Pecel

Pecel is the typical food from Madiun East Java Indonesia made of vegetable stew of spinach, bean sprouts, long beans, basil, leaves turi, krai (a type of cucumber) or other vegetables are served with a sauce poured pecel.

The concept is similar pecel dish with a salad for the Europeans, which is fresh vegetables flushing with mayonnaise topping. And pecel topping sauce.

The main ingredient of chilli pecel is peanuts and cayenne pepper mixed with other ingredients such as lime leaves, onion, sour Java, pepper and salt.

Pecel often served with peanut peanut brittle, peanut brittle plates of shrimp or rice. Also pecel also usually served with warm white rice plus chicken. Could serve in a plate or in a folded leaf called pincuk. These dishes like gado-gado, although there are differences in the materials used.

The spicy taste of pecel that sting became characteristic of this dish.

In many region in Java - Indonesia, pecel often laced with ingredients (vegetables) that smells stimulate. Among them, sprinkled with seeds or chopped flowers Lamtoro Etlingera (Nicolaia spp.) That have been steamed.

Pecel names have different meanings in the Indoensian place.. like Slawi, Tegal, Central Java. Pecel not presented in the form of vegetables, but the shape of rujak.

Pecel version Slawi area consists of fresh fruits such as guava, pineapple, papaya, and mango and doused with a thick brown sugar sauce.

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Safe Plastic Symbols For Food

In everyday life the plastic has a very important role. Usually encountered as a plastic packaging containers, beverage bottles, furniture, toys. But did you know that not all plastics safe? How to identify a safe plastic? What is the Safe Plastic Symbols For Food?

In general, plastics are classified into 2 kinds of Thermoset and Thermoplastics. Thermoset is a type of plastic that can not be recycled such as melamine, electrical equipment (switches, sockets, etc.). While Thermoplastics are the types of plastic can be recycled as food wrappers, bags plastic, toys (Polyethylene), toys (Polyethylene), etc..

One of good advantages of plastic, is strong, lightweight, flexible, corrosion resistant, heat insulation / electrical good, can also be easily formed to various functions and easy to be color. But besides that, the weakness is also quite a lot of plastic. Some types of plastic can not stand the heat conditioned and include it takes tens to hundreds of years to decompose naturally. Even if not used according to its function, the chemicals contained therein could endanger health.

Therefore, it's very important to know what must be considered to identify a safe plastic containers primarily for the food?

Specially, if you were daily working with food, cooking, culinary, having a cooking courses, cooking class or even if you are just a food addict, culinary addict or food lovers.

Now to select the container of food and beverage packaging is safe is simple enough. This can be seen from standard symbols issued by security authorities institutions, such as the FDA (Food & Drugs Administration), EFSA (European Food Safety Authority), SPI (Society of Plastic Industry).

Then, what symbols should we know and be seen in the plastic packaging? Symbol 'Food Grade' a glass and fork symbols indicating that the container is safe to use for food and beverages. And vice versa if there is a symbol of 'Non-Food Grade' in the form of glass and fork crossed out indicate that we should avoid to use food and beverage containers.

Symbol 'microwave safe' (wavy lines) and the 'oven save' (drawing oven) indicates the containers are safe to use in the microwave and oven for resistance to high temperatures, and vice versa. Whereas the symbol 'freezers save' the image indicates that frost is safe containers used to store food and beverages in a low temperature. Other symbols as for the 'cut-save' (drawing the knife) is intended only as a safe container for cutting food materials.

Considering the price of your health and the family is more expensive and valuable than anything else, start now, please be aware of plastic!

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Hamburger

Many people mistakenly believing that the name comes from the word Hamburger "Ham", but actually the name comes from the city of Hamburg in Germany, where this food comes from.

From the second largest city in Germany is a lot of people who emigrated to America and spread it over burgers.

Just a coincidence that the word "[ham]" which in English means that the bacon has a similar sound with a hamburger, a hamburger does not contain facts Ham (although there are also restaurants that add sliced Ham on their burgers to add flavor).

Hamburger (or often referred to as a burger) is a type of food in the form of round bread sliced in half and filled with patty in the midle, usually made from meat, and vegetables of lettuce, tomatoes and onions. For the sauce, burgers were given various types of sauces such as mayonnaise, ketchup and chili sauce and mustard.

Some variants also have a burger with cheese, pickles, and other supplementary materials such as sausage and Ham.

So it literally can be concluded that the meaning of the word hamburger means "food that comes from Hamburg" and not mean "food containing Ham".

But in practice, burgers or hamburgers more often interpreted as a sandwich or other type of sandwich round.

In community said burgers are more attached to the type of food than the origin and creator of the burger.

Now that a lot of hamburgers sold by a network of fast-food restaurants in various countries, but the most famous of all the restaurants that sell hamburgers in the world is McDonalds with their Big Mac, Burger King, A & W and Wendy's.

Burger consumption worldwide is very popular because of the delicious taste and practicality, a hamburger can be eaten as he was taken to walk, but it was a hamburger commercials on television broadcasts, often imaging hamburgers as food in accordance with modern times and that demand was increasing.

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Pudding

Pudding comes from French, Boudin which means "blood sausage", from Latin, botellus which means "little sausage".

The term used pudding to medieval Europe of the meat dishes wrapped.

Not all the puddings are sweet, suet pudding (pudding fat) is a kind of "pudding" of beef wrapped in pie dough from flour mixed with sheep fat or beef fat.

In the United Kingdom, the term "pudding" is often used for dessert made of eggs and flour, and cooked by steaming, boiling, or baking.

But now, more identical pudding as a sweet dessert.

Pudding is the name for a variety of desserts that are made from materials that boiled, steamed, or baked. Pudding term is also used for various kinds of pies containing animal fats, meat, fruit or baked goods.

Pudding is a type of dessert that has a lot of fans. If you think pudding can only be made by simply made from gelatin, you're wrong. Pudding could be made with various materials for these materials have the right character.

Pudding with raw milk (yogurt), cornstarch, tapioca, or eggs served after the first cooling. This pudding with perisa sweet chocolate, caramel, vanilla, or fruit.

Gelatinous pudding made by mixing gelatin with milk, cornstarch, or scrambled eggs.

Gelatin pudding often served with a sauce called VLA. Instant pudding powder allows people to make the pudding because it only needs to be mixed milk or hot water.

Ready to put your hand on pudding??

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