Calamansi Season
No doubt, it’s calamansi season. It’s pretty easy to know - the outskirts of a market are dotted with bags of calamansi for sale. And a kilo costs PHP 10, or roughly US$0.22.
From a kilo, I was able to extract a glass of pure calamansi. Pour into 2 quarts of water and we’ll have refreshing calamansi juice.
I saved the peels for my plants.
I pureed them in my mini-chopper.
I know this looks really awful, but I read somewhere that fruit and veggie peels grinded with lots of water are good for enriching the soil.
I think it won’t hurt to try. In fact, it sounds perfect to me, as I want to avoid all commercial fertilizers on my plants. I buried the mixture under the soil just beside the plants’ roots.
All that goodness for only PHP 10.
raqgold:
oh, i love calamansi! when i was in thailand, i found it weird na wala silang kalamansi at all. meron sila lemon… kaya naman when i bought some kalamansi there, my thai friends loved the juice! and i find it a good source of vit c din, might try to plant calamansi here, too. wish us luck!
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13 August 2008, 8:36 pmraqgold:
nga pala, kami din, we dont fertilize.
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13 August 2008, 8:37 pmwatson:
Ooooh so that’s why! We were surprised that calamansi was so cheap (also at ten pesos) in Baguio last weekend.
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13 August 2008, 9:22 pmsasha:
Ay Cess, yung pinagbalatan you can use that to scrub on dark spots sa body mo. Ganyan ginagawa namin ng sisters ko since way back. Effective talaga
Panahon na pala ng calamansi ngayon. Makabili nga
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14 August 2008, 2:00 amjulie:
Aba, makabili nga mamaya. I add calamansi juice with the orange juice or iced tea I prepare for the kids. Though it makes the Sunquick juice more asim, it is exactly how I like it
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15 August 2008, 7:25 amRach (Heart of Rachel):
Hi Cess. I love calamansi juice too. We have a calamansi bearing tree in our garden. We also buy more calamansi to make refreshing healthy, juice drink.
I think it’s a great idea to make good use of the peels as an alternative fertilizer. I’m sure your plants will really benefit from it.
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15 August 2008, 8:32 amNona:
Mura na healthy pa, dami pang use at walang maitatapon. Walang calamansi dito…onli in da pilipins?
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15 August 2008, 9:04 amann:
Iba talaga yung lasa ng calamansi sa lemon pero pag naman nasanay ka sa lemon maiinip ka sa konting katas na nakukuha mo sa bawat piga mo ng calamansi, isang lemon lang kasi dami na juice agad.
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15 August 2008, 10:52 amJO:
yan ang wala kami dito sa Canada… calamansi…
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15 August 2008, 11:13 amWenchie:
Hi Cess, yeah I was at the market the other day, gulat ako, ang mura ng calamansi. Now, am thinking of preparing my beauty concoction, the one I told you about using these calamansi.
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15 August 2008, 5:27 pmfeng:
I love calamansi! my meals aren’t complete without it, lalong lalo na sa pansit.
I love it too with my Iced Tea. thirst quenching pag may calamansi.
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17 August 2008, 2:44 amSexy Mom:
soooo refrshing! do let us know if mabuti ngang fertilizer ang kalamasi peel (pero di ba hindi fruit or veggie ang kalamansi?)
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20 August 2008, 7:54 amauee:
I miss calamansi! We used to buy bottles(!) of calamansi concentrate (with honey) and for sure we consume almost a bottle a day.
I miss it even more since I started making homemade siomai, iba ang asim nang calamansi.
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21 August 2008, 9:01 pmedelweiza:
oh, i love calamansi juice too as it’s very refreshing. never knew calamansi peels are good for the soil until now. nice post!
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22 August 2008, 1:49 pm