I made some yesterday using the tray and the recipe Valerie gave.
Since I don’t stock sugar and milk, I used agave and rice milk in the batter with whole wheat flour. The madeleines were delicious, especially with ice cream.
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Are we warned enough about genetically modified (GM) food, aka Frankenstein food?
Does it bother you that biotech companies generating GM crops are owned by drug and chemical companies? Well for me it does, very much!
GM food giant Monsanto is owned by Pharmacia, a big and powerful drug company. Another giant is Syngenta, a merger between 2 companies owned by big and powerful drug companies, Novartis and Zeneca. Other giants are Bayer, BASF, AgrEvo and Phillip Morris (tobacco).
When I read what others say about the strong $$$-motivation behind such a company via GM foods and that they also say such a company isn’t particularly concerned about protecting consumer’s health, I know they know what they are saying and they are not lying.
Already independent investigators are warning of the problems when animals are fed with GM feed. We don’t know enough about the effects on humans and do we want ourselves to be part of the experiment? And why are we producing food through such unnatural means…high-tech food that never existed until now?
The reality is rice, corn, soybeans, cotton, sugar beets, squash, tomatoes, pineapple, canola (rapeseed) and potatoes are the predominant crop plants (there are still others not listed here) undergoing the gene altering technology. Don’t exclude their derivatives, e.g. corn flour, corn syrup, tofu and etc.
In some countries, it’s not against the law to intentionally omit or remove labels that would inform consumers they are buying GM food. So it’s bad news for us here.
Buying organic food is currently the best way to escape GMO (genetically modified organism).
Brands with GM ingredients that are in stores right now include:
Baby food - Nabisco Arrowroot Teething Biscuits, Enfamil, Similac
Baking mixes - Aunt Jemima, Betty Cocker, Pepperidge Farms, Hershey’s
Breakfast - Kellogg’s, Nabisco, Nature Valley, Quaker Chewy Granola Bars
Chocolate - Cadbury, Hershey’s Kit-Kat, Kraft, Mars, Nestle, Swiss Miss
Condiments - Del Monte Ketchup, Heinz Ketchup (regular & no salt) Chili Sauce Cocktail Sauce Heinz 57 Steak Sauce, Hellman’s, Hunt’s Ketchup (regular & no salt), Kraft
Cookies/crackers - Famous Amos, Keebler, Nabisco, Pepperridge Farms, Snack Wells
Soup - Campbell, Healthy Choice, Pepperridge Farms
Check here for a list of food which contains and doesn’t contain genetically engineered ingredients.
Non-edible items that may contain GM ingredients include cosmetics, soaps, detergents, shampoo and bubble bath.
I hope you’ll join me in a few days for the site seeing post where I’ll be compiling a list of handy tips + resources on GM.
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My family and I have been here a couple of times, it’s a restaurant that takes you back to old Chinatown where life was hard and food was simple. The restaurant serves the beggar bowl tofu, olive rice, ah gong’s (grandfather’s) fried tapioca leaves, herbal soups and many others.
One of their signatures, the Samsui Ginger Chicken is a dish frugal Samsui women (hardworking ladies who labored in construction sites) ate in the past where it was prepared only once a year during the festive Chinese new year.
The tall clay pot pictured contained our soup of the day which was corn with other ingredients (didn’t catch what the waitress said).
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@ Tips Of All Sorts
Carcinogens found in “Organic” personal care products
Why you should keep children away from the TV
How cell phones and WiFi may cause autism
Plain soap as effective as antibacterial but without the risk
p.s. These are information on my tips site and I’m putting the links here for bloomize readers in case you’re as concerned about such matters as I am.
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Airline: Qantas Airways
Carrier: Boeing 747-400
Flight duration: about 12 hours (non-stop)
Tour duration: 1 day
Departure date: 31 December 2008
Return date: 1 January 2009
Departing from: Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
Tour operator: Croydon Travel (Booking is now open!)
Sight-seeing flight operated since: 1994
Itinerary:
Welcome to Antarctica’s spectacular scenery! View the world’s highest, driest, windiest and coldest continent from the top and be the first to see the midnight sun of 1 January 2009!
[Image from Croydon Travel]
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Rosy surprised me with a gift recently! She’s so sweet to share more of her Micasita stationery and she *just knew* I wanted a magnetic Carminita! Thanks Rosy!
Btw, little Carminita is sporting a new red + white outfit which looks good on her!
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