วันศุกร์ที่ 10 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Kerala Food- Delighting one and all!
Kerala which is popular as the ‘Land of Spices' is unmatched when it comes to cuisine which revolves mainly around its history, demography and geography. For centuries, Kerala has been famous as a destination that offers its visitors a range of diverse culinary delights. Hinduism is the most largely practiced religion in Kerala. However the region is also home to large minorities like Christians and Muslims. A majority of Hindus in Kerala are vegetarians and the minorities are non vegetarians. Therefore, the tempting cuisine found in Kerala is a blend of both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes. Served traditionally on a fresh banana leaf, Kerala cuisine is predominantly made with the use of a variety of spices and coconut. The taste of the delectable range of food found in this part of India is generally hot and spicy yet mouthwatering. Locals use a great deal of vegetables, seafood and meat to prepare these delicious foods. Mostly in the coastal areas of Kerala seafood is considered the main diet while in the northern parts the main diet is meat. Other areas of this exceptional culinary destination use a large quantity of different types of vegetables to prepare their meals. Sadya which is known as the typical ‘Kerala feast' is usually served on a banana leaf and is traditionally consumed by hand. This tempting meal includes rice along with over 14 dishes of vegetables. These dishes include avil, thoren, sambar, olen, kaalen, pachadi, paayasam and many more. Aappam which is a favorite breakfast dish here is a kind of pancake that comes in many varieties. Made from rice flour, puttu is also a popular breakfast dish in Kerala. Other famous morning meals include idi-appam or rice noodles. Kerala is also home to many mouth watering desserts and sweets such as the extremely famous payasam, unniappam, pazham-pori and kozhukkatta. The region also boasts many kinds of chutneys, pickles and other side dishes like banana chips, pappadums, churuttu, cheeda, achappam and many more. Staying at an Ernakulam hotel such as The Gateway Hotel Marine Drive Ernakulam will make discovering Kerala cuisine much more delightful and memorable. This fine hotel features some of the most contemporary amenities for a relaxing yet exciting stay in this captivating corner of the country.
วันพุธที่ 8 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
LG Banana or LG Prada – What Drives you Ahead?
Mobile phone leader LG has launched two of its most stylish products yet – the LG KE850 Prada and the LG SV280 Banana.
Style is one element that dominates our lives in a big way. In everything that human beings engage in, this element is omnipresent, and the presence of a constant human effort to catch up with the current style trend is witnessed predominantly. The aura of this element encapsulates every sector in the book, with a sequentially changing face being the only saving grace of this epidemic. Mobile phone industry being one of the most thriving industry in the present world, it goes without saying that style had to play a major role in it. More than inkling towards their trademark uniqueness, mobile phone manufacturers attempt to fulfil the consumer's style needs through their trendy products. With this aim in mind, mobile phone leader LG has launched two of its most stylish products yet – the LG KE850 Prada and the LG SV280 Banana.
The LG KE850 Prada is the creative fusion of Italian fashion house Prada's design and LG's mobile technology. This stunning beauty of a phone comprises of a 3 Inch TFT colour touch screen that drips class in 240 x 400 pixels. A 2.0 megapixel camera with flash and digital zoom boosts the performance of the LG Prada to catch the attention of the trend aware consumers. With a high quality music player, FM radio, various connectivity channels, and Internet browsers, the LG Prada offers all the works in a highly stylish face to define the future in mobile fashion.
The LG SV280 or the LG Banana is a curvy slider phone that slides open to reveal a lavender scented embedded keypad. The phone showcases a 2 Inch TFT LCD colour screen that supports 240 x 320 pixels, and is one of the prettiest models to have made its way to the market so far. A 1.3 digital megapixel camera with flash has been perched on the phone to provide more than just looks to the users. An innovative feature of the phone is the lighting up if the orange coloured lamps one each side to alert users about calls and messages.
LG has done it again, and by the looks of it, it has done a splendid job out of it.
Style is one element that dominates our lives in a big way. In everything that human beings engage in, this element is omnipresent, and the presence of a constant human effort to catch up with the current style trend is witnessed predominantly. The aura of this element encapsulates every sector in the book, with a sequentially changing face being the only saving grace of this epidemic. Mobile phone industry being one of the most thriving industry in the present world, it goes without saying that style had to play a major role in it. More than inkling towards their trademark uniqueness, mobile phone manufacturers attempt to fulfil the consumer's style needs through their trendy products. With this aim in mind, mobile phone leader LG has launched two of its most stylish products yet – the LG KE850 Prada and the LG SV280 Banana.
The LG KE850 Prada is the creative fusion of Italian fashion house Prada's design and LG's mobile technology. This stunning beauty of a phone comprises of a 3 Inch TFT colour touch screen that drips class in 240 x 400 pixels. A 2.0 megapixel camera with flash and digital zoom boosts the performance of the LG Prada to catch the attention of the trend aware consumers. With a high quality music player, FM radio, various connectivity channels, and Internet browsers, the LG Prada offers all the works in a highly stylish face to define the future in mobile fashion.
The LG SV280 or the LG Banana is a curvy slider phone that slides open to reveal a lavender scented embedded keypad. The phone showcases a 2 Inch TFT LCD colour screen that supports 240 x 320 pixels, and is one of the prettiest models to have made its way to the market so far. A 1.3 digital megapixel camera with flash has been perched on the phone to provide more than just looks to the users. An innovative feature of the phone is the lighting up if the orange coloured lamps one each side to alert users about calls and messages.
LG has done it again, and by the looks of it, it has done a splendid job out of it.
วันอังคารที่ 7 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
All About Banana Plants and their Hybrids
Bananas are the world's favorite fruit and many nations depend on banana trees to supply its citizens with this delicious food product to save them from famines. Bananas are available on markets year round and are rich in vitamins, minerals, and fiber, containing only small hollow seed that are infertile. Ornamental bananas, 'Musa ensete' and 'Musa nana' are inedible but in high demand for landscaping.
India is the world's largest producer of bananas and Alexander the Great found them growing there in 327 BC, when he conquered India. Soldiers of Alexander the Great returned to Greece and Persia with bulbs from banana plants, 'Musa accuminata,' where they were distributed and planted.
Antonius Musa, the personal physician of Augustus Caesar, imported the first banana trees, 'Musa accuminata,' to Rome from Africa in 63 BC. Later, slaves from Portugal brought bananas to Europe from Africa in the early 1400's. Even though the banana is believed to have originated in India, (Eastern Asia), it was established in Africa and Europe as a staple food product many centuries ago and came into North America through Spanish missionaries.
Those first bananas that people knew in antiquity were not sweet like the bananas we know today, but were cooking bananas or plantain bananas with a starchy taste and composition. The bright yellow bananas that we know today were discovered as a mutation from the plantain banana by a Jamaican, Jean Francois Poujot, in the year 1836. He found this hybrid mutation growing in his banana tree plantation with a sweet flavor and a yellow color-instead of green or red, and not requiring cooking like the plantain banana. The rapid establishment of this new exotic fruit was welcomed worldwide, and it was massively grown for world markets.
Bananas are the world's best selling fruit, outselling both apples and citrus; each American is estimated to eat 25 pounds of fruit every day. The 'Cavendish' banana is the most popular banana in the United States and over 400 cultivars of bananas are available on world markets. The leaves of banana trees are used as wrappers for steaming other foods inside, and the banana flower is also edible.
Each banana comes from a flower maturing into groups of 10-20 bananas called "hands" that circle the stalk, which collectively is called a 'bunch.' The bananas can require one year to mature after flowering in the field, and then the mother banana plant dies. The plant is restored the following season by offshoots from the mother plant. An original cluster of banana trees can grow continuously for 100 years, but are generally replaced in banana tree plantations after 25 years. Bananas ripen best and develop more sweetness, if the bunch is removed from the tree, allowing the fruit to ripen off the tree in a shady place to slowly ripen.
The banana tree can grow up to 30 feet tall, and the trunk of the tree grows to a width at the base of over 1 foot. The trunk of the banana plant is made of overlapping sheaths and stems with new growth emerging from the center of the trunk. The size of bananas can range from a fruit the size of a football to one as small as a child's finger. Some bananas taste sweet, some starchy and some ornamental bananas are loaded with large seed and are considered inedible. The color of ripe bananas can range from green, orange, brown, yellow, or variegated with white stripes.
Most banana trees available today are grown from "mother" bulbs by taking offsets that form shoots. Those can be replanted to multiply and increase a banana tree plantation. These banana sprouts that form at the base of the 'mother' bulb can be shipped around the world to many countries, being almost genetically identical to the original banana plant parent of 10,000 years ago that mutated and stopped making seed and became the first naturally evolved hybrid.
Bananas are the largest exported fruit in the world, registering sales of 12 billion dollars a year for Chiquita and Dole. These bananas are imported into the United States from companies and plantations growing banana trees in India, South America and Africa. Many third world countries depend on the production of bananas to feed them as a major food staple, where they eat bananas 3 meals a day. Bananas are rich in sugars such as sucrose, glucose, and fructose, as well as fiber and special minerals containing potassium, phosphorous, magnesium and iron. Bananas contain tryptophan, a body protein that is converted to serotonin, a mood enhancer. They also are high in Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, and Vitamin C. Doctors claim that eating bananas can cut the risk of sudden stroke by 40%, as published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
India is the world's largest producer of bananas and Alexander the Great found them growing there in 327 BC, when he conquered India. Soldiers of Alexander the Great returned to Greece and Persia with bulbs from banana plants, 'Musa accuminata,' where they were distributed and planted.
Antonius Musa, the personal physician of Augustus Caesar, imported the first banana trees, 'Musa accuminata,' to Rome from Africa in 63 BC. Later, slaves from Portugal brought bananas to Europe from Africa in the early 1400's. Even though the banana is believed to have originated in India, (Eastern Asia), it was established in Africa and Europe as a staple food product many centuries ago and came into North America through Spanish missionaries.
Those first bananas that people knew in antiquity were not sweet like the bananas we know today, but were cooking bananas or plantain bananas with a starchy taste and composition. The bright yellow bananas that we know today were discovered as a mutation from the plantain banana by a Jamaican, Jean Francois Poujot, in the year 1836. He found this hybrid mutation growing in his banana tree plantation with a sweet flavor and a yellow color-instead of green or red, and not requiring cooking like the plantain banana. The rapid establishment of this new exotic fruit was welcomed worldwide, and it was massively grown for world markets.
Bananas are the world's best selling fruit, outselling both apples and citrus; each American is estimated to eat 25 pounds of fruit every day. The 'Cavendish' banana is the most popular banana in the United States and over 400 cultivars of bananas are available on world markets. The leaves of banana trees are used as wrappers for steaming other foods inside, and the banana flower is also edible.
Each banana comes from a flower maturing into groups of 10-20 bananas called "hands" that circle the stalk, which collectively is called a 'bunch.' The bananas can require one year to mature after flowering in the field, and then the mother banana plant dies. The plant is restored the following season by offshoots from the mother plant. An original cluster of banana trees can grow continuously for 100 years, but are generally replaced in banana tree plantations after 25 years. Bananas ripen best and develop more sweetness, if the bunch is removed from the tree, allowing the fruit to ripen off the tree in a shady place to slowly ripen.
The banana tree can grow up to 30 feet tall, and the trunk of the tree grows to a width at the base of over 1 foot. The trunk of the banana plant is made of overlapping sheaths and stems with new growth emerging from the center of the trunk. The size of bananas can range from a fruit the size of a football to one as small as a child's finger. Some bananas taste sweet, some starchy and some ornamental bananas are loaded with large seed and are considered inedible. The color of ripe bananas can range from green, orange, brown, yellow, or variegated with white stripes.
Most banana trees available today are grown from "mother" bulbs by taking offsets that form shoots. Those can be replanted to multiply and increase a banana tree plantation. These banana sprouts that form at the base of the 'mother' bulb can be shipped around the world to many countries, being almost genetically identical to the original banana plant parent of 10,000 years ago that mutated and stopped making seed and became the first naturally evolved hybrid.
Bananas are the largest exported fruit in the world, registering sales of 12 billion dollars a year for Chiquita and Dole. These bananas are imported into the United States from companies and plantations growing banana trees in India, South America and Africa. Many third world countries depend on the production of bananas to feed them as a major food staple, where they eat bananas 3 meals a day. Bananas are rich in sugars such as sucrose, glucose, and fructose, as well as fiber and special minerals containing potassium, phosphorous, magnesium and iron. Bananas contain tryptophan, a body protein that is converted to serotonin, a mood enhancer. They also are high in Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, and Vitamin C. Doctors claim that eating bananas can cut the risk of sudden stroke by 40%, as published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 5 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Food recipes for kids
One should eat well to live well. Health plays a very important role in human life that too for kid's healthy food recipes plays a very important role. Kids love to eat delicious food items. It's very important for your kids to maintain a healthy diet because they say "Health is Wealth." So be good and forget that junk food for a while as I bring to you recipes that are healthy, nutrient-rich, high fiber, low fat, low sugar and not to forget delicious. Everyone look in for easy recipes, no one prefer to cook an hour or two. All of you are engaged with your own work and this will help you to prepare a recipe within five minute. So what keeps you waiting? Try your hands at these right now.
Here are some healthy food recipes:
1.Omelets Roll-up: all you need is egg -1, milk - 1 tablespoon, Oil - 1/2 tablespoon, Salt and pepper - a pinch , grated cheese - 1 tablespoon, 1 tortilla. Mix egg, milk, salt and pepper. Heat a pan with the oil to medium-high. Then pour in the egg, and cook for about a minute. Place over the tortilla, and sprinkle on cheese. This is an easy food recipe and you can prepare in 5 minutes.
2. Honey banana shake: all you need is 1 teacup fresh yoghurt, 1 ripe banana, sliced, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon honey, and 3 to 4 ice-cubes. Combine the yoghurt, banana, sugar, honey and ice-cubes in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into 2 glasses and serve cold.
This honey banana shake is ideal for athletes as it is rich in potassium as well as calcium. Potassium prevents muscle cramps while calcium strengthens the bones. Your kids are the budding athlete, engineer, doctor, or may become one of the biggest personalities in future, so give them good diet to keep them fit and healthy.
Creating a nutritional home is one of the most important steps you can take to ensure the health of your child. To start, make smart food choices, and help your child develop a positive relationship with healthy food. Here are some tips for getting children to eat healthy food:
- Do not restrict food
- Keep healthy food at hand
- Don't label foods as good or bad
- Sit down to family dinners at night
- Consult your pediatrician.
A well balanced diet will give your child a good start in life. Those who eat a healthy varied diet are more likely to be full of energy, suffer fewer illnesses and be more attentive at school. Children grow rapidly between the ages of 5 to 12, gaining an average of 5-7.5 in height each year.
Here are some healthy food recipes:
1.Omelets Roll-up: all you need is egg -1, milk - 1 tablespoon, Oil - 1/2 tablespoon, Salt and pepper - a pinch , grated cheese - 1 tablespoon, 1 tortilla. Mix egg, milk, salt and pepper. Heat a pan with the oil to medium-high. Then pour in the egg, and cook for about a minute. Place over the tortilla, and sprinkle on cheese. This is an easy food recipe and you can prepare in 5 minutes.
2. Honey banana shake: all you need is 1 teacup fresh yoghurt, 1 ripe banana, sliced, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon honey, and 3 to 4 ice-cubes. Combine the yoghurt, banana, sugar, honey and ice-cubes in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into 2 glasses and serve cold.
This honey banana shake is ideal for athletes as it is rich in potassium as well as calcium. Potassium prevents muscle cramps while calcium strengthens the bones. Your kids are the budding athlete, engineer, doctor, or may become one of the biggest personalities in future, so give them good diet to keep them fit and healthy.
Creating a nutritional home is one of the most important steps you can take to ensure the health of your child. To start, make smart food choices, and help your child develop a positive relationship with healthy food. Here are some tips for getting children to eat healthy food:
- Do not restrict food
- Keep healthy food at hand
- Don't label foods as good or bad
- Sit down to family dinners at night
- Consult your pediatrician.
A well balanced diet will give your child a good start in life. Those who eat a healthy varied diet are more likely to be full of energy, suffer fewer illnesses and be more attentive at school. Children grow rapidly between the ages of 5 to 12, gaining an average of 5-7.5 in height each year.
วันเสาร์ที่ 4 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Natural Cures for Eczema - The Better Alternative
This is for everyone who suffers from eczema and is tired of spending hundreds of dollars on ointments and creams to no avail. No one wants to wait days, weeks, or even months for their cumbersome prescriptions and over-the-counter stash to clear up their eczema - temporarily. There are safe, alternatives, natural cures for eczema which I'll gladly share with you. Hopefully I can help you find something that will work for you like it did for me.
- Bananas are the answer! Everyone knows that bananas provide potassium that is useful in alleviating the pain of cramps and growing pains. The secret, however, is not found in the yummy part we all in, but rather in the skin. After you eat the banana, rub the inside of the banana peel on the affected area. Keep the banana peel on the affected area for 20-minutes or so - with applying pressure. There's something about banana's that makes them natural cures for eczema.
- Epsom salt baths work wonders to relieve the itching - lotions and creams that contain hydrocortizone and alcohol will quickly dry out the skin.
- Apply Neem Oil to the red rashes on your skin several times a day. This is NOT one of the natural cures for eczema, but after 3-4 days your eczema should be all cleared up.
- Go swimming at your local pool. I know having red, blotchy, dry skin all over can be embarrassing, but UV rays (the sun) and chlorine can heal your eczema. Tanning beds are good for dermatitis too.
- Eliminate dairy, gluten, and whey from your diet you currently have eczema - your eczema will clear up faster.
- Eczema can be due to lack of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Lack of Omega 3's are usually a factor in most skin disorders. Fish Oils are usually best for skin problems. HIGHLY suggested you visit you local pharmacy to pick up some fish oil supplements. Omega 6 & 9 are found more readily in the diet - Omega 3 is not.
I understand how painful and uncomfortable eczema is, because I had eczema. Hopefully, one of these natural cures for eczema will work for you.
If you suffer from Eczema or dermatitis and want a Permanent fix, then you've come to the right place. I've shared my experience at my blog to help others who continue to suffer like I used to.
- Bananas are the answer! Everyone knows that bananas provide potassium that is useful in alleviating the pain of cramps and growing pains. The secret, however, is not found in the yummy part we all in, but rather in the skin. After you eat the banana, rub the inside of the banana peel on the affected area. Keep the banana peel on the affected area for 20-minutes or so - with applying pressure. There's something about banana's that makes them natural cures for eczema.
- Epsom salt baths work wonders to relieve the itching - lotions and creams that contain hydrocortizone and alcohol will quickly dry out the skin.
- Apply Neem Oil to the red rashes on your skin several times a day. This is NOT one of the natural cures for eczema, but after 3-4 days your eczema should be all cleared up.
- Go swimming at your local pool. I know having red, blotchy, dry skin all over can be embarrassing, but UV rays (the sun) and chlorine can heal your eczema. Tanning beds are good for dermatitis too.
- Eliminate dairy, gluten, and whey from your diet you currently have eczema - your eczema will clear up faster.
- Eczema can be due to lack of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Lack of Omega 3's are usually a factor in most skin disorders. Fish Oils are usually best for skin problems. HIGHLY suggested you visit you local pharmacy to pick up some fish oil supplements. Omega 6 & 9 are found more readily in the diet - Omega 3 is not.
I understand how painful and uncomfortable eczema is, because I had eczema. Hopefully, one of these natural cures for eczema will work for you.
If you suffer from Eczema or dermatitis and want a Permanent fix, then you've come to the right place. I've shared my experience at my blog to help others who continue to suffer like I used to.
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 2 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Heartburn Tips - Try These Home Remedies for Heartburn
Heartburn is the common term for pain or burning sensation felt in the chest, just behind the breastbone. It is associated with the acid reflux or the regurgitation of hydrochloric acid from the stomach that burns the esophagus or food tube. In reality, it is not the heart that experiences pain but the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
วันพุธที่ 1 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Healthy Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
Now that the weather is getting to be a bit cooler, I have a strong urge to be busting out my baking supplies and warming up the oven. I mean, who doesn't love the smell of delicious baked goods wafting throughout the house. For me, the quintessential baked good is banana bread. My mother would save loads of overripe bananas in our freezer, waiting to defrost them
to make her delicious easy banana bread recipe. Just thinking of her moist banana bread recipe makes me salivate a little bit.
to make her delicious easy banana bread recipe. Just thinking of her moist banana bread recipe makes me salivate a little bit.
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