Spinach Mania

Spinach Mania 

   

           As we know green leafy vegetables plays a vital role in our life they provide maximum amount of Vitamins, Calcium, & iron to our body to keep us fit n fine. As far as green leafy vegetables go, spinach is definitely among the most popular in our country as well as around the globe. Who hasn’t enjoyed a rich ironed spinach soup at some point? Spinach is thought to have originated in ancient Persia. Arab traders carried spinach into India, and then the plant was introduced into ancient China, where it was known as "Persian vegetable". Not only spinach has a great green colour & vibrant flavour. It is also filled with nutrients such as Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin B2, Calcium, & plenty of iron; it also has anti-cancer properties. Do we need any other reason to include spinach in our regular diet?

   

   Various varieties of spinach are available in the market.  Savoy spinach has dark green colour with crisp, curly leaves and springy texture; Semi Savoy is a hybrid variety with slightly crinkled leave similar in texture. Smooth-leaf spinach, which seems most common in India, has broad, smooth leaves that are easier to clean than Savoy. This kind of spinach is often grown for canned and frozen spinach, as well as soups, baby foods, and processed foods. Baby spinach has a light sweet taste & is great for use in salads.

     

Spinach is available in the market in every season of the year, but we can get the fresh and well balance spinach during March to May and from September through October. While choosing spinach checks all the leaves are fresh and not black green in colour. It should be lighter to dark green in colour that indicates freshness and richness of spinach.Precautions need to take while cooking also. Do not wash for long time as well as do not boil for long time, because of that spinach will lose its colour n all the necessary nutrients and that kind of spinach is not going to provide any kind of help to our body. Use fresh spinach rather than using canned spinach.Use more & more spinach in our daily diet that will provide most of the nutritional values to   keep us healthy & strong like Popeye the Sailor.

" Cruise Lines " one of the best career opportunity for Hospitality Students

 " Cruise Lines " one of the best career opportunity for Hospitality Students  

Hospitality industry is one of the fastest growing industry segments in the world, which offers plenty of opportunities worldwide for true and passionate professionals. The course Hospitality Studies provides wide verticals for their students. They have ample of options ready for them. Now I m going to discuss about cruise liner jobs which is one of those verticals.

     Who would have imagined 20 years ago that visiting different countries will become so easy and hospitality industry will flourish these way. Now hospitality industry is one of the versatile industries which came into lime light due to globalization. Cultures have mingled with the breaking down of economic & political barriers, spurred by the revolution brought about by the cyberspace. The world is indeed one big market with multi-cultural workforces & movements. Which leads into large growth in tourism & that helps every country to develop them as big tourist destination. India is one of them due to its versatility. Same way there are many countries who are show casing their culture, tradition, cuisine & heritage properties in International market which helps them to attract tourist from different countries on large scale. To transport these tourists from their country to desired tourist destination country   we need air transport or marine transport.

      What is marine transport, it is nothing but helping people to travel from one place to desired destination with the help of passenger ships. Few years back passenger ships used have only room & food facility. But now it is a complete extraordinary mixture of food, beverage, entertainment, shopping, & so many other social `facilities that help tourist to enjoy his/her stay during sailing. Due to so many facilities we need skilled people to provide different skilled & professional services to their passenger.

        These cruise liners move from one direction to another, which helps crew to visit various countries that to free of coast plus they get paid on higher scale & addition to that they don’t need to shed any amount on food & accommodation. So it’s like this way, company is paying you for work which you are doing & you are getting additional perk from guest for your awesome services which you are providing to them & that is the part of your duty. The most important & beneficial part of working on cruise liner is that we are getting chance to roam around the world that to free of cost. 

Eligibility to secure a job on the cruise line:

•          You should be a degree holder in Hotel management.
•          You should have relevant experience according to the position you apply.
•          You should be fit physically as well mentally.

How to apply:

            It’s very simple you can go to those cruise line offices & drop your resume personally or you can mail them on their office address. And you can email them your resume on their E-mail id along with all the necessary data & required documents. Such as passport photo copy, CDC photo copy, appointment letters & experience letters.

 Departments, salary, & contract:

      ·  Departments: Accommodation, Food & Beverage Service, Food 

       Production, & store.

      ·  Salary & Contract: The basic salary start from 40000 to 60000  INR and it grows according to post & promotion plus you get extra perk which is not mention in the contract that is completely depend upon your service & skill. Contract used to be for 9 months on board & 3 months off board. But now most of the companies using 6 months on board & 2 month off  board contract.

The benefits of working on a cruise line as against working on land:

·         We don’t need to spend money on food & 

       accommodation. 

·         We don’t need to spend money on transportation.

·         We don’t need to pay any tax.

·         We do get 20% discount as a crew in some places.

·         We get to see most beautiful, attractive, & adorable places that to free of coast or some time we need to spend few dollars.

     

                                         

   

           

House Party

Hello everyone, I am back again with yet another fantastic and very very interesting topic that is how to host a party at your place. I know nowadays everyone like to go for parties as well as like to host parties at their place. Do you people have any idea why there is tremendous growth in house hold parties? Yes I know that everyone will have different answers, point of views, and reasons for the same. But I will highlight few of those points which will help us know the need & importance of house hold parties.

·   The main reason to have house hold parties is growth and change in life styles of people.

·    We are so busy that we don’t have time go around event management companies for small occasion that

    saves so many things for us such as time, money & energy.    

·   We don’t have any time restrictions for holding back our parties

·    Due to too much of work stress we look forward for this kind of social and casual get-togethers that helps 

    us to forget all our stress & tension for that particular period.

But to host a party at our place is not a piece of cake. We need to consider so many points before planning any party at our place because if we don’t pay attention to these points we can ruin the entire show & our guests will go home with wrong impression & unsatisfied minds. And that we can’t afford to happen because next time when we will arrange some kind of party, our invitees will thinks so many times before attending our party.

So I am listing those points below which will help us to host very successful & memorable parties at our place.

    

     

    ·  Budget:

The most important factor of any event is budget. We can plan party only when we know our budget properly. So fix up your budget for party and then proceed for further things.

 

   

    ·Theme, Date, & Time:

Another major point what kind of theme we are looking & that to on which date & at what time that will give u clear idea about flow of our party such as space management, lighting, DJ set up, buffet layout or food service style and the decor as per the theme.

   ·   Invitation:

That’s more important whom we want to invite and how many we want to invite according to the occasion & capacity of our house. Family members will be there in every party which we are hosting at our place. But not all relatives & every friend is required for all the parties. So plan your invitees list & decide how we are going to invite. Like via email, sms, call or personally.

    

    

   · Food & Beverage:

This is also very important what kind of food & beverage we are deciding for our party. We cannot make everyone happy by making their choice of food & beverage. But we can select that kind of food & beverage which should be appreciated by majority of our guests.

·  Music & Party Games:

Without good music party won’t be called as party. So first check our invitee’s age group and theme. According to that we need to choose our music & games. That will help us to make our guest to groove their body on music beats & along with that we can play some party games that will help us to engage each & every guest.

So people get ready to host a fabulous, mind-blowing & memorable party.

Easy Mocktails by Vinay Khatoo

Mocktail is a drink which is made without any alcohol. It can be made with various ingredients such as Squashes, Syrups, fruit & vegetable Juices, Fruit pulp, Soda water, and Aerated water. 

The majority of mocktail beverages are served in places like restaurants with bars, especially those restaurants known for concocting fabulous drinks. It’s always fun to offer something at parties that it is delightful to drink and that to without alcohol. Most of the mocktails are come into existence due to classical and non classical cocktails. The moment we don’t add any alcohol in few classical and non classical cocktail recipes, those are called as Mocktails. When we have parties at home or any other place we do invite our dear and near friends and their families, in that we have some children, teen agers and ladies to whom we cannot offer an alcoholic drink. So we need something to quench their thirst & make them comfortable in that party atmosphere and with the help of that they will be able to enjoy the party in real manner.

So today I am going to share some mouth watery and fabulous mocktail recipes. Those are very easy and very tasty that will quenched your thirst. And we don’t need to spend too much of money on it. Those are pretty reasonable drinks & with the help of that you can make your guests happy.

Fruit Punch

Ingredients

• 45 ml- chilled orange juice
• 45ml- chilled mango juice
• 45ml- chilled pineapple juice
• 1 scoop Vanilla ice cream
• any fruit for garnish 

Recipe 

• Pour all the juice in mixing glass
• Then add vanilla ice cream in the mixing glass
• Blend all the ingredients till ice cream get mixed with other juices 
• Garnish with apple, strawberry or any other fruit

Peach Delight

Ingredients

• 30 ml peach syrup
• 60 ml sprite
• Add soda to top up with a dash of grenadine syrup
• Peach slice or lemon slice for garnishing 

Recipe

·         Pour peach syrup in high ball glass

·         Then add sprite in to it & stir well

·         Then top up with soda & a dash of grenadine syrup.

·         Garnish with lemon slice or peach slice or piece of peach cut in triangular shape.

Guava Spice

Ingredients

• 120 ml- chilled guava juice
• 4-5 ice cubes
• Lime wedge to rim the glass
• Mixture of red chilly powder & salt 

Recipe 

• Pour the juice in mixing glass
• Then add ice cubes the mixing glass & pinch of red chilly powder & salt mixture
• Stir well till ice melt & juice get diluted because of that the thickness of juice goes out
• Move lime wedge on the glass rim and after that put glass rim in the mixture of red chilli powder & salt
• Move the glass in round the clock position till glass get properly rimed with that mixture
• Give a tap at the end of glass because of that excessive mixture will fall down in plate and we will get proper rim
• Then pour the entire mixture of juice and masala into the rimmed glass.

Dark Nyt

Ingredients

• 15 ml- chilled guava juice
• 30ml- Black Current Squash
• 60ml- Sprite
• And soda to top up
• Chaat masala
• Crushed ice   

Recipe 

• Pour the lime juice & black current squash in mixing glass
• Then add sprite and pinch of chaat masala
• After that add soda and mix all the ingredients properly
• Move lime wedge on the glass rim and after that put glass rim in chaat masala
• Move the glass in round the clock position till glass get properly rimed with chaat masala
• Give a tap at the end of glass, because of that excessive chaat masala will fall down in plate and we will get proper rim
• Add crushed ice into the glass
• After that pour all the mixture from mixing glass into rimmed glass.

Slancha (thats Cheers in Irish).........

Napkin Folds for Special Occasions

            Nowadays people are more interested in fine dining not only in restaurants or hotels but at their homes too. They give more importance to fine dining which gives a clear picture about their standard of living. Thus they have to set up table according to the dinner theme & napkin folding is the essential part of table set up which gives eye appealing looks to the table .

Whether we are preparing a formal feast or a simple lunch, the table sets the scene for the meal and beautifully elegant laid table creates a sense of anticipation among our guests, who can look forward for a special time.

A table is dressed for dinner with crisp white linen & best chinaware, then accessorized with sparkling cut glasses, flickering candles & to complete the setup, we need inventively folded napkins to set mood for special occasion. We do utilize same linen, chinaware & glasses to set the table again for different occasions, but to give different look to the table set up we can use different types of napkin folds which will give variety and new looks to the table setup .

So in this blog we will be able to do different kinds of napkin folds for various functions.

"Shirt" style Napkin Fold for kids parties

The next napkin fold is called a "Norwegian Glacier", used for gala dinners.

The next napkin fold is called a "Candle Fan", used for Wedding Receptions.

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