| Frozen shrimp plus angel-hair pasta makes easy diet-friendly meal
Not all fast food comes in a paper bag or a pizza box.If you keep some quick and healthy ingredients and a few time-saving gadgets in your kitchen, you can have a diet-friendly dinner ready in the time it would take you to visit a drive-through.Angel-hair pasta cooks in a snap, and multi-grain varieties like Barilla Plus contain more protein and fiber and a dose of omega-3 fatty acids.Add some seasonings along with pre-cooked shrimp, which is available frozen, and you've created a nutritious version of shrimp scampi in less than 10 minutes.I came up with this recipe one night after coming home hungry from a long day at work only to realize that my cupboards were pretty bare. Most of the ingredients I had on hand would take a while to cook, and I needed to find a sensible option fast because pizza was sounding better by the second.I pulled out the box of multi-grain pasta, remembered the shrimp in my freezer and looked up a recipe in "Cooking Light" that I could work with.While the water for the pasta was boiling, I put the frozen shrimp in a colander under cold, running water for about five minutes until the shrimp was thawed.
Chocolate extravaganza at Hestercombe
A CHOCOLATE Extravaganza is being held at Hestercombe Gardens for the third year running on Saturday, March 8, from 10am-5pm. A startling array of chocolate exhibitors, mostly South-West based, will take centre stage, showing off their top quality chocolate products. There will be tastings, demonstrations, free recipe cards and a special focus on chocolate in the Courtyard Café. Exclusive hand made chocolates of every conceivable variety will be available from traditional truffles, to fudge, chocolate bars and Florentines, as well as chocolate novelties from Kernow Chocolates, a wide range of chocolate cakes and biscuits including brownies, fudge cake, cookies and tarts. Go wild with Chocolate Fountains of Somerset and luxuriate in a rich, hot chocolate drink from Minehead based Nutcombe Chocolates' new ciocchino machine.
On Eve of Fed Decision, Good Is Bad Again
Good news is bad news again, which means normalcy has returned on Wall Street. Something seemed out of whack back on Jan. 17 when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stood before Congress offering a grim economic outlook and promising rate cuts, and the stock market responded with a heavy selloff. Since when was bad news for the economy viewed as bad news for investors? One staple of the stock market's latest bull run has been Wall Street's laser-focus on the central bank's punch bowl. Any sign of a sluggish economy was usually embraced by investors as a harbinger of more easy money from the Fed and a reason to buy. Little wonder then that the five-year bull market appears to have ended in a nasty credit crunch. When the promise of lower rates was finally overshadowed by the threat of recession in mid-January, it seemed like the markets had given up at long last on the notion that cheap credit could keep the party rolling forever.
Holiday Movie Preview
Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keri Russell are the musicians whose affair brought him into the world. The wrap-up: Many a tear has to fall. J.M. ENCHANTED Nov. 21 Once upon a time, Disney charmed audiences with traditional fairy tales. But now, kids are more interested in giant ogres and pop-culture riffs than in sleeping beauties and high-minded morals. So the studio's latest is a postmodern fantasy about an animated princess-turned-human (Amy Adams) stuck in a land called "Manhattan." James Marsden is a prince who follows her; Patrick Dempsey is the New Yorker who can't figure out why his new girlfriend keeps breaking into song. The wrap-up: If the execution is half as clever as the concept, it'll be a happy ending for everyone. E.W. HITMAN Nov.
Springsource buys Covalent in enterprise Java push
"We have the ambition to be the dominant company in enterprise Java open source," SpringSourceCEO Rod Johnson told ZDNet. "You put our portfolios together you have the vast majority of what we care about." SpringSource is known for the Spring Framework, a Java application framework it now calls part of the Spring Portfolio. Covalent is known as a third-party support company for Apache products. Both Johnson and Covalent CEO Mark Brewer will be posting about the acqusition on their respective blogs this morning. Johnson said Covalent was especially attractive because of its work with Apache Tomcat. "Tomcat is becoming dominant in deploying Java and we're dominant in developing for Java. "This is a Java play but it extends SpringSource beyond Java.
The INQUIRER Top 10 Travel Tricks
So here without further ado is our guide to making your trip a good one. 10. Pack as little as possible. You can buy stuff where you’re going and if you’re British it’s cheaper over there anyway. You should spend less than 10 minutes on this tiresome chore. Get a carry-on case. Life’s too short to wait for luggage at airports and
these things are now cheap as VIA chips. 9. Pack your toilet bag carefully. Air travel gives you bugs, dries you out and runs you down. Take one of those nasal things and stuff that zaps cold sores if you get them. You’ll need mouthwash, eye drops, lip salve and skin cream. Women will admire your
sophisticated man-of-the-world look.
8. Beg for an upgrade. Plead, cry, make up stories about illness.
Red Onion Cafe combines comfortable dining with high end cuisine
Looks can be deceiving as one enters Red Onion Cafe in Monroe. At first glance, the restaurant, which used to be a hotel whiskey cellar, appears to be a bar, and one expects the food to include the typical bar fare. While burgers and appetizers and a full array of cocktails are available, the restaurant menu is made up mostly of creative sandwiches, homemade soups and gourmet dinner entrees. "We are a unique restaurant that's homey, kid-friendly and more geared to the fine dining crowd, instead of the bar crowd," said Executive Chef Gary Henz. Henz has a prestigious culinary background — including a stint at the former Maisonette in Cincinnati. .
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