Recipe of the Week

Pinoy Black Paella, Arroz Negra

Ingredients:

1 cup fragrant rice

1 cup malagkit rice

1/2 kilo medium size shrimp, shelled blanched pcs. big size squid, blanched, cut into rings ink sacks from the squid, diluted in 1/2 cup water pcs. small size crabs, cooked, cut in half

1/2 kilo clams and/or mussels, boiled

1 pc. chorizo, sliced diagonally

1 red bell pepper, cut into strip

1/2 head garlic, chopped

1 medium size onion, chopped

1 pc. roasted bell pepper, chopped

1 cup tomato sauce

1/2 cup green peas, boiled cooking oil salt and pepper kalamansi pcs. hard boiled eggs, cut into wedges

Cooking procedure:

In a big pot fry chorizo until it start to sizzle, set aside. Sauté garlic and onion, add in tomato and roasted bell pepper stir cook for to minutes. Add 1/2 cup of water, continue to stir cook until most of the liquid has evaporated and turn into an oily thick sauce. Add in chorizo, squid ink, fragrant rice and malagkit stir until rice is coated and infused with the sauce and tinted with the black ink. Add to 6 cups of water and cook rice stirring occasionally add more water as necessary. When done stir in green peas and arrange seafood on top. Cover and leaving the rice to finish coo ing in the steam for to minutes. Transfer black paella in a platter, arrange seafood on top, drizzle with kalamansi juice and garnish with wedges of hard boiled eggs.

28-km. Naic-CorregidorMariveles bridge, other island bridges OKd by NEDA panel

By JEANNE MICHAEL PENARANDA

PASIG CITY -- Important bridges that will connect island provinces in the Visayas and Cavite province with Bataan province may yet be undertaken by the government soon.

This as the National Economic and Development Authority Board’s Investment Coordination Committee-Cabinet Committee (ICC-CabCom) recommended 12 projects amounting to P557.44 billion for approval by the NEDA Board which is chaired by President Rodrigo Duterte.

The major bridges projects approved by the NEDA ICC-CabCom were the 28-kilometer Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge Project; the fourth Cebu-Mactan Bridge and Coastal Road Construction Project (New Mactan Bridge Construction Project); Davao City Coastal Bypass Road including Bucana Bridge Project; and the 19-kilometer bridges that will connect Panay island with Guimaras island and the Negros Island.

The 28-kilometer Cavite-Bataan bridge will link Naic to the historic island fortress Corregidor in Cavite and the export processing town of Mariveles in Bataan.

Bataan Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia hailed the ambitious project estimated to cost billion designed to boost the economy and tourism in the historic provinces of Bataan and Cavite.

Proposed originally under the Public-Private Partnership program of government, the Cavite-Bataan bridge is expected to further transform Central Luzon into a progressively ega region and the historical peninsula as an e ective and efficient system route to prosperity of the entire Luzon Island.

he approval of these pro ects is a pivotal step in fulfilling our thrust of fostering growth centers in the regions and expanding access to development opportunities throughout the country,” Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said.

Pernia said these are in line with the National Spatial Strategy to make cities like etro anila efficient and to i prove connectivity et een areas

The projects endorsed also include three new projects of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), seven infrastructure projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), and two projects of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).

The DOTr-implemented projects include the MRT Project from San Juan City to Taytay, Rizal, EDSA Greenways Project, and the Maritime Safety Enhancement Program (MSEP).

The ICC-CabCom also green lighted the changes in scope and cost of the ongoing Davao City Bypass Construction Project, which is assisted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency; and the extension of the loan validity and implementation period, and increase in cost of the a ar Pacific Coastal oad Pro ect i ple ented ith loan financing fro the orean port-I port an cono ic evelop ent Cooperation Facility.

It also approved the unsolicited proposals for the Davao International Airport and for the Laguindingan Airport of the CAAP.