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Dates: Small Fruit with Big Benefits

November 9, 2011 admin Food Info

Dates is a sweet oval fruit is mostly brown with a seed in it. The fruit is usually served in the holy month of Ramadan as a fasting dish opener. Dates derived from palm trees belonging to the type of plant palm. Many have mentioned that this plant originated from the Persian Gulf. These plants can live in areas dryness level is high enough. During its development, became a worldwide dates and consumed by many people.

Dates are believed to have many benefits for health. This fruit can recover stamina because in it there are glucose, fructose and iron. No wonder, fruit is used to break the fast. In addition, antioxidants can also counteract the toxins and free radicals.

Fruit from the Middle East is also suitable for people with hypertension consumed. Content of potassium can reduce excess salt hypertensive owned. Not only that, oksitasin contained in dates to help expedite delivery, increases milk production and improve sexual performance of both women and men.

Potusin substances in dates can also help wound healing. Those who suffer from dengue fever or anaemia can also be assisted haemoglobin coupled with consumption dates. In addition, the brain’s performance also helped with the dates. Siliat substance that is in aspirin contained herein. This helps reduce pain, reduce the risk of heart disease and hypertension.

Many vitamins and minerals are also contained in this fruit. Well, actually a small fruit with great efficacy yes!

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Rodgrod Med Flode – Dessert Dishes Origin Denmark

November 7, 2011 admin Food Info
This food is a little difficult to read, especially on the tongue of Indonesia. Rodgrod med Flode which when translated in English, Red Berry Pudding with Cream This is a typical dessert Denmark. Even so, the food is quite worldwide and is widely known.
Berry pudding that has a distinctive taste is given a light cream topping. These foods are usually made ??in late summer in Denmark, when raspberries and red currants are a lot of fruit. Even so, strawberries or raspberries can also be used as a substitute. It was still tasty and refreshing. Besides in Denmark, this dessert is also popular in Germany. 

In some recipes, to make the pudding is still in use semolina flour or sago. But lately, many are using potato starch as a replacement. This will make a potato flour pudding really creamy. The main ingredients are red berries that usually bear fruit during the summer such as redcurrant, blackcurrant, raspberries, strawberries, or blackberries. Even so, the berries are best used redcurrant. Also added sugar, to make this pudding increasingly tasteless. The amount of flour, sago or semolina depending on the desired density. This flour should be soaked before use.

How to make it similar to pudding. Fruit cooked with sugar. These materials must also be in the cold so that the flour has been incorporated in the fruit liquid that does not clot. The process of making the second is the process of gelatinization. The remains of flour must have been lost in this process.

Rodgrod can be served hot or cold as dessert. This dish can be served with milk, vanilla sugar, vanilla sauce or cream to balance the fruit flavours are slightly acidic.

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Bizarre Food

November 2, 2011 admin Food Info

Each region has its distinctive food respectively. But, there are some areas that traditional food is rather magical. So do not ‘normal’ foods, until someone banned for fear of making a meal so sick stomach.

Escamoles
Food weirdness is located from its main ingredient, namely ant eggs. Yep, the food is actually typical of Mexico is a collection of giant ant eggs Liometopum Black. Because Escamoles looks like caviar, gourmet foods made ??from fish eggs, so often referred to insect caviar. Despite the appearance that does not convince, it is reportedly quite tasty food. Tastes like peanut butter mixed.
Casu Marzu
Indeed, this food is cheese, but somewhat unique because there are maggots in it. This cheese is a traditional cheese from Sardinia, Italy. Casu marzu Sardini means that the language is deliberately rotten cheese is dried in the open so that flies surrounded. These flies then lay their eggs on top of cheese and small maggots inhabiting the inside of the cheese. Cheese consumption is banned in Europe because it is considered harmful to health. But, people still often eat Sardinia especially during a big party.
Balut
Vietnamese cuisine is actually a duck egg. But, in this egg there are nearly hatched duck embryo. Once opened, it will be seen in embryos that already resemble ducklings. So, there’s beak, eye, wing, claw, sometimes even existing soft feathers. Hm, it’s not butter it, eat this food.

 

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How to Serve Unique Food from various countries

October 26, 2011 admin Food Info

IKIZUKURI (Japan)
Way of presentation is: if there is order, the chefs will immediately take the fresh fish is still alive, then directly cleaned, cut into pieces in a state still moving, after the cut-pieces, presented directly in front of the buyer with the state still floundering.

Ikizukuri, means ‘put up in a state of life’. To prepare food like this course, the chef must be really advanced in preparing the food, he should be able to cut up the meat without killing the fish!. Sometimes some really great chefs can cut so that he can separate the meat and then set it back to make it look intact, the condition of the fish are still floundering!

ORTOLAN (France)
Ortolan bird, a bird that became a meal in this menu. Bird bird ortolan is six inches long and weighs about 2 ounces. The colour is olive green and yellow, with touches of red here and there, very beautiful.

Presentation: Birds that have been arrested, his eyes blinded by being stabbed, then forced to feed in a narrow cage can not move up. because it forced food, the body expands to two or four times the size of the venom. Once is enough, this bird will be drowned in Armagnac (a type of liquor)

After that, the bird was served with a baked, and put into the mouth in conditions outside the head. What you just did was bite him, so that his head off and chew your body complete with all parts, bones and its in! » Read more..

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Singapore Culinary Tips

October 10, 2011 admin Food Info

One other types of food that is not less popular than Singapore laksa is the Hainanese Chicken Rice or Hainan Chicken Rice. This type of food that one can almost be found in every food court in the whole of Singapore. White rice, or rice cooked with chicken broth served hot in a bowl. Then, as the side dishes are served grilled pieces of chicken or duck with some cucumber slices placed on the bottom slices of chicken or duck meat which is then doused with sauce kind of salty flavour. In addition, also presented a bowl of chicken broth or duck as a complement. Not to forget, a small dish of chilli sauce and the sauce of ginger and garlic crushed, also served to complement the dishes on this one. A set menu of Hainan Chicken Rice is usually sold at between 3:00 to 5:00 SGD. Quite cheap, is not it?

Well, there is also one other type of food made from rice. Servings of foods that one is not the same as the Hainanese Chicken Rice because it is no use chicken broth, but by using coconut milk. Food that this one is called Nasi Lemak / Fat rice. Besides can be found in Singapore, these foods can also be found in Malaysia. Typically, Nasi Lemak served with sliced ??hard-boiled eggs or scrambled eggs, fried fish or fried chicken pieces plus pickled cucumber and fried peanuts. Not to forget, again, also served as a complementary sauce. » Read more..

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Red Lights, Pimenton from Spain

September 29, 2011 admin Food Info

It is said that spice this one brought by Columbus to explore the world. The color red is very challenging. It was spicy with a soft bite. Used to mix soup, tapas to an omelet.

As in Indonesia chili, paprika called ‘pimenton’, is an important seasoning in Spanish cuisine. Used almost in all types of dishes Spanyo. Besides giving a soft spicy flavor accents also gives a beautiful red color.

Pimenton is made from dried peppers have 3 types, sweet pimenton, smoked pimenton and a combination of both. In Spain the spice is sold in the market traditional in the form of powder or packed performance bottles, cans or plastic containers.

Producing region is the famous pimenton Murcia, in southeastern Spain, is located between Almeria and Alicante. Another area, located in Caceres, Extremadura, southwest of Madrid. Both of these areas warm and dry climates during the summer so it is suitable for paprika.

Pimenton way of making very simple because usually come from rural areas. Peppers that are ripe and then dried. Able to use the house drying, peppers placed on shelves and allowed to dry. Or dried by drying in the sun.

There also are dried by evaporation so that the resulting pimenton fragrant flavorful smoke. Once dried then crushed or finely ground and packaged ready. The color shades of red to orange-red depending on the type of peppers used.

Pimenton types are usually sold in the market, among others; pimenton Dulce or orange-colored sweet peppers and slightly sweet. Pimenton agridulce that tastes spicy picante medium and pimenton, which is made from various types of long pepper.

Pimenton can be bought at large supermarkets rather expensive prices. In bottles or cans. Usually used for flavor sausage, soups, stews, omelets until cake. Beautiful red color that makes this popular spice. Want to try?

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