It’s Snacks Time Friends…

Hello friends… today I will like to share my thoughts with you. As I was walking down the road in front of my home, I noticed some new shops selling a variety of fast foods. The growing number of fast food franchises at every corner of roads truly reflect the new trend, i.e. fast foods have made it big now a day.
Though people mostly consider me as health conscious, I tried tasting the varieties of these fast food franchises . And frankly speaking, I loved it. Later I have made some of the popular quick bites at home for my friends and family, and they loved it too. So here I will be sharing a very easy fast food recipes that I am sure you will love to try out:
Burger: A delightful snack item that will be loved by all, from kids to old, burger is easy to preaper. Just spend 25 minutes and you can dig in a fresh and juicy chicken or beef burger.
Ingredients:
• Sesame-seed buns (better if you can toast and have them spilted from middle)
• Onion, tomato, and lettuce leaves (properly sliced)
• Slices of bacon
• Tomato ketchup and mustard sauce
• Slice of beef or chicken (as per your choice)
• Mayonnaise spread
Method to Prepare:
• First preheat your grill over medium heat. Now take a bowl and add the mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and all the sauces together and blend well. Keep the bowl of sauce apart.

• Now take the beef or chicken and slice it properly for your burger. Cook the slices on hot grill for 10-12 minutes to have it well roasted and tender as per your need.

• Now take the sesame seed bun and cut in from middle. Spread the sauce mixture on the two cut sides of the sesame-seed bun. Put the chicken or beef chunk in between the bun and toast it lightly to make it slightly soft.

The Taste the Delight of France: Dig in the Softness of Creme brulee

      We all love puddings, right?     And especially the ones that come out all soft and fluffy… J Whenever I visit    restaurants for a meal, be it with friends and family, my appetite always needs to be satisfied with a chocolate pudding or a vanilla one at the end. The yummy soft pudding that melts in the mouth is so delectable and mouth wateringly delicious…hmm, I am already feeling a craving for it.

Well, on a serious note, if you have a restaurant franchise France that try to offer customers with some lip smacking delicious food items, I can help you add another appetizing item to the list. Try out the Creme brulee recipe and entice your customers for a revisit. It’s easy to prepare but awesome to eat. Let’s take a look:

Ingredients:

• Vanilla/ Chocolate essence
• Caster sugar
• Egg yolks
• Thick cream whipped up
• Brown coarse sugar

Preparation

Take a pan and heat the cream lightly and mix it with the vanilla or chocolate essence of your choice. Now whisk in the egg yolks along with the caster sugar and stir all well. Gently pour in the crème as you keep stirring to avoid any formation of lumps.

Now divide the mixture in two divisions and put it in small roasting dishes. Pour water on it until it is 2/3^rd dipped. At the same time, make sure that the roasting dish does not get drowned completely in water. Preheat an oven for about 30 minutes and put the ramekin dish in it. Take it out and allow it to cool down naturally or by putting it in the freezer.

Now add a thick layer of coarse brown sugar on top of the pudding and put it in high grill so that the sugar gets melted properly and you get to enjoy a hard crust, which makes the pudding more delectable.

Have it hot and fresh with a crunchy top and you will surely feel heavenly bliss.  Add it to the menu of your restaurant franchise France and watch your customers getting lost in the soft pudding layers.

A Diet Drink to Quench Your Thirst

Hi all… for the last few weeks we had been providing you with various diet food recipes to help you stay healthy and fit. With the hope that it had been helpful to you, today we bring for you something new and refreshing to beat the heat this summer.

Taking a break from the recipes of main course diet food, let’s try taking a look through some drinks and beverages that are deliciously yummy to the appetite, yet low in calorie. Here we will provide you with the recipe of a vegetarian diet food beverage that you can prepare easily at home.

Prepared with some healthy and easily available ingredients that you will find at your home only, this drink is not only highly nutritious but also a delight to savor. I am sure that this new drink will be loved equally by your family and guests. Try this new diet food, or better ‘diet drink’ and do let me know. Here goes the recipe for you:

Ingredients

• Pineapple juice (crushed and drained properly)
• Orange juice
• Strawberries (chilled and frozen)
• Chilled carbonated water

Process to prepare

Take a blender and put the frozen strawberries in it. Add the pineapple juice to it and blend once again to make a smooth juice. Now add the orange juice to it. Place a tall stemmed glass and pour the juice in it. Put some cubes of ice and carbonated water to it so that the drink becomes frothy. You can use some strawberry pieces to garnish the drink at its best. Serve and enjoy.

A Healthy Chinese Foods for you to Try out in Your Restaurant

You have a restaurant business and want to add more variety to its menu? Here’s something that we bring for people of the restaurant industry. You will surely agree with me that there are varied types of customers visiting your food joint. While some order for spicy food items, others look out for light yet tasty food.  While it is normally found that restaurants mostly provide with spicy and zesty foods, how about adding some light and healthy Chinese food items too? Give it a try and I am sure your customers will love this endeavor.

The best thing about Chinese food is that it offers an innovative menu for all types of customers. Try the recipe of vegetable fried rice given below and let your customers enjoy a healthy yet substantial dish.

Ingredients

• brown rice
• thinly cut asparagus
• Sliced red bell pepper
• crushed clove garlic
• rice vinegar
• sesame oil
• vegetable broth
• beaten eggs
• oil
• crushed fresh ginger
• sodium soy sauce
• red pepper sauce for flavor

Preparation

Take a pan and mix the rice with the vegetable broth and bring it to boil on your cooking oven. Cover the lid and simmer the heat to cook till the broth gets absorbed in the rice. Now take a big plate and spread the rice to cool down.

As the rice is laid down to cool down, take another non stick pan and sprinkle little oil in it. Heat it and toss in the beaten eggs to cook it as fried scammed eggs for 1 minute. Put it aside in a small container. Again heat oil in the pan and add the asparagus, pepper, garlic, ginger and all other vegetables to it. Stir and cook for atleast 2 minutes. When the vegetables become tender and soft, mix the cooked rice, sauce, vinegar and the fried eggs together. Take it off the oven and serve hot with some yummy Chinese side dish.

McDonald Going Green: The Food Giant’s Step In favor Of Healthy Eating

 McDonald, the giant of fast food, is going green… This is surely big news not only for people who love to eat healthy but also in the food industry. To see top notch companies eyeing the eco friendly food options with importance is always a pleasure. With more and more people are becoming health conscious and opting for fresh and healthy foods, Mc Donald’s move for the green wave is definitely a positive signal of the changing trends. Not only will this step encourage people to revert back to eating well, but also bring a change in the growing market of food industry.

You can see more in: http://businessnerds.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/mcdonald

Salad Types: Which One Will You Love To Try

So, we had been talking about salad and healthy eating for quite some weeks. But as I was trying to make a salad with something new and innovative some days back, it knocked my mind that people do eat salads but are they aware of its different types? Well, I think most people don’t. Do you?

Don’t worry… There are many international franchises of salad bars where you get to find a wide array of salad items to choose from. Today we will be talking about the different types of salad that you can prepare and have as per your liking.

Prepared with a variety of vegetables, fruits, meats and cheese, salads are the most creative dish that every foodie will love to try out. At the same time, not only do you get to don your best creative cap, but also munch on foods that have high nutrient value. Now let’s have a look at the different types of salads that are listed at international franchise food menus:

• Garden Salad: This is the commonly available salad which is also popularly known as the ‘green salad’. Prepared with a combination of various vegetables such as lettuce, tomato, peppers, cheese, onion etc, this salad mostly comes without any definite dressing. You can add all and any ingredient of your choice to make this salad more yummy and tasty.
• Waldorf Salad: A simple salad that is nutty and fruity in combination, Waldorf salad is prepared with almonds, nuts, grapes, apples etc. It is typically a salad dish that you will find at New York.
• Greek Salad: Highly popular with a flavor of the nation, this Greek salad has a tangy taste to it due to its ingredients such as tomato, cucumber, cheese, onion and olive oil to name a few.
• Cobb Salad: Also termed as ‘a combination of leftover ingredients’, the origin of Cobb salad dates back to 1937 when Robert Cobb, the owner of the Brown Derby restaurant came up with this dish for late nigh theater goers. Just slicing and chopping of any ingredients at hand such as lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, boiled eggs, chicken, bacon etc and tossing them together with cheese and vinegar makes it a delicious Cobb salad.
• Caesar Salad: Believed that this salad was first originated by Caesar Cardini in the restaurant Tijuana Mexico in the year 1924, the preparation of this dish consists of lettuce, cheese, croutons etc.

With no end to salad variations, there are many more types of salads for you to savor on. All these salads sound easy and tempting, right? So why wait. Do give these recipes of different salad types a try.