Vegetarian New Year

Dick Clark isn’t the only one who should have a “rockin’ New Year’s Eve” this year. Spread some holiday cheer by inviting your friends to a vegan party that just might inspire them to make a resolution to go vegetarian in 2005. It’s easy to plan your celebration with these must-have party products and recipes.

Kick off your New Year’s Eve party with hors d’œuvres that your guests won’t believe are vegan. Even the swankiest connoisseur will be fooled by the faux caviar from Caviart, and the truly posh can nosh freely—that’s right, no fish eggs! Satisfy everyone’s sweet tooth with dairy-free cheesecakes from Delicious Choices, and wash it all down with a glass of Silk Nog, a thick, creamy, egg- and dairy-free nog available in most supermarkets and natural foods stores. Then, raise your glasses of vegan wine or champagne from Smithfield Wines or the Organic Wine Company as you toast the New Year at midnight.

Our elegant international appetizer recipes will have your guests too busy savoring every bite to sing Auld Lang Syne:

Scallion Pancakes

4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups cool water
3 Tbsp. vegetable shortening
Salt, to taste
2 bunches green onions, finely chopped
Vegetable oil for frying
Soy sauce, to taste (optional)

Method

In a medium bowl, mix the flour with the water until it forms a dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead it for a few minutes. Place it in a bowl, cover, and set aside for 30 minutes.

Roll the dough to 1/8-inch thickness. Spread a thin layer of vegetable shortening over the entire surface, then sprinkle generously with salt. Top the entire surface with the green onions, pressing them lightly into the dough. Beginning at one edge, roll the dough into a long jelly-roll shape. Pinch or twist off (do not cut) fist-sized pieces of dough. On a floured surface, using a floured rolling pin, roll each piece to 1/8-inch thickness. If some of the green onions come out, just push them back into the dough.

Pour vegetable oil into a skillet until it is about 1/4 inch deep. Heat the skillet over medium heat then add 2 or 3 of the pancakes. Cook for approximately 3 minutes on one side, then flip and cook for 2 more minutes before placing the pancakes onto a paper towel-lined plate. Salt to taste and serve immediately with soy sauce for dipping, if desired.

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Vegetarian Restaurant in Singapore

Ananda Bhavan, belong to the most authentic "Old World Restaurants" with proven culinary experience of over 7 decades. Our restaurants lie within easy distance of the city.

Ananda Bhavan are the "Oasis" of South Indian vegetarian cuisine in Singapore. Our specialities cover a wide range of traditional snacks and Tiffin dishes served with finger licking condiments and aromatic gravies- Thosai, nutritious steamed Idly, Chapati, Puris and many other.

For those who prefer a mild curry, Ananda Bhavan offer Idiappam (string hoppers) served with Sothi - a coconut milk based gravy lightly tinged with aromatic spices-or you may like to try our fluffy, yet crispy on the outside Prata served with Mixed Vegetable Kurma.

Ananda Bhavan serve South Indian heritage favourites such as 'Puttu', 'Appam', 'Paniyaram' and other traditional favourites to a subtle marriage of contemporary South and North Indian cuisine to East Ananda Bhavanst fusion cuisine such as Pizza Thosai and the ever popular Maharaja Masala Thosai and as the name suggests - dishes fit for the kings. Our cuisine also includes a good fusion of local and Indian cuisine as Ananda Bhavanll.

Our set meals highlight the great taste of heavenly curries teamed with a medley of vegetables prepared into spicy or mild dishes, rasam (a digestive aid), Thuvaiyal, Appalam and yoghurt.

A good Indian meal is never complete without desserts and sAnanda Bhavanets and Ananda Bhavan offer a delightful array of them from the traditional to the contemporary to end your meal with a sAnanda Bhavanet note!

Our refreshments are a must-hot Coffee and Tea served with rich cow's milk. Ask for our special Masala or ginger Tea spiked with cinnamon and ginger. Ananda Bhavan will spoil you for choice- how about trying our chilled Rose milk and Badam Kheer (Almond milk)... and not forgetting our Lassi and Morru - yoghurt drinks.

Ananda Bhavan do not use MSG or other artificial food ingredients to enhance our food flavours and Ananda Bhavan invite you to indulge in our tasty, naturally flavoured, wholesome food.

Ananda Bhavan embrace the cultures from various places and influences with new ideas and new ways of preparing of our foods, more cosmopolitan in the indigenous sense--and Ananda Bhavan have made good progress in living up to it.

Addresses :
- No : 221 Selegie Road
Singapore - 188339
Tel : (65)3363891
Time : 5.30 am to 10.00 pm

- No : 58 Serangoon Road
Singapore - 217964
Tel : (65)2979522
Time : 7.30 am to 10.00 pm

- Blk 663, # 01 - 10
Buffalo Road (Near by Tekka Market), Singapore - 210663
Tel :62940684
Time :7.00 am to 10.00 pm

- Catering office at 58 Serangoon Road
Tel :62979522

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The wallpaper of Ananda Bhavan vegetarian restaurant in Singapore, it's very interesting.

In a world of deep divine faith....

The logic of Vegetarianism

"An examination of the structure of the human body leads to the conclusion that man is intended by mature to live on a vegetable diet. There is the closest affinity between the organs of the human body and those of the fruit-eating animals. The monkey, for instance is so similar to man in shape and structure, and it is a fruit-eating animal. Its teeth and stomach are just like the teeth and stomach of man, while those of carnivorous animals, as for instance, the lion and tiger, are entirely different."

Physiological Comparisons

Meat-Eater
- has claws
- on skin pores, perspires through tongue
- Sharp front teeth for tearing, on flat molar teeth for grinding
- intestinal tract 3 times body length so rapidly decaying meat can pass out quickly

Man
- no claws
- perspires through pores
- no sharp front teeth, has flat rear molars
- intestinal tract 12 times body length
- stomach acid 20 times less strong than meat-eaters

Herbivore
- no claws
- perspires through skin pores no sharp front teeth, has flat rear molars
- intestinal tract 10-12 times body length
- stomach acid 20 times less strong than meat-eaters

The Stamina of a Camel, The Strength of an Elephant, and The Beauty of a Horse are all sustained on a Vegetarian Diet.

Written by Mohandas K. Gandhi

Chinese food popular for holiday diners

It's not exactly chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But for many people, Moo Goo Gai Pan or maybe even the Pu Pu Platter are traditional dishes for Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and throughout the holidays, Chinese restaurants do some of their briskest business of the year.

"As the years went on, we became busier and busier during the holidays," said Stanley Wong, whose family has owned the Kowloon restaurant in Saugus for more than a half century.

Jewish customers account for much of Wong's business this time of year. Chinese food has long been a popular destination for Jews on Christmas, when few other restaurants are open.

"Chinese restaurants, Asian-owned restaurants, those owners tended to be the only folks who didn't have Christmas, too," said Rabbi David Kay of Congregation Ohev Shalom in Orlando, Florida.

He said the many vegetarian items on Chinese menus are appealing to people who keep kosher.

For David and Maure Gardner, eating kosher Chinese food on Christmas is a tradition.

"On Thanksgiving, we have turkey," said Maure Gardner, who was dining with her husband at the Eden Wok in New York City. "Christmas Day, we always go out for Chinese food."

Jun Yang just opened a restaurant offering kosher Chinese food in Brookline, a town bordering Boston that has a large Jewish population. Shalom Beijing's 120 seats were nearly filled on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, said Yang's wife, Li Su.

Coincidentally, the Jewish festival of Hanukkah began at sundown on Christmas.

For that reason, the restaurant added potato latkes to the menu, which features plenty of fish, chicken and duck but is free of pork and shellfish. A rabbi monitors the kitchen to make sure the food is prepared in accordance with Jewish law.

In San Francisco, the 13th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Show at the New Asia Restaurant ran Thursday through Sunday, with two shows a night. The dinner show featured a seven-course Chinese dinner and a 90-minute comedy show.

"And you don't have to be Jewish to come. Not all the jokes are based on the Jewish faith," said Pam Lawrence, who helped organize the event. "Last night, we had a whole contingent from Australia, and only some of them were Jewish."

At Kowloon, the restaurant in Saugus, Gino Ferrir and his family brought a pile of Christmas presents to unwrap as they waited for their lobster, shrimp and duck dishes to arrive.

"We come here every Christmas," Ferrir said Sunday. "It's my treat to my family."

Source from: CNN.Com

Beauty as Natalie Portman

One of Hollywood Stars who is a vegetarian is Natalie Portman, wanna have a good shape like her is not that difficult. Let's see her information as be low.

Natalie Portman's Biography

First Name: Natalie, from the Latin natale domini (Christmas Day)
But that's a Christian holiday, and Natalie is of Jewish descent? So what does it mean in Hebrew? We've gotten so many suggestions/translations that we've chosen not to write nothing so we won't offend noone. Except english teachers.

Last Name: Portman; stage name, which happens to be her maternal grandmother's maiden name. Reportedly first adopted because of fears she would discredit her parents in case her performance in The Professionnal was unsatisfactory. She has since kept the name in order to help maintain her privacy and to keep her family out of the spotlight. She does use her real name in school however.

Birth: Tuesday June 9th, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel

Homes: Natalie and her family lived in Jerusalem until she was 3 years old. Due to her father's medical training and career advancements, the family then moved to Washington D.C. in 1984, and then on to Connecticut in 1988. They moved again to Long Island, New York in 1990. That's where she lived until her acceptance to Harvard in 1999 which made her stay 4 years in Boston. She now lives in Soho, NYC.

Eyes: Brown

Languages: English and Hebrew; also some French and Japanese she studied at school.

Hobbies: Dancing (ballet, jazz, tap), reading, writing, ice-skating (which she picked up during the filming of Beautiful Girls), modeling, and of course, acting.

Addictions: Chocolate, Jolly Ranchers Candies

Eating Habits: Natalie has been a strict vegetarian since she was 8, after seeing a demonstration of laser surgey on a chicken at a medical conference with her father. She does not eat meat of any kind but does eat eggs and drinks at least one glass of skim milk every day. She avoids gelatin and cheeses that contain rennet (a milk-curdling enzyme taken from the stomach of small farm animals like calves or sheep).

Favorite Foods: Pizza, chocolate, tea, ice cream, skim milk

Sports: Track and field, plays football with her friends, does not show any particular interest in professional sports.

Favorite Country: Israel

Favorite City: Paris

Some interviews about Food of Natalie

What are you favourite foods?

Ice cream. I love love love ice cream. That's my biggest vice I think.

What flavour?

Anything. I can go anything. It depends on my mood. Sometimes I can go fruit, sometimes I'll go plain vanilla, sometimes I'll get a little funky and go crazy with their special weird flavours.

Is it true you're a strict vegetarian?

Yes, so if a flustered waiter brings me a steak it's pretty funny. I don't even eat cheese, because there are animal enzymes in it. So when I ask for a dish without cheese they always forget, but I hate to be hard on them as I know how hard it is to be a waiter. I don't think I could do it. It's funny, because I eat out a lot now as it's finals, and I just don't have time to cook for myself anymore. So it's strange going out for three meals a day, and every meal they bring you the wrong food!

Source from http://www.natalieportman.com

Your Holidays

Given all the shopping lists, social obligations and decorating demands that fill the holidays, a spa getaway is probably the last thing on your mind. You might want to make it first. A mid-season day of self-pampering, a post-holiday week of recharging or even a long weekend during the peak festivities—at a veg-friendly resort spa with friends/family along and the cooking and decorating done for you—could make this year unlike any other. Instead of feeling like a limp rag by the end of the holidays, you’ll be renevved and ready for 2006.

And the take-away benefits are tremendous. “Not only do spas allow for total immersion in feel-good activities, but they also reinforce a healthy lifestyle that can be transferred back to everyday life,” says Mary H. Tabacchi, PhD, RD, of Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. In fact, the effects extend long after the last massage stroke, according to a 2004 study done by Tabacchi and the Survey Institute of Cornell University. “We compared 500 spa goers with 500 conventional vacationers, and the statistics were clear as a bell: People who went on spa vacations came back more mentally and physically fit and had a more positive outlook than those who took conventional vacations,” she says. Energy, focus and creativity were also up. Tabacchi estimates that the benefits can last up to 6 weeks—a great way to start 2005.

Where to go? Vegetarian Times sent out staffers to test three different resort spas—one for every time budget and getaway need. They tried the newest massages, took fitness classes, sampled the menus. Tough duty, we know.

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What is Spa ?

Source from : Vegetarian Times

Fried Noodles Thai Style for Vegetarian

Pad Thai or Phat Thai or Fried Noodles Thai Style Recipe is a very famous food for Thai people and people around the world who like Thai food. Vegetarian can cook Pad Thai by your self. You will enjoy with delicious Pad Thai recipe.

Ingredients:

• 100 gram flat rice noodles
• 2 shiitake mushrooms
• 4 vegetarian shrimp
• yellow tofu
• 1 tbsp. shredded carrots
• 1/4 cup bean sprouts
• 1 tbsp. dried, pickled chinese radish
• 1 chinese kale
• 1 tbsp. ground roasted peanuts
• 2 tbsp. sugar
• 1 tbsp. vinegar
• 2 tbsp. light soy sauce
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tbsp. oil

Preparation:

• Wash all vegetables well.
• Cut the kale into short lengths and remove hulls and root tips from the bean sprouts.
• Heat oil in a wok over high heat and add the shiitake mushrooms, radish, kale and carrot and stir fry for several minutes.
• Add the remaining ingredients and continue to stir fry until done.
• Serve the Pad Thai with lime wedges, ground roasted peanuts and bean sprouts.

Source from: Vegetarian Thai Cuisine

Easy Christmas Fruit Cake

This Chritmas Fruit cake has no added sugar or fat (suitable for a range of diets) but is still really sweet and rich. It should be stored in the fridge and eaten within one week. The Fruit cake is easy manu for your Chritmas and vegan can eat it.

Ingredient:

250g/2 cups of cooking dates with the stones removed

300ml/1 and a quarter cups of water (you could substitute a quarter cup of brandy or sherry for a quarter cup of the water if you like)

175g/1 and a quarter cups of wholemeal flour

450g/3 cups of mixed dried fruit of your choice - including lots of dried apricots works very well

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 teaspoon of mixed spice

4 tablespoons of orange juice

How to Cook?

Heat the dates and water until the dates are soft. Remove from heat and mash with a fork. Add all the other ingredients and mix well. Spoon into a greased 2lb/900g cake tin and level top. If using the nut topping place rows of different nuts on top of the cake prior to cooking. Bake at 170C/340F for about an hour and a half until cooked. Once cooled the nut topping can be glazed with a little syrup (melt some sugar into hot water) or you can ice traditionally.

For decoration: You can either do a traditional marzipan and white icing topping or use rows of different nuts such as walnuts, pecans, brazils and almonds.

Original from: Easy, Last Minute Christmas Fruit Cake by Jean

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New Beer for Vegan !!!

A spectacular (animal-friendly) microbrew from England.

"Those looking for a beer of exceptional quality to share over the holidays need look no further than Samuel Smith. Samuel Smith is one of the few remaining microbreweries in England and the only one to use the classic Yorkshire Square system of beer fermentation--brewed in stone squares at the Old Brewery in Tadcaster since 1758. Their distinctive heritage of beer brewing includes a special Samuel Smith strain of yeast, hand-weighed hops and fresh well water.

Six varieties of Samuel Smith's beer are available in the United States, and from the lighter-colored India Ale to the dark and creamy Oatmeal Stout, each variety has a colorful history that further accentuates its pleasurable taste.

Samuel Smith's India Ale, first brewed in the 18th century, is a highly hopped beer that was made to withstand the three-month ship ride from London to Bombay. This variety of beer became known as IPA, or India Pale Ale. Because of its floral smell and invigorating yet well-balanced taste, it's a great primer for those just acquainting themselves with fine beer. Food pairings include Indian curries, cheeses (such as asiago, colby, parmesan or sharp cheddar) and shellfish.

Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale is a bit darker than the India Ale and has a nutty, almost caramel-flavored finish. Brown ale is one of the oldest brewing styles in England; it's even mentioned by Chaucer. This beer is absolutely ideal for festive occasions. Similar to Newcastle Brown Ale, it's smooth and pairs nicely with a roasted game hen, barbecued duck, pepper steak, or spicier dishes such as paella, any Thai food and pineapple curry.

In the late 1800s, brewers formulated Oatmeal Stout for lactating mothers. At the time, some even described it as a nutritional drink. The oats impart a great flavor to this stout, giving it a creamy body and a slightly bittersweet finish. As would be expected, smoked meats and cheeses pair wonderfully with this beer. Surprisingly, many desserts also complement its oat taste--chocolate is a perfect choice.

Brewers first introduced Imperial Stout to satisfy the courts of the Russian czars. It had a high alcohol content to withstand the journey made across the Baltic Sea from England. One of the most striking characteristics is its deep chocolate color and coffeelike taste, giving this stout a rather aristocratic air. Suitable food accompaniments include walnuts, filet mignon, caviar, oysters Rockefeller and cheesecake.

The Famous Taddy Porter takes its name from England's first commercially brewed type of beer and the train porters who consumed it. Reintroduced in 1979 after a 50-year absence from the market, this is one of the more popular varieties brewed by Samuel Smith. It has an almost black color and a roasted barley flavor, with nuances of nuts and dark chocolate. This beer is almost a meal in itself. However, it goes very nicely with seafood dishes, steaks and chocolate.

But the beer most appropriate for the season is Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Ale. Historically, holiday festivals celebrated the oncoming winter season with special beer brewed for the occasion that had a higher alcohol content. This particular ale has a chestnut brown color and a sweet malty flavor with a hint of spices (particularly clove). Most holiday fare should go well with this ale, but standouts are smoked turkey with oyster dressing and ham with fresh pears and apples.

On a final note, all Samuel Smith beers are vegan products registered with the Vegan Society, so if some member of your family eschews the ham and turkey, slap her on the shoulder and put a Smith's in her hand."

Written by Alex Slawson

How much it has fat in fast food?

I think the topic has benefit for every body, who like to eat fast food? You will know the calories received when eat fast food. Sometime you will eat vegetarian food for healthy and long life.

"The Low Fat Veggie Food.co.uk Webmistress recently visited McDonalds (but she didn't eat anything!!) and picked up their leaflet 'Our Food. The Inside Story'. Inside the leaflet is a complete listing of all the ingredients in each item on their menu and the energy, protein, carbohyrdate, fat, fibre and sodium count per 100g and per portion.

On this page we are just including the calories and fat per portion. If you want more info pop into your nearest McD's and ask for the leaflet.

As not everyone who visits this site is vegetarian we have included all the meaty foods too.

Remember, if you are following a low fat diet you should have no more than about 30g fat per day - and 1,400 calories for women and 1,700 calories for men."

Click here to see:The table of calories and fat per portion from MacDonalds Food
Source from: The low fat veggie food.co.uk.

Diet by Vegetarianism

Today many people especially women are interested in foods for health, vegetarian diet is one way for healthy and slim. The secret of good shape is vegetarian food. Here I have some useful information for you.

What is a vegetarian diet?

The vegetarian diet is the pattern of eating includes plant-based diet; fruits, vegetables, legumes (dried beans and peas), grains, seeds and nuts. The lacto vegetarian’s diet includes daily products and lacto-ovo vegetarian also egg they can eat it. The last semi-vegetarians don't eat red meat but they can eat chicken and fish with plant foods, dairy products and eggs.

Is the vegetarian diet automatically the healthiest way to eat?

Yes, a vegetarian diet is excellent for good health when you follow the general rules of a nutritionally-balanced diet and be sure you get the nutrients from vegetables that you miss by giving up animal foods. On the other hand, avoiding meat won't keep you healthy if instead you consume a lot of high- fat, nutrient-empty, junk foods. Vegetarians must also have an otherwise healthy lifestyle to harvest the full benefits of their plant eating. It does little good to eat a tomato and sprout sandwich on whole wheat bread if you also plant yourself on the couch in front of the TV set and smoke cigarettes several hours a day. The vegetarian who piles on the chips soaked in hydrogenated oil, along with high-fat cheese, and artificially-sweetened or highly-sugared beverages would be better off nutritionally if he had less of a sweet tooth, cut down on fat, and indulged in a little animal flesh.

What's so good about a vegetarian diet?

Here are six reasons:

1. Vegetarian cuisine is naturally low in saturated fats, and foods of plant origin contain little or no cholesterol.

2. Plant foods are also much higher in fiber than animal foods.

3. Many plant foods contain significant amounts of vital B-vitamins, and folic acid: and fruits and vegetables are powerful sources of photochemical - nutrients that help every organ of the body work better.

4. Vegetarians tend to eat fewer calories, since grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables, volume-for-volume, tend to be lower in calories than meat and poultry. Studies have shown that as long as their diet is balanced and nutritious, the people who consume fewer total daily calories live longer and healthier lives.

5. Veggie lovers believe that foods from plant sources, which are lower on the food chain, are safer than animal foods, since pollutants tend to concentrate in fatty tissues. While raw fruits and vegetables can carry harmful bacteria and pesticide residues just like meat, you can remove many of these pollutants by washing the plant foods. Trimming the fat from meat or chicken is less effective. Meat, poultry, and seafood are also more frequent carriers of food borne illnesses than plant sources.

6. Environmental conservationists believe that having more plant-based diets is healthier for the planet. It takes less energy and less farmland to feed a vegetarian than it does to feed livestock.

Source From: AskDrSears.com

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Black Coffee or Vegetarian Vitamins Drink?

Do You Feel Like This?

When you get up, you are exhausted but you don’t know how it happens. Particularly, in the afternoon you are exhausted again and moody.

So, you cure this feeing by drink the black coffee and you feel refresh but few hours later you are moody again because there’s no effect of coffee. Actually this way cannot help you because the real cause is you have low glucose in blood.

The bio-organic consumption has introduced to drink R.C. water for getting avoided from this feeling.

R.C. or Rejuvenating Concoction is secret formula drinking that can cure the weakness of body because it has ingredient of glucose, DNA/RNA and vitamins from nature.

Ingredient

- Wheat, millet, barley, Job's tears, lotus seed each one handful.
- Coarse rice, glutinous rice, Thai rice in the red husk each 2 handful.
- Oat each one handful.

Method

1. Start from put wheat, millet, barley, Job's tears, lotus seed each one handful in pot, add water about 2 liters and put on the stove then wait until it boil.
2. After that put coarse rice, glutinous rice, rice in the red husk each 2 handful mix and let it boil.
3. The final put Oat 1 handful and switch off gas stove, Wait until rice drop to the bottom of pot.
4. Ladle the hot and clear water into cup, sometimes you can add sesame for tasty.