Chinese Food Culture

A few nice food images I found:

green tea-ramisu 3


Image by chotda
traditional tiramisu recipe made with matcha, japanese green tea

breakfast in Warsaw


Image by marktristan
After many delaying factors, I’m finally getting round to posting these pictures from my Ukraine visit in November/December 2007!

Let’s start with a rather unexpected breakfast in Warsaw.

It only took a 40-minute technical holdup with the LOT aircraft at Heathrow Airport to put my whole travel schedule out of joint. All the other passengers could still make their onward connections in Warsaw, but not the 3 of us bound for Odessa. We were put in a hotel to wait for the next day’s departure.

I was so disappointed, particularly as I had arranged a visit to the Orphanage the following morning, and I was only scheduled to spend 36 hours in Odessa anyway… here goes 24 of them at a hotel in Warsaw. I’ve nothing against Warsaw but it wasn’t where I hoped to spend any of my trip. The other two passengers has similar situations so the adversity made companions of us.

But there were blessings in it too, since the stopover did give me the chance of
*) a good sleep,
*) a long leisurely bath,
*) and breakfast …. haha! – when the chap knocked on the door at 8am with breakfast, I was just staggered. Is this the breakfast for 2 people? Or perhaps it’s normal in Warsaw to be treated like a king? I was really grateful anyway; the only regret being that I had less than half an hour to sit back and enjoy it!

Does red make me look fat?


Image by theilr

A few nice dishes images I found:

green mold – and YELLOW!


Image by frankenstoen

Penguin Bowl


Image by ariari
A diameter of 27 centimeters
8 centimeters high

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It’s a bit bumpy


Image by pelikanol
This is the first thing I made with glass. Hopefully it’ll get better.

A few nice food images I found:

Fruit From Hurricane Irene (green acorns)


Image by woodleywonderworks
We went to the park yesterday and saw hurricane irene had knocked down scads of green acorns. I’m wondering if this early dump of acorns will lead to a deficit of squirrel food this winter. We should be so lucky.

Frederick Isabella’s Sandwich


Image by Mr. T in DC
My grilled turkey sandwich at Isabella’s Taverna & Tapas Bar, at 44 N. Market Street, Frederick, MD. It was tasty, and pretty healthy, with the whole grain bread, lettuce & tomato. I couldn’t quite get the WB correct, the lighting was very poor in the restaurant.

Blogged:
blog.hunterscove.myaptportal.com/food/polish-up-sandwiches/

Makin’ Whoopie, I


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I keep seeing prepackaged whoopie pies in the cafeteria at the office, but generally stay away because I know they’d more than triple the calorie intake of my usual lunch. But, I’ve had a craving, and even though I seriously doubt these are any better for me than the prepackaged ones at the office, here we are.

Of course, I couldn’t just make one kind of whoopie pie, I had to play with the recipe a little, and ended up making four different kinds: chocolate whoopies filled with peanut butter cream, an almost-traditional whoopie with red velvet cakes and marshmallow cream filling, ���orange creamsicleâ�� whoopies, and a lemon-ginger whoopie with green tea filling. I made a half of each Recipe below. I’m from New England, so these are Maine-style whoopies, which means using made-in-Massachusetts Marshmallow Fluff in the filling. The Amish may balk at that, but they aren’t eating these.

In terms of photography, I just tried to take advantage of the waning light of the day and shot them out on the patio. Once again, I’m being wishy-washy and posting 3 different takes on them that I liked roughly equally, although I might ever-so-slightly prefer the slightly-askew shot in “Makin’ Whoopie, III”.

Ingredients

Traditional Chocolate Whoopie Cake

1/2 c. solid vegetable shortening
1 c. firmly-packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 c. unsweetened dutch process cocoa powder
2 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 c. whole milk

Red Velvet Chocolate Whoopie Cake

Identical to traditional chocolate, but add 2 tbl. (1 oz.) red food coloring to batter

Lemon-Ginger Whoopie Cake

1/2 c. solid vegetable shortening
1 c. sugar
1 egg
2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
zest of 1 lemon
1 tsp. ginger powder
1" piece of fresh ginger, grated
2 tsp. lemon extract
2 tbl. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. yellow food coloring
1 c. whole milk

Orange Whoopie Cake

1/2 c. solid vegetable shortening
1 c. sugar
1 egg
2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
zest of 1 orange
2 tsp. orange extract
2 tbl. orange juice
1/2 tsp. yellow food coloring
5-6 drops red food coloring
1 c. whole milk

Traditional Marshmallow Cream Whoopie Filling

1 c. solid vegetable shortening
1 1/2 c. confectioner’s sugar
2 c. Marshmallow Fluff
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Peanut Butter Cream Whoopie Filling

Identical to traditional filling, with 1/2 c. smooth peanut butter added

Green Tea Whoopie Filling

Identical to traditional filling, with 2 tsp. matcha powder added

Directions

For the cakes

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Cream shortening and sugar together until light & fluffy. Add egg and beat to combine.

In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients well. Put milk in measuring cup and add other liquids to the milk (if using lemon or orange juice, hold these out separate to prevent curdling the milk.) While continuing to beat the sugar mixture, alternate adding the dry ingredients and milk in 3-4 batches. Add the lemon or orange juice last if using.

Portion out onto parchment-lined baking sheets in either 1.5 oz. or 1/4 c. portions (I usually do the 1.5 oz. portions since I have a cookie scoop that size.) Using the back of a spoon or an offset spatula, spread the batter out to a 3" (1.5 oz portion) or 4" (1/4 c. portion) circle, and bake for 12-15 minutes, rotating pans midway through cooking, until firm to the touch. Transfer on parchment to cooling racks and allow to cool completely.

For the fillings

Beat together shortening and sugar until well-combined, add Fluff and vanilla (and other flavorings if using) and whisk until light & fluffy.

Assembly

Pair up your cakes so that you haveಌ or 9 like-sized pairs. Put a dollop of filling on one cake from a pair, then top with the other cake.

Makes 12 medium or 9 large whoopie pies. I think these are best with a cold glass of milk. They’re best stored individually-wrapped in the fridge, or can be bagged after wrapping and frozen.

A few nice food images I found:

ginger cilantro green shake


Image by elana’s pantry
The idea for this green smoothie comes from the amazing Sarma of oneluckyduck.com. I recently purchased her book Living Raw Food and am loving it. While some of the recipes can be complex, she has many that can be made in minutes.

This Ginger Cilantro Shake is a hybrid of her Cilantro-Pineapple Shake and her Bangkok Baby. Here is my version, a nice healthy green drink for Saint Patrick’s day.

When it is Raining Outside


Image by Sam Breach
Find Comfort in Eggs:
This picture was taken on Dec 1st 2005, looking out of the window onto a rainy, stormy day in San Francisco.
Check via the following link for more details and a pseudo-Recipe:
becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/2005/12/comfort-food-for-rainy…

Why Eat the Ugly Apple?


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These posters are part of a project I had to do for class. Unfortunately, the project…um, kinda fell by the wayside and my partner and I need reactions to it. NOOOOW.

Our project was to make some kind of marketing campaign to raise awareness about local, sustainable agriculture as opposed to…well, the other stuff. Agribusiness, produce that comes from a bagillion miles away, etc.

We’re not in a graphic design course, so we’re not looking for responses about the design as much as the message. (Yeah, they’re both important and we like suggestions, but our project is focused on food, not design.) Since most of your are probably food-minded, you might already know about farmer’s markets and why it’s better to eat local food.

…But if you’re not so food minded, would these posters incite any interest? We tried to make it somewhat eye-catching and mildly professional.

We plan to print up a bunch of copies and hang them up…somewhere. We don’t know. SOMEWHERE AROUND NYU. If you have suggestions, let me know. Hell, feel free to print this out and hang it up somewhere. If you’re bored.

OMG PEOPLE PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE MESSAGE! If you don’t care about the message, you can even say that! It’s okay!

Okay, after the lack of response about the message (MAYBE YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT LOCAL FARMS ALREADY…WHICH IS COOL) I guess this isn’t…really doing anything in that department, in which case it doesn’t seem worth it to print these out and post them? Which I guess we have to do..really soon. Oops. Ah! Um. Yeah, this project wasn’t well planned.

by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast

Green in the application of food additives – food additives, additives, green food – Food Industry  

Article by hi joiney

green is clean, safe and nutritious collectively, these ingredients on the growing conditions are stringent requirements, the implementation of “environmentally friendly” production conditions, in the processing of ingredients are specific standard. for example, a special green production guidelines for the use of additives in from the land to the table in the process of organic s can coordinate environment? resources? process? healthy relationship, the development of industry in this century one of the main directions. green in the international community has the following title: 1. organic , 2. ecological , 3. natural . in china due to environmental, health-related things often labeled green, so to introduce the concept, they will be called “green “, and? straight ones to be used, now that title has been firmly established. the implementation of green production in the two standards: one is a grade 2 is aa level, the product, industry structure after 10 years of practice, proved to be consistent with china’s national conditions, but also with international standards. in the cultivation, processing both our country have provided a level and aa grade green manufacturing practices, made signs for on a regular basis to review and inspection is, therefore processing of green is strictly required. the following highlight the use of additives. in the green production and processing, a class, aa-class products as the product itself or production needs, can be used additives in the aa level green only allows the use of natural additives, do not allow the use of artificial chemical synthetic additives, in a grade green synthetic chemical can be used in additives, but may not use the following products: <1) of potassium ferrocyanide. (2) 4? has resorcinol. (3) sulfur. (4) aluminum potassium sulfate. (5), aluminum ammonium sulfate. (6), erythrosine. (7), erythrosine aluminum colored tablets. (8) new red. (9) new red aluminum color lakes. (10) titanium dioxide. (11) caramel color (asian ammonium sulfate. plus ammonia production). (12) sodium (potassium). ྭ) of sodium nitrite (k). (14) span 80. (15) span 40. (16) span 20. (17) tween 80. (18) tween 20. (19) tween 40. (20), benzoyl peroxide. (2) potassium bromate. (22) benzoic acid. (23) sodium benzoate. (24) ethoxyquin. (25) etal. (26) cinnamaldehyde. (27) thiabendazole. (28) hydrogen peroxide (or sodium percarbonate). (29) b-naphthol. (30) diphenyl ether. (31) 2? phenylphenol sodium salt. (32) 4? phenyl phenol. (33) glutaraldehyde. (34) new clean and off. (35) 2,4? dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. (36) and saccharin sodium. (37) ring amino ethyl sodium. in green production, can be a reasonable use of additives in accordance with national standards, this is because, in addition to health, fresh, and in sterile conditions can be achieved in commercial production, storage, non-packaged , the processed must direct or indirect, more or less use of additives, take the salt of this material, for example, our statutory elements in the salt iodization, and added iodine enhancer is in a class of additives. therefore, green production enterprises, especially the production and processing products. you can use green production standards in the permitted additives. additives is to improve quality and color, smell, taste, shape, nutritional value, as well as the need for preservation and processing into or chemical synthesis of natural materials, green processing products, in production should be higher level, the rational use of additives, has developed a variety of colors and varieties of products constant innovation to meet consumer needs, green processing enterprises under the current view of the problems reflected, in the use of additives are mainly the following two issues: first, because the safety of additives, the misunderstanding of, people tend to think that natural than synthetic chemical additive safety, the toxicity of the actual number of natural products because of the current detection means to detect the contents of the limited still can not make accurate judgments, and that comparison of the results already detected, a natural additive is not toxic than synthetic small. ministry of health issued a “health raw materials for further standardize the management notice”, the following natural ingredients disabled: octagonal lotus, soil aoki spring anisodus, sichuan birds fangchi, coriaria leaves, periwinkle, lycoris , cinnabar, yew, red fennel, digitalis, toad venom, etc. 59. therefore, the production of green processing and production plant in the use of natural additives must be a reasonable amount of control. effects of natural additives in many ways to use less synthetic chemical additives, use of technology demands a high level, so use carefully study and master the application of natural additives, processing conditions, shall not be exceeded to achieve some effects added . although the higher value-added green , but still need to control the product cost, because the generally higher price of natural additives, requiring manufacturers to improve their own green r & d ability, scientific use of natural additives, complex technology can reduce additive use and update products, additives mixture can create synergy between the various additive role in the industry, known as the “synergy”, “synergy” is not the sum of the results, the majority of cases can have a “multiplying” results, can significantly reduce the use of additives in , reduce costs, the recent china for additives mixed regulations could have a major adjustment, the green processing enterprises may wish to produce a corresponding process technology innovation, so that the use of green additives to improve efficiency. additives are most active in the industry r & d, development, and improve the content of one of the fastest growing, and many additives in purity, to improve the use efficiency aspects of fast, such as enzyme, the vitality of many products, the effectiveness of such use or even every quarter, year after year all new developments. so green processing enterprises should always pay attention to the development of new additives industry trends and constantly improve product processing level of use of food additives.

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Some cool food images:

Miniature Food – Breezy Blue Green Fruit Tart Slice


Image by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast
I tried something a bit new

handmade by me out of polymer clay

Miniature Food Potage


Image by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast

Miniature Food Sushi Earrings


Image by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast
polymer clay
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