IMAM SAHID FOOD COURT

Fasting Healthy Menus

2011-08-07T16:25:00.000-07:00

Most people have a tendency to overeat in the month of fasting, especially in the month of Ramdhan dish usually made full and special. In fact, just a delicious dish without complying with a healthy eating style and the principles of balanced nutrition can make a fast get messy.

In addition to easy to become drowsy and limp body, break and meal menus unhealthy cholesterol levels can also make the jump. To keep the body fit and stamina during their fasting, see the tips menu and meal break of dr.Phaidon L. Toruan, Nutritionist following sports:When the meal:

Prioritizing water, vitamins, and electrolytes. That is, drinking water and fruit, or fruit juices without sugar. Coconut water is also allowed. The way to drink coconut water first, and because of the nature of electrolytes in coconut water, then we will still proceed with a new feel thirsty to drink water. When we lose sleep the body weight 1-2 kg, and it is water. So get started fast with a restoration fluid is a good step.- Select the main menu which consists of complex carbohydrates like brown rice, sweet potatoes, spaghetti, green beans or porridge with palm sugar. This type of carbohydrate is more "durable" in making the blood sugar stable, so the mood to be relatively better.
Do not forget the fiber, whether from vegetables or fruit. In addition to cleaning the colon, fiber is the "natural broom" that helps clean the remaining flesh in between the intestine.
Choose healthy fats or oils that are not fried, such as olive, coconut oil or flaxseed oil. For example in the form of hot sauce. Fat makes food in the stomach movement becomes slow, making it more resistant hungry. However, if diasup fried oil, both of prepared foods purchased the night before, or fry immediately, then we enter into free radicals in our bodies. As a result the benefits of fasting is physiologically reduced.

When Breaking:

Drink a natural sweetness without sugar. Coconut water, fruit juice, melon or watermelon and other fruits. Avoid refined sugar because it will cause the yo-yo effect on the scales later in the Feast, and the impact of poor health
Complex carbohydrates would be better plus the food is not fried. White rice, and fried foods will make a sleepy time tarawih. Fried blood oxygen binding to 20%
After breaking the fast, consume more water. Try to start fasting until sleep for at least 1 liter of water entry.

Fried Rice Cheese Recipe

2011-06-23T10:09:00.000-07:00

Material:

2 tablespoons margarine

2 cloves garlic, crushed, finely chopped

50 g onion, finely chopped

100 g chicken, cut into small dice

1 leek, cut into 1 cm

200 g carrots, diced 1 cm, boiled briefly

1 / 2 teaspoon ground pepper

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon soy sauce

300 g rice 100 g Cheddar cheese,

grated

Method:

Heat the margarine until melted. Add the garlic and onion, stirring until wilted andfragrant.

Enter the chicken and scallions. Stir until the chicken meat stiff.

Add the carrots, pepper, salt, soy sauce, and rice. Stir until well blended and slightly dry.

Lift. Sprinkle with grated cheese.

Serve warm.

For 3 people

Tips Storing Food in the Fridge

2011-06-20T20:34:00.001-07:00

1. Refrigerators have two compartments of different functions: refrigerator and freezer with termperatur each max 4 ° C and -4 ° C.

2. Basically, the food or food ingredient that is stored in the refrigerator will remain for decay if stored over a predetermined shelf life. Refrigerator serves to slow the decay process, not eliminate. So make sure the electricity is stable and good maintenance in order to keep the refrigerators running task with excellence.

3. Always store materials that have been cleaned. Do not forget to use a sealed plastic containers for meat, fish, fruit and dairy products (butter, yogurt, fresh milk & cheese)

4. Never use a container made of metal for a long time. Type of metal that is safe, if forced to use it, is stainless steel and should still be sealed in order to avoid unwanted reactions from food contact and metal.

5. Do not keep cooked foods that are new and still heat directly into the refrigerator. In addition to speed up the spoiled food due to uneven cooling, it is also damaging the refrigerator itself.

6. For fruit and vegetables, use a perforated plastic bag for ventilation in order to survive long. A sealed plastic bag causes the rapid decay of fruit and vegetables because there is no air flow.

7. If using a freezer to store food and food ingredients together, place the cooked dish is always at the top. Do not let the droplets of liquid from meat, fish or other cooked dishes fall into.

8. Also, do not put anything on top of mold ice cubes in the freezer. You definitely do not want to serve ice fish fishy flavor syrup for ice tertetesi water from the storage bag of fish.

9. Refrigerator is not the last place of the dish that still want to keep. Be sure to clean the fridge from the occasional dish that has been stored too long.

10. To be practical and safe for health, give dates of any food or dishes are stored so that you know the age of the food that you store in refrigerator.

11. Now a lot of available container (container) with quality food grade plastic. These containers can be a good choice because it can be used for a long time because the material was air-tight and adjusted to maintain the quality of food.

12. For fresh dairy products and derivatives, limit to consume up to 1 day before the due date of expiry. This product may be damaged before the expiration date on them due to poor handling or power outages occur more than 2 hours.

13. Refrigerator defrost older models have a process (removing frost), this is a good time to clean the cabinets. Ideally 6 months and not have to poke with a sharp frost in order to escape.

14. Do not take the frost to be consumed, such as a cooler for a glass of syrup. It is possible to melt when there are some bacteria that live again.

15. Cooking ingredients such as onions and potatoes do not need to be stored in a refrigerator. Simply keep it away from sunlight, excessive heat or humidity.

16. Rice, wheat flour and the like can be placed on a floor covered with wood to avoid direct contact. To be more safe and durable, the rice should ideally be stored in a plastic container with a lid. Do not give them the opportunity fleas or rodents enjoy rice yours.

17. For spices, dry powder, sugar and salt, use containers made of glass-covered. Bottles of food materials can be used after rinsed clean and dried. Do not forget to attach labels that match the content to not have to happen unnecessary mistakes.

18. Herbs can also be stored in the refrigerator wrapped in paper or plastic to retain moisture so that the juice or scent needed will not evaporate and dry. Keep in refrigerator bottom drawer.

Wedang Secang

2011-06-20T09:46:00.000-07:00

Yogyakarta has many unique drinks, and generally made from herbs native to Indonesia. One is Wedang Secang. This drink is healthy and has a sweet flavor and the throat is warm. Very fit to drink in times of rain and accompanying at the time staying up.

Wedang Secang

Material:

5 Javanese Chilli

5 Cubeb (kemukus)

5 Cardamom(kapulaga)

5 cloves

1 knuckle of ginger(baked ginger)

1 stalk lemongrass (white only)

1 piece of cinnamon(kayu manis) to taste

1 pinch of secang wood (kayu secang) to taste

5 cups water

sugar cubes / sugar / honey to taste

How to Make:

All materials except secang wood (kayu secang) and sugar, cup washed and boiled with a small flame so that substances contained in them can come out perfectly. After the water brown and fragrant, insert secang wood (kayu secang) and a pot of boiling water and was closed until reddish.

Add sugar or honey to taste.

Note:

To boil it, you should use a broiler made of pottery made of clay for pottery can maintain the aroma of a Wedang Secang.

Serve Wedang Secang in pot soil. Guaranteed more enjoyable and more traditional feel.

We recommend using honey as a sweetener for people with diabetes.

Benefits Secang:

Secang has a pharmacological effect of stopping bleeding, blood purifier, pengelat, detoxifying and antiseptic.

Secang has a natural red color in it contains substances: safrol, tannins, phenil prophil acetate, carminative, and stomakik. Substance - the substance is beneficial to: reduce stress, ease breathing, increase appetite, sweating hands feet, breaking the gas in the stomach, improves digestion and asthma.

But they can also overcome the interference of coronary arteries are narrowed, and also serves to reduce blood pressure so that a smooth blood circulation.

Chemical Ingredients: Acid gallate, tannins, resins, resorsin, brasilin, brasilein, d-alpha-phellandrene, oscimene, essential oils. Leaf: 0.16% -0.20% volatile oil which smelled delicious and almost colorless.

Mushroom Chicken Noodles

2011-06-20T01:41:00.000-07:00

Portion size: 5 people

Ingredients:

Saute chicken mushroom:
1 / 2 chicken
500 cc water
3 cloves garlic, minced
75 grams of mushrooms, cleaned, cut into 2
2 tablespoons sesame oil
2 teaspoons fish sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground pepper
50 cc chicken broth

Wet noodle:
2 quarts water
500 grams of a wet noodle
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce

Method:
Saute chicken mushroom: boil water, put the chicken, boil until chicken is tender, then liftthe chicken, drain, take the meat and cut into dice-shaped pieces. Use chicken broth to cook the chicken broth.Saute garlic in sesame oil until golden, then enter the chicken, stirring until the color changes.Add the fish sauce, salt, and pepper, stir well.Add the chicken broth, stir well, cook until slightly thickened, then remove from heat,divide into 5 sections, set aside.Wet noodles: boil water and add a wet noodle, stir with chopsticks and boil until cooked.Once cooked, discard the water, drain, then add sesame oil and soy sauce, stir well, divided into 5 parts.Place each of the noodles in a bowl, then pour over it with a chicken stir-fry themushrooms.Usually served together with Meatballs Boiled Beef and dumplings.

Lumpia Semarang

2011-06-19T03:28:00.000-07:00

Lumpia Semarang is the kind of foods that contain rollade bamboo shoots, eggs, and chicken or shrimp.

Lumpia semarang flavor is a combination of flavors between the Chinese and Indonesia because it was first made by a Chinese descent who is married to an Indonesian and settled in Semarang, Central Java. This food is sold and is known to begin in Hyderabad when the Games GANEFO held during the reign of President Sukarno.

Today, there are five types of lumpia semarang with a different taste. The first flow of Gang Lombok (Siem Swie Kiem), both flow Jalan Pemuda (deceased Siem Swie HIE), and third flow Jalan Mataram (deceased Siem Hwa Nio). The third stream is derived from one family Sing-Gwan Siem Tjoa Nio Po which is the sole creator of law and the daughter of lumpia Semarang, Yoe-Wasih Tjoa Thay.

The fourth stream is the number of former employees lumpia Street Youth, and the fifth is the flow of people with a background of culinary hobby that makes spring rolls with spring rolls recipe of learning outcomes that have been circulating.

The current oldest generation, ie third generation Siem Swie Kiem (68), remained faithful to serve its customers at a kiosk patrimony (Siem Gwan Sing) in Gang Lombok 11. Privileged lumpia Gang Lombok, according to a number of fans who had encountered the stall is compounded rebungnya odorless, also a mixture of eggs and shrimp is not fishy.

Lumpia made the fourth generation can be obtained at the kiosk lumpia Siem Siok aka Mbak Lien Lien (43) Road Youth and Road Pandanaran. Mbak Lien kiosks continue his late father, Siem Swie Hie, who is the brother of Siem Swie Kiem, at Jalan Pemuda (Gang Grajen mouth) as he opened two branches in Jalan Pandanaran.

The specificity of lumpia Mbak Lien added this is the content of chicken meat concoction. When the beginning of continuing her late father, Mbak Lien makes three kinds of spring rolls, ie the contents of shrimp spring rolls, chicken spring rolls contents (for a shrimp allergy), and the special spring rolls contain a mixture of shrimp and chicken. But, feeling the rush and moreover most buyers prefer the special, now Mbak Lien only make one kind only, that is special to the content of bamboo shoots spring rolls of shrimp and chicken mixed.

As for the other fourth generation, namely children of the deceased Siem Hwa Nio (sister of Siem Swie Kiem) to continue his mother's stall in Jalan Mataram (Jalan MT Haryono) in addition to opening new kiosks at several places in the city of Semarang. Among the children of the deceased Siem Hwa Nio have also opened a branch in Jakarta. There are even grandson of the late Siem Hwa as the fifth-generation Nio opened his own shop in Semarang spring rolls.

In addition to the families ancestral creator lumpia semarang, now many of those "outsiders" who make lumpia semarang. They generally their former employees. Those who have also helped enliven the culinary hobby lumpia semarang business by making your own spring rolls, like Lumpia Express, Phoa Kiem Hwa from Semarang International Family and Garden Restaurant in Jalan Gajah Mada, Semarang.

Tempura

2009-03-02T03:31:00.000-08:00

Tempura - Seafood and vegetables deep fried in tempura batter

Tempura was brought to Japan by the Portuguese. Today Tempura is a very popular Japanese food, and as well one of the best known outside of Japan.

Ingredients:

* Tempura batter mix*

* Tempura dipping sauce*

* Prawn: raw and large

* Seafood: almost everything is possible

* Vegetables: pumpkin, carot, sweet potatoe, eggplant, and more

* Mushrooms

* and much more to try.

* This ingredient may not be available in Western supermarkets, but you should be able to find it in Japanese grocery stores that exist in most large European and American cities.

Preparation:

0. Prawn: Remove the head and the shell. Make little cuts on the inside of the curved prawn since they look nicer if their posture is straight.

1. Cut the vegetables in about 1cm thick pieces.

2. You can use whole mushrooms.

Mixtures: Cut various ingredients in small pieces and mix them together, eg. green onion, prawn and carots.

4. Mix Tempura flour with the amount of water described on the package. Do not mix it completely, but leave some small lumps in it.

5. Cover all the ingredients completely with the batter.

Mix also the mixtures made of the small cut ingredients with batter, and try to deep fry it together. Don't let them fall apart in all the pieces.

6. Deep fry at 180 degrees celsius. Be careful, and do not use wet ingredients because the water would react strongly with the hot oil, which may harm your skin or eyes.

When the Tempura pieces are beautifully golden, take them out, and try to remove as much oil as possible.

Serving and eating:

There are a few different ways to serve Tempura. Here are two of them:

* Serve the Tempura pieces on a plate, and prepare some bowls with Tempura dipping sauce.

* Tendon (Tempura Donburi): Put the pieces in Tempura dipping sauce, remove them, and put them on top of cooked rice in a bowl. (One bowl per person)

Junk Food

2009-01-28T08:00:00.000-08:00

Junk food is an informal term applied to some foods which are percieved to have little or no nutritional value, or to products with nutritional value but which also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten, or to those considered unhealthy to consume at all. The term was coined by Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in 1972.

Classification

Junk food is a cultural definition applied to food made outside the home, often prepackaged or from fast food restaurants, that often is widely considered to taste good, especially to children and teenagers. The primary distinction between junk food and healthy food is based on appeal and taste. Factors contributing to labeling as junk food are high levels of refined sugar, white flour, trans fat and saturated fat, salt, and additives such as preservatives and coloring agents. Others include lack of proteins, vitamins, fiber and other nutrients popularly considered part of healthy diet.

What constitutes junk food may be confusing and includes elements of class snobbery, cultural influence and moral judgement.[citation needed] For example, fast food in North America, such as as hamburgers and french fries from companies like McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut, are often perceived as junk food, whereas similar meals supplied by more up-market outlets such as California Pizza Kitchen or Nando's, or those made at home, may not be despite often having similar nutritional content. Some foods that are considered ethnic or traditional are not generally considered junk food, such as falafel, gyros, pakora, gyoza or chicharron, though due to being fried in oil have high fat content that's often associated with junk food labelling.[citation needed] Similarly, breakfast cereals may be regarded as healthy, but may have high levels of sugar, salt and fat.

Hostess Twinkies

Some junk foods are harmful because they contain trans fats. Trans fats are one of the few chemicals purposely added to food that have been proven to pose severe health risks. Although banned or restricted in some countries, it is still an additive used regularly.

In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) does not use the term "junk food", and describe food as "HFSS" (high fat, sugar or salt) instead, based on a nutrient profiling model. They state that "HFSS foods can form part of a balanced diet, but research shows that children's diets contain too much fat (especially saturated fat), salt and sugar, and not enough fruit and vegetables."

Marketing

During 2006, in the United Kingdom, following a high profile media campaign by the chef Jamie Oliver and a threat of court action from the National Heart Forum, the UK advertising regulator and competition authority, Ofcom, launched a consultation on advertising of foods to children. The Food Standards Agency was one of many respondents. As a result, a ban on advertising during children's television programmes and programmes aimed at young people was announced. The ban also includes marketing using celebrities, cartoon characters and health or nutrition claims.

“ Many teenage girls, already the most poorly nourished of any group in America, have stopped drinking milk or eating meat in their extreme fear of fat. ”

—Frances Berg, MS, Women Afraid to Eat

The marketing against junk food has lead to an increase in eating disorders and body images, especially as children are targetted in school and in the media about what is and isn't healthy. Eating disorders have increased five-fold among children 8-13, one clinic noting that one child as young as five developing anorexia. According to NHANES III, two-thirds of teenage girls who are trying to eat "healthy" by avoiding junk foods are deficient in iron, calcium and other important nutrients.

Benefits

Although public focus is generally on the search for harmful effects of junk food on human health, many studies have shown benefits to junk food, or the dangers of trying to cut out fats and sugars, especially children with low-fat diets. Usually a result of cultural assumptions of health and incomplete or misinterpreted data, cutting out junk food with the aim of creating a low fat diet has shown to cause harm in children and adolescents who need at least 30% and as much as 50% of their dietary intake to be fats, which is used for energy. Such diets aimed at reducing fatty "junk" foods in children can result in suboptimal growth and development.

In a survey of school lunches in America showed that schools with high calorie lunches, consisting of foods typically labelled as junk food, test scores improved significantly following the meal. Further studies showed that high sugar foods helped increase and maintain concentration.

Make the Most of Family Mealtime.

2008-12-02T23:19:00.000-08:00

Eating meals together gives you a chance to help your child develop a healthy attitude
toward food. It also enables you to serve as a healthy eating role model, ensure that your
kids are eating nutritious foods, introduce your family to new foods, establish a regular
meal schedule and keep in touch with family members.
Here are some tips on making the most of family meals:
• Prepare healthy meals that the whole family eats instead of serving
special foods for an overweight child. This will create a positive and
supportive environment.

• Schedule meals at regular intervals. Without a schedule, kids tend
to snack more—and often reach for high-calorie foods.
• Meals tend to be healthier when planned, so try to plan menus a
week at a time. Keep a log of menus you’ve created so you can refer
to it in the future when you need ideas for a healthy meal that your
family likes.
• Space snacks at least one hour before a meal. Two to three snacks per
day are enough for most children. See page 9 for healthy snack ideas.
• Plan to eat at least one meal together every day. If it’s difficult to get
everyone together for dinner, how about breakfast? Try designating one
night a week as family dinner night.
• Eat meals and snacks in the kitchen or dining room. Avoid eating in
front of the computer or television.
Help your child understand when he or she is physically hungry and
when he or she is satisfied:
• Don’t overly restrict food. This can lead to preoccupation with food or
make your child feel punished or rejected. Any restrictive diet should be
under the guidance of a health care professional.
• Don’t use food to reward, comfort or punish your child.
• Don’t make your child eat everything on his or her plate.
• Encourage your child to eat slowly. It’s true for all of us: When we eat
too quickly, our body thinks it needs more food to be satisfied. How
can speedy eaters slow down? Here are some tips:
–Put the fork down between bites.
–Swallow one bite before taking another.
–If your child wants seconds, have him wait five minutes to
see if he’s still hungry. Make the second helping half the size
of the first.
–Eat the meal in courses. Start with low calorie foods (fruits,
vegetables, salads) and then move on to higher-calorie foods
(breads, pastas, meats).

Make Sure Your Child Eats a Balanced, Healthy Diet

2008-12-02T23:06:00.000-08:00

Every child needs appropriate amounts of
calories, proteins, minerals and vitamins
to grow. The best way to ensure kids
get what they need while
maintaining or losing
weight is to provide a
variety of nutritious foods
that are low in fat and sugar.
To find out how much of
each food group your
body requires in order
to meet your personal
needs, check out

• Aim for 2 cups of fruit and 21/2 cups of vegetables each day. You can gradually build up
to this amount. A good goal to try: eat fruit with each meal for a week.
• Reduce fat. Opt for low-fat substitutes:
•Low-fat dairy - fat-free or low-fat milk (after age 2), cheese with 2 to 6 grams of fat per
ounce
•Lean meats and poultry - 95% lean ground beef or turkey; remove visible fat from meat;
remove skin from poultry
•Reduced-fat salad dressings and mayonnaise; light tub margarine
•Desserts - angel food cake, low-fat ice cream or frozen yogurt, animal crackers, vanilla
wafers, gingersnaps, graham crackers
• Eat sugary foods in moderation. If your child eats a healthy diet, one sweet a day is fine.
•Drink water, fat-free or low-fat milk (after age 2) instead of high-calorie, sugary drinks
•Check ingredients on nutrition labels. Foods with sugar listed as one of the first three or four
ingredients may be high in sugar and should be eaten in moderation
• Eat healthy snacks. Keep healthy foods on-hand for snacks. Good snack ideas include:
•Fresh fruit •Cereal with low-fat milk
•Vegetable or noodle soup •Graham crackers with low-fat hot chocolate
•Raw vegetables with low-fat dip •Small bagel spread lightly with peanut butter
• Serve appropriate portions. Oversized portions often contribute to weight gain. To get an
idea of the right portions to serve your child, it might help to visualize the appropriate serving
size by comparing it to objects you’re familiar with:
Food Average Serving Size What it looks like
Meat 2-3 ounces Deck of cards
Pasta or rice 1/2 cup Tennis ball or ice cream scoop
Bread 1 slice Computer disk
Peanut butter 2 tablespoons Ping pong ball
Vegetables 1/2 cup Tennis ball or ice cream scoop
Cheese 1 ounce Four dice

GUACAMOLE

2008-12-02T22:50:00.001-08:00

8-10 avocados
1 lemon
2 spoons of olive oil
Salt - usually about 1 teaspoon, but I always add it in quarter teaspoon measurements. I'd recommend starting with half a teaspoon and then working up from there in smaller additions, until you get the preferred taste.

Wash the lemon and then cut it in half. Squeeze half of the lemon into a metal mixing bowl. It's easier to get the seeds out if you add the lemon first.
Depending on the lemon's amount of juice and your taste, you may want to add a bit more or the entire other half later. I'd recommend just using half first and then adding any extra later, once it's all whipped.

Wash the avocados and then dry them.
Get a non-serrated paring knife and slice them in half.
I normally slice vertically and just hold the knife in one hand and then move the avocado against the knife.
To remove the pit, rest the avocado with the pit on a plate or cutting surface. Carefully hold the avocado in one hand and gently, but with enough force to penetrate the pit, bring the knife down on the pit.
I would describe it as tapping it with a pen or pencil. If you put enough force into it, the blade will go into the pit a little and you can simply turn the blade and twist the avocado out.
I remove the pit from the knife by just tapping the edge of the knife down on a plate or cutting surface and the pit will loosen from the knife.

Dump the avocado halves in the metal mixing bowl.

Once all of the avocados are in the bowl, pour in the olive oil.

Now, gently slice the avocados with the paring knife in the bowl.
Once they are mostly sliced, start turning the bowl and make rougher and quicker slices crosswise or diagonally against the original slices if you can.
Eventually, the pieces will become smaller and once they are more or less small cubes or pieces, you can start swinging the knife back and forth across one edge to the other in order to slice them further.
You can leave it chunky if you like, or "blend" it into whatever consistency you like.
I normally "blend" it by quickly turning the bowl and slicing back and forth until there are pretty much no large chunks, but to where the consistency is still lumpy.

Go ahead and add half a teaspoon of salt. I would recommend sprinkling it and separating the salt as evenly as possible. You don't want one section that is too salty.
Mix the guacamole around several times and test it for taste. Add a little more salt, making sure to spread it evenly. Mix it again and if you need to add more salt or lemon, feel free to.

Also, note that the lemon will help preserve the guacamole from turning dark and black. It will hold up for at least a day in the fridge, if you cover it.
The top part will be dark, but if you scrape the very top layer off or mix it in with the rest underneath, it will nice and green.

HOTSAUCE

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1 can of whole peeled tomatoes ( I normally hand separate each tomatoe and end into tiny bite sized pieces, to help the blending process)
small handful of cilantro (6 stems) (chopped) about 3-4 teaspoons
Half of a Jalapeno deseeded and deveined. (I normally chop one strip of the light vein and put it in to make it hot)
1 teaspoon of salt (add more if needed, 1/4 tsp at a time or less)
1 clove of garlic (chopped)
Half of a lime (juice, about 1/2 teaspoon)

Mix in a blender to desired consistency.

Fettuccine Alfredo

2008-12-02T22:46:00.000-08:00

8 first-course servings; 4 main-course servings

This simple, classic dish is extraordinary when made
with fresh egg fettuccine, heavy cream, and authentic
Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Bring to a rolling boil in a large pot:
6 quarts water
2 tablespoons salt

Add and cook until tender but firm:
1 1/4 pounds fresh fettuccine, or 1 pound dried

Melt in a large skillet over medium heat:
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter

Drain the pasta and add it to the skillet along with:
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Toss over low heat until the pasta is well coated.
Serve immediately.

Food And Waterborne Diseases Unit

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The Food and Waterborne Diseases Unit (FWBD) is responsible in prevention and control activities for food and waterborne diseases in Malaysia. One of the main activities is surveillance of food and waterborne diseases namely cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, viral hepatitis A, food poisoning and dysentery through the mandatory notifiable diseases surveillance system. Through this system, surveillance data is collected through physician-based surveillance and outbreak investigations as there is mandatory requirement for notification of communicable diseases by the Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease Act 1988 (PCID 1988). Notification is received from government health facilities consisting of health centers, outpatient departments and hospitals and also from the private hospitals and general medical practitioners.

The surveillance system has been improved recently through the introduction of the Communicable Diseases Information System (CDCIS), an electronic version of reporting, directly linking between hospital record offices' to the district, state and national communicable diseases surveillance system.

As a referral center for food and waterborne disease, the FWBD Control Unit is responsible in providing a guideline and technical support to the State Health Department and District Health Office in any activity related to FWBD including management of FWBD crisis or outbreak, development of plan of action, research, training and health promotion. This unit also responsible to communicate with other units or departments within or outside MOH to coordinate activities with regard to control and prevention of food and water borne diseases, if the need arises. Communication has also been tied with international agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre of Disease Control (CDC) USA.

Some foodborne diseases are well recognized, but are considered emerging because they have recently become more common. For example, outbreaks of salmonellosis have been reported for decades, but within the past 25 years the disease has increased in incidence on many continents. In the Western hemisphere and in Europe, Salmonella serotype Enteritidis (SE) has become the predominant strain. Investigations of SE outbreaks indicate that its emergence is largely related to consumption of poultry or eggs.

While cholera has devastated much of Asia and Africa for years, its introduction for the first time in almost a century on the South American continent in 1991 makes it another example of an infectious disease that is both well-recognized and emerging. While cholera is often waterborne, many foods also transmit infection. In Latin America, ice and raw or underprocessed seafood are important epidemiological pathways for cholera transmission.

Other foodborne pathogens are considered emerging because they are new microorganisms or because the role of food in their transmission has been recognized only recently. Infection with Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7 (E. coli) was first described in 1982. Subsequently, it has emerged rapidly as a major cause of bloody diarrhoea and acute renal failure. The infection is sometimes fatal, particularly in children. Outbreaks of infection, generally associated with beef, have been reported in Australia, Canada, Japan, United States, in various European countries, and in southern Africa. Outbreaks have also implicated alfalfa sprouts, unpasteurized fruit juice, lettuce, game meat and cheese curd.

In 1996, an outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Japan affected over 6,300 school children and resulted in 2 deaths. This is the largest outbreak ever recorded for this pathogen.

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is considered emerging because the role of food in its transmission has only recently been recognized. In pregnant women, infections with Lm can cause abortion and stillbirth, and in infants and persons with a weakened immune system it may lead to septicemia (blood poisoning) and meningitis. The disease is most often associated with consumption of foods such as soft cheese and processed meat products that are kept refrigerated for a long time because Lm can grow at low temperatures. Outbreaks of listeriosis have been reported from many countries, including Australia, Switzerland, France and the United States. Two recent outbreaks of Listeria monocytogenes in France in 2000 and in the USA in 1999 were caused by contaminated pork tongue and hot dogs respectively.

Foodborne trenmatodes are also emerging as a serious public health problem, especially in south-ease Asia but also in Latin America, in part due to a combination on increased aquaculture production, often under unsanitary conditiond, and of consumption of raw and lightly processed fresh water fish and fishery products. Foodborne trematodes can cause acute liver disease, and may lead to liver cancer. An estimated 40 million people world wide are affected.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a fatal transmissible, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, was first discovered in the United Kingdom in 1985. The cause of the disease was traced to an agent related to scrapie in sheep, which contaminated recycle bovine carcasses used to make meat and bone meal additives for cattle feed. Recycling of the BSE agent led to a distributed common source epidemic of more than 180,000 diseased animals in the UK alone. The agent affects the brain and spinal cord of cattle and lesions are chracterized by sponge-like changes visible in a microscope. At this time, 19 countries have reported endemic BSE cases and the disease is no longer confined to the Europian Community; a case of BSE has been reported in the cattle herd of Japan.

In human populations, exposure to the BSE agent (probably in contaminated bovine-based food products) has been strongly linked to the appearance in 1996 of a new transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). As of January 2002, 119 people have developed vCJD, most are from the UK but five cases have been reported from France.

Why do foodborne diseases emerge?

New foodborne disease threats occur for a number of reasons. These include increase in international travel and trade, microbial adaption and changes in the food production system, as well as human demographics and behaviour.

FOOD SAFETY TIPS

2008-11-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

*) Always wash your hands with soap before and after handling food.

*) Don't thaw frozen meat, poultry or fish on a counter or in a sink without cold water as bacteria can multiply rapidly at room temperature.

*) Clean food preparation surfaces and cutting boards with hot water, soap and bleach or a sanitizing agent.

*) Never allow raw meat, poultry, or fish to come into contact with other foods.

*) Use pasteurized eggs or egg substitutes in place of raw eggs in foods that will not be cooked, such as ice cream.

*) Keep food hot in the oven, or cold in the refrigerator or ice chest until it is ready to be served.

*) Serve food on clean plates and platters, not those used previously for raw meat, fish, or poultry.

*) Promptly refrigerate unused portions of food. Discard hot food that has been sitting out for more than two hours (one hour if it has been outdoors on a warm day).

Tanda Tanda Kecanduan Internet

2008-11-06T07:26:00.000-08:00

Hasil Riset Internet
Author : KillFinger

Dari hasil survey mengenai tanda-tanda terjadinya kecanduan Internet adalah:

1.Mas kawin yang Anda minta di hari pernikahan adalah seperangkat komputer dan modem. Tunai !

2.Bel di rumah Anda bertuliskan “Click Here to continue”

3.Pintu kamar mandi Anda bertuliskan “This site contains Adult Material,please verify your age”

4.Anda menanyakan apakah ada email baru untuk anda kepada Pak Pos yang mengantarkan kartu lebaran.

5.Mimpi anda selalu berawal dengan http://www.

6.Anda menggunakan search engine (google) untuk mencari anak anda yang sudah tiga hari tidak pulang ke rumah.

7.”Unable to locate your server !,” kata Anda ketika menerima telepon salah sambung.

8.Anak-anak Anda diberi nama Joko.gov agar kelak dia jadi Pegawai negeri sipil; Susy.com agar kelak jadi cewek matre;dan Tole.edu agar kelak dia jadi mahasiswa abadi.

9. Suara dengkuran Anda sudah persis mirip dengan suara Handshake modem ketika pertama kali tersambung.

10.Anda susah menggerakan jari Anda karena Anda sudah online selama 36 jam (Gila kali).

11.Anda menonton film “The Net” …. 63 kali.

12.Ketika mobil Anda menyeruduk mobil lain di simpang jalan, yang pertama Anda cari adalah tombol “UNDO”.

13.Istri Anda meletakan wig di atas monitor Anda untuk mengingatkan Anda seperti apa tampangnya.

14.Anda memberi nama anak Anda Firefox, Eudora, Netscape dan Mirc. Dan kalau anda lebih demokratis (tidak monopistis) anda akan memberi nama anak anda Linux.

15.Anda memperkenalkan diri sebagai : “youremail@yourdomain.com”

16.Anda membuat tatoo di badan Anda yang berbunyi “This body best viewed with Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.”

17.Anda akan mengakses http://www.xxx.com bila sedang bosan dengan pasangan anda.

18.Anda meninggalkan antrian tiket kereta api dengan berkata “request time out !!!”

19.Ketika hidup anda mengalami depresi, anda akan sangat menyesal mengapa tubuh anda tidak dilengkapi dengan tombol Ctrl-Alt-Del.

20.Anda yang membaca tulisan ini sampai habis.

he.. he..

Religi Matematikaku

2008-11-06T07:20:00.000-08:00

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, bukan?

Sekarang lihat simetri berikut ini :

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321

111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

Sekarang lihat ini …

101%

>dari sisi pandang mathematikal :

Apa yang setara dengan 100%?

Apa artinya memberi MELEBIHI 100%?

Pernahkan bertanya-tanya tentang orang-orang yang memberikan lebih dari 100% ?

Kami pernah ada dalam situasi di mana seseorang menginginkan agar engkau memberikan LEBIH DARI 100%

Bagaimana jika 101% ?

Sesuatu apakah yang setara dengan 100% dalam hidup ?

Ini rumus matematika yang mungkin bisa menolong

Jawab pertanyaan berikut ini :

Jika:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

direpresentasikan sebagai

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Jika:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R- K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

Dan:

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

Tapi:

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

KEMUDIAN, lihat seberapa jauh kecintaan kepada TUHAN akan membawamu :

L-O-V-E-O-F-G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+6+7+15+4 = 101%

Dengan demikian, seseorang akan menyimpulkan dengan kepastian matematika bahwa :

Ketika HARD WORK (Kerja keras) dan KNOWLEDGE (Pengetahuan) akan mendekatkan, dan ATTITUDE (Tingkah laku) akan membawamu ke tujuan 100%, maka LOVE OF GOD (kecintaan kepada tuhan) akan membawamu melewati puncak.

Sekilas Tentang RUU Anti Poligami

2008-11-06T00:28:00.000-08:00

Rancangan undang-undang anti poligami atau rancangan undang-undang perkawinan untuk masyarakat pribumi ini sebetulnya merupakan bagian dari skenario besar kolonialisme Eropa yang melakukan westernisasi dan kristenisasi di daerah-daerah jajahan. Rancangan undang-undang anti poligami bagi masyarakat pribumi yang diajukan pemerintah kolonial sebetulnya merupakan usaha adopsi dari peraturan perkawinan sipil di Eropa yang ingin diterapkan di tanah jajahan, dan yang tidak kalah pentingnya rancangan undang-undang itu merupakan upaya kristenisasi dalam persoalan pernikahan.
Ontwerp Ordonnantie Perkawinan Boemipoetra berisi tentang pemberian kesempatan kepada seorang laki-laki dan seorang perempuan untuk membuat sebuah perjanjian dalam ikatan perkawinan mereka. Perjanjian itu mengharuskan seorang laki-laki menyatakan terikat kepada satu pasangan putri, tidak boleh beristri lebih dari seorang perempuan.i
Dalam ordonansi tersebut juga diatur tentang sah dan tidaknya sebuah perceraian harus diputuskan oleh hakim landraad. Apabila perceraian yang dilakukan tidak diajukan ke pengadilan dan mendapat keputusan hakim landraad maka perceraian tidak terjadi dan tidak sah sesuai peraturan perundang-undangan yang akan diberlakukan tersebut.ii
Ordonansi ini pada masa itu memang sengaja dikirim dan dibagi-bagikan kepada perkumpulan-perkumpulan (organisasi) Islam oleh pemerintah kolonial untuk dibahas dan didiskusikan bersama. Apabila umat Islam tidak menyetujui rancangan undang-undang ini maka tidak akan dimajukan (diusulkan) oleh pemerintah kolonial, namun apabila rancangan undang-undang ini akan dilaksanakan maka perintah pelaksanaannya akan melalui lembaga Volksraad.iii
Rancangan undang-undang anti poligami yang diusulkan pemerintah kolonial sebetulnya juga merupakan keinginan sebagian gerakan perempuan (gerakan feminis) di Hindia Belanda,iv bahkan juga keinginan dari beberapa gerakan perempuan Islam sebagai upaya menolak dari situasai perempuan dimadu yang akan membuat ketidak harmonisan rumah tangga.v
Sebetulnya rancangan undang-undang ini disosialisasikan oleh pemerintah kolonial bersamaan dengan pemindahan kekuasaan Raad Agama Islam ke Landraad dalam hal penetapan ahli waris dan pembagian waris. Kedua hal tersebut menimbulkan keprihatinan masyarakat Islam Indonesia umumnya dan khususnya warga NU sehingga selalu menjadi perbincangan-perbincangan hangat menjurus protes dalam pertemuan-pertemuan pengurus NU. Untuk pemindahan kekuasaan Raad Agama Islam ke Landraad sudah mulai berlaku sejak 1 April 1937, dan dilaporkan bahwa keputusan-keputusan landraad mengenai persoalan waris tidak berdasarkan kepada syariat Islam.