Yesterday was the NY JapanTown Health Food and Green Festival. The festival took place in Midtown, on Madison Avenue between 43rd and 45th streets.
Promoting a healthy lifestyle using Japanese ingredients and cooking methods, the festival aims to enlighten New Yorkers about the many wholesome foods and flavors of Japan and how to incorporate them into American kitchens, ultimately increasing the understanding of Japanese culture through food.” – www.NYJapanTown.org
The festival featured a great handful of food vendors, as well as non-food vendors. The food vendors included a nice selection of local Japanese restaurants as well as international Japanese brands and food distributors. The event ran from 11am to 6pm, with schedule cooking demonstrations throughout the day sponsored by the Organization to Promote Japanese Restaurants Abroad (JRO). Continue reading ‘NY JapanTown Healty Food and Green Festival’
Tofu has got to be one of my favorite ingredients ever. It comes in different textures – silken, soft, firm, extra firm. It is so versatile and super nutritious too. There’s so many ways to prepare it. You can marinate it and then grill it, pan fry it, stir fry it, bake it, etc. You can incorporate it in soup or in a stew. Steamed tofu is great too. For dessert, tofu can be used to make ice cream, pie, or cheesecake and more cheesecake.
Tofu can be enjoyed raw as well. (Just make sure you’re using tofu from airtight packages and that the tofu hasn’t been sitting around opened for days.) Here’s a recipe for tofu crumbles using firm tofu. These tofu crumbles are pretty basic and can be used as a topping for many dishes, e.g. scooped onto a salad or added to a sandwich or wrap. If raw tofu is not your thing, you can cook it in a pan with some olive oil and it’ll kind of resemble scrambled eggs.
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Today is March 14, 3/14… that’s Pi Day! Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is an irrational number and is approximately equal to 3.1415926535…
What better way to celebrate Pi Day than to bake and eat pies!
Savory pies! Pizza pies! Sweet pies! Fruit pies! Cream pies! Pie shaped cookies!
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