Catching up with exercise during the lockdown

The Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) sort of forced us to limit our outdoor activities including and especially our morning walks. Fortunately for us, we have some space at our home for outdoor time. Also, we have a couple or exercise machines at home. One of these is an exercise bike we got a couple of years ago to enable us to work out during the wet season when the weather does not allow for comfy walks or jogs.

The machine records the workout time, calories burned and estimated distance covered per workout

Our Proteus machine

We like this machine as it can be adjusted to increase or decrease tension depending on how intense a work out you want to have. We typically record our workouts so we know if we are progressing and if we are able to sustain the levels we wanted to.

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Mango Delights - Part 3

Just before the first typhoon of the year hit us last Friday, we had the chance to pick some mangoes. We thought that the winds and rains would probably knock many of the fruits from the tree and when they hit the ground, many of them would be cracked and won't be viable by the time we got them. A neighbor generously made a picker for us from a long bamboo pole and a basket supported by steel wire at one end. The bamboo was heavy but that was also because of the length that allowed us to get to fruits that were previously out of our reach with our old picker.

Mangoes picked just before the typhoon's winds and rains affected our harvest

Allocated these for my parents in Cainta

A tray-basket full of ripening mangoes

A bowl of mostly green mangoes - goes well with bagoong or perhaps just some salt

View of more mangoes hanging from our tree taken from our balcony

Even more mangoes but not yet for the picking

I've already sent about 6kg+ of mangoes to my parents' home in Cainta. Tatay kept inquiring about the mangoes during ECQ and I didn't want to risk sending them fruits when we were still on lockdown. With the GCQ now, authorities have relaxed restrictions and so I sent the mangoes via Grab Express.

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Mango Delights - Part 2

With the mangoes we have, we can make mango float. This one's easy to make or prepare. You just need condensed milk, cream, and graham crackers for the layers. Here are a few photos of a our version of the popular dessert.

Mango float after being in the freezer overnight. It is not necessary to put it in the freezer but doing so integrates the ingredients and probably makes it last longer.

See the layers of mango and graham crackers? It actually looks like the popular dessert Sansrival.

That's me finishing a serving of  mango float

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