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Main dishes, Recipes

Thai Famous Street Noodle – Pad Thai

 

(A video is coming!)

Ingredients

  • 1 pack rice noodles
  • 60g beansprouts
  • 60g tofu
  • 30g carrots
  • 30g spring onions
  • peanuts (optional)
  • a wedge of lime
  • sugar and dry chilli

Sauce

  • 1 pineapple
  • 3 red onions
  • 1-1½ tbsp tamarind paste (to taste)
  • ¼ cup vegetable stock
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • ½ – 1 tsp chilli sauce (or ⅓-¾ tsp cayenne pepper, to taste)
  • ⅛ tsp ground white pepper
  • 3-4 tbsp palm sugar (or brown sugar)

oil

Method

  1. Make the sauce first by grinding everything together and putting in a hot pan. Stir until it comes to a boil.
  2. Prepare a non-stick pan with add 2 spoons of cooking oil. Add sliced carrots, noodles then add half a cup of the vegetable stocks, and 4 spoons of sauce.
  3. Heat until the noodles are cooked then add beansprouts and spring onions.
  4. Served with peanut and lime wedge, chilli and sugar.

Recipe by Gig, Golden Lion

Desserts, Recipes

Sri Lankan Aluwa (Sweets)

Ingredients

  • 1 kg roasted rice flour
  • 750 g sugar (dark brown)
  • 1½ cups water
  • 1½ tsp ground cardamom
  • 1 tsp ground fennel
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 100 g cashew nuts

Method

  1. Put sugar into a saucepan and add the water. Bring it into boil. When the sugar syrup becomes a bit sticky, switch off the flame and add ground cardamom and fennel, then roasted rice flour little by little but constantly into the sugar mixture. Keep ½ cup of rice flour back.
  2. Before you start boiling sugar syrup, spread that spare rice flour on the tray where we are going to set our Aluwa.
  3. When you’ve added all rice flour and the mixture has become like a fudge, put it on the tray. Press it until flat.
  4. Then mark lines on it in a diamond shape or as you like. Separate the pieces before it gets hard.

Recipe by Theja

Recipes, Starters and soups

Bao Zi Beijing Dumplings

Chinese dumplings

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup chopped spinach
  • ½ cup chopped leeks
  • ½ cup bean sprouts
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil

Dipping sauce:

  • 2 parts Shoyu soy sauce
  • 1 part Chinese old vinegar
  • 6 spring onions, finely chopped
  • ginger, finely sliced into sticks
  • optional: chilli

Method

  1. Sift flour with salt and add about 1 cup water to make a nice, silky dough.
  2. Knead well, cover with a cloth.
  3. Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl.
  4. Knead dough again and break into walnut sized balls.
  5. Flatten and roll into a thin pancake. Put 1 tbsp of filling on half of the pancake. Wet edge with water, fold over and press together.
  6. Place in a steamer on high heat for 10 mins, or boil in water for 10 mins.
  7. Can also be deep fried in hot oil until golden.
  8. Serve dipped in a mix of vinegar and soy sauce (see above).

Recipe by Hui Ming

Petitions

Petition: Penguins are not props!

UPDATE 22 DECEMBER: This event has now been cancelled! Thank you to all who participated in helping the welfare of these penguins.

Taken from a recent email campaign by Freedom for Animals, below is a message about helping penguins that will be exploited in a shopping centre event this Saturday.

Will you please make a complaint to the event organiser, Halifax BID, and ask them to cancel? 

Contact them here:
www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/take-action-to-end-live-penguin-display
TAKE ACTION NOW
Wild animals like penguins need very specific care, habitats and space to be able to live life to the fullest. Penguins used in events like this are exposed to large crowds and noise which are both major stressors for animals.

What’s more, the company supplying these poor penguins is none other than ‘Amazing Animals’ – you may remember when we went undercover to expose their circus-style shows exploiting lions and tigers. They train animals for TV and film, mobile events like this, and are linked to the circus industry.

Wildlife expert Chris Packham and others have spoken out against this company – how can Halifax BID continue to work with them?

TAKE ACTION!

  1. Contact the event organisers Halifax BID and ask them to cancel this event now! You can do that here: www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/take-action-to-end-live-penguin-display
  2. If you live local to the event, join the protest! https://www.facebook.com/events/2170636879855880/
  3. Make a donation to the campaign to see an end to these cruel events once and for all!

Let’s do this!

For the animals,


Nicola O’Brien
Campaigns Director

 

Uncategorized

1 Nov: World Vegan Month Todmorden market stall, can you help?

It will be World Vegan Month soon! 3 Valley Vegans are hosting a stall on Todmorden open air market on Thursday, 1 November. (That’s World Vegan Day, within World Vegan Month.)

The information stall will be a celebration of veganism and will promote all things vegan. We will provide information about how and why to go vegan and where to buy and eat vegan food in the area. There will be vegan recipes demonstrated and written down for people to take away and free samples of vegan food for people to try.  If anyone would like to help out either by baking or creating some food samples to give away or by helping out on the stall then please contact Hilary on hils46@yahoo.co.uk. Even a few hours would be wonderful.

  • 3 Valley Vegans vegan information stall
  • Thursday, 1 November 2017
  • Start: 9.00 am
  • Finish: 3.00 pm
  • Location: Todmorden outdoor market, OL14 5AJ

Contact: Hilary on hils46@yahoo.co.uk