tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25803626610783511332024-03-16T05:09:54.850+04:00orangekitchensAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-43052116763720495592015-12-01T10:02:00.000+04:002015-12-01T10:02:13.540+04:00Orange Kitchens has a new address.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My little chefling and I have moved to <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.net/"><span style="font-size: large;">orangekitchens.net</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">There is still a lot of work left and we are working on it slowly and steadily. Hoping you lovely readers like it! See you there? Come say hi!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-5542050580582864472015-09-02T12:21:00.001+04:002015-09-02T12:21:45.841+04:00My month in pictures: August 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Each month I share my special moments from the month gone by. It is a visual diary of sorts one that I hope to look back at years later (Earlier posts : <a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/06/my-month-in-pictures-may-2015.html" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">May 2015</a>, <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.in/2015/07/my-month-in-pictures-june-2015.html" style="text-decoration: none;">June 2015</a> and <a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/07/my-month-in-pictures-july-2015.html">July 2015</a></b>).</span></i><br />
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Summer vacations at my mum's mean laid back brunches. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Also homemade patra with a glass of shikanjvi.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The beautiful aroma of ghee being made that fills up both the home and the heart</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Sharing food with family and friends.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Ordering in desserts in when you are too lazy to even step out.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">This summer Sara enjoyed a lot of street food. Shakarkandi Chaat (<span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Roasted Sweet Potato )</span>with a squeeze of lemon. Golgappe, Tikki and more.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Gulgule with hari chutney and mooli (Green Chutney with grated radish).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Barf ka gola (Ice lolly). Kala Khatta being her favourite.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Because when in Delhi, meetha paan (Indian mouth freshener) is a must.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Did I mention I love coming back home to gifts that look like this? </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We took Sara to Chandigarh where I spent my summer vacations with my grand parents. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">It was wonderful seeing her make memories on the same streets with her grandparents.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">She loved the rock garden.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">And the rose garden where our grandfather would take us every evening.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">No visit to the rose garden would be complete without having a bottle of verka milk. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Summers also mean picking up flowers from the road in your night suit.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">They also mean refusing to get down from the swing.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Putting mehendi on tiny hands.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Wearing tricoloured bangles to celebrate Independence Day.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">And playing with dolls all day long.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">But all vacations come to an end and we are missing all the colour back in India.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">This summer I read a couple of new books too. The Seven Sisters.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">And the Edible Atlas. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Friends got us thoughtful and gorgeous gifts.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Now we are back home and missing grandparents "infinity much" but are happy to be in our room and with our friends.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">My most favourite part of the year begins now. Festivals, good weather and lots of new work awaits. Hi September! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Want to see more of August? Let's say hi to each other on </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><a href="https://instagram.com/orangekitchens/" style="text-decoration: none;">instagram</a></b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-27473280527310371602015-07-31T17:15:00.002+04:002015-07-31T17:19:18.883+04:00My month in pictures: July 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Each month I share my special moments from the month gone by. It is a visual diary of sorts one that I hope to look back at years later (Earlier posts : <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/06/my-month-in-pictures-may-2015.html">May 2015 </a></b>and <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.in/2015/07/my-month-in-pictures-june-2015.html">June 2015</a></b>)).</span></i><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We have spending the summers with my parents and I have been enjoying waking up to the sound of the "sabzi wala"</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We have been eating these malai kulfis like the world will run out of them tommorow</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">It is lovely to catch up with family and friends over glorious food.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Streetside vendors selling coconut water, corn on the cob, star fruits have been seeing a a lot of me.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I am coming back with lots of pretty china and food props.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Before we left Sara painted canvasses for everyone for gifts. This one is my favourite.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">She has been producing a lots of plays and movies.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We came across these mythological books for children and loved them.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">She has been trying her hand at water colour this summer.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">And has been playing non stop with her grandparents.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We went for a short vacation to Hong Kong to meet the princesses.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">While there this little girl loved the rains and the greens, the princesses and the museums.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Her mum loved the colour and the people, the history and the science and the art.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Also the skyscrapers and the sea, the greenery and the streets.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I went berserk clicking in pretty benches, lampposts, fans and more at Disneyland.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We loved the street food.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The dimsums and the broths.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Goose, Duck and the Squab.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The pastries and the tarts.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Hundreds of unique flavours of icecream.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">These holidays we played with food. We made dinner napkins for the grandparents.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Eid gifts tags for her friends with lentils.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Word art for her room with salt</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Wrapping paper with spices.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Last but not the least, I am ever SO grateful to each one of you who has given me so much love on instagram. 34000 hugs coming your way.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">August, be colourful and be spicy. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Want to see more of July? Let's say hi to each other on </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><a href="https://instagram.com/orangekitchens/" style="text-decoration: none;">instagram</a></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 20.533332824707px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Images: If you like any of the pictures on the blog and would like to use those please write to me. I put in hours of work behind each post and would love to share it with you but it would hurt me if use those without my permission.Just ask! </span></i></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-45864648085793300182015-07-05T16:48:00.002+04:002015-07-05T16:54:37.594+04:00Food Revolution Ambassador Monthly Challenge: June 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i style="color: #666666; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are new here: At the beginning of each month the challenges are announced. These challenges are for inspiring the entire <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/becoming-part-of-food-revolution.html" style="color: #d471a5; text-decoration: none;">Food Revolution team </a></b>and to make deeper connections with everyone (fellow food ambassadors, friends and family, anyone who wants to be a part of this challenge too), share our stories , whether we failed or conquered and more. The idea is to complete as many challenges as one can (Read about the earlier ones <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/search/label/monthly%20challenges">here</a></b></span></i><i style="color: #666666; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></i><br />
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<i style="color: #666666; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">For June:</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;">Challenge 1. Family Food Launch: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;">This month, Jamie launched his new Family Food Channel on Youtube. It's all about inspiration and guidance for feeding our families, with tried-and-tested nutritious recipes and loads of tips to make mealtimes that little bit easier. (Have you subscribed to the channel, if not do it now <a href="http://www.youtube.com/FamilyFoodTube">here</a></span> and <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;">visit the <a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/familyfood">website</a> to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;"> try the recipes.</span></b></span><br />
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This month was a little crazy for I was trying to complete all the work that I couldn't attend to since I was occupied with the Food Revolution Day events all May. I also wanted to wrap up majority of my work before the summer vacations began which meant I had only a few minutes each day to get healthy lunches and dinners on the table. Quick, nutritious and tasty meals. Here are some we tried.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;">I don't like to spend more than ten minutes to make breakfast each morning. We are all in a rush. The little one leaves first, followed by DH and finally me. Granola, Oats, Eggs, smoothies, Veggie Semolina and savoury pancakes are some of our favourites. Simple. Healthy, Real and Quick. We tried our hand at making <a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/uncategorised-recipes/jools-gorgeous-granola"><b>Jool's Gorgeous Granola</b></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;">It is so important to be constantly thinking about how you did and how you can make things better the next time around. The entire ambassador community and the team at London gave their very best this May. Post the big day we were all happy to share what we thought went right and how we could work together to make it even better next year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Want to join me for the July challenges? Look out for them <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/orangekitchens?fref=ts">here</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-8684686018218304272015-07-01T08:04:00.001+04:002015-07-01T08:06:06.922+04:00My month in pictures: June 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(If you are new here: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I started this new series last month after seeing </span><a href="https://instagram.com/mycustardpie/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Sally's</b> </a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">post on instagram where she shared her special moments from the month gone by. Taking it one step ahead I put together the same on the blog with little notes for each picture (Read: <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/06/my-month-in-pictures-may-2015.html">My month in pictures : May 2015</a></b>) and I am back now with my June Diary).</span></i><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara learnt to understand and appreciate <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/06/understanding-and-appreciating-ramadan.html">Ramadan</a></b>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We discussed ten ways to raise future world class travellers and how to <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/06/celebrating-cultures-and-countries.html">celebrate culture and countries through cuisines</a></b>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We met Ishita and the Z sisters in our <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/06/kids-in-kitchen-ishitaunblogged.html">Kids in the Kitchen</a></b> series.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the Young Chef Club we visited China and tried our hand at making spring rolls and dumplings.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In other news, it is really hot here and we have been living on frozen fruit yoghurt.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My princess obsessed chefling enjoyed a morning with the princes and princesses at the Disney on Ice show.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She had to obviously dress up as one too.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She has been wanting to start a lemonade stand (Told you it has been HOT!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her Aunty Karen got her these push pop kits and we finally tried our hand at it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I came across this adorable palette to measure spaghetti serving sizes and had to bring it home.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eating fruits in a cone is what we like to do in summers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Icecream in cones too. So we set up an <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/06/summer-vacations-and-ice-creams.html">icecream bar</a></b>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara had a princess playdate for her friends and made cupcakes for her friends.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Summers mean visiting friends and family and she has been painting canvasses to gift them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coming back to the princess party, we made some tiara, glass slipper and castle pizzas too.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Summer vacations also mean decluttering and donating. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have been reading this really witty, whimsical and artistic book called You are what you eat.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also reading this one and deciding which person would you choose to look like.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have been reading about dimsums, lucky oranges and oolong tea too.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The husband and I are on a mission. Knocking off dish by dish.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Summers also mean quick and light meals. We have been eating Jool Oliver's <a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/jools-crunchy-fish"><b>crunchy fish</b></a> with greens.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jamie Oliver's quick <b><a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/chargrilled-chicken-kebabs">chicken kebabs</a></b> with a mint and yoghurt dip.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A couscous fish stew with a generous squeeze of lemon</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chicken Ciabattas for I was too lazy to cook</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Egg and harissa painted aubergine pita wraps with a beetroot and carrot salad</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">July we can't wait for you to begin! Summer Vacations here we come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Want to see more of June? Let's say hi to each other on <b><a href="https://instagram.com/orangekitchens/">instagram</a></b>.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-6717709926371887872015-06-22T10:00:00.000+04:002015-06-27T10:44:22.839+04:00Kids in the Kitchen: IshitaUnblogged<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few months back I started a new series on the blog, <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/search/label/kidsinthekitchen">Kids in the Kitchen</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Through this series I wanted all of us to meet parents and children who bond, have fun and make life long memories in the kitchen. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sadly I didn't get around to writing about the many many awesome parent-kids teams I "met" over the last few months. I promise to correct that now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meet Ishita & the Z-sisters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ishita is the heart and mind behind, <b><a href="http://ishitaunblogged.com/">IshitaUnblogged</a> </b>where she shares her culinary travel tales. In her own words, at IshitaUnblogged, "Culture, history, recipes, food stories, travel stories, chef talk, restaurant reviews and nostalgia unfold here amidst humor, soul-search and visual stimulation. And oh! How could I ever forget? With 2 kids in tow!" Read all about her <b><a href="http://ishitaunblogged.com/about-me/">here</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She is also the founder and editor of <b><a href="http://www.foodemagdxb.com/">FoodeMagdxb</a></b>; the first ever Food and travel e-magazine, authored by celebrated bloggers around the region. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Say hi to Ishita & her little girls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am a mother of two high-strung girls. The entire family is food-centric, we are always arguing about what to eat, what to cook and where to travel (and to eat!). I left advertising when the kids were born and when restlessness kicked into my creative brains, I started writing a culinary travel blog which evolved with our travels and experiments in my own kitchen. However, today, it has a different direction, but the ethos still remain the same - food and travel stories that I am able to write, along with my girls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The two girls are known as Z-Sisters in my blog and that is how they love being called as well. Big Z is 10 years old and Li’l Z turned 5. Both of them are very interested in what I am doing, and love the fact that sometimes they can go into the kitchens of hotels and resorts that I visit, because of my job. I am an experimental cook, and cannot stick to recipes or proportions. That is also one reason that I do not bake. I am petrified of baking. Big Z, on the other hand, loves baking. And because of my ignorance in this subject, there is no one to steal her thunder. Every Friday, she would be baking from her recipe cards, or cookbooks and has till date, always managed to churn up her baked goodies as per the recipe. She loves making salads too… and is always telling me at the last minute that she is going to cook something. She is very independent and preheats the oven etc. But I am around, just to ensure that she is safe. Li’l Z is interested too, but is very very jealous. She likes to mess up what ‘Didi’ or elder sister is doing and puts her own stuff into Big Z’s dough and that will definitely ensue a fight! The other thing that I am trying to inculcate in Lil Z is not to lick the ingredients - it blows my sanity away!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Do the Z sisters “cook” with you? How do you involve them in the kitchen/during meal times/grocery shopping? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The girls cook with me over the weekends or if there are parties at home. I would love to involve them in grocery planning - but it becomes really chaotic - both planning the grocery and buying them. As a very busy working mum, entertaining their wish list (even on grocery) becomes really difficult. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How do you think their getting involved in either or all of the above has altered their food habits?</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I do not know whether their food habits have been altered, because I have involved them since they were born. Even if it took a longer time, I have let them feel and touch and eat their own food. What definitely has happened is, eating is not a chore for them - as it is with some of our friends’ children. They love to eat, try out different cuisine, ask questions about the country that particulate dish may have come from. They love going out to different restaurants and have good table manners. I wouldn’t flinch taking them to a fine dining restaurant if that venue allowed children. They wouldn’t be bored and I don’t encourage entering a restaurant with i-Pads and other gadgets. As long as there is food in the horizon, they are excited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How do you deal with mess/chaos that comes with them being in the kitchen? More importantly how do you maintain your sanity? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It can be very daunting. You have to ‘let go’… as long as safety around the kitchen is ensured, you shouldn’t bother. Ignorance here is bliss. Of course, there will be chaos and mess… high-level chaos and mess to be precise. But then you have to remember why did you let your children into the kitchen, in the first case? For them to have fun, learn and enjoy the experience. I was a late entrant into the kitchen, with my parents always telling me to stop touching everything in the kitchen, and how I will hurt myself, or simply because, there’s no need for me to be around. Although my mom had been a brilliant cook, entering the kitchen was like doing something unnecessary - I could very well spend my time doing something worthwhile - studying or painting etc. But this is something I had vowed to myself that I wouldn’t do with my kids. And I genuinely don’t panic, although I feel like tearing my hair for having decided to let the Z-Sisters into the kitchen! My parents would have freaked out if they had seen a laptop on top of the oven (not switched on of course) so that kids can read the recipe!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, they like making a cuppa-corn and would love to share their "recipe" for the same :) Get the complete story on their sweet yellow moments and the recipe <b><a href="http://ishitaunblogged.com/2012/03/27/cuppa-corn-sweet-yellow-moments/">here.</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you Ishita for dropping by with the Z sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you cook with your kids? Did you enjoy meeting Ishita & the Z sisters? I'd love to hear.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-57987720193143671772015-06-15T10:14:00.000+04:002015-06-15T11:44:38.998+04:00Celebrating cultures and countries through cuisines.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I remember when
we were kids, you had to either travel to experience food from different
countries (which is ofcourse the best way to soak in both the culture and cuisine
of any country) or the times when travelling wasn’t possible the only two
cuisines you could try were Italian and Chinese where too we had a very few
choices (at least that was true for me when we were little).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel our kids
are so fortunate to be growing up in a world where they are exposed to cuisines
from different parts of the world in whichever part of the globe they are in. <span style="background: white;">Exposing our children to new cuisines broadens their
definition of what “food” is, helps them understand how countries are diverse
but still similar in so many ways, helps them appreciate the history and
geography that surrounds the food and helps us raise adventurous eaters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When
the year began Sara and I came up with some <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/01/new-year-food-resolutions-for-kids.html">new year food resolutions</a></b> for her and
invited all of you to join us (Many of you did! Thank you!). One of the four
resolutions was to choose and try a new food from a country of her choice each
month and I am so happy to report back that we are enjoying this journey that
we are making with the help of our taste buds. She has a globe in her room and
each month we spin it and choose a country. Throughout the month, we try to
read up a little about that country, learn some new words, read about the local
food, sometimes even draw the food and ofcourse try out new foods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then
early this year with Chef Russell I got this fabulous opportunity to work with many
many little chefs at the Young Chefs Club at Lafayette Gourmet. Each month workshop the
children cook and cook what the world eats. In the last four months we have
visited Japan, China, India and Italy and it has been such a great journey
where we tasted fruits and vegetables from the different countries, smelt the
spices, oils and cheeses, learnt about the food habits of the people who live
there, saw the maps and flag. We even learnt a bit of history and geography and
ofcourse “cooked” a couple of really simple recipes. Each time we worked with
these kids they have surprised me for none of them said no to trying out
something new. Some of them did not like everything they made but they never
said no to tasting which is big win I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">So
today I am going to share what has been working for us with Sara to help her
become a future world traveler:) </span><span style="background: white;">I need to point out that we have had both
victories and failures and I constantly keep reminding myself to see that as
growth and not rejection.</span></span></div>
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very own city:</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Start
with what they like; their comfort zone:</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sara loves Italian so we began with that. Italian doesn’t mean only
Pizzas but we made sure there was a pizza amongst the other things we tried.
Also Pasta doesn’t mean only spaghetti and farfalle. So we tried the ravioli
this time. We also tasted tomatoes with some balsamic vinegar (she loved it).
We tried olive oil with some bread (she hated it). We made lots of bruschetta
toppings (fun to put together for kids), rolled out fresh pasta (messy equals
exciting) and we made a ricotta cake. But we didn’t do all this over one day.
We did this in bits and pieces over one month. We didn’t make everything. We
tried some at restaurants too along with a slice of her favourite pizza! So go
with what works for you. Having an Italian evening does, do that. Spacing it
out works, do that. Not comfortable cooking an unfamiliar cuisine, order in or
go out the first time around. Absorb the flavours and then try something
simple.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Visiting
new restaurants:</b> Two years back when we moved to Dubai we were so excited at the
prospect of experiencing this city through all the restaurants it had and it
was something of a fun project that we started at home. We called it Project
52. Each weekend the three of us would try one new place to eat. We didn’t have
any cuisine in mind but over time Sara started loving the idea of this “game”. Where
are we going next weekend and what food will be we eating made it exciting and
over time she has become more open to trying out new foods. Oh yes, we are very
much playing this game even now.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Books
on food:</b> There are some great <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/search/label/cookbooks%20for%20little%20foodies">books on food</a></b> for children with stories about
local food and food habits with fun illustrations, stories, poems and correct
meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words. New books always get her super
excited so if your little one is into reading then you must try out some bedtime
reading on food with them.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Visiting
food festivals:</b> Most big cities today have a myriad of <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/search/label/Food%20Festival">food festivals</a></b>. At these
festivals we like to pretend that we are both food tasters and food critics (At
these festivals a lot of restaurants and food stalls offer smaller tasting
portions; both free and paid) and Sara loves giving stars and comments on each
of the things we try. Just so you know the adjective “disgusting” is also up
there with awesome and “supercalifraglisticexpiadolicous”. If your city has no
food festivals planned food courts, global villages and local haats is where
you can head to.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Visiting
international markets:</b> These days thanks to so many people from different parts
of the world coming together to work in a city far away from their homes we
have a Japanese specialty store, a Pakistani grocery store, an Italian bakery,
an Iranian shop and more all in one city. Where there are no stores there are
international aisles in a big super market (Thai, Japanese, Mexican and Chinese
aisles/shelves are pretty common now). Turn this into a game for the children.
Select one recipe with them and ask them to write down the ingredients we require
to make it and then go on a treasure hunt to buy all of them. Striking off each
ingredient on their list and then making a new recipe is sure to get them
excited</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Potluck
with friends: </b>I don’t know of any child who will say no to a playdate (mine is
ready to go for one even in the middle of the night). Children these days are
fortunate to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have friends
from different nationalities or from different cities of the same country and </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that presents them with a great opportunity to taste
what their friends eat at their homes. Every once in a while inviting friends
over or going to their place with one dish from your country/city is another
great way of observing what friends eat at home and how they eat.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Celebrating
festivals:</b> Food is such an important part of festivals and holidays across the
world. Embracing festivals and cooking special traditional recipes and making
into one big party always seems to work with Sara. Since she loves to draw and
craft we also end up trying out a craft that makes for party décor. Food and
décor both sorted.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Maintaining
journals or “passports”:</b> Writing down which countries they know about or are
studying at school, drawing out its map, flag, sticking pictures of historical
buildings, food they have tried at home or outside at a restaurant, food they
liked and did not like, adding local currency, stamps (if you can get your hands
on it), have they visited it in the past or would they like to will ensure your
little one is well travelled even without stepping out of your city!</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Watching
delicious movies:</b> I love watching movies that center on food. One of Sara’s
favourite movie is Ratatouille. So what did we do next, we made some
ratatouille! But then this doesn’t have to be restricted to “food movies”. When
we saw the Sound of Music we took her to try some wurst and apple strudel. This
always becomes a sort of a happy evening for us, pairing a movie we watch with
her with food.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Lead by example: </b>Always remember</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> only if they notice and feel
we are truly enjoying this adventure will they be willing to become our
partners in the journey. Our children learn more from what we are than what we teach them.</span></li>
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hope these ideas and tips will help you raise “</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">little travellers</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">” and with
summer vacations round the corner who knows you and we just might be going
around the world in 60 days!</span></div>
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you have any ideas or stories that you’d like to share? I’d love to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-75219493041956803162015-06-08T14:24:00.002+04:002015-06-08T18:44:39.126+04:00Summer Vacations and ice creams.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is time to begin the most important countdown of the year. The countdown
for summer vacations.</span><br />
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summer vacations and vacations mean a lot of happy things for my little
chefling. Grandparents, staying up late, multiple trips to the library,
splashing around in the pool, making presents for everyone, meeting old
friends, movie marathons, endless rounds of dobble and scrabble and eating
icecreams! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, that last
bit is her favourite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes
sitting alone in the balcony licking the ice lolly looking at the cars
pass by, sometimes sharing a large bowl with us; three spoons
clanging against each other and sometimes with all her friends; attacking the
ice-cream bar and adorning the good old vanilla and chocolate ice cream with sprinkles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ice cream is so
much more than milk and cream and sugar, isn’t it? For me it means
travelling back in time to my childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Growing up, mum
would always make sure we had enough in the freezer. It helped that dad too
wanted it all the time! He still does. My mum’s freezer can put an ice cream
parlour to shame. Such was and is the quantity and variety. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There would
always be the good old vanilla. In May when the markets were loaded with
mangoes, it had to be mango kulfis. Watermelon ice lollies too, a big favourite
with the entire family. She would always add a hint of “roohafza” to make it
sweeter and give it that rose flavor. I still do the same, but like to add some
mint, lime and rock salt to it as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I remember the
day, when we got home the ice cream maker that marked the end of the “partially
freeze-whisk and breakup-refreeze” rigmarole era. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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maker required a combination of ice and rock salt in a certain predefined ratio.
It had a metallic canister. Once the motor was switched on, you had to keep
lining the canister with both the ice and rock salt. The motor would then turn
the canister. The part time help who came to our house those days would get the
rock salt from a local shop only she knew about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would make endless rounds to the kitchen to see if more salt was needed and
bring that to my mum’s attention. After the entire operation was over, we would
be given some right away. Right out of the machine; semi frozen and soft. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The ice cream
didn’t last very long which meant the process was repeated every other day. Mum
would also buy cones for us. Ice cream in a cone was what summer vacations were
made up of. Sometimes there would be very little left and mum and dad would say
but hey this is for both of you, we don’t feel like having it today. It never
struck us that they may have wanted it as much as we wanted to. We would start
licking the scoop with mum telling us to keep rotating the cone and keep licking
it from all sides. Then would be the moment when the icecream would began to
melt and make the cone go all soggy and limp. The mad rush to quickly bite into
it would begin. All this while our parents would be watching us with this
crushing joy in their heart for seeing us happy made them happy. Seeing us have
ice cream took them back to their childhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Summers also equal
visiting grandparents for Sara and as kids it meant the same for my sister and
me. Early mornings meant laid back breakfasts, climbing the mango trees,
jumping up high in an attempt to reach the grape vine for fresh grapes (grape
leaves too, they taste divine!) and threading the frangipani into garlands
while sitting on the frangipani tree. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hot and lazy
afternoons were spent looking through old albums that were neatly stacked in my
grandfather’s study. Those albums carried within them millions of stories. The
noise made by the air cooler, the smell of the “khus” he would add to the water
and cold lemonade for company. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Early evenings
meant kulfis! Every evening at 4 p.m. we would start looking out of the tiny
window from our grandparents room; the one that faced the road. Since the noisy
cooler would be on, we didn’t want to take the risk of missing the tring tring
of the kulfi wala. He too was aware that May meant that the grandchildren were
here and each evening without fail he would come and stop at the main gate. He
would be greeted with grand children from all the neighbouring houses queuing
up rather rather impatiently for their kulfis. Two not one. One in each hand
and always the same, malai kulfi. There was both a certain sense of excitement
and comfort in getting the familiar. I miss those days of not having any
variety, sometimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In that mayhem
there would always be one child who would accidentally drop her/his kulfi on the
road. Trust me those five minutes are the worst minutes of your life. Ask any
child and she/he will nod in agreement. That kulfi you waited for all day is
now on the dirty road melting into this creamy puddle that you can’t save. That
feeling! Two big fat tears are forming in your eyes, the world has come to an
end and at that moment your grandfather comes around and buys you another one.
Happiness restored. You want to hug him tight. He is your hero. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ice cream days. Do you? What are your childhood ice-cream memories? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara loves to have
her friends over for ice cream playdates. Once the children have played enough
and are really tired, they all sit down for ice-cream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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vanilla and dark chocolate. With tons of toppings. Their eyes light up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Confetti
sprinkles. Chocolate swirls. Marshmallows. Toasted Walnuts. Silvered
pistachios. Dried Cranberries. Dried Papaya. Sweetened Coconut. Dry Mango
Slices and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get busy “decorating” their scoops. Soon the ice cream disappears under an
avalanche of sprinkles and fruits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like my mum did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I go back to
the kitchen and watch them giggling over some stories from school, licking the
ice-cream, dropping some on the floor, wiping off their cream moustaches with
the sleeves of their shirts and I feel this sense of crushing joy in my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like my mum did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Several naughty little children</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two or three ice-creams of your choice (store bought or I like to follow the recipes of the <a href="http://www.davidlebovitz.com/category/recipes/ice-creams-and-sorbets/"><b>Ice cream God</b>.</a> With children the basics seem to work each time; vanilla, chocolate and strawberry)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nuts for some crunch; walnuts, pistachios, almonds, peanuts, pecans</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fruits; fresh and/or dry (papayas, mango, coconut, cherries, berries, bananas)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cookies, candies, marshmallows</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sauces if your kids like (chocolate, berries, caramel)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ice cream cones or bowls and spoons</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tons of napkins to wipe their little faces</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This morning I came across Sally's month in pictures on <b><a href="https://instagram.com/p/3Wj8mgJ_XD/">instagram</a></b> and I loved how she shared her little and big moments from May. A visual diary of sorts; just makes so much sense, doesn't it? Thank you <b><a href="http://mycustardpie.com/">Sally</a></b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Taking it one step ahead I thought it would be nice to share the same here on the blog each month. I promise to try!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Looking back at May:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Row 1 :From left to right:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have to begin with the Food Revolution Day which we celebrated this entire month. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So many happy faces. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So much energy. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I made memories to last me a lifetime. Read the full post <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/05/looking-back-at-food-revolution-day-2015.html">here</a></b>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you everyone for supporting and being there. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Towards the end of the month Radio Mirchi invited me to talk about my work. Thank you, it was a lot of fun.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This month Sara and I played with food. We played with salt and food colour.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We played with lentils.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also played with vegetables.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And we played with spices. We promise to share our little creations with you <b><a href="http://www.foodemagdxb.com/">here</a></b> pretty soon.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also made some triple chocolate chip cookies!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Row 3 :From left to right:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had zillions of cups of coffee to help me stay awake this crazy month.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We tried the burgers at <b><a href="https://www.zomato.com/dubai/moylos-jumeirah-3">Moylos</a></b> and loved it. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was invited to the <b><a href="https://www.zomato.com/dubai/seven-sands-jumeirah-beach-residence">Seven Sands</a></b> and loved the interiors as much as the food.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instagram shared my <b><a href="https://instagram.com/p/2tDL5zBQTG/">work</a></b> with all of their followers and I am still pinching myself.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had the pleasure of meeting <b><a href="http://diannej.com/b/">Dianne</a></b> Jacob once <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2013/11/food-blogger-connect-dubai-2013-and-more.html">again</a></b>. Thank you for your advice, Dianne.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Row 4 :From left to right:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara made a menu for her fairies. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We learnt about the edibles parts of plants.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I came across some of my old artwork (we are talking 15 years!) and pledged to get back to sketching.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara made us super proud at her violin concert.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to go back to some of favourite food memoirs; revisiting <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Settlers-Cookbook-Tales-Migration/dp/1846270847">The Settler's Cookbook </a></b>by Yasmin AliBhai Brown.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Row 5 :From left to right:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes I share with Sara some of the images I really like on Instagram. <b><a href="https://instagram.com/symmetrybreakfast/">symmetrybreakfast</a></b> and <b><a href="https://instagram.com/wkass">wkass</a></b> are her favorite. She made us her version of symmetry breakfast and it made me grin.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Summer Vacations are almost a month away but that isn't stopping her from making presents for her grandparents. She painted this for them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She has been bookmarking recipes from her <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pink-Princess-Cookbook-Barbara-Beery/dp/1423601734">Pink Princess Cookbook</a>.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She made me this and left it on my bedside table. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Diner-Usborne-First-Reading/dp/1409507157/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433165654&sr=1-1&keywords=monster+diner">The Monster Diner</a></b> is making her laugh these days.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Goodbye May. Hello June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Want to see more of May? Come and say hi to me on <b><a href="https://instagram.com/orangekitchens/">instagram</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">A little more than a week since the <b><a href="http://www.foodrevolutionday.com/">Food Revolution Day</a></b> and though a part of me is happy and content
that everything went off well (finally I can put up my legs on the coffee
table and ponder about the beautiful memories we created together); if you were
to ask me to be really really honest I am terribly missing all those days (read
the last five months).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Endless
planning, organizing, exchanging hundreds of emails, eating up each other
heads, agreeing, disagreeing, sleepless nights because I was too excited to
sleep before each of the events and those happy faces of all the little ones
who made Food Revolution Day 2015 so very special.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, I am
missing it all. More importantly I am just missing being around all the
wonderfully generous people who came together, who went out of their way and
made this happen. <b>Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much said
Helen Keller</b>. So true. None of this would have happened without them.</span></div>
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me for I want to take you with me through my <b>Food Revolution Month 2015 </b>which
is what we did here at Dubai. We celebrated the entire month and we had a
blast. This is going to be a long post so I suggest you sit down with a cup of
coffee :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>3rd May 2015: </b>We began
the month with 100 tiny chefs from the <b><a href="http://www.ihsdxb.com/home.html">Indian High School</a></b> dancing to the
Wiggles on the 3<sup>rd</sup> of May. We squashed, we took a pledge and we
asked lots of questions on why we need to eat healthy food. Finally we ate our
squash it sandwiches and we loved it. </span></div>
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Chef Club at the school and some of them were even food inspectors (you read it
right!) These little guys go around the junior school checking their friends’
lunch boxes!! So I decided to make these chefs/leaders in the making my
partners and not just participants. They are now telling everyone about Food
Revolution and have this huge responsibility on their tiny but very strong shoulders
to spread the love of real food and cooking. I am so proud of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Principal, Indian High School for joining hands and for food educating the
students. Thank you Ruby for doing this with me and thank you team Jamie’s
Italian for waking up much before your work hours and becoming a part of this
event.</b></span></div>
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were the subscribers of <b><a href="https://www.dinnertime.me/">DinnerTime</a></b>. Each month I work on a menu for their
subscribers as a DinnerTime Chef but the menu in the week of 10</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-16</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was super</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> special for through this menu I shared with them another
part of my life; the Food Revolution part of my life. We invited everyone to
cook Jamie Oliver’s Squash it Sandwich along with us so we included that as the
vegetarian recipe in the box that week. It was a great feeling to see the
subscribers joining millions across the globe.</span></div>
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Anette and the entire team at DinnerTime for agreeing to my request not just
this time but always. You have always supported me and it truly brightens my day
when you encourage me and indulge me like this.</b></span></div>
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day. The global day of action. We were all up really early smashing it up at
<b><a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/dubai">Jamie’s Italian</a></b>. 100 children alongwith their parents. It was like a mad mad
carnival where we played with food. There was “humble water” to drink, fruity
ice popsicles to lick, a flour station to get our hands messy, pasta machines
to see how fresh pasta is made and ofcourse nonstop squashing. Tattoos too. </span></div>
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Mansij, Luis, Anish and the entire team at Jamie’s Italian. You guys are the
best. Always ready to go that extra bit. I am missing all our morning
“meetings” where I felt as if I was a part of your team. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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long day but we weren’t done yet. 120 kids and their parents joined us at
<b><a href="http://www.galerieslafayette-dubai.com/En/Pages/Galeries%20Lafayette.aspx"><span id="goog_765815393"></span>Lafayette Gourmet<span id="goog_765815394"></span></a></b> the next day. 120 workstations were ready to welcome them;
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Chef Russell and the entire team at Lafayette Gourmet for believing in this
event. For those 1000s of emails we exchanged, for your time and for
always-always teaching the children about food (not just that day but all year
round). Thank you Tony Lootah for that wonderful produce. Thank you Team Tavola
for the rolling pins and more.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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such lovely memories and those of you who know me well, will know how I like to
capture the little and big moments in my life. Food Revolution Day 2015
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chance to tell everyone at Dubai about Food Revolution.</b> <b>(Podcast part one <a href="https://audioboom.com/boos/3113286-pacha-ibiza-dubai-1-23-04-2015?utm_campaign=embed&utm_content=retweet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook">here</a> and part two <a href="https://audioboom.com/boos/3113287-pacha-ibiza-dubai-2-23-04-2015?utm_campaign=embed&utm_content=retweet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook">here</a>)</b>.
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Today is Jamie Oliver's birthday & yesterday we had his food revolution ambassador, Prachi Grover from Dubai in our studio teaching Mohit how to make the 'SQUASH IT' sandwich in exactly 3 minutes<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Thank you Mohit and Tamanna for inviting me to <a href="http://www.radiomirchiuae.ae/">Radio Mirchi UAE </a>and to your show. It was a lot of fun squashing that sandwich. Listen to the show here.</b></span></div>
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Liz and the entire team at <a href="https://instagram.com/p/2tDL5zBQTG/">instagram</a> for sharing my story on the Food
Revolution Day with all of your followers. This was incredibly special and
overwhelming. Read the complete post on their blog <a href="http://blog.instagram.com/post/119023849532/150515-foodrevolutionday">here</a>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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answering our innumerable questions and for bringing it all together. Thank you Jamie for inspiring. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the
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when would be the next Food Revolution Day. <b>I whispered in her
ear, guess what it is tomorrow ! That’s right. Every day is a Food Revolution Day!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is a movement that allows people who love food to come together to share talents and resources, pass on their knowledge and bring food skills to life. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Each year the Food Revolution Community celebrates this day with an aim to raise awareness about the importance of good food and food education and I have put together a number of events with the support of some very enthusiastic supporters for all of you. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Trying our hand at making fresh pasta</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Getting our hands messy baking bread</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Beating the heat with fruit ice lollies</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Trying our hand at making fresh pasta</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Whizzing up a smoothie</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Good Bye February. You promised to be short and sweet and you were. Crazy too. But I am not complaining. I like this kind of a crazy. Infact crazy is my new normal. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Before I say hi to March tomorrow morning a look back at the February </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span style="line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/us/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/news-content/title-12-2" style="text-decoration: none;">monthly challenges</a>.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"></span><i style="line-height: 20.533332824707px;">If you are new here: At the beginning of each month the challenges are announced. These challenges are for inspiring the entire <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/becoming-part-of-food-revolution.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Food Revolution team </a></b>and to make deeper connections with everyone (fellow food ambassadors, friends and family, anyone who wants to be a part of this challenge too), share our stories , whether we failed or conquered and more. The idea is to complete as many challenges as one can (Read about the <a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><b>October</b></a> , <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/11/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html" style="text-decoration: none;">November</a> ,</b> <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/12/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html" style="text-decoration: none;">December</a> </b>and <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2015/02/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html">January</a> </b>challenges).</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Challenge 1: Cook for loved ones this Valentine’s day.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> Do you have a special recipe you cook for your loved ones? Whether it’s your kids, partner or a close friend, we want to see what dishes you make to win the hearts of your nearest and dearest. Find some sweet inspiration </span><a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chocolate-recipes/#0OhRzR7oLivmTMdf.97" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">One doesn't really need a reason or a day to celebrate love. It needs to celebrated, acknowledged and respected each day of the year. But when the year gives you the 14th of February to tell those special people in your life that you love them , you should. For very often we love them but we don't tell them and sometimes it gets too late. Someone very wise (Read:Pooh) when asked, How do you spell LOVE? answered "<b>You don't spell it, you FEEL</b> <b>it</b>", he said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A weird looking squash, a deformed potato, crooked carrots...you get the idea. Did you know that as much <b>20-40% of produce gets wasted</b> because it doesn't look perfect. Hard to believe but true. Such a huge waste of fresh produce just because they don't look the way we have been used to seeing them in the supermarkets. Round, glossy, clean, perfect lines. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But who is to decide what is perfect? As far as I remember <b>WE WERE BORN TO BE REAL AND NOT PERFECT.</b> A quote that holds true for both people and produce. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I came <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">across this wonky sweet potato at the local organic store. Sad and forgotten because no one was picking it up. I decided to give it a home and it was unlike most sweet potatoes I had worked with before. A gorgeous purple from the outside with "curves" and b</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">lack and sticky from inside. After I baked it with some olive oil, rosemary and some grated cheese it tasted </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">like a cross between a sweet potato and banana chips. A texture we loved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So let the new mantra be <b>I AM NOT WEIRD I AM LIMITED ADDITION</b>. Lets pledge to pick up that "<b>imperfect</b>" vegetable/ fruit and give it a "<b>perfect</b>" recipe ; one that promises to make our taste buds sing. <br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Challenge 3: Start planning your FRD! </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">If you haven’t already, now is the time to start thinking about what you’ll get up to on Food Rev day. Sign up for the day and get your friends and followers to do the same at </span><a href="http://www.foodrevolutionday.com/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">www.foodrevolutionday.com</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">. Maybe you’re hosting a potluck dinner with your friends? Or perhaps you’re going into your local school to get cooking with kids. Whatever you’re planning, we want to know how you’ll be getting involved on the day! </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We already have a school on board who have shown great enthusiasm for bringing about a
Food Revolution amongst their little ones (They even have a cooking club!). We are going to sit down March end and make this happen together. More
children will join us in making the Squash it sandwich at Galeries Lafayette’s
Gourmet wing. The Culinary Director there strongly believes in cooking from
scratch and is as excited as us about the Food Revolution Day. Also on the big
day will be an event for Jamie’s Juniors; where else but at Jamie’s Italian! The team at Jamie’s and I are looking forward
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To food revolution and to putting our
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also if you haven't signed up till now, do it <b><a href="http://www.foodrevolutionday.com/">here</a></b>. There is something that I have planned for all you lovely readers for the big day as well and I promise you it will be a lot of fun. Invite your friends and family to sign up as well :)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-45981064995888858492015-02-06T11:15:00.004+04:002015-02-06T21:32:33.840+04:00My little chefling turns six : The Little Mermaid.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I clearly remember the day when my little chefling decided to come into our lives. Two weeks early. I called up DH in the middle of the night warning I would disown him if he didn't make it in time for the birth of our little monkey (He was travelling that night).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That day and last Saturday, 31st of January 2015. S</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ix beautiful years.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From being a part of my right arm where you spent hours sleeping to moving into your own bed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From not even being able to keep your head straight to becoming this young confident girl standing on the stage to recite a poem</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From teaching you ABCs to you teaching me alif, be, te</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From slipping your little fingers into mine to be able to walk to mastering the violin strings</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From me picking up the hundreds of toys strewn all over your room to you asking me to sit down while you set the dinner table</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From me feeding you apple puree to you making me a sandwich </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From me planning your birthday parties to you announcing the theme for your next</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From pinafores and baby rompers to princess gowns and jeans</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From pink soft booties to silver ballerinas</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From soft baby hair pony tails complete with ribbon to long glossy untamed hair you wanting to always leave open</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From not leaving my hand for even a second to running away without looking back when seeing friends</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From mamma surprising you with lunch box notes to you leaving me a card for all of my special days</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From me tying your shoe laces to you asking me to change my heels for the other ones looked prettier</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From scribbling on papers to painting a canvas for our room</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From me asking you what you did at school to you coming back and inquiring how was my day</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From ten page board books to eighty pages stories</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From having tea parties with dolls to hosting your own real ones </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From being a pint size to now reaching my waist and very proudly so</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From being my little baby to being my partner in crime</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From Dora and Barney to princesses and mermaids</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy Happy Birthday to you. My little chefling. You'll always be my little girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Always be your funny, mad, curious self. Always leave some room in your heart for the unimaginable. Always believe in mermaids and secrets that come in a bottle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The girl has moved from pink to blue. From butterflies fluttering in the sky to mermaids swimming in the sea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It had to be a mermaid party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was happy to oblige. Enough pink for the last five years. Bring on the blue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like each year we kept it small. She was surrounded by the the friends she loves, in the company of her family and we hosted it at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whats a mermaid party without treasure bottles with secret messages inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So the invitations were mermaid treasure bottles. With tricoloured sand, a scroll carrying the invitation, a tiny blue star for every mermaid needs some sparkle and a name tag with a ribbon to complete it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tons of blue balloons and paper flowers that I handcrafted were decor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I also put together this shadow box with one of my favourite quotes that I just mentioned above. A bottle similar to the invitation, some shells and loads of sparkly white and blue stars. A shadow box is such a great and versatile medium to personalize any wall and makes for a pretty centerpiece too, Isn't it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We welcomed the tiny mermaids and the pirates with this rubber tube on our front door or the "mermaid wreath" as Sara likes to call it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once everyone settled down a bit the mermaids and the pirates played three games. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first one was a take on pin the tail. Pin the fin. The little guests were blindfolded and were handed a fin each and then asked to pin the fin. I did cheat a little to ensure that each one did it correctly and won themselves a sea creature note pad. Can't have disappointed upset faces on such a happy day, can we? We can keep fairness aside for today :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For this I used a free printable of a mermaid and added a personal touch to it by adding glitter to her tail, a tiara on her head and a moon for the night sky. A rock made with some white sand and some starfishes completed the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The second game was take on the very popular limbo. We played under the sea limbo. I printed and cut out pictures of several sea organisms and the kids were asked to pick one from the lot. They then had to enact like the sea organism on their chit and go under the sea waves. We played the song "Under the sea" from the movie The Little Mermaid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was such a happy game to play. The children were in giggles seeing their friends become jellyfish, octopus, dolphin and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For this game I saved a brown paper tube the one that comes with giftwrap rolls and covered it with a white crepe streamer. On that were added several white and blue "waves" made from white and blue streamers. I twisted each of the streamers after every two inches so that the final thing looked twirly and wavey. This can take time but trust me it looked really pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The mermaids got mermaid artprints to colour as prizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The third and final game was treasure hunt in the sand pit. Since we had the party at home, the sandpit was this container. Each mermaid/pirate had to find one fish eraser, one glitter box and a pair of blue rubber bands ( replaced with little dinosaurs for the boys).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cake is one thing that I never even attempt to make for Sara's Birthday. My cakes can be best described as "rustic" :) not acceptable by little children who want pretty mermaids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Elna from <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CakeWitchDubai">Cake Witch</a></b> made this beauty. Multiple shades of blue, ruffles for waves and my little girl sitting there on the top as the little mermaid. Thank you Elna you made our day truly special.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Star fishes</b> (star fish shaped sandwiches with grated carrot, cucumber and cream cheese filling)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Conch shells</b> (shell shape pasta with red sauce made with tomatoes, carrots, celery and leeks)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Mermaid rocks</b> (puff pastry vol au vents with a corn pesto filling)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Seaweed</b> (green grape mini skewers)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Oysters with pearls</b> (homemade butter cookies with a light blue frosting and white buttons for pearls)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Shark's teeth</b> (Mini cheese triangles)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Seawaves</b> (Store bought multigrain waves with homemade yoghurt dip)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Goldfish</b> (well..just because and the kids didn't touch these..don't know whether to be happy or sad :)))</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Mermaid magic potion</b> (orange and mango juice)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Seawater</b> (water)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">We had quite a splash that day and Sara thanked her little guests with these blue beach buckets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Each bucket carried a little thank you note that read "May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your toes".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The party could not have been complete without the yearly ritual of asking the guests to write down a little something for Sara for us and her to look at and smile years later. Each year right from her first birthday this is something that I always look forward to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We are already in the second month of the year which means it is time to look back at the <b>January</b> <span style="line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span style="line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/us/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/news-content/title-12-2" style="text-decoration: none;">monthly challenges</a>.</b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"></span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">If you are new here: At the beginning of each month the challenges are announced. These challenges are for inspiring the entire <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/becoming-part-of-food-revolution.html">Food Revolution team </a></b>and to make deeper connections with everyone (fellow food ambassadors, friends and family, anyone who wants to be a part of this challenge too), share our stories , whether we failed or conquered and more. The idea is to complete as many challenges as one can (Read about the <a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><b>October</b></a> , <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/11/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html" style="text-decoration: none;">November</a> </b>and <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/12/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html">December</a> </b>challenges).</i><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">For January: </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Challenge 1: Download YOU-app.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> Jamie's been working on a new and exciting app called <a href="http://jamieol.com/YouappFB">YOU-app</a>. It focuses on four areas – food, mind, move, love – and is all about completing one micro action each day to help you live a happier, healthier life.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is about taking notice of our beautiful surroundings that we often ignore because life takes over. It is about making a shift to real food because you <b>need</b> to but without making it difficult and yet indulging in whatever you heart fancies when you <b>want </b>to. It is about making memories and thanking the people who make your life complete and it is about a fitter, healthier, happier and a more positive <b>YOU</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This app has me giddy with excitement and if you have been following me on <b><a href="http://instagram.com/orangekitchens">instagram</a></b> where I share my YOUapp posts as well you will see how much fun I have been having. I'd love you guys to check it out and connect with me and the lovely community there. I am <b>orangekitchens</b> there as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read all about YOUapp and join <b><a href="http://jamieol.com/YouappFB">here</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Challenge 2: 10 meals to kick-start a healthier 2015. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">This year we're helping you to kick-start a healthier new year with </span><a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/healthy-meals/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">10 delicious recipes from Jamie and his friends</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">, plus loads of other helpful tips, ideas and inspiration. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You don't need a New Year to kick start healthy eating but a New Year gives you a fresh plate to fill and I a<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">bsolutely love new beginnings for they give us a chance to look back on how the last year was, an opportunity to start afresh, several new possibilities to grow, to learn and to experiment. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its about the little changes and the big ones. And the big one (which I earlier shared with you lovely readers on the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/orangekitchens">Orange Kitchens FB page</a></b>)has been announced. Yay! Food Revolution Day is going to be on the 15th of May this year. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have put on my thinking cap, meeting and connecting with some lovely people already to plan for the big day and I'd love you all to spread the word around. Lets get our little ones into the kitchen and make some noise. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>To learn one simple recipe each month</b>: We will master one recipe a month. It could be a simple omelette or putting together her favourite sandwich. A muffin or a salad. At the end of the year she will know 12 recipes. 12 recipes! At the end of twelve years when she goes to college she will know 144 recipes and will not have to eat boring and unhealthy dorm food! Okay clearly I am going a little giddy with all this excitement but the point is that helping our children learn to cook is a very precious gift we as parents NEED to give them. It is a gift for life.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>If you'd like to join us:</b> Choose age appropriate recipes for your children, food that they already enjoy and are familiar with. Depending on their age/interest/ mood they may or may not be able to/ want to cook the entire recipe and that is perfectly alright. Most importantly always be there with them in the kitchen. </i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>To volunteer for one dinnertime chore each night:</b> Each time when we sit around the dinner table, enjoy a home cooked meal and talk about our day there is a very impatient kitchen sink in background full of dirty dishes, there is a refrigerator that is begging us for a clean up every few weeks, there are dishes to be put away after a meal and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there are placemats and plates that need to be carried to the table before we begin eating. Our children may or may not realize this depending on how much they enter the kitchen. Sara often helps me with little tasks like taking the cutlery to the table or always putting back her plate in the sink. This year, I'd like her to partner us with a chore she chooses to do for the entire family. It could setting up the table or filling up water, basically something that she can do on her own. Helping mum and dad with these chores make children realize the hardwork that goes behind each meal. It isn't just about cooking. The little ones also feel proud when asked to do "adult" tasks and when we begin to "depend" on them and they share responsibility.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>If you'd like to join us:</b> Talk to your child about what she/he would like to do so that they enjoy doing it and not look at it as a "chore". Let them do different things for the first few days. It will help them figure out what they like doing. But make sure post that they stick to it. This will help them realize that mum and dad depend on them for "this task" and also teach them about commitment.</i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>To choose and try one new food from a country of her choice each month:</b> Our kids are so lucky to be growing up in a world where food from other countries is easily accessible to them in whichever part of the globe they are in. A lot of them also have friends from different nationalities and that presents them with a great opportunity to taste what their friends eat at their homes. Some of them are also reading and learning about different countries in their geography or history lessons. Picking up a country of her choice each month, knowing a little more about the food that grows there, the recipes that are made in the kitchens there and trying out the cuisine is what learning and growing is all about. Exposing Sara to new foods through this fun exercise that we will play with the globe kept on her bookshelf will help expand her palate.</span></li>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>If you'd like to join us:</b> Help your child choose a country each month. Read about the vegetables and fruits that are grown there, the national dish/es of the country, the recipes that it has shared with the rest of the world. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is a wealth of information/ recipes available online else just give me shout out and I will be there with Sara to assist you.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></i><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>To start one new food tradition that involves all of us: </b>My parents gifted me some lovely traditions that revolved around the dinner table. Some I still observe for they have become a part of my life and take me back to a very happy place in my head and heart called childhood. After Sara came along we began to have some new ones that we didn't consciously make but became a part of our lives somehow like Friday mornings are for ALWAYS for pancakes. I'd like to start a new food tradition with her this year. It could be anything really, may be homemade pizza night each Thursday that we all make together and eat watching a children's movie. Something to look forward to each weekend and something to look back at once she is a little grown up. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara and I would love you to become part of this. Choose one resolution or two or all four. If we are in this together I can assure you the year will be exciting and we will push each other to do this through the year. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Share your pictures on the Orange Kitchens <a href="https://www.facebook.com/orangekitchens"><b>facebook page</b></a>, on <b><a href="http://instagram.com/orangekitchens">instagram</a></b> or <b><a href="https://twitter.com/orangekitchens">twitter</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember to use the hashtag <b>#okfoodresolutionskids</b> when sharing so that we can all get inspired and learn from each other. </span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When my little chefling came along she joined us in the festivities. Each year we work on an <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/12/25-days-of-christmas-advent-calendar.html">advent calendar for her</a></b>, she makes Christmas cards, we make edible gifts, we sing carols, we play Christmas games, write a letter to Santa and she invites her friends over for Christmas festivities. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This year we did the same and just like the twinkling fairy lights on the tree little eyes sparkled, just like the glowing baubles their faces lighted up and we celebrated Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Challenge Two: Share your greatest Food Revolution moment from 2014. Whether conquering a certain recipe, getting your picky eaters to try new foods, or joining FRD 2014 we want to know your best food revolutionary moments from this year - send us your quotes, images, achievements and favourite photos. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">This for me would be my </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/becoming-part-of-food-revolution.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Food Revolution</a></b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"> moment of the year. I joined the wonderful and very encouraging team of Food Ambassadors very recently (third month here so technically not the moment of the year type of a moment but hey it is the drop that counts!) and I am so happy that we enjoyed our apple story and biting into apples. Post the workshop even if a handful of kids out of the group of sixteen who came that day end up including apples in their diet and in turn convince their friends to try a bite from theirs I think we may have a little proud moment here.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2015 is almost here and it is going to be my goal to connect with more and more children this year through cooking, telling stories, getting parents and kids to be in the kitchen together, writing and more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I come from India where every festival, celebration, special occasion like so many other cultures translates into making and eating some <i>Meetha </i>(sweets). We take our "<i>meetha</i>" so seriously that "<i>kuch meetha ho jaye</i>" is like a national anthem (Let us have some sweets). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">India is a pretty large country where food habits change every few kilometers but what is interesting is that across the country we all have our very own rice pudding and that is what I'd like to share with all the other ambassadors who come from so many different countries for the third challenge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our rice and milk meetha is something we all like to make to mark our special days. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kheer,Khiri,Khir, Payasam, Payasa, Payesh, Payoxh, Phirni,Gil e Firdaus and more. Each state has its own variant. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is made by boiling rice with milk and sugar (sometimes jaggery); it is flavoured with cardamom, raisins, saffron, cashew nuts, pistachios or almonds. Ghee (clarified butter) / cream are added at times to up its richness quotient. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With 2014 coming to an end and a promising 2015 almost here, I'd like to share this "meetha"with all you lovely ambassadors and my awesome readers. </span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a few saffron strands</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 litre milk (full cream)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 tbsp long grained (basmati) rice</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6 tbsp sugar</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To the saffron strands add 1 tbsp of warm milk and keep aside.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Soak the rice in water for about 1 hour.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Drain the rice and grind it in a mixer to a coarse powder.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add ½ cup of cold milk and mix to make a paste. Keep aside.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Boil the rest of the milk and stir in the rice paste.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cook for about 20 minutes on a low flame, stirring continuously.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add the sugar and saffron milk and simmer for another few minutes.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pour into individual containers and let it come to room temperature. Refrigerate. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Serve chilled garnished with almonds and saffron strands.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">p.s I added some cardamom pods to the milk as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wish you all a sweet, sparkly and a shiny New Year. May 2015 be filled with magic, memories and madness. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See you in 2015.</span><br />
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red juicy apples, a couple of really really funny songs and a story in a
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Giggles, grins, sparkling eyes that go wide, crunching
and munching,millions of questions, amusing tales and a lot of fun. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This and more was exactly what I took back home with
me from the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/664428183656147/">Apple Workshop</a></b> that I put together for the little ones as part of
my Food Revolution Diaries (The workshop was for the children between the ages
of 3-7 and was free for everyone who wanted to attend).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That evening began like a lot of stories do; once upon
a time. Only this time the protagonist was a tiny apple seed and it was R-E-A-L-LY
long time ago. It was the story of the first apple seed on the earth.</span></span></div>
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fairies also visited us so that the apple seed could grow into a beautiful and
big apple tree with red, round and mouth-watering apples. The children sat on
the floor cross legged, all eyes on me, eyes that clearly had many questions
and eyes that grew wide each time the apple seed grew.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then two chirpy birds came and whispered “wakey wakey”
into the apple seed’s ear and the apple seed kind of heard them. She rubbed her
eyes, opened one eye just a tiny bit and then the other, stretched her arms and
whoosh got out of “bed”. The children smiled and laughed for that is how “we
get up each morning when mum/dad wakes us up to get ready for school”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The apple seed began to grow from a seed to young
sapling to a tree full of blossoms. Just like my engrossed audience had become
“big and tall from the babies we were some years back”. The storm fairy came to
test the young tree’s strength just like sometimes “we fall in the park and mum
tells us to be strong and brush off all that dirt” they told me.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In between all this a woodland fairy dropped by, some
stars were wished for, those wishes were granted, the little scientists carried
out some truly serious apple research, they sang and danced with apples on
their heads and then on their ears and a little later the apples were on their
noses, the junior food critics tasted two different types of apples and rated
them on taste, texture, yumminess quotient, scribbling, coloring and with that
the workshop came to an end. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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walked out had we just had fun (which isn't bad either:)</span><span lang="EN-US">) or
had the session made any little difference and opened their minds and palates
to eating more apples. It was only later when the parents began to message me I
was smiling. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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whole apple. She usually makes a face after eating a few wedges I was told, one
mentioned mine her child had never tasted green apples and she was happy about
it. Another one was amused that with friends around the child had eaten the
apple with the peel where as at home he always requested her to remove it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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more varieties of apples for scoring it made them feel important and a lot of
them are waiting eagerly for the next workshop I hear. One even tried the apple
recipe I shared that day. I haven’t stopped grinning ever since. They explained
the lifecycle of “our” apple seed to their parents. Grin just became wider.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tasted or food they have previously rejected in another form when you make it
enjoyable and with peers isn't it? They all had an apple experience to tell me
and each other. “<i>My mum makes applesauce
and I like that”, “mine gives me apples but they turn brown at school and I
like only white wedges (with the experiment they now knew what causes browning
and how to stop that :)</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US"> YAY!), “I going to ch</span></i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">eck for bruises on apples when I go shopping with my mum” </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and
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part of the workshop. It wasn't anything to do with the workshop if that’s what
you are thinking. She bit into an apple that evening and a tooth that had been
tickling her nearly came off! That was the biggest thing for her that
evening! The tooth fairy will be visiting me soon and I am very very excited (a first
for her!) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Later that evening she asked me if we could taste strawberries at the next workshop (</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.812789842093524.1073741850.286246328081214&type=1">If you'd like to see more snaps from that day <b>the complete album is available here</b></a>).</span></div>
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lot of people who came forward because they wanted to be a part of creating Food
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ladies, Cecilia and Anette from <b><a href="http://www.dinnertime.me/">DinnerTime</a></b> were really kind and got the
children the apples from the Greenheart Organic Farms. Tina, the lady behind
<b><a href="http://www.splashnbounce.com/">Splash n Bounce</a></b> generously offered the space to conduct the workshop. Big thank
you ladies for being a part of my Food Revolution Diary and for getting our
little ones to eat fresh and eat real.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This for me would be my <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/becoming-part-of-food-revolution.html">Food Revolution</a></b> moment of the
year. I joined the wonderful and very encouraging team of Food Ambassadors very
recently (two months old here so technically not the moment of the year type of
a moment but hey it is the drop that counts!) and I am so happy that we enjoyed
our apple story and biting into apples. Post the workshop even if a handful of
kids out of the group of sixteen who came that day end up including apples in
their diet and in turn convince their friends to try a bite from theirs I think
we may have a little proud moment here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Michels <b><a href="http://www.eatlivetravelwrite.com/2014/12/baby-steps-on-cooking-with-kids-and-being-a-food-revolutionary/">here</a></b> and when I read it I found myself nodding in agreement. It is also
about those little changes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2015 is almost here and it is going to be my goal to
connect with more and more children this year through cooking, telling stories, getting parents and kids to be in the kitchen together, writing and more.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there is the big day on the 15<sup>th</sup>
of May that I can’t wait for and together we will bring about a Food Revolution at Dubai.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To the little changes. To the big ones. To healthy
eating. To real food.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/becoming-part-of-food-revolution.html">Food Revolution</a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Season to Be Jolly and that means my little chefling will have her friends over
for an evening of fondue and Christmas card making. There will be Christmas
carols in the background, sparkling fairy lights, the Christmas tree
standing tall and proud with ornaments both store bought and handmade, warmth of the vanilla candles, cider simmering on the stove and big smiles and
fuzzy hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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tiny friends will together “make” the fondue and then share it. Fondue is such a
communal way to eat. The children will eat from a common bowl of chocolate, picking their
favourite things to dip but taking care that they leave enough of everything
for their friends. They will learn that they need to be fair and equal and will go back home
with the kind of happiness that only sharing can give them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Plus the
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">100 grams of
dark chocolate broken into pieces<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">100 ml thick
cream <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">50 ml milk<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For dipping
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fruits of
your choice: apples, grapes, pears, bananas, strawberries, raspberries, etc</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sprinkles</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chocolate
curls</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pretzels</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marshmallows</span></li>
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Coconut</span></li>
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glitter</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In a double
boiler or heat-safe bowl set over a pan of simmering water, melt chocolate with
cream and milk stirring, until smooth. Transfer to a fondue pot and light a
candle (If your children are old enough this task too can be given to them,
under your supervision). Teach them if it gets too runny, simply put more
chocolate.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Depending on
the age of the kids ask them to help you peel the banana, wash the rest of the
fruits, separate the grapes from the stem.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Give them a
child friendly knife and ask them to slice the bananas, chop/slice the apples
and the pears and cut off the strawberry tops</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Next ask them
to fill all the little plates/bowls with the rest of the fondue accompaniments.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pick up the
skewers and dunk everything into the warm chocolate and enjoy.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Little
children with chocolate all over their faces and sticky fingers come free with
this recipe.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add some zing
to the sauce by adding a splash of vanilla, a bit of orange juice, grated lemon
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Christmas everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824108459340880319noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580362661078351133.post-87150328509114097842014-12-08T11:44:00.001+04:002014-12-08T11:51:43.988+04:00Kids in the Kitchen : The Artsy Craftsy Mom.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am so happy to have Shruti as our first guest for a new series on the blog, <b>Kids in the Kitchen. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You must have gotten bored of hearing the following lines (and for the nth time) on why I think it is important for us to lead our kids to our kitchens because that is how we can give them the opportunity to know and love food. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Through </span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kids in the Kitchen </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>series I'd like all us to meet parents and children who bond, have fun and make life long memories in the kitchen.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Meet Shruti and her daughter Lil P. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She is the heart and the mind behind the very popular blog, </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.artsycraftsymom.com/">The ArtsyCraftsy Mom</a></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. She is the kind of mum who goes crazy in a craft shop and is super
creative both at home & at work. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Engineering, and has 11+ years of experience in the corporate world as a
Quality Lead & Analyst. She is a certified PMP and love organizing &
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Please tell us a little about you Lil P?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lil P is the centre of our existence. Our
darling princess. She is a girly girl…loves pink, fairies, princesses, play
acting, memory games & Barbie movies.. She loves bear hugs and is
constantly giving us kisses (sic). She an active 8 year old who is mighty
inspired by Master Chef Kids. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Does Lil P “cook” with you? How do you involve her in the kitchen/during meal times/ grocery
shopping?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am lucky to have a cook at home who comes in
during weekdays to help me out. I love cooking for my family over the weekends
and naturally Lil P has to get involved. She is my little helper at home. She
helps set & clear the table, wash vegetables, cut fruits & make salads. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We bought her an induction stove and she loves to "cook" on that. She
makes garlic bread, pizza, dosa and other simple stuff under our supervision.
She also knows how to use the cooker & makes a mean coffee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How do you think her getting involved in the
kitchen has brought about a change in her food habits?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being a working mom I rarely get to spend a whole
day chatting with her, so on weekends I make it a point to have her involved in
a lot of kitchen activities. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We discuss her tiffin menu for the next week since we
follow a weekly menu plan. Getting her involved in menu planning has helped me
immensely. Earlier we would both get frustrated with food; me with her not
finishing her food and she was getting upset at not getting enough choices.
With a weekly menu, she knows the "healthy" choices and we throw in a
few "junk" items.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For example our Monday menu looks like
this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Early morning at 7.30 a.m.: Fresh fruits (she is
allergic to milk)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Breakfast at 9 a.m.: Two stuffed mini dosa +
nuts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lunch at 1 p.m.: Two mini palak paneer paranthas +
cucumber + cheese <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bus snacks at 4.30 p.m.: Junk, finger foods like a
chocolate cupcake or biscuits <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dinner at 7.30 p.m.: Rice + sambar + veg salad + curd <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Post Diner at 9 p.m.: Fruits. As a rule we don't
give her any artificial sugary stuff after 7.30 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Friday is a fast food day and she gets to plan
the menu. It could be anything; mini burger, pizza or noodles. Letting her have
a choice in menu planning helps to get her interested in trying healthy foods
she might normally turn her nose up at. I also see a greater appreciation
towards how & where we get our food from, making healthy choices and the
effort it takes to cook. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think the turning point in my life was once I
kept a cook. Earlier, I would get really stressed about the daily chaos that
comes with getting <i>dabbas</i> (tiffin
boxes) ready, getting ready for work & getting her ready for school. When my
daughter wanted to help me I couldn't really find the energy or the enthusiasm
to get her involved. But that's just me. For my mom, cooking for family was a
way to de-stress, for me, it’s the opposite. I enjoy cooking only on special
occasions & weekends at my leisure. Also what helps keep the chaos under
control is to plan well & plan ahead and always laying some basic ground
rules. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Safety comes first. There will be no compromise
on that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. If there is mess, everyone helps clean the mess
no matter who created it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Get the recipe <b><a href="http://www.artsycraftsymom.com/cooking-with-kids-puffed-rice-bhel/">here</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks Shruti & Lil P for visiting Orange Kitchens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All it requires of you is to get up from bed, pick up your bags and walk/drive down to a farmers' market with your children. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We need to do this for them for simply</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by taking them down there we are giving them much more than you can imagine. </span><br />
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Take your children to the farmers' market and give them the following:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them an opportunity
to meet real food and see what it really looks like</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Real apples
and brinjals don’t always have to be shiny and sparkly (not everything shiny is
magical :)</span><span lang="EN-US"> yes my little chefling that one is for you, beware they have been wax and oil coated),
real okra doesn't have to deep green (they have been dipped in copper
sulphate), real water melon isn't necessarily a ruby red ( it could have been
injected with <i>gulal </i>), real mangoes,
bananas and chickoos do not carry within them calcium carbide (that the fruits
have been exposed to hasten the process of ripening). If they don’t see real
food they won’t know it from all the fluff and the shine in the stores.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them a
chance to understand & appreciate the concept of seasonality</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:
Growing up I would relish mangoes with their juice dripping all over my bare
arms in summers and squeeze the juice from the orange peels into my sister’s
eyes (sorry mom) in winters. We ate according to the season. Things are
different now. Especially here in Dubai when most of the produce is imported
and strawberries are available throughout the year. When our children begin to visit
the market often they will being to notice that some fruits and vegetables that
are available throughout the year in a supermarket are not available and we as
parents and the local farmers can help them understand this better.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them a
world to make relations:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> My dad knows
his barber. They are friends. He knows exactly what my dad wants to be done to
his hair. Dad knows his car mechanic too. My dad, the mechanic and the car know
each other well. Doctor too. Butcher, milkman, vegetable seller too. Our kids
today have wings. They are not going to be living at one place for long. But
what we can gift them is the gift to know the farmer who grows their food for
whatever little time they are in a particular city. Isn’t it so much better
than the walking down the aisle of a store the size of football stadium and
picking up the vegetables in your list. Give them faces to remember not aisles.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them a
chance to say hello to new foods:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Never seen a turnip or some kale.
Shall we pick this since we’ve never tried it before? Ask your child. Involve
the farmer selling it for he/she may have a good recipe in the family. They grow
it after all. The kids will be more willing to try something new if their new
friend, the farmer tells them to. But don’t get upset if they don’t like it
after the first bite. Be prepared for that. At least they tried. May be the
next time with a new recipe they will like it better or revisit that
fruit/vegetable after a few weeks.</span></span></li>
<li><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Give them the
knowledge that food doesn't come with hundred ingredients:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I
saw an interesting video the other day. The voice over was something like this:
“Food is stuff that grew in the ground, swam, it was planted, nourished, had a
hand to it. Food isn't something with a hundred ingredients”. The farmers' market
is also a place where they will meet bakers, cooks, food artisans who are not
willing to compromise on the quality of food. Show them that the baker at the
market is using only flour, eggs, nuts and butter. There aren't a hundred
chemicals, preservatives and additives in her list of ingredients. The juice
has ONLY fruit. Ask them to compare that with what is written on a juice
tetrapak. They will remember this lesson for life and thank you years later.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them values
of community support and pride</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Going to the farmers' market will
instill in them values of supporting local groups who work so hard to get a
healthy meal on to their tables. They are honest, sincere and hardworking
people and need a platform to sell what they create. The bigger stores are too
big for the smaller quantities they may be producing and this is where we can
help them. We get real food. They get work. Plus there is this sense of pride
that comes with eating what your country/city is producing.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them a
chance to suggest what they’d like cook what you've chosen together:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Let
them choose some veggies and fruits and discuss what you want to make with it.
You will be amazed at some of the ideas your kids will have. May be they heard
that from a new friend they made at the market or they saw it in one of your
recipe books. May be grandma told them about it the last time they visited her.
Or it could be their good friend, the farmer.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them a
chance to experience outdoors:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> A lot of our kids are busy with
school and activities during the week, during the weekends there are errands to
run or a movie to watch or a dinner to go to (most within a mall), interests to
be pursued (indoors or if outdoors within a controlled environment) intercepted
by a rare picnic or a visit to the beach. Too few and far in between. By taking
our kids to the farmers' market each weekend we are gifting them the chance to
run around in the garden come Friday. They will feel the grass under their bare
feet, smell the fresh produce, see saplings being exchanged, bite into a juicy
red tomato and hear the stories behind the produce. It is a picnic for all of
their senses. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">From farm to
table is a lot of work: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I keep telling everyone that showing our kids the way
to the kitchen means that they get a chance to see how we prepare a meal (it is
okay even if they don’t want to help). They see the amount of work that goes getting
their dinner ready and begin to appreciate the value of a home cooked meal. There
will be days when they don’t like what you put on the table but may agree to
try it out because they saw how much time & skill it took to cook it. The
same holds true for the farmer’s market. Taking them to the market where they
will get a chance to understand the life cycle of the vegetables/fruits and how
hard the farmer worked to get it from his farm to our table will make them think
twice before leaving a half eaten apple or throwing overripe bananas into the
bin. They will ask you to make banana bread instead.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Give them a
place to gather and grow: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">The market is so much more than sellers and buyers
coming together. It is a place where will gather with our families, exchange a
smile with a familiar face, wink at the farmer who knows he needs to save that
last bunch of greens for us for he is our friend first (others will give dirty
looks, just give them your biggest smile and ignore), meet people with similar
food interests, make new friends, share a muffin or two over a picnic mat and
more. This kind of learning is what our kids deserve. Allow them to learn,
gather and grow.</span></span></li>
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really connecting the farmers to our tables. There are no middlemen involved so
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& Spice in April 2010 at Souk Al Bahar. They identified local and organic
farms to supply ingredients to their kitchen and soon after wanted to share it
with the community and that is how Yael Mejia the heart and the mind behind it
brought it to all of us. Come November the market is open each Friday (till
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Friday when the market returned for its sixth reason. Over a gorgeous spread of ka’aks with sesame
seeds , labneh made with leftover coffee milk, clementine and fresh ginger
syrup, homemade pomegranate syrup, muesli with fruits, English muffins with
three different combinations of chicken,
lamb and wilted spinach all topped with a fried egg, Russian tea breads, mince
pies and more together we welcomed the farmers for this season.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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farmer, Shaikha of Organic Oasis, Anastasia who produces olive oil on her family
grove on an island, called Samothrace and hear the lovely and enterprising Yael
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have always been the type of child who always paid
attention to what the teacher told me(read:boring) so when Yael both demanded
and scolded all of us for not helping her enough in spreading the good word and
increase awareness the good child will do exactly what the teacher told her to.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People get out of your bed, the weather is beautiful, pick
up your bags, pick up those naughty kids too and come down to the farmers' market. I demand. There is a gorgeous, green world waiting for you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the Jumeirah Emirates Towers’ Ballroom Garden. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">See you every Friday.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read more about the farmers' market : Here is what Carla
at <b><a href="http://memoirsofatastebud.com/2014/12/02/a-reason-to-rise-early-every-friday-the-farmers-market-on-the-terrace/">Memoirs of a taste bud</a></b>, Debbie at <a href="http://coffeecakesandrunning.me/2014/11/28/tfmott-the-farmers-market-on-the-terrace/"><b>Coffee, cakes and running</b></a>, Dima at <b><a href="http://www.dimasharif.com/2014/11/pssst-did-you-know-farmers-love-farmers.html">DimaSharif</a></b>, Francesca at <b><a href="http://kitcheninthesand.blogspot.ae/2014/11/the-farmers-market-on-terrace-in-dubai.html">Kitchen in the sand</a></b>, Ishita at <b><a href="http://ishitaunblogged.com/2014/11/29/farmers-market-on-the-terrace-breakfast-picnic-and-knowing-your-local-farmers/">Ishitaunblogged</a></b> and Sally
at <b><a href="http://mycustardpie.com/2014/12/02/diverse-dubai-and-enjoying-action-packed-autumn/">My Custard Pie</a></b> had to say about it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My bookshelf is bursting with <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/p/ever-growing-library.html">cookbooks</a></b> (we are talking three digits) and though in an ideal world I would be using all of them in a real world very far away I often end up revisiting my old favourites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"<i><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">Use more cookbooks rather than using the same ones over and over again:</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">I own several</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"> </span><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/p/ever-growing-library.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px; text-decoration: none;"><b>cookbooks</b></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">. But you know what like a lot of you out there (please tell me you belong to this group) I end up using the same ones each time for they and I have made this little bond over the years. They are familiar and I trust them. They help me when life takes over and I have to get a meal on the table each night. But this year I am going to get to know my other “friends” a little better".</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">I would say I did okay on that front. This year I was determined to dive into more of my collection. Some I cooked from, some I opened for inspiration, some helped in my work and some made my bedtime happier. </span></span></div>
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entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Bear with me and my
melodrama please. When you know the
complete story you will understand this melodrama better. Note: I used the word "understand" not appreciate or agree :)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a story of one lonely pasta maker. One fine day, a little more than three years ago I got home a metal contraption that I
just couldn't say no to; a manual pasta
maker. My reasons were solid. There is something so romantic about making pasta from scratch I thought; making
that well of flour and eggs, pulling in the flour till it all comes together,
kneading the dough just enough and then running it through the pasta maker.
With the large chunks in one hand you pass them through the machine, flour
flying in the air, with pearls around your neck was the picture I dreamt about when I bought the machine. Ofcourse a dress with a pretty apron that had lace
on it completed the picture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pity that none of the above happened. The machine
intimidated me. I don’t have the time to make it from scratch I would tell
myself especially when I can get whole wheat dry pasta everywhere. Why should I spend my energy
making fresh one and to be fair these days you get really good dry pasta off
the shelf. But you bought this saying you will be making all those raviolis and
lasagnas I would hear a little voice in my head. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pasta maker travelled across countries when we moved from Delhi
to Dubai. In its new home too it sat ever so patiently in
a box behind all the baking and cooking paraphernalia I have accumulated over these years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until one day last month when I was asked to make one
thing that really scares me as part of the <b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/10/food-revolution-ambassador-monthly.html">monthly challenges for Jamie Oliver’s Food revolution Ambassadors. </a></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I loved this take on Halloween. Do one thing that
scares you every day they say. What a beautiful thought to make Halloween more
meaningful! You know where it is going, right? Yes, it took me straight to my
past maker. Infact this had been on mind when the year began when I set out some
<b><a href="http://orangekitchens.blogspot.ae/2014/01/a-fresh-plate-2014.html">food resolutions</a></b> for myself and one of them was to finally open that box and
use that pasta maker. This challenge made me conquer my fear and meet my
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to make this pumpkin goat cheese pasta. It
was Halloween after all :) I struggled but in the end I did manage to put
something on the table. I also wished someone would just appear and teach me how to
master fresh pasta so that I could do this more often.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Looks like a little birdie heard my wish and I got
invited by the ever so talented and lovely <b><a href="http://www.dimasharif.com/">Dima </a></b>to attend a masterclass (part
of the <b><a href="http://dubaisummit.itchefs-gvci.com/">Italian Cuisine World Summit</a></b>) to learn fresh pasta! Told you that
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The master class would be taught by Chef Walter Potenza.
He would be helping me master the white magic art of flour I was told. Lasagne,
tagliatelle, tagliolini, pappardelle ravioli, tortellini, agnolotti and potato
gnocchi; all with the help of a pasta extrision machine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The class was calling out my name and I wasn't disappointed. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The class was held at the very scenic Emirates Academy of
Hospitality Management which looks into the gorgeous Burj Al Arab. Sigh! What a
location. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We began the session learning the fundamentals of
making pasta from scratch. How to build that well of flour and egg, how you
have to let the egg pull in the flour and not the other way round and should
listen to the mixture and know when to stop. That Chef Walter had a great sense
of humour helped. He did advice us to either go marry men who knew how to make
pasta or master it ourselves. Pity his advice came ten years too late. I would
have to master this I told myself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The session was very informative and gave me the much
required confidence of making pasta from scratch. Chef Walter took us through
making pasta with various combinations; flour, egg and oil, flour and oil,
semolina, a bit of flour and eggs. The last combination is something I am
really looking forward to trying. He also mentioned that the Italian obsession
of using the double zero flour was something that he didn't quite adhere to and
the regular all purpose flour worked just fine. Told you he knew how to keep
his students interested.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We talked about how to understand what the dough was
telling us…be it allowing it to let it rest, or listen to it when it was
springing back or falling apart. It was like paying attention to a friend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also learnt how to put together a Swiss chard and
cheese ravioli, potato gnocchi and were also given a demonstration of a
professional pasta maker machine which made some beautiful spaghetti in a
matter of few minutes. What made the session memorable was that Chef Walter
shared his experiences, his life and anecdotes about his work with everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Would I recommend the course? Big Yes! Considering at
the end of the sixty hours you get a professional certificate (Note: I only
attended a single module) and more importantly you are learning from Master
Italian Michelin Chefs, cuisine educators and experts as well as renowned food
producers and also from Italian Cuisine Master Chefs with extensive experience
in Italian Restaurant Management Abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A big thank you to <b><a href="http://www.dimasharif.com/">Dima</a></b> for the warm invitation (run
her to blog now to know everything about the summit for her <b><a href="http://www.dimasharif.com/">blog</a> </b>is the official blog for the summit), the Emirates Academy for
hosting it and Chef Walter and his entire team for imparting this skill to us.
Now that I have made friends with my pasta maker and I know that the pasta
dough is very forgiving I will be certainly getting my hands dirty often. Oops
I meant dusty. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Find everything about the Italian Cuisine World Summit
<b><a href="http://dubaisummit.itchefs-gvci.com/">here</a></b> and the courses offered by them <b><a href="http://dubaisummit.itchefs-gvci.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=750">here</a></b>. The full course is available twice throughout
November you can choose the course that best suits your schedule. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Course fees: Originally AED 9500.00, but Dima is
offering her readers a 40% discount making it for AED 5700.00 only (applicable
only for the early bookings).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leaving you with this poem that always makes me laugh out loud.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spaghetti, spaghetti, all over the place,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Up to my elbows--up to my face,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the carpet and under the chairs,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Into the hammock and wound round the stairs,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Filling the bathtub and covering the desk,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Making the sofa a mad mushy mess.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The party is ruined, I'm terribly worried,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The guests have all left (unless they're all buried).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I told them, "Bring presents." I said,
"Throw confettii."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'Cause they all threw spaghetti!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">Shel Silverstein</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Want to know more about the summit, my fellow bloggers have this to say: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u><span style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://ishitaunblogged.com/2014/11/22/italian-cuisine-world-summit-2014-learning-to-cook-risotto-the-italian-way/"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Ishita Unblogged at the </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">risotto</span></a><span style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://ishitaunblogged.com/2014/11/22/italian-cuisine-world-summit-2014-learning-to-cook-risotto-the-italian-way/"> class</a>,</span></span></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="http://kitcheninthesand.blogspot.ae/2014/11/pasta-master-class-with-chef-claudio.html" style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Kitchen In The Sand </b>at Michelin Chef Claudio Sadler’s Masterclass</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://therecipewriter.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/italian-cuisine-world-summit-dubai-2014/" style="color: grey; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>The Recipe Writer</b> at Chef Walter Potenza’s and Lionello Cera’s Italian Main Courses Master Class</a></span></div>
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