Bomb threat disrupts work at Ilocos town hall

LAOAG CITY -- Employees of the municipal government of Marcos, Ilocos Norte were barred from entering their respective offices early Friday, July 14, due to a reported bomb threat, police said.

Police Superintendent Amador Quiocho of the Ilocos Norte Police Public Safety Company refused to disclose the source of the bomb threat.

Employees, before they could time in on Friday, were not allowed to enter town's premises after the Explosive Ordnance Division of the Philippine National Police took over the municipal building to validate the report.

Employees were advised to stay outside the municipal hall until the police is done searching the building. (PNA) down, as you grow older and wiser. Time and experience do make a difference in our priorities, needs, and desires.

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I would every once in awhile prepare it this same way. I have never forgotten how it was prepared. I however do one over. I will prepare it the same exact way but prepare a whole bunch more. I am now back in Germany and will do the same for my hosts.

Other than soup, the mix is used as sauce for pasta. Sardines or Corned Beef is sautéed with sliced onions and the best pasta sauce you will already have. My secret revealed for every Juan is Anchovies. Knorr Beef Cubes added will even make it better. 555 or Toyo sardines can be added as an alternative if ever.

From the collection mix, I will also spread it in sliced French Bread, Panini or even Pandesal, just add Kesong Puti and some fresh Basil or Arugula and the perfect breakfast can be had.

Shrimps and Clams can be added for soup or pasta and pizza from this mix. To make one over I normally would add old and stale bread roughly sliced and the sauce will be so thick and good as a hearty soup. Burnt bread works better instead of being discarded or thrown away. The taste is so good from the char.

Then there's the pizza, yes this is the time for it. Mold the pizza dough before adding the tomato mix and just add anything from salami to pepperoni, mushrooms, bell pepper, onions and garlic and soon after any cheese you can find.

Cheese Melt works, Chiz Whiz too, but if you have some hidden collection of cheese smelling somewhere away, maybe for this, Iberico Ham and Smoked Salmon may also be added with this tomato mix before putting in an oven.

I would also use the same mix for lasagna but that is just the same. Just add cream cheese. So I can become even more creative. I will add Reno liver spread and bell peppers, potato and carrots before adding beef, chicken pork or kalding and soon after you already have Caldereta or Afritada.

Shank of beef with the mix, then slow cooked with some sausage is served as Italian Osso Bucco. Shrimps with Olive Oil and Garlic added with a little of the mix becomes Spanish Gambas. Beef cubes after being seared a little can be slow cooked with the tomato mix and becomes German Goulash, add carrots or potatoes.

I was in tomato heaven in Sicily. They were just so sweet. We ate it just like that. Of course I added Balsamic Vinegar and Olive Oil, Salt and Pepper and Wallah! All I mentioned was done in Italy to impress my hosts. They did find some recipes from my way. It may not be the right way but it works.

When spices and chilies are added into the mix it will become the best Malaysian Sambal, Fish and Chicken is best mixed with this mix. Similarly with beef, cooked until the mix is thickened even more is Indonesian Beef Rendang, just add roasted rice. With chili powder and paprika it may be used for Mexican Taco and Burrito, just add cilantro or avocado and you have Guacamole.

Even with fried fish just add the very same mix and it becomes Sarciadong Tilapia or what ever fish you may have. It also can be added to grilled eggplant for a most flavourful side dish to any Inihaw. Just beat a couple of eggs for omelet and add this mix, it will be special. There's a Spanish dish called Huevos, it is this same sauce but added with blood sausage and and ham before cracking eggs, then bake in the oven.

My specialty with this tomato base mix is Pochero. Surely every Juan has their way of cooking this dish. My way is with beef pecho or cubes which I slow cook with garlic, onions, potato and saba, yes the banana type. The tomato mix will be added when all is cooked. It just adds so much flavor for the nilaga or bulalo, or on the side.

This was the very same dish that I was asked to prepare and was featured in a cook book by SM. It is also the best gift to give to family and friends abroad. I also happen to be in the first pages of the cook book. Lucky me. Based on place, Baguio and family name.

It will just keep tasting better and better every time. So just cook when good, sweet and plump tomatoes are on season and store it properly. I still continue to do it this way. Safe keeping it in batches or in different Tupperware works too. Then leave in freezer and when needed.

Finally, to top it all off, a little salt and sugar and that's the best ketchup, homemade. For hot sauce like Tabasco, just add a little vinegar. All this from a just... tomato.