A couple of weekends ago I was at Ikea...one of my favourite shopping places, I spotted a set of lovely animal-shaped cookie cutters. It was love-at-first-sight. Thank goodness the price is very reasonable and I didn't feel [...]
Wholesome Bites
Diposting oleh good reading on Minggu, 29 Maret 2009
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Science of Watchmen, War Films, plus Mira Nair, from YouTube EDU
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Film Studies For Free is grateful to Peter Suber of Open Access News for the tip-off that YouTube has launched a new channel to facilitate access to video material submitted by universities and colleges: YouTube EDU.The new channel makes it much easier [...]
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Preventing Tooth Decay
Diposting oleh good reading on Sabtu, 28 Maret 2009
Meet Sir Edward Mellanby, the man who discovered vitamin D. Along with his wife, Dr. May Mellanby, he identified dietary factors that control the formation and repair of teeth and bones. He also identified the primary [...]
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More Blog Magic
Diposting oleh good reading on Rabu, 25 Maret 2009
A quickie from Film Studies For Free today just to shout out about two of the best film studies blogs out there which, coincidentally, have very high-quality and worthwhile recent posts on films about duelling magicians:David [...]
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Weekday Lunch Express - Hotdog Bento
Diposting oleh good reading on Selasa, 24 Maret 2009
Once in a while, when my kids got really tired of the usual (equals boring!) weekday lunch meals I prepare for them, I will jazz up a simple hotdog and make it into a kiddy bento lunch. The good thing about making a hotdog [...]
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More Thoughts on the Glycemic Index
Diposting oleh good reading on Senin, 23 Maret 2009
In the last post, I reviewed the controlled trials on the effect of the glycemic index (GI) of carbohydrate foods on health. I concluded that there is not much evidence that a low GI diet is better for health than a high GI diet. It is true that for [...]
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Reports from the E-Repositories #1: eScholarship Initiative/California Digital Library
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Image from November (Hito Steyerl, 2004, DVD, 27 min)Film Studies For Free has donned its fetching explorer's hat to check out some excellent university e-repositories for research and scholarship.In the first of a series [...]
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Mini Melon-pans
Diposting oleh good reading on Sabtu, 21 Maret 2009
These are not ice creams...and they are not muffins either.They are actually mini melon pans...sweet bread buns covered with a layer of crispy pastry dough. Besides the plain buns, there are also green tea and chocolate [...]
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WHO LOVES THE CRUSTIES? GREENSPAN'S BANANA BUNDT CAKE
Diposting oleh good reading on Jumat, 20 Maret 2009
Dorie Greenspan's Banana Bundt Cake: adapted for loaf pans and made even yummier (in my opinion, anyway)Not another Banana Bread recipe, you say? Well, you know I've been searching for the perfect banana bread or banana [...]
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The Glycemic Index: A Critical Evaluation
Diposting oleh good reading on Kamis, 19 Maret 2009
The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how much an individual food elevates blood sugar when it's eaten. To measure it, investigators feed a person a food that contains a fixed amount of carbohydrate, and measure their [...]
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Direct Cinema? Innovative Documentary Studies Online
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Image from Subdivided (Dean Terry, US 2007)Film Studies For Free is keepin' it real today with a choice selection of links to mostly very recent, definitely innovative, and freely-accessible online documentary studies (last [...]
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Kimchi Chigae
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Thanks to the numerous Korean dramas that we have been watching, I have been wanting to learn how to cook Korean dishes like dukboki (spicy rice cake) (this dish is featured in almost every single K-drama!), bibimbab and [...]
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MALAYSIAN STEAMED CAKE (MAH LAI GOH)
Diposting oleh good reading on Selasa, 17 Maret 2009
steamed cake (a.k.a. Mah Lai Goh), a dim-sum favouriteI have recently been enamoured by steamed cakes. I'm really falling in love with the fact that you can eat the quiveringly tender slices of cake without frosting. It [...]
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