avocado mango chicken
Gammon Cooked in Cider and Sage
3 lb gammon
2 pints cider
6-8 cloves, plus extra for decoration
bouquet garni (A bundle of parsley stems, dried thyme and a large bay leaf, tied
together and left to float freely in broth, stock or sauce)
1 tbsp sage, dried
2 tbsp brown sugar
Soak the gammon overnight to reduce its saltiness. Place the gammon in a large saucepan, add the cider to cover, plus the cloves, sage and bouquet garni. Bring to a boil and then cover and simmer for 1 1/4 hours, turning the meat occasionally. When the gammon is cooked, strip off the skin but leave a layer of fat. Place the joint in a roasting pan, score a diamond pattern over it and decorate with brown sugar and more cloves. Bake in a hot oven 425ºF for 15-20 minutes until the outside is brown and crispy.
Chicken with Mango and Mint
1 large 3-4 lb roasting chicken
handful of fresh mint
3 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp mango puree
1 tbsp mango chutney
1 tbsp whipped cream
1 tbsp fresh mint
Place the cleaned chicken in a roasting pan and add 1-1 1/2 inch of water around the bird. Place some fresh mint in the water and in the cavity of the chicken. Roast in a hot oven 425ºF for about one hour or until a skewer pushed into the flesh leaves a trail of clear liquid. Leave to cool, then cut the flesh from the bones and chop roughly. Mix all the other ingredients in a food processor and, once the chicken is cool, mix into the mango mayonnaise. Pack into a shallow dish and garnish with pieces of mango or sprigs of mint.
Tarragon Fish with Avocado
1 1/2 lb cod or haddock fillets
1 large ripe avocado
lemon juice
1 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon
salt and pepper to taste
melted butter
tarragon for garnish
24 sheets filo pastry
Remove all the skin and bones from the fillets and cut into 12 strips. Cut the avocado into 12 wedges and sprinkle both the fish and avocado with lemon juice before placing on separate plates. Brush one sheet of filo pastry with melted butter and place a second on top. Fold them in half and butter the top, then place two strips of fish and two of avocado in the corner, sprinkle with a little tarragon and fold the pastry over, fold in the sides and brush with butter. Finish wrapping the parcel and place it on a greased baking sheet with the join side down. Wrap the other five parcels in the same way and cook at 325ºF for 18-20 minutes.
Scotch Eggs with Sage
5 eggs
1 oz plain flour
salt and pepper to taste
8 oz pork sausage meat
2 oz wholemeal breadcrumbs, toasted
1/2 tsp dried sage
Hard-boil four of the eggs and leave to cool in cold water. Season the flour with salt and pepper. Work the dried sage into the sausagemeat, then divide into four. Using a floured board, work each piece into a circle large enough to cover an egg. Lightly dust the eggs with the seasoned flour, then place one egg in the center of each piece of sausagemeat. Mold the sausagemeat around the eggs and then pinch the edges to seal them firmly together.
Beat the remaining egg and use it to coat the Scotch eggs, then roll them in breadcrumbs. Deep-fry the Scotch eggs for about eight minutes until crisp and brown. Leave to cool.
Packing the Picnic Hamper
There are many other possibilities that you could include in a presentation hamper. Apart from the meat suggestions here, you could add jars of pickles and jellies. Giving a mixture of goodies that the recipient will like best is the main aim. You could also add some non-food herbal ideas, such as a small tussie-mussie or some herbal teas.
Really beautiful hampers can be hard to find, so a large basket could be used instead or even a big cardboard box covered in an attractive paper or some cotton fabric. Add plenty of ribbon and large labels for a really extravagant effect and what will be a very memorable present.
About the Author:
The author owns and operates a website featuring wholesale home and garden furnishings and accents at www.bricabrackorner.com
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Using Herbs On A Picnic
Halmahera is an island located in the west side of the Pacific Ocean, south of the Philippine Islands. Halmahera is part of the Indonesian Archipelago; it forms part of the Maluku Islands and is part of the Ternate Kingdom.
Inhabitants in the island are a few, about 10 people per sq. Kilometer. The island is virgin, with a rich soil in 80% of its 17,780 Sq Kms. area. Mostly empty and fertile land, fit for any agricultural development.
The newly formed company (SPC) has acquired more than 300,000 hectares (750,000 Acres) of land in the island in different locations, which can be used for organic Agriculture and livestock breeding, for the hospitality and tourist sector, and to create a Sea port, Agricultural packing houses, warehouses, and light weight agribusiness and clean manufacturing. The land will be offered for sale or lease to producers, investors, institutions large and small, and retirees under conditions of the establishment of plantations or estates under organic. The condition is that only investor accepts to conduct sustainable development, abide by the rules, and submit to Indonesian law. This implies that agricultural land needs to be planted as organic produce and no chemicals may be used for any purpose.
This is not part of Land Grabs cited in http://farmlandgrab.org/9100 , although large lot sizes of 10,000, 30,000 and 50,000 hectares will be sold. The land mostly uninhabited, virgin, with grassland, is being offered to Indonesians, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Saudi Arabians, and other nationalities that need to grow crops, diversify their food production to ensure their food security, or to grow produce that will be sold in export markets for a profit. After all, the planet and its 6.7 billion people, need ever expanding food production.
For instance, Japanese buyers of organic crops that today go every year to different countries to acquire agricultural products will now be able to plant in Halmahera, near Japan, the organic produce they need. Ultimately, this would result in cheaper and more controlled output than going out to the open market to far away countries to buy the produce that Japan needs.
The company has already seen the possibility of allocating land to all uses, including the location of Compost centers that would take-in all the agricultural waste and process it, to return compost, rich in micro organisms, nitrogen and potassium. For this, the company will accept crops which produce a great deal of waste like corn and wheat; include Jatropha plantations which produce a fruit rich in nitrogen and potassium, and allocate land for livestock production to include bovine, porcine, sheep and chicken farming to generate the manure the compost requires. The aerobic aeration used in producing compost should reduce the methane generated by the decomposition process, and the cultivation of trees and crops should help to reduce the CO2 emissions. This will make the island rich in carbon generated credits.
However, some of the activities conducted by local people are non-sustainable activities and practices, like fishing, mining, burning agricultural waste and using combustion engines and fossil fuels. The company acknowledges that this is a challenge and needs to create induction material to modify their habits to those more sustainable to all.
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PLN is currently the electricity supplier for the island. The company acknowledges that PLN is using fossil fuels and thus in non-sustainable. However, for the short run and until the company can organize cleaner, and renewable energy, it will use PLN electrical supply. Nevertheless, the company has already begun to explore the creation of the Home Power Generator based on the sun, in accordance to the following article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1276374/solar_powered_generator_for_homes_.html?singlepage=true&cat=3
Additionally, in some parts of the island, there is enough wind to move small wind turbines for the specific application. Other energy applications will be Outdoor lights and water pumps base on solar photovoltaic panels.
Halmahera has plenty of water. Nevertheless, pluvial recovery and deep water extraction will be located well above the agricultural centers to store water and supply it during the dry season.
The Company CEO Harianto Widjaja is happy so far with the sustainable development accomplishments. The company is going full blast to offer and implement the Teak Wood Plantation Business, making it accessible to Indonesians and foreigners. Investors or producers would be ably to acquire land for teak plantations under 3 investment scenarios. The company web sites are also in the process of being developed to better inform the public of the investment possibilities in Halmahera, an Indonesian sustainable development project.
There is a potential investor talking about planting Mulberry Trees. The Mulberry trees would provide the food the silk worms require. He believes Halmahera could be the next silk capital in the world, and only requires several hundred hectares planted with Mulberry trees.
Other land uses for investors/producers is as follows:
Long Term Business:
- Teak wood, rubbers trees
- Orchards: Avocado, Mango, Nutmeg, Jatropha, Orange, Limes, Clove, etc.
- Livestock: Bovine, Porcine, Sheep, Chicken farms
- Fish Farms: (Deep sea fish farms)
- Hospitality Sector: Marina development, Hotels, restaurants, parks, scuba diving, Deeps sea fishing, Golf, etc.
- Compost Production
Short Term Business:
- Grain Estates: Corn, Wheat, Sorghum, Soya Beans, Sesame, Rice, etc.
- Vegetables: Cucumber, Tomatoes, Onions, Cassava or Singkong, Stevia, etc.
Company web sites will soon be launch. Please check in this article regularly for updates
About the Author:
Management Consultant located in Miami Florida, who seeks to promote changes in organic and energy systems and models, always towards sustainability. Mission is to assists clients to design, produce, distribute, and market systems, models, or components that are ecological friendly and can produce a social and economic change. Serves as a liaison for strategic affiliations and partnerships with the goal of producing products and services which may benefit mankind and the planet.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Halmahera, the land of Sustainable Development
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