Showing posts with label Food Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Review. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 June 2011

MOTHER NATURE'S GIFT - PINEAPPLE

Pineapple is a lovely fruit. It is very gracious at appearance It has a crown over the fruit with pricking nail points. Removing the fruit from its stem is not that easy.
The word Pineapple can be traced from its original attribute - Pine cone or from conifer tree. The meaning of Pineapple can be understood as excellent fruit. Its origin has a mythological story. A girl called Pina who had disappeared by the ill treatment of her aunt appeared as a Pineapple plant after some days. The ends of its sheaves or leaves appeared to have pricking end. The disappeared girl Pina came to be identified as Pina and the whole fruit was called as Pineapple.
The color of the Pineapple is very fascinating. The fruit has yellow or golden color with golden appearance. People who look at it, do desire to eat it. Its a tropical fruit.
Offering a glass of cool Pineapple juice to a visitor is a symbol of royal treatment. A cup of Ice cream made from Pineapple juice will never quench the appetite to desire for more. In India the Pineapple salad or the pineapple curry dish is much more than any other taste food. The boiled Pineapple juice mixed with honey will ease the cough irritation in the chest and throat. Above all eating Pineapple after meals is the safest method to safeguard healthy digestion and burning out of obesity. Pineapple syrup, jam and yogurt on the dining table are a great decorum for eating.

The Pina fiber produced out of Pineapple leaves can be used for wall paper and other art production. Pineapple is a great bearer of carbon dioxide in its CAM photosynthesis process. Pineapple contains Vitamin C Proteolytic enzyme and bromelain. In India people believe that Pineapple plantation gives shelter to the snakes. One should be very careful in the vicinity of Pineapple plantation.
Today Pineapple has been used for the dining table decoration. it adds the grandeur and the decorum of "dinner party finale".
Pineapple is easy to grow. Just enough to trim its upper part the whole bunch of leaves with holder and plant it outside. t needs to be watered moderately. They growth up. For a better growth it needs constant care of the cultivator. Plants are very sensitive care. If the cultivator has a green pulse then the plant will yield the robust and juicy fruit.
Planting the Pineapples can be useful to homes and save fruit buying expenditure. One fruit can be shared by many or all family members by making slices out of it . The poor families can generate income by marketing pineapples or keeping pineapple juice selling shop. It is very much profitable. One need not invest much money.

Friday, 27 May 2011

A leisurely Brunch: A recipe for the Weekend

For more than 5 years living independent and away from home and family, I have learned many things – one of which is to cook. Because I got a tough schedule as a Paralegal in one of the Law Offices at Quezon City, I could only manage do a real cooking time during Saturdays and Sundays, which I considered a total free days for myself. In turn, I would be waking up a little late and cook combining my breakfast and lunch, followed by watching a marathon.

I am not an expert cook, so I take recipes from magazines or my sister’s cook book or try-out from what I see on tv cooking shows. However, I would be sharing my most love experiments.

Longganisa Fried Rice

What you need:

2-3 pieces of longganisa, chopped (cooked)
2 Eggs beaten
Left over rice (preferably taken from the fridge)
2 hotdog, chopped (optional)
Salt
Garlic, chopped
Butter
oil

Procedure:
In a pan, put in the butter and a little oil and then followed by the garlic. Next is the chopped longganisa and then the rice. Keep on sautéing and mixing until the rice turns smoothly and separate. Then pour in the beaten egg and continue sautéing. You can pour the salt to taste. It is as simple as that. Here in the Philippines, there are instant seasonings we use like Maggi Magic Sarap, Ginisa Mix, and others. You can use those instead of salt.

When you make your coffee, you can try some other ways than the usual.

Coffee Madness

What you need:

Coffee
Fresh Milk
Sugar
Double Dutch, Double Choco or Choco Crumble Ice Cream

Procedure:
After brewing your coffee, pour into your mug and then add fresh milk. And then put 1 scoop of ice cream then blend. You may add sugar or not depending on your taste. If you want a cold coffee, you can add ice when blending it or as it is.

Another must try is toasting your bread differently or that most-loved Pan-de- sal.

Pan-de-sal toast

3 -5 pieces of Pandesal, cut into half (4 pcs. Bread)
Butter
2-3 beaten egg

Procedure:

Instead of using the oven or toaster, make use of a pan or pancake skillet. Soak in the bread or pandesal bread to the beaten egg and put in a hot pan with butter. The butter will serve as the oil. Then flip in to the other side and toast. Once done, you can serve it.

If you desire, you can put cooked hotdog or sausage, bacon or ham on top.


Monday, 9 May 2011

Food Review: I liked Big Sam Fish Fillet

Have you ever tried Big Sam Fish Fillet, yesterday I tried it, and it was truly delicious in taste. The fish used was of the Grouper fish and fillet were long and wrapped inside the bread crumbs, wheat flour and just beneath the wrapping, it was coated with the batter made from water, wheat flour, maize starch and maize flour. It was a quick and fast ready-made snack which was quite enjoyable by me and my family.



Big Sam is a reputed company having the consistent quality food possessing pleasant taste and high nutrition. They have expertise in providing food that is lovely and convenient to make. The best thing was that there was no artificial color and preservative added to it. It had to be kept in a deep freezer, and that’s it.

The product was kept in the freezer and then taken outside, there was no need to thaw the product and that make it extremely easy to prepare. It has to deep fried, just put some oil in the pan, and when it is warm enough put the fillet pieces in that. You can identify that the oil is suitable for cooking by looking to the fillet, and it will start turning brown the bubbles will not appear, and you can see the fillet easily.

The nutritional value of 100 g of fillet is that it will provide 130.4 Kcal of energy. The protein content per 100 g is 14.3g, carbohydrate content 16.7 g, fat 0.7g with the saturated fat of 0.3g, mono saturated fatty acid of 0.2g polyunsaturated fatty acid of 0.2g. It has got no Trans fatty acid in it. It also has some vitamins and minerals like Vitamin A 23.9 mcg, Vitamin C 0.0015g, Calcium 0.03g and sodium 0.35 g.

Regarding the reputation of Big Sam products, we can not doubt as it has got certificates from Plant certification, HACCP certified, and British Retail Consortium certified. So, it has got “A” grade quality of fish fillet, and I am not saying this because it has been tagged by so many reputed certification authorities, but I am just certifying its goodness that is based on the fresh and succulent taste it has got.

When we buy a product, and that is quite expensive, but it is highly relishing then we say that it was worth the money. So, I will only say about this product as “worth the money”, we have enjoyed the fried fish fillets with the brown bread toasts and green sauce (chutney). And it was quite a mouth watering continental dinner.

Sunday, 3 April 2011

The Coffee Academy – It is brewing good!

Location:  G/F Marlim Mansion, Balibago Angeles City Philippines

I’m a coffee buff so I love hanging on different coffee shops to try their daily coffee specials, to my delight a promising coffee shop rise at the heart of Balibago, the shop is named The Coffee Academy – I don’t know how they got the name but it sounds good and it captures the heart of every coffee enthusiast like me.

I particularly enjoy visiting this place, its relaxing atmosphere invites everyone to just hang in there and loosen up, the place is not so big and very homey, it also has a free wifi access that’s available for everyone, so whether you’re a young professional who brings work with you even at off hours or a person who likes to chat online while sipping your favorite latte or frappe at the wee hours of the day, The Coffee Academy has a place for you.

The Coffee Academy serves great gourmet coffee, different cocktail drinks and sumptuous pasta and other family dishes. I have tried their best seller Café Mocha – a hot espresso based twisted with the goodness of chocolate and the house favorite Black Forest – an ice blended frappe in espresso base.

What’s good with The Coffee Academy is that they support the local coffee industry by using the locally grown “Kapeng Barako” as their main coffee ingredients. They also use a concoction of local beans from the province of Cavite, Batangas and Sagada Mountain.

The shop is open 24 hours a day, the second floor has 5 pool tables that can be rented if you want to have fun and play a little after the long day of work.

I love their cappuccino too– house blended into perfection, the taste is so heavenly but the price is reasonable compared to other big and famous coffee shops; with their welcoming interior and unlimited free wifi access I could spend a lot of time in this haven.

The Coffee Academy’s motto “enjoy the coffee never mind the cup” gives an impression that it’s a real “coffee business” – no eye catching advertisement, no social symbol cups – just the goodness of coffee in every sip.

The Coffee Academy is owned by Ms. Flor I. Arrozal, their location is strategically situated along the busy street of Balibago at the ground floor of Marlim Mansion with five charming and friendly staff ready to assist your every whim and caprice.

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Food Review - Healing by tea

Ginger tea
7g take tea leaves, 10 slices of fresh ginger peeled, boiled after meals to explain feeling, sweating, cure colds, flu, cough and hypertension. Ginger tea also treat sore throats, benefit waste, easy to drink, pineapple and sweet voice. According to Oriental medicine, fresh ginger (born Jiang) is spicy neutral business into three: waste, and the spleen.

Salt tea
Retrieved 3g tea leaves, 1g salt in boiling water for drinking hot brakes, the effect of bright eyes, clear heat, inflammation targets ... Summer should be taken regularly to prevent electrolyte disorders because a lot of sweat. Salt is salty, the welding, non-exclusive business into three: the kidneys, heart and spleen. Those who work in offices, less sweat loss is only half the amount of salt (0.5 g), people with hypertension should not be used.

Tea, sugar
Take green tea 15g, 60g white sugar 2 cup water brake to a boil then let the night air (using gauze covered.) Early the next morning drinking, the effect of blood circulation, regulate menstruation, treat closing prayer menstrual disorders.


trà gừng táo đỏ
Medlar tea
Get 10 pound piece of boiled medlar, fixing the water onto tea leaves, drinking regularly will reduce blood pressure, reduce blood fat, reduce fat. Besides being treated for high blood pressure, heart disease. According to Oriental medicine, medlar tastes sweet and sour, neutral third went into business: spleen, stomach and intervention.

Tea act
Take green tea 10g, 10g angelica, three branches of boiled, hot drink. Relieve a cold. Practice medicine is very popular among the people. Practice is spicy, the average, non-toxic. Make positive operating performance through blood, safe pregnancy, bright eyes and added five organs.

Rice tea
Take 100g rice, washed 6g of tea leaves, braking with boiling water for 6 minutes, taking only water for cooking, eating once a day. Effect regulating digestion, bloating cure indigestion.

Garlic tea
Get a crushed garlic, 60g of tea brake with boiling water all day drinking, drinking in the last 7 days. Ly amoeba effect of chronic treatment, detoxification clear heat, common complaints antiseptic, expectorant. Spicy garlic is neutral and can go into the second business.

Chrysanthemum tea
Get 9g tea leaves, white daisy 6g brake with cool boiled water to drink. Hepatic effects, bright eyes, cure headaches, eye pain, hypertension. Chrysanthemum is spicy, numbness, hot. Are used in folk medicine or a long time.
trà hoa cúc

Tea Honey
Cloth bags for tea leaves in boiling water poured the tea infuse brakes, air a teaspoon of honey into a cup of tea every three minutes and then swallow suck. Sore throat treatment effects, titles tongue, gingivitis, inflammation of the tooth.

These are teas of medicine can prevent and treat common diseases is very convenient.

Recipe Review - Kimchi - Traditional Food Of Koreans

Kimchi - Món ăn truyền thống của người Hàn Quốc

Many years ago ,
in the daily diet of Koreans it seem to can not miss a special dish made ​​from dipping vegetables called kimchi . Although just a simple dish, but it represents culture cuisine of Korean . Many travelers have felt extremely excited after tasting the taste of kimchi. Here is some information that can help you better understand this dish :

There are many different types of kimchi depending on region, season and harvest weather conditions. Every family has their recipe passed from generation to generation. Difficult to count how many kinds of kimchi, but the Academy of Korean cuisine has listed more than 100 types. Taste of each type will vary depending on ingredients and spices used. In each region will have different agricultural products and thus make kimchi characteristics for each region. In the south, many people use more salt and seafood so kimchi have tastes sweeter and bolder . Here are pictures and names of some common types of kimchi in Korea:

kimchi_cai_bap - cabbage kimchi

kimchi_cu_cai - radish kimchi

kimchi_dua_chuot - cucumber kimchi

The way to make kimbap :

Material:
- The leaves seaweed were steamed.
-Carrots cut into long strands. Mashed carrots for 1 minute with a little boiling salted water.
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Eggs are rinsed and cut into long strands.
-Turnip yellow cut into long, thin.
- Rice plasticity.
- Sesame seeds.
- A bamboo to roll (or aluminum foil).
- 2 tablespoons vinegar.
- 1 tablespoon sugar.
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil.



Method:
- Step 1: Mix the beets, vinegar and sugar to not be aggressive.
- Step 2: Mix the rice with sesame seeds and a little oil.
- Step 3: Spread sheet woven bamboo roll out on clean cutting board.
Spread sheets of seaweed on top, then a moderate amount of rice and spread out cooked rice with your hands up 2 / 3 sheets of seaweed.
ext, put a piece of carrot, a piece of radish, a little eggs roll horizontally in the middle of the rice . Just keep the material not difference and just shove your hands folded.
- Step 4: Use your hands to let a little oil on a roll recently completed kimbap.
-Step 5: Cut kimbap become many circle and enjoy it !

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Food Review - Pubs Pavement Is Very Interesting .

Have you ever go to pubs on the pavement yet ? If not, try it once and you'll see the fun of it . It has all kinds of screws: screws coconut , fat screws, nail screws, oysters, scallops feathers, crab ... More interest is baked chicken legs , bold flavors , sour , hot .

When weather is pleasant, light wind, I often go to the sidewalk pubs with my friends , extremely comfortable. Simple dishes, delicious, reasonably priced .

When you got bored of the usual food, try eating some food at sidewalk pubs and drink a little beer, you'll find more interesting.

At Phan Rang, Viet Nam has many pubs. Opposite the post office of Ninh Thuan province . Along Ngo Gia Tu street and Thong Nhat street , also have delicious pubs .


They are usually open till late , after a fun night , you can visit to eat stomach lining . But you shouldn't go to pubs pavement every day , it won't good for you , alcohol is dangerous to your health , so just sometime and for fun . Excessive drunk maybe make you meet problem when you can't control yourself .


Every things always have good side and bad side , let choose the best for yourself . Don't regret when all too late .

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Buko Express Kiosk Review - Why I love this coconut!

Location: Sto. Rosario St., Angeles City, Philippines

My officemates and I always have issues on what to drink during break time; water is always available of course but sometimes drinking purely water everyday can be overrated. We’re never a soda lover so softdrinks is out of the picture. Our office is located at the heart of Angeles City where convenience stores and mall are only walking distance but even mall’s ready to drink beverages can sometimes be so bland and expensive.

To our delight a new kiosk offering fresh buko (coconut) juice and buko shake opened near our office, the store is called Buko Express and their products stand by their name – everything coconuts! Despite our constant banters my officemates and I have one thing in common and that is our love for buko juice (even those from rolling stores) so upon seeing the advertisement that this kiosk is now open we rush to try their products.

What’s great about Buko Express is that they do not add water or any other preservatives to their products. We love the taste! The juice is pure and their buko is young so the meat is soft and very appetizing. Their shake is also yummy - pure, fresh and young coconut meat blended with evaporated milk and coconut juice. The customer has the option if he wants his shake sweet or not. 

The juice comes in plastic cups while customers can choose whether to have their shake in cups or in bottles. Their pricing scheme in my opinion is also quite reasonable, their juice range from 22 pesos to 50 pesos per cups and 30 pesos to 75 pesos per bottle. The shake however ranges from 30 pesos to 65 pesos per bottle. Customers also have the option to order additional flavors for their shakes or juice such as buko pandan, strawberry, lychee or ube for only 5 pesos additional fee.

Another thing that fascinates us about Buko Express is their coconut opener – a contraption like machine where buko can be opened without the aid of bolo or any knife. It’s pretty convenient and very hygienic we think since using a machine operated coconut opener has less possibility of juice contamination due to dirty knife or hands compared to manual labor. 

The staff and vendors were cool and courteous and always have a ready smile for everyone so my officemates and I enjoyed dropping by to get our delicious shakes to beat the heat of the weather. The only thing we see as flaw for this great booth is their lack of enough space for customers to sit while waiting for their orders but nonetheless we don’t think we’ll ever be tired of falling in line just to get a sip from this delectable buko store.

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Love Japanese Food? - Dine in at Teriyaki Boy



Location: Teriyaki Boy, 3F Gateway Mall Quezon City Metro Manila and
Teriyaki Boy, Trinoma Mall, EDSA corner North Ave. Quezon City, Metro Manila       

Guddodei zen'in!

Who loves to eat Japanese food? Japanese cuisine has been part of my system. I am more of Japanese food than Western foods which can bloat me up with those calories and high carbohydrates like burgers, pizzas, cakes, and others.

Because of my love to Japanese foods, I have searched and tried many restaurants over the Metro, and found Teriyaki Boy. I used to be dining in with few Japanese restos around the Metro, but it did not make me wow with those until I was led to Teriyaki Boy. 

I can remember my first visit in Teriyaki Boy, Gateway Mall with my cousin, who was the one that introduced me to the place. It was Saturday and pay-day a day before that, so we decided to treat ourselves after those exhausting days at work.  Hmmm! Entering the resto has a thrill feeling because a crew in the entrance is friendly and approachable to assist us find a table. The ambience is kind of modern Japanese, not much of the Japanese culture feel, but it is comforting which is more important. My cousin did suggest and order Gyoza (Php. 110 for 5 pcs.), Tofu steak (Php.155), Ebi Tempura (Php. 170 for 3 pcs.), Gohan and Yakimeshi (then Php. 35. and Php. 48. respectively), and 2 bottomless iced tea. 

When our orders were served, I felt so excited to taste them thinking if I will get disappointed or will be satisfied. So far, the dishes were mouth watering that I felt like I was eating like a cow then. Two weeks after that first experience, we dined in at Teriyaki Boy, Gateway Mall again inviting another cousin of ours. An addition to our frequent orders was Wafu steak (Php. 340). 

The prize may be too costly as compared to Karate Kid, Yoshinoya or Tokyo Tokyo, but definitely it would be worth it. The tofu steak is a superb dish as well as that wafu steak. Of course, I cannot forget that ebi tempura which is so crispy and not greasy unlike other restos. 

I have gone to Teriyaki Boy, Gateway Mall many times and I was not disappointed every time. I also tried going to other Teriyaki Boy branch in Trinoma mall in case I can find a flaw and again it proved me wrong that I can continue recommending Teriyaki Boy to be my best Japanese resto in the Metro. 

Teriyaki Boy, Trinoma Mall is another branch located in EDSA corner North Ave., Quezon City. My first time there was with my ex-boyfriend, and my second time was with my friends. Their tofu steak is no difference in Teriyaki Boy, Gateway Mall, as well as their ebi tempura. I have tasted other dishes like Futo Maki, which is also good, Kani salad, an awesome salad, Unagi Asparagus roll, an asparagus rolled with bacon is a great combination, and Ichigo yogato, a thumbs up strawberry filled yogurt. 

You can try all those and you keep on going back to Teriyaki Boy, I swear.