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Labels: Fish, Recipe, Vegetables

Are you craving for Italian bread? This recipe is easy to make if you have a bread machine.

Ingredients:
1) 1½ cup warm water
2) 1 tablespoon sugar
3) 2 teaspoon dry yeast
4) 4 ½ cup sifted flour
5) 1 teaspoon salt
6) assorted dried Italian herbs, rosemary, parsley, dill..
7) olive oil
8) shredded cheese
9) sliced black olives

Set bread machine to Dough cycle. Stir ingredients 1-3 until sugar dissolved, and then pour into the bread machine along with ingredients 4-6. Start the machine and let it knead for about 15mins into round dough.
While the machine is kneading, prepare 3 large baking pans greased with olive oil.
Divide dough into 3 and roll each dough flat to put on greased baking pan. Cover the baking pans and let dough rise for about 2 hours.
Turn oven on to 240c. Add shredded cheese and then sliced black olives on top. Bake for 13 mins or until crust turns light brown.
You may keep extra dough in fridge for up to 2 days. Enjoy!

Labels: Recipe, Vegetables

24-Oct-06 Associated Press

Eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old. On measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables.

Labels: Fruits, Vegetables

Remember to wash vegetables and soak in salt water before eating.
Recently there is an outbreak of E. Coli throughout the U.S. linked to consumption of bagged fresh spinach.

Labels: Food to Avoid, Vegetables

Pegaga is scientifically named as Centella Asiatica. Commonly found in Asia, especially Malaysia.
Pegaga plant can easily be grown in soil which needs to water frequently or simply grow in water. Indirect sunlight is the best growing condition.
Blend fresh Pegaga leaves into Pegaga juice and mix with lemon juice or honey to drink. It can act as cooling effects for the body, reduce fever and high blood pressure, reduce tension and body fat, improve blood circulation and memory, clear toxins, promote health and slow down ageing process.
You may also mix Pegaga leaves with rice to cook for improving health.
Apply Pegaga paste directly to the skin can promote healing wounds as anti-inflammatory agent and as anti-aging cream.

Labels: Recipe, Vegetables

According to the Guangzhou media exposition on 5-Aug-2006, Guangzhou's "delicacy preserved veggies" originated from unlicensed workshops. These unlicensed workshops are filthy and stink with overflowed sewage water on ground. Those preserved veggies with mildews on is soaked with industrial poisonous bleach to make it look normal to eat. Daily production of 10 tons inferior preserved veggies is supply to big supermarkets and restaurants locally.
Really scary..

Labels: Food to Avoid, Vegetables

Sunshine Square supermarket is selling frozen green peas coated with green color addictive. The brand is named G New Zealand Green Peas, distributed by Gulf Food Enterprise at 90-C Lorong Perak, 11600 Penang. Beware not to buy this and remember to tell your family and friends.

Labels: Food to Avoid, Vegetables