Know Your Foreign Vegetables
Culinaire August 12th, 2010
Sure you often find a variety of foreign vegetables while shopping at the supermarket, right? However, there are times when you do not know the different types of colorful vegetables and unique shape of this will be processed for what.
Well, that was confused again, let’s further identify this strange variety of vegetables and how to work it into a dish that is both interesting and delicious!
• Zucchini
Briefly, vegetables belonging to the type of the pumpkin and popular as well with names similar to courgette cucumber is dark green. Zucchini widely used in European culinary world. Suitable for a variety of materials serving salads, soups, stir, or various other tasty dishes. How to manage it, do not have to zucchini peeled and can be eaten fresh as is, or mashed into soups.
• romaine lettuce
Vegetables are a type of lettuce has long leaves and a bit hard like chicory. Fresh green color and the inside a little yellow. It’s a bit sweet and crunchy. Used to make for a mixture of fresh salad.
• Leaf tanko
We usually find in Japanese cuisine, especially in shabu-shabu dishes. These vegetables contain lots of water and easily wilted. Many are sold in supermarkets, especially those that sell various Japanese foodstuffs.
• Siomak
It looked like a curly lettuce with a length of approximately 4-5 cm, but smaller leaves. When cooked, it was a bit bitter, so it is more suitable as a material processed fresh salad or stir created.
• horenso
Also known as Japanese spinach which contains moisture content. These are usually pan-fried vegetables, and saute while no need to add water again, because these vegetables will issue their own water. Horenso can be obtained in supermarkets, specialty shops, especially Japanese food.
• ginseng leaves
This vegetable is usually used as a substitute leaf greens. Contains lots of water and wilt easily.
Harmonization Relations Through Yoga
Relationship August 12th, 2010
Last weekend, Prevention magazine in cooperation with the community Indonesia Life begins @ 40 held a series of health activities. Starting with Yoga for Couples, healthy cooking demonstrations, and ended with a talk show about healthy relationships and paired relation to yoga.
A number of young couples, married couples, and the mother-child pairs, gives the same impression. Is that yoga is a sport that can help someone identify her body, especially the body’s ability in terms of flexibility and strength.
Yoga instructor from Fitness First, Welby Sucipto (29), said that through yoga, one can recognize the body as well as to synchronize both of her breathing or spouse (if yoga done in pairs).
“Yoga is a combination of exercise with respiratory movements. Movement in yoga is to be trained, the model can be modified movement,” said Welby to Compass Female.
Movement in Yoga for Couples activities consist of meditation, sun Salutation (heating), a train standing position of strength, sitting as a form of stretching, relaxation and meditation as the final stage.
With the modification motion, yoga can be done in pairs which are intended also to train motion cooperation and synchronization between two individuals. Without the cooperation and mutual understanding ability of each individual, this pair of yoga movement is difficult. However, Compass Female seen, most of the participating couples to help each other with his colleagues to do the right movements.
Rully Larasati (32) who came with her husband, Albertus Sigit (38), recognizes this pair of yoga movements help to measure the ability of couples without being compelled. Movement requires every individual to motivation and trust each other.
Rully not the first time that follow yoga. But this time he had to do yoga in pairs, and acknowledge the quality of time in the relationship pairs. Given very little time together for couples who had married five years of this.
“His movement saw each other pair-look. Initially shy husband, but over time more relaxed,” he explained.
Yoga, according Rully, is a fitness package mind, body, and soul, which makes the body more like the fresh-recharge again.
“Yoga is to be learned at home, provided that condition, like this sport,” Rully said.
Widyawati (25), who came with her future husband, also feel the same. It takes cooperation to make yoga movement in pairs. However the relaxation effect is felt in this pair, thanks to the pleasant atmosphere and the number of participants is not too much.
Erikar Lebang, yoga practitioner, said it takes a harmonious unity in doing yoga. According to him, the relationship can be maximum and the ideal, if two individuals can combine them in one harmonious unity. Such movements are trained in yoga in pairs.
Challenged in trying yoga harmonic motion pairs? You might as well measure the cohesiveness of pairs.
6 Steps So Wisely Boss
Career August 2nd, 2010
As a boss, you are selaiknya respected figure and a respect of employees. Yours is different from fear. You would be happier if respect is given sincerely and appropriately, rather than simply revered or feared subordinates.
Do not let your boss is known as a no tolerance, like angry, or too subjective. Well, here some tips for you to be a wise boss and beloved colleague.
1. Sincere and Fair
Leading the work team requires skill or skills. However, not only that, as an employer, you also should be able to be sincere and fair. Genuinely share the work, sincere lead, is also fair in maximizing the benefits of each employee in the team.
Do not let you assign someone in the wrong place. It is also important, you also must always be ready to help subordinates find opportunities to improve their deficiencies.
2. Want to Keep Learning
Although the position was at the level of management, does not mean you are more intelligent, more experienced, or better at it than other employees, you know! Despite being the boss, you should still want to learn.
Whatever you feel if you still have not mastered, never shy to ask, even to subordinates. Digging the science does not know the age and position of the post, really.
Recognized or not, this way will make you deemed to have contributed in the progress reports. Range distance between you and the subordinates do not need to be a rock barrier to progress together. Being smart with would be more enjoyable, rather than smart alone.
3. Manage Emotions
If you are still young, you often can be hooked and unable to regulate emotions that are still explosive. This anger, but not good for health, it will trigger a prolonged stress. Anger also usually be carried up to the house. As a result, families will receive the effects.
So, start learning to control anger toward team performance. Do not scold, scolded, and reprimand subordinates in public. This method will indirectly affect them mentally. They might not feel the spirit of working and oppressed. Subordinates are not slaves that you can treat arbitrarily. They are human beings who did not escape the mistakes.
Build a positive work they are mental. Better, call them into your room, and tell what mistakes have been done. Make the mistakes that they learn and do better.
4. Do Subjective
Not infrequently there is a boss who is very subjective personal response to each of his subordinates. Thus, usually without knowing it, you will be more inclined to subordinate the one than the other.
In other words, you find chemistry with him. For employment matters, in a professional, you better get rid of things like this. Because this could be a trigger destruction of a work team cohesiveness. Other employees will feel dianaktirikan, while others felt it was in the safe position as close to you.
Treat all subordinates in the same way. Make the benefits they could be useful as possible for the progress of the company, as well as cover the lack of other subordinates. Thus, another one will need each other. The result, a solid working team.
5. The success team, your victory
Do not work alone. Work as a leader who delegated the job well to subordinates in the work team. Teach them to work effectively, responsibly, and the final results-oriented.
Remember, success and their success is your victory. What happens when you have a subordinate who was capable and did not develop? You own a bother, right?
The more difficult job that they can solve, it is a good means to grow. Without this, you indirectly have memasung employee creativity. Well, you waiting for? Establish a work team to create quality human. Guaranteed, you will be rewarded as a boss who cares about the progress of subordinates.
6. Build Friendship
Not a few bosses who feel proud to join crusted subordinates. Also, employers often prefer to choose the proper subordinates who accompanied him to lunch. Remember, employees have rights and equal opportunity. Jalinlah friendship with all employees at all levels. That way, you do not shut down along with the older or younger. Never be afraid unrivaled by younger people.
What you do will be an example for young subordinates. No doubt, you have become part of means on the way their future career success. And, most importantly, you have a friend who is positive for them.
Do not Let Children Attention Looking on Facebook
Family Care August 2nd, 2010
Who does not know Facebook? Social networking sites have attracted 1,333,649 users in Indonesia in 2009, making Indonesia as the country’s number one Facebook user in Southeast Asia, and number seven in the world. Facebook charm that provides a series of features that allow users to interact directly such as chat, tagging photos, blogging, and playing games that could attract the curiosity of parents, teens, until the children.
Sari, for example. The little girl, who was sitting in class VI of this elementary school, always took time to open a Facebook application via phone her sister. Before leaving school, Sari did not want to miss to update the status on Facebook.
If no phone beraplikasi Facebook, or computer berakses internet at home, the kids like Sari always took time to visit Internet cafes after school. Nor Aida (10). Because no internet access at home, almost every day Aida went to internet cafe to see me on her Facebook.
“Or play Farmville. Abis eat, ask for money, play,” said Aida Kompas.com met on Friday (19/2/2010).
You could say almost every day Sari and his colleagues tried to keep the site accessible by the cyberspace friendship. If this condition is, what the impact on the social lives of children?
Child psychologist, University of Indonesia, Mayke S. Tedjasaputra, when contacted Kompas.com on Thursday (18/2/2010) argues, the use of Facebook by early childhood, such as primary school age could introduce a certain negative behaviors to the child. That is because, according to Mayke, with Facebook can track a child anywhere, know anyone who does not seem they had ever seen or expression. Thus, children are easily deceived by Facebook.
“They may know someone who use them, teaching things amazing to the kids impressed, teach a particular behavior, to the negative, such as sex invitation,” he said.
Especially as a child, said Mayke, Sari or Aida can not distinguish to whom to be friends on Facebook, and to whom do not have friends. “All the communication back to the parent and child. The family is the main barrier in the house. Environmental can provide any influence on the children,” he explained.
Mayke say, parents are not able to prevent the use of Facebook by children. However, he continued, parents can give more attention to their children so the children do not seek the attention of others in cyberspace.
“If parents do not pay attention to her child, the child could be seeking attention from the outside world. It could happen as NT (Nova, teenagers who allegedly fled with her Facebook friends) who met with Facebook friends,” added Mayke.
Attention to children, as well as smooth terlain communication between parents and children, can be a major barrier blocking the negative impact of Facebook exposure in children.
Acquainted with the various materials Cakes
Culinaire August 2nd, 2010
To no one in making the dough, you should consider what the use of several materials cake makers. Here are some of the most common material used.
Soda Cake / Baking Soda
Is a component of baking powder is sodium bicarbonate contents. The nature of this material out of gas (CO2) so the cake will rise. To make cake, its use is usually in conjunction with baking powder. For pastries, baking soda dry texture effect, crisp, and crunchy. To make the cake, use baking powder alone is enough.
Ovalet & TBM
Ovalet, TBM, and SP are trademarks. Basically has the same function, namely as a softener or emulsifier ingredient in making cakes, so the function can be interchanged in the cake batter. However, what distinguishes these emulsifiers material lies in its quality, as produced by different companies. Function as emulsifiers so adonaan be more gentle. If the cake batter pengocokkan adding TBM ovalet or less stable, then the resulting cake was less tender and less maximal.
Baking Powder
Baking powder is a material developer (leavening agent), which consists of a mixture of sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, and monocalcium phosphate. The nature of these substances if it met with a liquid / water and exposed to heat to form carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is what makes the dough so swell. For maximum effect, use double-acting baking powder. Baking powder works to develop a cookie or cake.
SP
Texture softens its cake and make the dough more unified. SP is the sugar content of ester. Esternya are fatty acids such as steart acid, palmitic, and Oleic. Would recommend the use of SP in the manufacture of cake, because the dough can pengocokkan more stable, so the result is more optimal.
Cream of Tar-Tar
These creams help to remove the gas in the cake batter, to be more developed. Usually used when beating egg whites to make it more rigid. Abortion is a potassium salt (potassium) and tartaric acid.
VX
Food additives that soften this nature did not develop. Composition is sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid picorofosfat, corn starch and juices. VX is usually used to develop the cake dough and soften its maximum.
Instant Leaven / Yeast / Biang Donuts
Is a material with a different name. Leaven it is group living yeast, namely saccaromyces cerevisiae. This single-celled microorganisms that during the fermentation process in bread dough convert carbohydrates into carbon dioxide gas. This substance that makes bread dough, donuts, or bakpau be expanded. Can only be used for bread dough, not the cake, or cookies. Sold with a trademark, one Fermipan.
Bread Improfer
This material is added to the dough to improve bread quality. Bread became more tender, more moist, softer fiber, fermentation increasingly short, and extend the power savings. Made from a mixture of various active ingredients, such as softeners gluten, yeast food, enzymes, and emulsifiers. Sold in the market with one Unipan trademark.
