Fresh Food

Been to South Africa without tasting foods known unique signature is like visiting Paris without sampling the pleasures escargot (snail meat). Do not be surprised if the menu the food served at many local restaurants, you’ll find the “crocodile sirloin” or “fried caterpillars” to “sheep head soup”. All three are typical food that’s worth a try while in there. And I’m sure you’ll recognize that these three unique types of food, it appeared to have exceptional taste!

Other typical foods are worth a try are biltong (dried salted beef), bobotie (a type of pie) and boerewors (a type of grilled sausages). Do not miss also the sensation of marinated Ostrich carpaccio, oxtail ravioli with saffron cream sauce or Tandoori crocodile.

As a country which for several centuries under the rule of the nations occupying successive western region, South Africa is currently full of multicultural richness that rely on tourism as one of the largest suppliers of foreign exchange for his country. Because of that you need not worry i can not find various foods ‘normal’ other. Major cities in South Africa has a collection of various kinds of international restaurants that serve food a la Chinese, Japanese, Moroccan, French, Portuguese, Malay and Indian food in addition to typical Greek food, Brazilian, and Korean.

You like to eat ice cream? Surely you are familiar with the ice cream flavours chocolate, strawberry, vanilla ice cream and various other fruit flavours. Unlike in Japan. Japan produces a variety of ice cream that tastes unique.

1. Ice cream flavours cactus (Saboten Aisu)
Ice cream is very smooth and refreshing taste. It was like getting sanity itself after being in the wilderness for days. Ice cream also has properties that are good for health.

2. Ice cream flavours of chicken wings (Nagoya Tebasaki)
Derived from the famous Nagoya area with ranch chicken, ice cream was used as a culinary tourism promotion there. This ice cream taste like chicken wings you usually buy at the restaurant.

3. Ice cream flavour crab (Kani Aisu)
Ice cream comes from Hokkaido is famous for its sea of ??the crab. No wonder that the locals make the kind of ice cream.

4. Ice cream flavour eel (Unagi Aisu)
Eels are very popular during the summer in Japan. That is why the ice cream company Futaba decided to use it as a flavour of ice cream. It feels pretty good, especially if you do not think comes from what you eat ice cream.

5. Ice cream flavour fish (Sanma Aisu)
Saltwater fish is very famous in Japan, for that ice cream was created. Ice cream that is issued by Kimura Shoten company is not smelling fishy. This is because the smell of fish have been neutralized by the use of brandy.

6. Octopus ice cream flavour (Taco Aisu)
Japan uses an octopus for many things, one of which is to be eaten. The tentacle section used as ice cream.

7. Ice cream flavour shrimp (Sakura Ebi Aisu)
There is also a sense of sea animals other than the above flavours, namely shrimp ice cream flavour.

8. Wasabi ice cream flavour
Ice cream is totally different from regular ice cream that tastes sweet. Ice cream is very spicy taste, like the taste of wasabi that we usually eat at sushi restaurants.

How much food is wasted in the world because it can not be consumed? The amount is staggering, the world food agency (FAO) found a third of the world’s food is wasted each year, an amount sufficient for food in Africa.

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) United Nations found that wasted food is coming from wealthy countries and developing countries.

Foods that are failing it is consumed fruits, vegetables and tubers food. Food was removed by the seller and consumer in the trash due to low quality standards and have passed the expiration date.

Foods that are dumped in developing countries because there is an error during the process of poor harvests, poor distribution and poor storage. As a result of food so easily damaged and wasted.

While in developed countries, food is thrown away because consumers often buy in large quantities or exceeds the requirements. The seller and the consumer will also discard food that the packaging is damaged even though just a little.

If the packaging is damaged little or no standards, consumers or sellers in developed countries would immediately throw it away.

Researchers from the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK) for the Save the Food! conducted a study to generate some important discoveries, as quoted from FAO.org:

Developed and developing countries about throwing food in the same amount respectively 670 and 630 million tons.

Every year, junk food from rich countries as much as 222 million tons, the amount is similar to food production in sub-Saharan African countries amounting to 230 million tons.

The most frequent types of wasted food is fruit, vegetables and tubers food.

The amount of food is lost or wasted every year the equivalent of more than half the cereal crop in the world (2.3 billion tonnes in 2009/2010).

Waste of food by consumers in Europe and North America about 95-115 kg per year, whereas in sub-Saharan African countries, South and Southeast Asia about 6-11 kg per year.

Unknown number of food production per capita for people in rich countries about 900 kg per year, this number is almost double compared to production in poor countries is around 460 kg per year.

Solution given by the researchers is to reduce dependence on the retailer that can help reduce wasted food scraps and suggesting to sell agricultural products directly to consumers.

As for developing countries the key lies in strengthening the food supply chain, encourage investment in infrastructure and transportation as well as increased interest in processing, storage and packaging.

Consumers are also asked to change the shoping pattern not to buy food exceeds his needs, so do not throw food over the limit due to expiration.

For you who love pizza, if you have any free time, you can try to make yourself at home. You can also compare it with style pizza restaurant.

Find out how to make the following tips:

Make the dough
Components required to make big pizza dough, of course. Pizza dough requires only a few ingredients like flour, water, yeast, salt, sugar, oil, and spices. These materials must be mixed together, kneaded and handled correctly.

Perfect sauce
After the dough is completed, then it’s time to make the sauce. Making pizza sauce by hand is not as difficult as it seems, and again it will make you a much better sauce. It is highly recommended to use tomatoes in the process immediately. Can also use canned tomato paste.

Variations of cheese
There are many different varieties and types of cheese in the world today. Getting the right mix of cheese for pizza is quite difficult. Therefore, choose the standard cheese, e.g. mozzarella.

Topping
It is better for you to choose the topping that you really like, such as beef pepperoni, sausage, seafood, or vegetables such as peppers.

Ingredients:
* 750 grams of potatoes
* 3 tablespoons cooking oil
* 2 pcs onions, sliced ??1 cm dice
* 2 cloves garlic, mashed
* 75 grams of salami, sliced ??1 cm dice
Btr * 4 eggs, beaten off
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 tsp pepper

Processing Method:
* Potatoes peeled and cut into 2 cm dice.
* Boil potatoes until tender. Add 1 / 2 tsp salt. Remove and drain. Set aside.
* Saute onions until fragrant. Enter potatoes, salami, salt, and pepper. Stir – stir briefly.
* Heat the oil, pour the beaten eggs. After a bit harsh, enter potato. stir up the bottom of dry egg.
* Enter the pan in the oven, bake until the top is dry.

African food is rarely recognized by the public. I wonder why huh? Then we can know the reason, mending our first look at what the hell wrote yuk foods typical of the region known as the “black continent” it.

Mopane caterpillars

Mopane is a type of moth found only in South Africa. Mopane caterpillars are considered as uniquely delicious food. These caterpillars collected in the wild, squeezed and squeezed to remove fluid that is in the caterpillar. After the last push, the caterpillar then collected to be dried in the sun or with a curing process to add flavor.

Dried caterpillars are then eaten raw as a snack, or soaked first and then cooked with vegetables. According to those who never ate, it did not seem much different from green tea leaves.

Weevil larvae

Weevil is a kind of beetle found in much of Africa is the Dark Continent. In countries such as Nigeria, this beetle larvae called grubs Sagoo. Larvae can reach 10 cm by 3 cm wide, with a very high fat content.

The locals will tell you that Nigeria is the larva larva most delicious thing you’ll feel. Make sure that the larvae are taken from the sago tree, then set up this way split, washed and fried to a perfect pleasure. Want (or rather, brave) try? O well, the next challenge: eat raw and alive. People of Nigeria, was fond of eating these foods once in a life-living conditions.

Fried Grasshoppers

Maybe this is the way people in Africa revenge against destructive pests of this crop (You eat my plants, I eat you), yes if it may be likened to that. According to the Nigerian people, it was tasty! Read the rest of this entry »

Pizza is a typical Italian food. Many people love the pizza as a snack, or even a main meal at dinner. It would be nice if we could make your own pizza. Of course, to be able to make a delicious pizza, we need a tasty pizza recipes. Here is a pizza recipe that we might try at home. The basic ingredients are flour pizza. To make a fruit pizza, we need 3 cups of flour.

Other materials that we will need is warm water, salt, sugar, baking soda (be of any brand like Fermipan for example), or olive oil can be replaced with sunflower oil, and baking paper. Use olive oil because oil is somewhat not too fatty. Of course, knowledge of the pizza recipes are not enough without we can process it properly.

How to make pizza, Italian pizza in this case is by mixing the materials. The first should be mixed is flour, sugar and salt. We mix until evenly distributed and then we add warm water earlier. We also add the olive oil. We mix until evenly distributed. Finally, we enter into the batter fermipan. The next process in making italian pizza is kneading dough. We have to knead the dough for about 20 minutes.

One little thing that really matters is in the process of this kneading the dough we must use our hands. This will determine the success or failure of the pizza-making. After 20 minutes, we press the dough, if it expands again, the dough ready for further processing. After completion stage of kneading, we put the dough in a bowl that has been spread with oil and closed, also to wait for the dough again. After approximately one hour, the dough is ready. We split into 3 parts for the three pieces of pizza. We flatten over the baking paper.

The next step is to fill in the pizza with a variety of materials that we want. Generally, melted mozzarella cheese that can be used as a basis to bind all the ingredients that will be sown over the pizza like bacon, chunks of vegetables like bell peppers, pineapple, or the other. Finally, we close mozzarella cheese as a topping to bind all the ingredients. Indonesian has its own pizza creations. What is the difference italian pizza and pizza Indonesia? Italian version should be baked on a traditional grill. Is thinner pizza oven until the dough will harden. Indonesia is thicker and pizza baked in a conventional oven.

Dutch society like eating fish. One type of fish they consume are herring (herring) were caught from the North Sea.

Fresh herring soaked with salt water, removed the head and bones, then served raw. Because the herring that was eaten raw can be spelled ‘The sushi of Holland’.

How to eat it is to lift the tail by hand, then put it into his mouth with his head thrown back. Unique too huh?

In Vlaggetjesdag site, stated that the process of cleansing the bowels herring there are certain techniques: the pancreas of fish had not been issued. The technique was invented by Willem Beukelszoon in 1380. That pancreatic enzymes let the fish ripen.

Herrings have been ‘involved’ in Dutch history. In the year 1572, with a commandeered Philip IV, the Spanish army besieging the city of Leiden. The siege which lasted for five months (May to October) to make citizens of the city of Leiden starvation. However, King William van Orange managed to suppress and expel the Spanish army. Leiden Residents also celebrate by eating bread with herring.

Until now, it’s still a historic event is commemorated every year on October 3. Various activities were held on that date. One of them was eating bread and herring along at 6 am in the Office of City Hall. Leiden city government was providing bread and raw herring for free to the public.

Places to eat herring can also be seen in the herring season, which begins on Saturday at the end of May. That day is called Vlaggerjesdag which means Day of the Flag. Ships of various sizes decorated with the Dutch flag at the port of Scheveningen, near The Hague. Communities around wearing traditional clothing and dancing accompanied by local traditional music. The event is now the main attraction of foreign tourists.

A site mentions, there are three reasons why you should try herring:

- It feels good
- Herring contain omega-3 levels higher than salmon.
- A Dutch woman who had attained the age of 115 said that the secret to longevity is to “keep breathing and eating herring ‘.

So, if the Netherlands, do not forget to taste the herring yes! =)

Traditional cuisine in Singapore is very diverse. Limited land and natural resources the country does not prevent this little man to have a collection of various kinds of good food that is very distinctive and highly hunted by foreign tourists. We will tell how unique culinary charm in one of the strongest economies in the world.

Initially Singapore is a district located in the Malaysian royal power. When Sir Stamford Raffles landed here in 1819, the region is then used as the headquarters of government as well as trade centres of the British Empire in Southeast Asia. This invites a lot of immigrants from various parts of the world, including the migrants from China, Europe and India who brought with them customs and habits, including the culinary riches of the country respectively. Migrants is then to have contributed to enrich the culinary Singapore as it is today.

Singapore’s culinary tastes that we know today is actually the result of combination of different types of food carried by migrants is almost 200 years ago. Acculturation process that runs smoothly among immigrants produces various types of new foods cross-cultural hybrid.

Local authorities currently expertly manage and expose their unique culinary flavour that is owned by his country to become a source of income, particularly from the post of tourism, so this type of food that even the simplest successfully raised its popularity to the world level.

Singapore society most will not be able to ‘resist’ the spicy foods. Therefore, most of the food in Singapore has a characteristic spicy flavour. Even for foods such as carrot cake though, is always served with a small dish of chilli sauce or chilli cut into small pieces. Read the rest of this entry »