Lamb Roast with Coffee Bean Sauce

Including me and my wife, most of people who love cookingmaybe more familiar in use kind of spicessuch as pepper, coriander and nutmeg as sauce ingredients on the cooking recipe such as lamb roast, last, together with my wife where we prepare lamb roast for the order which come from the customer as the new years celebration. But how about the sauce ingredients on the lamb roast recipeswhen use coffee bean?

The new knowledge for me and can be inspiration for the next customer order after has know about Hawaii lamb roast recipes which use coffee bean as the sauce ingredients,   not on the whole lamb roast but only rack of lamb. Have you been hearing before about the recipe of Kona Coffee Roasted Rack of Lamb?

Source from Wikipedia, Kona coffee is the commercial coffee name for Arabica coffee which cultivated and produces in the slopes of Hualalai, Mauna Loa and Kona districtson the big island of Hawaii. Same as Civet Coffee or Kopi Luwak in Indonesia, Kona coffee is the expensive coffee also in the world.

Kona coffee usually will have flower blooms in the month of February and March, where in the late month of August, red fruit coffee which called cherry will start to ripen for picking and process being coffee bean. Iga Domba Bakar, that Indonesia name for Roasted Rack of Lamb and Domba Guling for Whole Lamb Roast.  

Looking for Kopi Luwak source in the island of Javaespecially West Java provinces then make delicious recipes about the roasted rack of lamb with Luwak Coffee sauce? Well, last that I got some information when visit Cireboncity in West Java, at Linggarjati, Kuningan district, there some area under the mountain of Ciremai which produce Java Luwak Coffee. I will post the news on the blog in someday since the island of Javahas been knows very rich for kind of spicesincluding the heritage of traditional culinary recipes.   

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Starbucks, Link Share and Affiliation Business

For all of you who has a dream to have exotic gourmet coffee shop, but you still worried about how to start up the business and the fund capital, why not to try in simple business strategy as best work smart method that very useful in my thinking for business beginner? The story was began when I am very interested to search about the famous coffee brand and coffee company in the world called Starbucks.

The unique thing that I saw on the website which owned by Starbucks is not only about the coffee bean product, more than that, I saw the brilliant idea of Starbucksabout their marketing strategy in selling the coffee product. As we know if Starbucks is the big coffee house company in the world which having about 20,366 stores in 61 countries include Indonesia, but Starbucks is keep concern to promote their coffeeproduct and make the their brand keep as the leader in the world.

The marketing strategythat make me interest about Starbucks is when this coffee company offers some online business opportunities for the people who interest to sell their product means by become Starbucks affiliate, yes, partnership with LinkShare where Starbucks make LinkShare as online media sites for their product affiliatepartner. It will be easy on right now for all of you who have a dream to have exotic gourmet coffee shop, and it will be very proud for all of you have when having coffee product from Starbucksas the famous coffee brand and coffee company in the world.

The business step is very easy to start for all of you which having a dream about online gourmet coffee of Starbucks, first step is you must to be join first as a publisher on Linkshare by having your own blogor website about coffee theme as my advice as the unique and niche word in online business. Then after LinkSharehas approve your request to be join as publisher, the next business step that you must suppose to do is get an affiliate link of Starbucks coffee products that presented by LinkShare. Well, now anyone can sell Starbucks coffee without having to buy coffee product as stock sales since what you are need is just write about coffee, starbucks and other niche world related with coffee recipes maybe  on your website or blog!

So what the benefit that Starbuckswill be giving to us a publisher on LinkShare after we put an affiliate link on our website or blog about Starbucks? When the customer make decision to buy Starbucksproduct by using LinkShare affiliate link in our website our blog as LinkShare publisher, LinkShare will pay us for the affiliate commission between 5 to 7% where it will be depending of product items has sold through an affiliate link that we have, the most important is, you did not have to fuss and bother buying goods or send the Starbucksproduct which order by the customer!

Actually not only does Starbucks have incorporated with LinkShare as the world affiliate company, and not just food and beverage products that we can sell it online on a website or blog that we have through the affiliate link provided by LinkShare, many big company has joint in LinkShare such as travel company, automotive, entertainment, healthcare, office equipment and children's toys where can we sell products through links provided by LinkShare. Well, what are you waiting for? Let’s start with the simple step to the biggest business opportunities, make your dream come true to have exotic gourmet coffee shop! 

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Appearance on "Ask the Low-Carb Experts" Podcast Postponed

I was scheduled to appear on Jimmy Moore's show "Ask the Low-Carb Experts" this Thursday.  I don't consider myself a low-carb expert, but I do have expertise in obesity and metabolism, and Jimmy had invited me to discuss these topics on his show.

Due to a confluence of events, I've decided that this is not the best time to do the show.  I want to be clear that I don't intend this as a rebuke of Jimmy Moore or his show-- most of my reasons for postponing have nothing to do with Jimmy.  Thanks for your understanding.

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Health Secret of Arrowroot Powder

For all of you whose living in USA that I believe has familiar with Arrowroot Powder. The powder which comes from the rhizome of herb plant that has the scientist name is Maranta arundinacea. My interested with this herb plant is when I was saw this plant which planting under durian tree at the plantation of my father in law on Kuningan city, West Java provinces, Indonesia. People in West Javahas call Arrowroot with the name of Garut plant. 

Different with arrowrootproducer in other tropical countrys that maybe cultivate arrowroot in a big scale and set as the arrowroot plantation, arrowrootas herb plant still not cultivate in a big scale in Indonesia unless in some part of area. Philippines as a country in South East Asia known as the biggest arrowroot powderproducer in the world. The same conditions about the use of arrowroot powder in Indonesiawhich still a little in amount of people use it that different with the use of wheat flour.

What is arrowroot powder actually? Fact is arrowroot tuberscontain about 23% of starch, in Indonesia words is umbi or rimpang. When arrowroot starch get harvest then dried in the sun or drying house, the arrowroot starch can be made into arrowroot powder. Which one is the best between wheat flour and arrowroot powder? Well, I think the answer will be depend about individual people like in the use between both of them for many thing use, but when we use arrowroot powder in our baking or cooking recipes where there will be many health benefit in the use of arrowroot powder which has know also as herbal remedies.         

Some health benefit of arrowroot that I got from the website of morethanalive.com, arrowroot contains rich of carbohydrates and calcium, the use of arrowroot powder is recommended for soothe an uneasy stomach and alleviate diarrhea or nausea and vomiting. Arrowroot is also can be use as easily digested source of nutrition for infants and people that in recovery from illnesses also on restricted diets. What the next idea after see arrowroot which planting under durian tree at the plantation of my father in law on West Java provinces, Indonesia? Well, as my wife said that it would be great idea to try the recipe of Durian Pancake. 

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Overfeeding and Elevated Insulin

It's commonly accepted in the obesity research community that fat gain causes insulin resistance and an increase in circulating insulin, and that this is a major reason why obese people usually have insulin resistance and high circulating insulin. Part of the rationale is that substantial fat loss by almost any means improves insulin sensitivity and causes circulating insulin to decline, and substantial fat gain from deliberate overfeeding causes insulin sensitivity to decline and circulating insulin to increase. I recently cited three references to support this contention on another blog, and was challenged, so I decided to revisit these references to make sure I had understood them correctly (1, 2, 3). Since I took the time to do this, I figured I may as well write it up for my readers, since these studies are quite informative.

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Food Reward Friday

This week's "winner"... the Heart Attack Grill's Quadruple Bypass Burger!

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Extreme Flu Activity in the US

A friend of mine came down with a nasty flu recently. I checked Google Flu Trends, and found that flu activity is currently at "intense" levels throughout the US. This is the highest flu activity Google Flu Trends has recorded in the last six years (image from Google Flu Trends 1/3/12).

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