Amansinaya Cookbook

Annalyn
Annalyn came to us in the second year and is the good
soul of the kitchen. She loves experimenting and trying
new recipes. She loves baking for instance Christmas
cookies. Nonoy, her husband has a tricycle and drives us
and the gear to Balatasan, when we go on daytrips. Annalyn
can swim and loves to learn kiting and it is still on her
list of to do things. She loves to sing Karaoke and if there
is a Christmas party or a birthday you should have a song
prepared to join in. She makes the best mangofloat and
Annalyn's favourite food is Sinigang and ice-cream.
Jovy
If there is one always smiling and singing, no matter
what- it’s Jovy. You can’t miss her- she cleans the rooms
and is the one giving massage. Often she wears colourful
leggings. She likes Reggaemusic and can listen to the
same playlist every day and loves to dance. If you go out
with her, for instance to a Mangyanparty, you are guaranteed
to see her dancing full on. Jovy can not swim and
is scared of deep water, you can only convince her for a
tour on the SUP when you paddle. But she is
adventurous. She loves hiking and jungletrekking and
even climbed Mt. Iglit. Jovy makes the best springrolls
and her favourite meals are Spagetthi and ice-cream.
Toto
is the one at the guardhouse and responsible for water
pump and water tanks, fueling up motorbikes and
organising our drinking water. When we were building,
he was the first one to learn how to launch and land my
kite. He always comes to the kitchen to steal watermelon.
His favourite food is ihaw ihaw (anything grilled)
and Chicken adobo. He would be the perfect actor and
loves to sing and dance and is an adventurous soul.
If you ask him to be your jungle guide, he will take you
on a tour with his machete-but you are not
guaranteed to find the trail.
Cabrinha
is our famous pig growing bigger and bigger. She came to
us as a piglet when she was 6 weeks old. She came with
her friend who was pink and ugly, so we decided just to
keep Cabrinha. She is not so picky and eats all the leftovers.
She loves the beach and swimming, unfortunately
she also loves kites and kitelines and sometimes motorbike
seats. Thanks to her appetite, she grew so fast and
reached her final weight of approximately 120 kg.
Surviving 2 christmas and New Years. She was the only
one enjoying the typhoon Ursula and did not hide but
walk around in the storm enjoying the rain while
motorbikes and coconuts were flying around. The last try
to get rid of her was to swap her against four goats, this
also failed so she is still member of the team and
I wonder, if its still like this when you read this book.
Tiger
is the only dog we really feed, he came as a wild dog and
stayed. He is tame and clever enough to be friends with
every guest and to look always starving, so you guaranteed
feel pitty and let some of your food fall under the
table by mistake. During the off season he found his ugly
girlfriend brownie … but hey ho character counts and so
we allowed her to stay. But one plus one makes nine and
so we soon had Bailey, Oreo, Covid, Milka, Baloo, Junior
and Panther in the house. Thanks to their cuteness they
all found a home. Favourite food of the dogs- anything
of our dinner before Cabrinha eats it.
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