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Pumpkin Pie



One the left I put FRUIT SALAD center is roasted pumpkin and to the right is CURRIED EGG SALAD!

Fruit Salad

Ingredients:
3 kiwis
1 dragon fruit
1 large apple of your choice
2 bananas
6 passion fruits

Procedure:
1. Chop all the fruits into 1 inch pieces (except passion fruit)
2. Mix all the fruits into a large mixing bowl, cut passion fruits in half and place the seeds and juice into the mixture
3. Serve immediately or chill in the fridge first

Curried Egg Salad (Adapted from 101cookbooks)

Ingredients:
6 boiled eggs
1 cup dried raisins
1 medium apple chopped
1/2 red onion chopped
1/2 iceberg lettuce chopped
4 tbs plain yogurt
2 tsp curry powder
Pinch of salt

Procedure:
1. In a mixing large bowl mix the eggs, raising, apples, onion, and lettuce
2. In a separate bowl mix the yogurt, curry powder and salt (adjust to your liking)
3. Either mix the dressing in the large bowl or set aside and apply when serving

Marketing Cereal to Kids

Since marketing is such a powerful tool I wish they would be more honest when they do advertisements and such. Came across this article on TIME magazine and it made me very upset to see the rankings of how awfully unhealthy these cereals are for kids (even adults I should say). Guilty, I grew up eating every single one of them on the list but now have graduated and moved on to products like Kashi, whole grain, granolas etc....we should do the same for kids shouldn't we?



Top 10 Sugary Brands Chasing Kids
1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2. Honey Nut Cheerios
3. Lucky Charms
4. Lucky Charms
5. Trix
6. Frosted Flakes
7. Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles
8. Reese's Puff
9. Corn Puffs
10. Froot Loops

You can get more facts on cereals at Cereal Facts !

Bottle Bank Arcade Machines

Perhaps innovation and creativity together can bring new changes to the world we live in. We know its right to recycle and be less wasteful but sometimes its hard to make that extra effort. The Fun Theory has come up with "fun" ways to inspire people like you and me to take that extra step and make these changes.

This is what the Bottle Bank Arcade Machines idea came about...
"Many of us return our plastic bottles and cans. Noticeably fewer recycle their glass. Maybe that's because we don't get any money in return, as we do for cans and plastic. Can we change this attitude by making recycling glass fun to do? So you are not just rewarded with a good conscience, you also get a smile. See the results here."



(via: thefuntheory)

Steamed Tofu with Shrimp

Ingredients:
1 package of egg tofu
1 pound marinated ground pork
1 tbs minced garlic
1 tbs minced ginger
1 tbs mushroom oyster sauce
1 tbs sesame oil
1 pound fresh shrimp shelled except for the head and tail
Fresh parsley

Procedure:
1. For the marinated ground pork, mix together in a bowl with sesame oil, oyster sauce, garlic, and ginger
2. Cut the tofu into cubes and place them in separate bowls
3. Dig a hole in the middle of the tofu and place the marinated ground pork in the tofu
4. Place the shrimp on top of the tofu
5. Place the bowls in the steamer and steam for about 5 minutes
6. Once removed from the steamer sprinkle sesame oil on top and place parsley for decoration on top, serve immediately

3 cups of chicken

Ingredients:
2 pounds chicken leg (chopped)
1/2 cup black sesame oil
1/2 cup Chinese rice wine
1/4 cup thinly sliced old ginger
3-5 sticks of scallion thinly sliced
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 tsp black pepper
Sprinkle of parsley
*Note that for the sauce you can adjust to your liking*

Procedure:
1. In a large frying pan pour the black sesame oil and stir on high fire
2. Place the ginger and chicken into the pan once the oil begins to sizzle
3. After the aroma of the dish begins to seep into the atmosphere add scallion and continue to stir fry
4. Add soy sauce and Chinese rice wine while continuing to stir
5. Cover the pan and turn the fire down to medium
6. Check occasionally and once the chicken has turned golden brown on both sides add pepper
7. Once the dish is completely well cooked, turn the heat off, and transfer into a bowl, top it off with parsley then serve

How Food Shapes Our Cities!

How many produce can you name when you shop at the grocery store? Do you know what to do with these produce once it reaches your kitchen? Carolyn Steel enlightens us with her view on the daily miracles of feeding a city and shares with us how ancient food routes shaped the world.

Far Foods: James Reynolds

Would this help educate consumers about where their produce originates from? Clever design idea!

The Concept is as follows:
Far Foods is an alternative packaging concept for supermarket produce, highlighting the distances that some foods travel from and the resultant carbon dioxide released during the journey. The receipt features a boarding card style tear-off strip. By James Reynolds.





(via: designverb)

adorable quote

Antonia Demas is the founder of www.foodstudies.org where she has been working with public school systems to educate children about nutrition. I was doing some reading for my class on "Plant Based Nutrition" and came across this really adorable quote that a student once said about her classes...

"I really loved your tofu, it made me get hooked on it. It made my cheeks tingle. The only thing I think about is tofu! When I'm bored, I think of tofu"

Wouldn't it be amazing to have kids make comments about real produce like this instead of thinking of junk food when they are bored??!