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POPSFood of the Week: Garbanzo Beans Purée garbanzo beans, olive oil, fresh garlic, tahini and lemon juice to make a quick and easy hummus spread. Sprinkle garbanzo beans with your favorite spices and herbs and eat as a snack. Add garbanzo beans to your green salads. Make a middle Eastern-inspired pasta dish by adding garbanzo beans to penne mixed with olive oil, feta cheese and fresh oregano. Simmer cooked garbanzo beans in a sauce of tomato paste, curry spices, and chopped walnuts and serve this dahl-type dish with brown rice. Adding garbanzo beans to your vegetable soup will enhance its taste, texture and nutritional content.
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POPSVegan Pumpkin Streusel Cheesecake Spoon silken tofu into sieve and cover with a small plate. Add a weight or heavy can to top of plate. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let stand 30 minutes; drain off liquid. Place drained tofu into a food processor or blender. Add cream cheese and remaining ingredients and puree until smooth. Spoon tofu mixture into crust-lined springform pan and bake at 325 degrees for 70 minutes. Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture evenly over top of cheesecake and turn off oven. Cool cheesecake in closed oven for 75 minutes. Remove cheesecake from oven and run a knife between the pan and the cake before removing the top part of the pan. Cool to room temperature. Cover and chill for eight hours or overnight. Cut into 12 wedges and serve. Yield: 12 servings (1 slice) Nutrition information PER serving: Calories 206; Protein 5 g; Carbohydrate 23 g; Total fat 11.3 g; Saturated fat 1.9 g; Cholesterol 0 mg; Sodium 119 mg; Fiber 1.9 g
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POPSFood-of-the-week: Green Beans Prepare the perennial favorite, green beans almondine, by sprinking slivered almonds on healthy sautéed beans. Add chopped green beans to breakfast frittatas.
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POPSWho Knew? Middle East Conflict Starts World Record Food Fight
I have tongue in cheek to get that last bit of hummus - grin. And here I thought the source of the conflict was over land and past wars. Who knew that you could probably settle conflict in the Middle East by promoting a reality TV show called Food Fight 2010. I can see it now: the Somalis, Sudanese, Ethiopeans fight over who makes the best tef-based bread or add the Kenyans and who makes the best bright coffee! But the ultimate game may be a toss up - sorry salad lovers - between who has the best: 1. Zatar. 2. Noodle 3. Bar-b-que sauce (We Americanss think we invented it but you know people bar-b-que all over the world. Really. Our version probably comes to us from Nigeria and Ghana - Get your red hot Suya sauce! Wars are serious and should be ended and I can't think of a better way to do it than to leave it to the world voting online for the best hummus. And actually, I like the cheese that the Spanish make from sheep's milk better than feta _ OMG! Did I really admi
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POPSSome Fun Ideas For Halloween Also The Best Browned Beef Stew -- --Ever The Best Browned Beef Stew -- --Ever By: Christina Chavez Ingredients * 1-1 1/2 lb cubed beef stew meat * 1/2 cup flour * 1 1/2 teaspoons salt * 1/2 teaspoon pepper * 1/4 cup vegetable oil * 1 onion, chopped fine * 1 carrot, chopped fine * 1/4 cup finely chopped celery, with a few minced leaves * 1 tablespoon dried parsley * 1 pinch thyme * 3 1/2 cups beef broth * 2 medium potatoes, diced * 2 carrots, diced * 2 onions, diced Directions 1. Put flour, salt and pepper in a large ziploc bag. 2. Heat oil over medium heat in a large dutch oven. 3. Place meat in bag with the flour and shake until well coated. 4. Shake off meat pieces and add them to the oil and stir until slightly browned, Add remaining flour from the bag and the finely chopped onion. 5. Stir until well browned. 6. Add finely chopped carrot and next 4 ingredients.
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POPSThe last untouchable in Europe More: On occasions, the bigotry was brutally enforced: in the early 18th century a prosperous Cagot in the Landes was caught using the font reserved for non-Cagots – his hand was chopped off and nailed to the church door. Another Cagot who dared to farm his fields (strictly verboten) had his feet pierced with hot iron spikes.… Even in death, the discrimination persisted – the Cagots were buried in their own humble cemeteries; there is still one in Bentayou-Sérée, a tiny village north of Pau.… I ask Marie-Pierre if she will let me use a picture of Sylvia – and the rest of her children. She shakes her head. "I'm sorry but no. It is OK for me to admit where I come from. But if people knew about my children's background, it might be difficult for them." She gazes out of the window, at the distant green Pyrenees. "In some places, the hatred lingers. Even now. The Cagots may be silent but I can still hear it."
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POPSUN declare Afghan elections non-corrupt
In response to these leaking accusations by Aljazeera Int. a UN spokesman, Yousaffa Ghadaffi Bin Laden (distant relation of the real one, by the way!) told their reporters: "We know that the Afghani elections are not f*****g corrupt, Infidels!" "How can they be corrupt, because there is no f*****g election, 99% of Afghanis can't even write a X on the ballot slips let alone know what the f**k an election is!" "No Ladies and gentlemen this is just a fata morgana, an excuse to ease the tensions in the US/UK." "Murder a couple of GI's and Brit soldiers, bomb the shit out of the Taliban and maintain the Status quo so global weapon's dealers can help get the world economy back on the rails!" The present Afghani president (a total nutter by the way!) dared to exit his Kabul palace, 50 metres from the door, rallied his supporters (all three of them!) in front of the worlds press and praised Obama from Allah, promised him a camel and a chopped off pickled Taliban head for his eno
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POPSObama's Hideous Birthday Cake Well, really... one would expect such tastelessness from a negro. But then Obama can't even claim that distinction - - in actuallity he is a descendent of Arab slave traders. But what really pisses me off is placing my magnificent US Navy Seal on his hideous cake
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POPSFood of the week: Olives Tips for Preparing Olives: To pit olives, press them with the flat side of a broad bladed knife. This will help break the flesh so that you can easily remove the pit with your fingers or the knife. The brine in which olives are packed can be used as a replacement for salted water in recipes. Toss pasta with chopped olives, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and fresh herbs of your choice. Marinate olives in olive oil, lemon zest, coriander seeds and cumin seeds.
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POPS16 Famous Man Myths… Debunked! We’ve all grown up with countless bits of bad advice and tall tales hovering over us. Masturbation makes you go blind, shaving once brings a full beard– all stories that went from ridiculous to widely accepted.
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POPSAbu Ghraib? Too Bad U.S. took pictures and humiliated them; they kill, mutilate and behead their victims....cutting off their heads while they are alive..I've seen the videos...Too Bad they don't like Guantanamo!
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POPSFood of the Week: Garbanzo beans
Before washing garbanzos, you should spread them out on a light colored plate or cooking surface to check for, and remove, small stones, debris or damaged beans. After this process, place them in a strainer, and rinse them thoroughly under cool running water. To shorten their cooking time and make them easier to digest, garbanzo beans should be presoaked (presoaking has been found to reduce the raffinose-type oligosaccharides, sugars associated with causing flatulence.) There are two basic methods for presoaking. For each you should start by placing the beans in a saucepan and adding two to three cups of water per cup of beans. The first method is to boil the beans for two minutes, take pan off the heat, cover and allow to stand for two hours. The alternative method is to simply soak the garbanzos in water for eight hours or overnight, placing pan in the refrigerator so that they will not ferment. Before cooking them, regardless of method, skim off the any skins that float
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POPSSerbian Union Official Makes Dramatic Protest continues: State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4,000. It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers. Some employees have not been paid for years, only collecting social benefits, like free medical care. About two dozen workers went on a 19-day hunger strike last year. They want the company's debt to be swapped for state-held equity and a welfare program for those nearing retirement.
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