and 5G wifi- in case you are working while kiting and traveling) and a lot of sports and healthy activities and food. And for people, who want to remember their memories and cook at home Mindoro Style or want to read some of our story- download the book!
Staying in our resort combines an eco friendly lifestyle close to nature without giving up infrastructure (we have electricity, tapwater and warm watershowers and and 5G wifi- in case you are working while kiting and traveling) and a lot of sports and healthy activities and food. And for people, who want to remember their memories and cook at home Mindoro Style or want to read some of our story- download the book!
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Guests often ask me,
how to make this and that or they
watch us cooking as we have an open
kitchen, where everyone can observe
how meals are prepared and its much
more fun, for the kitchen team to
be part of the resort life and still
interacting with the guests while
cooking.
New style of cooking had to be learnt - very little
spices, limited vegetables to choose from, fish,
chicken and pork. Many ingredients I normally
used to cook with were just not to be found.
A very inspiring place for shopping is the local
Mangyan market in Bulalacao on Tuesdays and
Saturdays. The tribal people leave their remote
villages in the mountains as early as 3 am to walk
down with torches all the way to Bulalacao town
center to sell the local grown fruits and vegetables.
Some of them are still wearing their tribal clothes
and often you see them chew betelnuthere
you can try.
I love to buy from the Mangyan people because their
products are guaranteed organically grown and free
of pesticides. The market is a good place for a chat
and you don’t need to bargain as prices are fixed and
so cheap anyway.
It started a phase of experimenting. Chefkoch.de was
a good guide in the beginning, you put the
ingredients we could find that day in the market
and picked one of the recipes that were given.
If we didn’t have all ingredients, we got creative
and replaced to imitate and get close to what the
recipe was meant to be. Now after three
seasons we have a good collection of meals - which
are a result of mixing the local cuisine with healthy
Western food. My priorities - it should taste good,
it should have loads of veggies and local ingredients
only and last but not least and actually super important:
It should be prepared fast and easy,
as we don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen.
if we have to cook for big numbers of people.
Our Team
good vibes - good food
There is one rule. Everyone helps with everything –
so you will find everyone in the kitchen too,
especially at dinner time when we are busy.
Gerry
Has been with us from the beginning. He is born in
the neighbouring fishing village and he was the one
who was cooking for all the workers when we were
building Amansinaya. I remember his tomato salty
egg salad from this time. He learnt kiting in the first
year of our opening and supports the daytrips
and kitesafaris as a guide and cook. He also joins
the Philippine Kitesurfing Tour and competes.
You wouldn’t believe Gerry is a Philippino but his
favourite dishes are Pizza, Burger and Mushroomsoup.
Roben
Also Roben has been with us from the beginning and
helped with the construction and turned into a beachboy
after the opening, realising soon, that you don’t
get a lot of time on the water for yourself when working
as a beachboy, so he soon changed to the kitchen
and is a guide on almost each safari or daytrip. He is
very motivated in Kitesurfing and same as Gerry he
also joins the Philippine Kitesurfing Tour. Roben loves
his red scooter and if you see the same motorbike in 5
different places, it's because he always moves it to the
shade when the sun moves during the day. The biggest
fan of Roben in the resort is Cabrinha since he was
taking care of her since she was a little piglet. Roben
loves Chicken Adobo, Burger and Mangofloat.
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