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christmas special

Jolly makers

Don’t have the time or the skill required to shape those perfect little marzipan flowers? There’s hope yet. From bowls of sorpotel to sinful rum-soaked cakes, Neha Sumitran tells you who to call to order the perfect Christmas feast. Just place your orders at least a week in advance. For the ultimate Christmas cake First things first; banish all thought of a low-calorie cake. It’s blasphemy and you will go to hell for even considering it. A Christmas cake is supposed to be an indulgence. It should be sticky, spongy and filled with fruits that have been seeped in brandy. It must be dense and sweet but in a dark, brown sugary way with the punch of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Most importantly, it must make you have many more slices than you intended. American Express Bakery Villa Sushma, Hill Road, Bandra (W) (2642-2857).`400 for 1 kg. Bombay Bakery Company JW Marriott Hotel, Juhu Tara Road, Juhu Beach (6693-3399). `1,350 for 1kg. Candies O.N.G.C Complex, Bandra Reclamation, near Lilavati Hospital, Bandra (W) (2642-2324). Also at Union Park, Pali Hill, Bandra (W) (2604-5058). Tue-Sun 8.30am-10.30pm. `700 for 1 kg. La Patisserie Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel, Apollo Bunder, Colaba (6665-3366). `1,000 for 1 kg. Theobroma Cusrow Baug, Shop No 24, Colaba Causeway, Colaba (2287-3778). Also at Bandra, KFC Lane,off Linking Road, Bandra (W) (2646-9040). `475 for 700gms. For a small family lunch Anne Dias is half-Goan and half-Anglo Indian, and has been surrounded by Goan women in her husband’s family. From them, she’s learnt to make the perfect recheado, among the most popular of her catering business. Other hot sellers include vindaloo, pork assad, chicken and mutton xacuti, cafreal, fish ambotik, fish jeere mire, fish curry, dry crab, prawn chilli fry and calamari. 9A Maria Villa, College Lane, Dadar (W) (2422-7464). Minimum one week’s notice required. Minimum order 1 kilo. No home delivery. For a big fat feast for everybody Caterer and former Taj chef Alwyn Fernandes claims he makes the best prawn curry in the city. He also cooks cucumber salad in mustard and coconut, chicken cafreal, a vegetarian Goan curry with bhindi, beef chilli fry, and beef and pork roasts. Also as delectable is the food from Vinod Kaval’s catering company, which offers Goan fish curry, pork sorpotel, Goan sol kadi, Goan fish fry, spicy-tangy-sweet potato “song”, mugha ghati (a mung preparation with coconut paste and a little jaggery) and fruit saasam (soft fruits like mango and pineapple stirred with ground spices). Alwyn Fernandes Alpine No 6, off Caesar Road, Amboli, Andheri (W) (2679-1344). Week’s notice required. From `550 per head for groups of 30 people. Larger orders get discounts. Vinod Kaval 4 Andrea Apartments, off VM Ghanekar Marg, Vile Parle (E) (2618-2689). One week notice required. From `200 per head. Cuffe Parade to Virar and New Bombay. For the piece de resistance One of Bandra’s most renowned caterers, Kenny D’Souza, specialises in Christmas delicacies like suckling pig and roast chicken. Teaming up with his wife, who makes rum-soaked fruit cakes and plum bars, the D’Souzas fill orders for over 300 chickens on Christmas day. The pork comes in two versions: Indian-style with pig liver, peas, garlic, onions, cashew nuts, croutons and plums or Continental-style with a mixture of carrots, dry fruit, cold meats, apples, bacon, potatoes, seasoning, sauces and wine. For those who can’t polish off an entire pig, the D’Souzas also offer a leg of ham, which is cured, smoked and cooked in beer. Bandra store Santé’s butterball turkeys, legs of ham, salmon steaks, lamb chops, scallops, sea bass, asparagus, French bread and cheeses find plenty of takers among the local Bandra buggers Kenny D’Souza can be contacted at 97739-31269. From `3,000 for a leg of smoked ham. Santé 1, Shaheen Apartments, Pali Mala Road, Bandra (2640-2126/6450-1527). Turkey `5,000 for a 5kg bird. For traditional sweets Making sense of a Christmas sweet platter is no easy feat and there’s no way to go about it rather than taste them all. From Goan favourites like bebinca, dodol (a halwa made with coconut juice, rice flour and ghee), chona ki dosh (made with ground chana, coconut, jaggery and ghee), pinag (coarsely ground roasted rice mixed with black jaggery and syrup shaped into little sausages), araihna (slicedsemi-tender coconut cooked with sugar and ghee) and perrad (guava cheese), they’re all just as important a part of the X’mas feast. Anne Dias 9A Maria Villa, College Lane, Dadar (W) (2422-7464). Celine’s Cold Storage for bebinca, dodol, guava cheese, sweet marzipan and neuris. Alexandra Terrace Compound, Shop No 9, Sant Savata Marg, near Gloria Church, Byculla. (2375-1198). Daily 6.45am-12.30pm and 3.30-4pm. Yvette D’Souza for marzipan, milk cream and guava cheese. Call 98197-30494. Maria Fernandes for guava cheese, marzipan, walnut drops and more. Place your orders before Dec 19. Call 99693-45800. Mangalore General Store for cake, jujubes, marshmallow and rose de coque. Mohammed Eidu Manzil, Shop 8, opposite Paradise Cinema, LJ Road, Mahim (2445-7542). Daily 10am-7.30pm. Vailankanni Stores for bebinca, coconut cake, coconut sweet, dodol, guava cheese, milk cream and thali sweet. 223, Cawasji Hormusji Street, near Vienna restaurant, Marine Lines (2208-6619). 11am-1pm, 3-7pm. Prices vary according g to sweets. From `200 per kg. For bragging rights Want the pleasure of cooking a beautiful turkey in your own oven? Call for Luisa Rocha’s Farm Fresh products. Colaba’s – and possibly Mumbai’s – best quality ham comes from a little shop near Electric House. Rocha has been in the business for 117 years, offering pre-marinated whole roasted duck and turkey, smoked leg of ham, roast beef, pork chops, sorpotel, ox tongue and a range of cold cuts every Christmas. BEST Marg, near Red Shield House, Electric House, Colaba (2284-0335). Delivery around Colaba and CuffeParade. All orders to be placed at least three days in advance. From `900 per kg for smoked ham.

Source : Time Out Mumbai ISSUE 8 Friday, December 10, 2010

Raw Food Inspirations for Healthy Living

The raw food diet is much more than what you have on your plate. Its a new lifestyle, new way how people look on the world, what they feel, who they are.

Most people eat cooked meal everyday and they think that they are healthy. I thought the same way few years ago. But I do it not now anymore. The raw style brings much more than healthy living.

A peoples think that there is not much difference in that what they eat and what raw foodists eat. But when your review what you eat daily, like small piece of tomato or one leaf of letuce, you will found out that it too low of raw food.

Everybody is talking that you should eat vegetables and fruits but nobody do it. And when one day you become ill and you ask yourself how could this happen. Very simple - you eat cooked meal and your body did not received material what really needs for recovery and the basic functionality.

That’s because your body needs specifics enzymes. And as you already know most of enzymes will be damaged in temperature over 42 C.

The second problem is that your immunity system was build on raw food.

When it encounters cooked food it threat it as infection and starts an immunity reaction which cause to overloading of your immunity system and it is becoming weak over the years.

This deficiency on enzymes cause many civilizations illnesses like eyes errors, teethes problems, asthma, allergies, bone problems, cancers.

If you would like to live really healthy lives it is recommended that you eat at least 80% raw food daily. 100% of course the best solution but it will take time that you make this transition.

Photo: Andrea Gomez, Jenny Hontz

Photo: Kipling Swehla/Charlie Trotter’s

The World’s 10 Largest Food

Here we have all the top largest foods around the world which impressed everyone! Can you believe it they really made it!? Human are just simply creative and talented to make all these world records! Check it out!

1 ) World’s biggest omelette made in Turkey

The world’s biggest omelette was made in Turkey on the World Egg Day, Turkish Posta newspaper reports. The omelette was cooked in a giant fryer which is 10 metres in diameter. During the event, 65 cooks whisked 110,010 eggs to cook the omelette of 4,400 kg. It took 2.5 hours to cook it. Carim Valerio of the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that it was the biggest omelette of the world. The record breaking omelette has been brought to Ankara to celebrate World Egg Day 2010 and promote eggs as a healthy, affordable and easy to prepare food staple.

2 ) World Record Pumpkin Pie

The current world record stands at 2,020 pounds (after baking). It was prepared and baked by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in New Bremen, Ohio. This huge pie was made on October 8, 2005. Over 5,000 people came to witness the event.

For the record: This pie was 2,020 pounds. It measured 12 feet, 4 inches wide and 4 inches deep. The pie recipe included 900 pounds of pumpkin, 155 dozen eggs, 62 gallons of evaporated milk, 300 pounds of sugar, 3.5 pounds of salt, 7 pounds of cinnamon and 2 pounds of pumpkin pie spice. The pie lost over 200 pounds while baking. The pie made over 3000 pieces. Baking began at about 6:00am. The pie was baked for over five hours in acustom made oven.

3 ) World’s largest Meatball

At the first annual Nonni’s Family day today in Concord NH Nonni’s Italian Eatery has set the worlds record for the largest meatball ever made! The world record breaking Meatball was 222.5 lbs! That breaks the previous world record by 25 lbs!!!!! Then as soon as the festivities were complete the humongous meatball was broken down into tasty bite sized portions and packaged up and delivered to local area shelters to feed the hungry.

4 ) World’s largest tiramisu desserts

155 bakers from the Italian community in the small Swiss town of Porrentruy spent 14 hours creating a tiramisu Measuring eight centimeters (three inches) high and 50 square meters in area and weighing 2,310 tonnes – which sets the new world record for the Largest Tiramisu. The World’s Largest Tiramisu required 799kg of mascarpone, 6400 eggs, 350 litres of cream, 189kg of sugar, 300 liters of coffee, 35kg of cocoa, 66 litres of liqueur and 64 000biscuits. 8cm deep, the dessert covered a full 50 square meters. The 2.3-ton dessert, which is eight centimeters high and 50 metres long, was created by the Italian Association in Porrentruy in the Jura.

5 ) World’s largest Pizza

On December 8th, 1990, a monumentally wasteful record was set by Pick ‘n’ Pay hypermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa when a pizza measuring 37.4 meters in diameter was, for lack of a better term, constructed. It’s said to have been made using 500 kg of flour, 800 kg of cheese and 900 kg of tomato paste.

6 ) World’s largest Lollipop

On the occasion of Sri Chinmoy’s birth anniversary, New Yorker Ashrita Furman unveiled the world’s largest lollipop with a weight of 6,706 pounds (3041 kg). It surpasses the previous Guinness World Record for a giant lollipop by almost 2,000 pounds (907 kg). Ashrita Furman, holder of the most Guinness records, was the architect behind the feat accompanied by an international team of over 25 assistants. World’s Largest Lollipopr World’s Largest Lollipop – Photo by Jowan Gauthier The 6,706 pound (3041 kg) lollipop is 10 feet (3 m) in diameter and 10 inches (25 cm) thick. The huge red candy is made of sugar and corn syrup, which was melted in hundred 100-gallon (380 litre) pots. Including the stick it has the height of 25 feet (7.50 m). This size ensures Ashrita Furman a new entry into the Guinness Book, because the previous largest lollipop was 4,759 pounds (2158 kg). To put it in perspective this single lollipop would be the equivalent of 165,070 regular-sized lollipops!

7 ) World’s largest Bowl of Hummus

Israel has taken the upper hand in a different kind of Mideast conflict: using a satellite dish from a nearby broadcast station, cooks in a town near Jerusalem whipped up more than four metric tons of hummus, the chickpea paste that is a staple for many in the region. The cooks doubled the previous record for the world’s biggest serving of hummus, set in October by cooks in Lebanon. That record broke an earlier Israeli record and briefly put Lebanon ahead. Aaron Schachter has more.

8 ) World’s largest Burger

World’s largest Burger served at Mallie’s Sports Bar and Grill in Detroit, Michigan, costs $350 and must be ordered 24 hours in advance. The 134 pound slab of meat is served on a 50 pound bun, and naturally, no single individual has ever been able to eat more than a small portion of it.

9 ) World’s largest Sushi Roll

I find it hard to believe that a non-Japanese restaurant would hold the title for world’s largest sushi roll. This ginormous version of the bite-sized dish was on display at G. Sushi, the famed Honk Kong based chain that recently opened an outlet in Shanghai, China. It is owned by Jackie Chan, the martial arts hero and actor. The restaurateur tries to put his arms around the gigantic sushi roll, (makizushi) wrapped in a blanket of seaweed (nori).

10 ) World’s Largest Fish and Chips Serving

The Black Rose (an Irish pub in Boston) and Icelandic USA (an American seafood distributor) were jointly anointed by the Guinness World Records for the World’s Largest Fish and Chips Serving in year 2004. At a total weight of 77.75 pounds, the serving included a 34.21-pound cod fillet (which was 39.6 inches long) that was caught off the west coast of Iceland, and 43.54 pounds of chips. It beat the record set by an establishment in South Africa, and helped promote both the cod fishing industry in Iceland and one of Boston’s oldest pubs.

Most Expensive Food Items

1. Saffron, a spice grown worldwide, is derived from the saffron crocus flower. Requiring so much resources and labor, prices for the spice go around US$500/pound to US$5,000/pound (US$1100–US$11,000 per kilogram).

2. The most expensive nut in the world is the Macadamia nut. They have a very hard seed, but once it’s open it reveals a creamy white kernel containing up to 80% oil and 4% sugar. The cost of a kilogram of these nuts exceeds 30$.

3. The most expensive caviar in the world is not the black one, but the almas caviar! The word ‘almas’ is Iranian for diamond. Beluga caviar comes from a fish over 100 years old, that is virtually unchanged for 120 million years. Beluga caviar ranges in price from more than $5,000 per kilogram in the United States

4. The most expensive mushroom in the world is the white truffle. These truffles are sold at a amazing price of Euros2,000 and Euros4,000 per kilogram ($1350 – $2700 per pound).

5. The most expensive potato in the world is a French one, “La Bonnotte”. The potato fields require to be fertilized only with seaweed in a climate shaped by the nearby sea. The cost of one single kilogram can reach Euros500 since this type of potato is almost extinct.

6. The most expensive beef in the world is the type of beef coming from the Wagyu cows. These Japanese cows are fed the best grass and provided the best treatment. 200 grams of a fillet cost in Europe more than 100 dollars.

7. The most expensive sandwich in the world is the club sandwich from Essen aka von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. This triple-decker delicacy contains the finest chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails’ eggs and white truffles and it’s currently sold at Cliveden, Berkshire. Costing 100 pounds (almost 200 dollars), this is a must-try for the food fanatics..

8. The most expensive pizza in the world, valued at 8300 Eur can be tasted in Italy. With generous toppings of caviar and lobster, the pizza has a diameter of 20cm and Louis XIII Remy Martin cognac poured all over it.

9. The most expensive omelet in the world can be tasted at the Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York. The $1,000 omelet consists of 10 ounces of sevruga caviar, a whole lobster, and six eggs. To make it in the privacy of your own home, the cost will be only $700.

10. Off to something sweet now with one of the most expensive deserts in the world, served at Serendipity 3, a popular restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The $1000 sundae was introduced in 2004 and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive dessert. It’s made up of 5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23K edible gold leaf and one of the most expensive chocolates in the world, Amedei Porceleana.