Richmond Saffron Condos: Hotel-Chic With Asian FlavourPoised to become one of Richmond real estate’s most distinctive low-rise apartment condominium new residences, Saffron Condos will be located on Odlin Road between Garden City and No. 4 Road placing it in the heart of the ever popular South McLennan neighbourhood. Like it’s namesake, the world’s most unique and expensive spice (it takes
Whilst clearing my shoes the other day, I realized I got stuck in a peep-toe rut. Well, I didn’t have the good fortune to inherit my mom’s toes which are placed close to one another so mine don’t look all-that-fantastic in non peep-toes. But when I started my shoe collection (to wear, duh) at 17, [...]
Saffron Walden:With collections of half timber and thatched cottages, like many of the other stunning villages/towns, around this area there are some wonderful buildings - to many to show here even from one village, that test the drawing skills. While very useful to know the rules, perspective doesn't always hold true in this area, as can be seen in the building below with some superb bowing of t
900 g baby carrotswhite onion base of 1 leek1/2 cup white wine300 ml milk200 ml clear vegetable soupsaffron100 g smetana or sour cream3 Tbsp olive oilsaltBoil soup and then put inside some saffron and a pinch of salt. Cut leek and grind carrots.Heat oil in a pan and then fry leek for about 5 minutes on low heat. Add carrots, fry a little bit more and then, pour wine, continue to fry until it evapo
India-focused real estate private equity firm Saffron Group today said it has chalked out a two-pronged strategy to become a leading player in the burgeoning market staying put for a minimum of five years in upcoming properties and buying out assets with assured rental income.
The Group, a brain-child of Ajoy Veer Kapoor and his peers [...]
Usually if I’m trying to make an authentic dish, I always try to make it just that - authentic. That means that I want to use traditional ingredients and I attempt to research the many traditional ways to make that specific dish. I then decide how to combine the best bits from all [...]
Easy little side dish with lots of flavorYield:6 servings2 cups low sodium chicken broth 1 pinch saffron threads1/2 teaspoon salt1 (10-ounce) box instant couscous 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted4 ounces goat cheese, crumbled1/4 cup finely chopped parsley leaves In a medium saucepan, bring broth, saffron, and salt to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in couscous. Cover and set aside for 5 minutes. Transfer cooked couscous to a medium bowl and fluff with a fork. Add remaining ingredients and toss to combine.
Tea…I always think about tea when I’m not feeling well, and today is one of those days. It was a long week at the restaurant, writing menu’s and working on getting a new logo, the bar built and making sure that the ansul system is being installed properly. I did take the time to [...]
Saffron is an expensive spice that has a very distinct flavor and aroma. It is prized throughout the world, but often only used for special-occasion dishes because it is so expensive.
Where Does Saffron Come From, Anyway?
Saffron comes from the three stigmas of an autum blooming crocus plant, the Crocus Sativus. The Crocus Sativus is hardy from zones six through nine in the United States, and
Lots of people are afraid of making risotto at home and are often confined to just eating it at restaurants. This is a shame, because I honestly think it's a dish better made at home. Many restaurants start the process and spread the partially cooked rice out on trays until an order for risotto is fired, before finishing the dish. Although, it doesn't make a huge difference, I personally find it detracts from the overall taste.Risotto is often misconstrued as a very time consuming dish, which I believe is also a fallacy. Yes, you do have to keep watch at the stove and keep stirring, but the whole process takes half an hour tops, from chopping to serving. Not many meals can boast that factor! It also makes for a sophisticated dish sure to impress.This particular dish was inspired by o
Narendra Modi acknowledging his jubilant supporters in Ahmedabad soon after winning the 2007 Gujarat assembly polls.
It was an unprecedented electoral win for Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat in India, in the just concluded 2007 assembly polls. He was facing the toughest challenge from within and outside of his organization, the BJP and its [...]
The silly season has arrived and it also means less time cooking and more time eating out, meeting and catching up with old friends, celebrating a new year arriving and the old year gone.
With this, the regular posts won’t be three new recipes each week, but I’ll try to do some weekly updates for the next couple of weeks - possibly more!
This current recipe is something I wanted to try last night. It’s a reduced fat version of ghee rice which is a little bit of a tradition in Sri Lankan and Indian dishes. This one here feels quite light and goes down well with a creamy or quite heavy main (pictured here is a slightly heavier version of paneer with tumeric). I’ll post the recipe for this one shortly!
Serves:
Two to three large serves!
Ingredients:
1 cup jasmine rice uncooked
1.5 cups water
60 grams brown onion, roughly chopped
2 tbs butter
1 beef-style stock (I use Massell)
2 cloves
3 cardamons, bashed to allow infusion
1 bay leaf
pinch saffron
Instructi
Apart from Jeera Rice, Saffron Rice or Kesar Chawal goes well with the wide variety of spicy Indian dishes. It is also very appealing to the eye, with its pleasant color.As someone rightly said "White rice is nice, but yellow saffron rice is stunning".Saffron RiceThere have been many versions of Saffron Rice, from the day Think Spice... Think Saffron was announced :) And now this is the time for my version :)Ingredients:Basmati rice: 1 cupWater: 2 cupsSaffron: 1 tspCloves: 4 - 5Cardamom: 2Cumin: 1 tspCashews: 1 TbspSalt: to tasteMilk: 2 TbspCurry Leaves: a fewGhee: 1 TbspHow I did it:Steep Saffron in warm milk for a few mins.Cook rice with water, cardamom, cloves, salt. Add even the saffron and milk.Take ghee in a small kadai and add cashews after golden, add jeera and curry leaves.Add this to the cooked rice.Serve hot!Saffron RiceAnd the Verdict:It is a nice substitute for the routine jeera rice or ghee rice. Saffron adds the rich flavor and color.I served this with butter chicken, an
These are dual-purpose flowering and foliage plants. For about six weeks the plant has unusual flower heads of overlapping yellow bracts. When flowering has finished, pinch off the dead blooms, then use as a foliage plant. The leaves are large and glossy and marked with large, white veins. Mix with plain-leaved plants for a contrasting display in a modern living-room.
Mini-climate
Warm,
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We are prisoners!
“We want the world and international community
to know that the people of Burma remain prisoners in their own country”
….. PLEASE USE YOUR LIBERTY TO PROMOTE OURS …..
by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma National Leader, 1991 Nobel Peace laureate
Than Shwe an enigma
(photo: AP Photo/David Longstreath)
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The supreme decision-making body of Myanmar is the State Peace and Development Council, whose chairman is Senior Gen. Than Shwe, who is also the commander in chief of the armed forces, the Tatmadaw.
Than Shwe, 74, who serves as both head of state and defense secretary, assumes the full power of the council.
The junta has a Cabinet, but it has no power to make key policy decisions.
During World War II, the Tatmadaw–which was founded and trained by the Imperial Japanese Army–expelled the British Indian Army, and then played a significant role during anti-Japanese campai
My favourite cuisine after Indian is definitely Italian. I love the use of cheese, herbs and spices that their dishes contain. And raviolis are my personal favourites on any italian menu. As a cook, I always try to combine flavors that I think go well with each other, irrespective of their origin, and that's how most of the fusion dishes are created. So when my husband asked me to make Ravioli for dinner, I tried to combine the traditional Italian ingredients with a touch of Indianism to the sauce, creating this Ravioli stuffed with Pesto sauce and ricotta cheese topped with a sauce made from saffron, cream and tomatoes!Ingredients1 packet of ravioli sheets1/2 cup ricotta cheese1/4th cup Pesto sauce (or see recipe below)1/2 cup blanched spinach - chopped (you cna use mushrooms or any other veggies for stuffing)1/2 cup tomatoes - cut2 tbsp butter1 tbsp egg wash or cornflour mixed with water - to seal the raviolis2 tsp saffron4 tbsp parmesan cheese1 cup whipping cream1/4 cup plain whole
"Life is unsure; always eat your dessert first."AnonymousPHIRINI/RICE PUDDINGLooks like it's time again for 'beyond baking', and this time I'm hitting the saffron trail! This recipe has finally been typed and blogged thanks to Sunita's World, who runs a really interesting spice event every month. I think it's a pretty neat idea, and also a great learning experience. I missed the last few spices due to the 'tension' of trying to blog. I feel a little more confident now, and a bit more organised of course! Got a loooooooooooooong way to go, but am getting there.Strands of Saffron...with the flowers of the Indian 'Haar-Singaar' treeThis months' spice is 'SAFFRON'...the world's most expensive spice by weight. I've just used a few strands, and they seem to work the magic. The recipe is for a creamy, delicious pudding/phirini made out of ground rice. A great vegetarian dessert option which can be set it in individual bowls too!! This is a recipe I have made over and over again
"When the trees their summer splendour
Change to raiment red and gold,
When the summer moon turns mellow,
And the nights are getting cold;
When the squirrels hide their acorns,
And the woodchucks disappear;
Then we know that it is autumn,
Loveliest season of the year."
- Charlotte L. Riser
It’s fall now as I write this. While walking back to home I noticed the change around me. There is nip in
Keith made this recipe the other night. We are cooking most dinners through our week vacation on the Outer Banks. This recipe was an instant hit and we all asked for a copy to take home.
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 TBS olive or other cooking oil
½ cup onion, chopped
½ TBS turmeric or 1 gram packet [...]
We are prisoners!
“We want the world and international community
to know that the people of Burma remain prisoners in their own country”
….. PLEASE USE YOUR LIBERTY TO PROMOTE OURS …..
by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma National Leader, 1991 Nobel Peace laureate
Than Shwe an enigma
(photo: AP Photo/David Longstreath)
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The supreme decision-making body of Myanmar is the State Peace and Development Council, whose chairman is Senior Gen. Than Shwe, who is also the commander in chief of the armed forces, the Tatmadaw.
Than Shwe, 74, who serves as both head of state and defense secretary, assumes the full power of the council.
The junta has a Cabinet, but it has no power to make key policy decisions.
During World War II, the Tatmadaw–which was founded and trained by the Imperial Japanese Army–expelled the British Indian Army, and then played a significant role during anti-Japanese campaigns.
The Tatmadaw then became the driving force behin
Ecco lo stencil di solidarietà ai monaci buddisti, scaricate il PDF, e fate il vostro stencil nella vostra città in segno di protesta al governo militare birmano, poi scattate una foto ed inviatela a Saffron Revolution.
Firma le petizioni:
avaaz petition
human rights first petition
Scarica il PDF
BBC did a report on the clumsy show of force by the military government during their confrontations with the monks and civilians. You can read the report on BBC’s website. Though there has been few deaths since the start of the anti-government protest sometime last week, I was disgusted by the way the junta treated the citizens, in particular the monks, who are highly reputed in the Buddhist nation. The people were severely beaten with rifle butts by the soldiers but despite the use of force on them, the Burmeses seemed resolute to fight for democracy this time round and to free their democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (They were brutally crushed by the junta in 1988 and many thousands died). The political event has resulted in US and European Union calling for economic sanctions but these were rejected by Burma’s ally, China, stating the sanctions would not be helpful. In my opinion, Singapore Government, the current Chairman of the ASEAN, sho
Saffron Asset Advisors, a UK based real estate asset management company plans to raise Rs 300 crore for a domestic realty fund and offshore sector specific funds in logistics, hospitality, health care, and infrastructure.
It is also pondering upon to float a $100 million hospitality fund and a $200 million health care fund which will make investments in various assets, informs Ajoy Veer Kapoor, Managing Director, Saffron Asset Advisors.
Saffron envisages serving as an end to end long term management house for prime segments across the country. Indian market provides good liquidity and the company is working in the same direction. Yatra will invest around $1 billion in real estate projects over the next 1 year.
Yatra will primarily focus on FDI-compliant projects in India. It will also look forward to invest in alternative assets which did not fall in the FDI.
Last year, Yatra has earlier raised $ 100 million on the Amsterdam based NYSE Euronext and also invested the same amount in real
Hi to everyone who missed me :) and also to those of you who are coming here for the first time!!I just got back from a weekend getaway with my family in Los Angeles, and I absulutely have to share with you my amazing experience at Saffron Spot!!! In April 2001, Mumbai (India) native Smita Salgaonkar started Neemo's Exotic Ice Creams in northern Orange County, naming it so after one of her daughters' nick-names. With the success of Neemo's, she also opened Saffron Spot, a stylish Indian ice cream parlor, that utilizes the valuable spice Indian spice called "Kesar", or Saffron to create tantalizing flavours. If you don't believe me, take a look at their website. Its as colourful as the desserts that will welcome you there!! And the look of the place exudes a vibrant feeling. The chairs are rounded. The eating area jutting from the walls are rounded and the purple, orange, and yellow colors are just as bright and cheerful.http://www.saffronspot.com/index.htmlIt has an exotic collecti
Often times, when I am browsing through a cookbook that I randomly pluck off a shelf in the library, I come across a recipe, one single recipe, that causes me to clutch the book to my chest in glee. I must check out the book even if it yields me that one and only gem, but my hope is always that it will show me a great deal more.
Such was the case in finding ‘Indian Home Cooking- A Fresh Introduction to Indian Food’ by Suvir Saran and Stephanie Lyness. The book is resplendent with gorgeous photos, plain talk about the wonders of Indian cuisine and all it’s aromatic and unique ingredients, and 150 recipes that make me simply swoon in anticipation. It is full of options for making everything vegetarian too. This rice recipe was the one that urged me to check out the book. What else I found when I got it home and curled up on the couch with it and a packet of page markers were more wonderful recipes that are making me think I should purchase this book for my permanent co
A couple of months ago I made a vegetarian dish that I hadn't tried before. A bit exotic because it contained sweet potatoes, bits of dried apricot and spices like saffron, chili and caraway/cumin. Basically it was a stew made from the ingredients above plus chopped onions and various beans. My wife thought that the dish was rather odd and she posted in her blog. Some of her readers tried it out and they thought that it was rather tasty.
Saffron is the most expensive spice. The Sanskrit name for saffron points to the ancient Indian area of saffron production: Kashmirajanman or "product of Kashmir". Saffron in some modern Indian languages is called kesar (Hindi) and Kisar (Urdu). The Saffron filaments or threads are actually the dried stigmas of the saffron flower, "Crocus Sativus Linneaus". Each flower contains only three stigmas. These threads must be picked from each flower by hand and more than 75,000 of these flowers are needed to produce just one pound of Saffron filaments making it the world's most precious spice. But, because of saffron's strong coloring power and intense flavor it can be used sparingly. Saffron is used both for its bright orange-yellow color and for its strong, intense flavor and aroma. Exquisite Saffron RiceI remember my Amma used to keep this saffron in her trasure chest. As a kid it was a big puzzle for me as how few threads of Saffron would give such a intense colour and flavour and I st
SAFFRON:Saffron is the member of Iris family. It has been originated in the eastern Mediterranean region. Then in 8th century, Arabians bought this plant to Spain who discovered that the southern Spain were ideal for the growth of the saffron plants.Saffron is the most precious and the most expensive spice in the world. The spice is made up of the stigmas of the saffron flower, which are actually dried up. Each saffron flower only contains three stigmas. For one kilogram of dried saffron, approximately 150000 flowers are needed. Saffron is specially used for its strong colouring power and its severe aroma.Saffron is also having medicinal values. It is excellent for stomach ailment and it helps in digestion. Saffron even aids to boost up appetite. It also lessens pain in stomach, relieves tension and is used to treat measles. In the Indian traditional medicine, it is used for treating kidney and liver disorders and also diabetes. A tiny pinch of saffron in any recipe would create a spec
