Vegetables with Peanut Sauce (Pecel)

Pecel is a traditional meal from
one town in East Java, Madiun. It
made from different vegetables
and serve with peanut sauce and
warmplain rice (nasi putih). And
usually accompany with some
rice flour cracker (rempeyek). In
reality Pecel has a lot of version
such as pecel Blitar, Nganjuk,
Kediri, Ponorogo, and Madiun.
Although the substance has no
difference with others, but each
has its uniqueness.
Category: Vegetables
Difficulty: Medium
Cooking time: 45 - 60 minutes
Ingredients
200 g peanut, peeled and fried
(or you can use peanut butter)
Spice Paste
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 red chillies, seeded and fried
- 5 eye’s bird chillies, seeded and
fried (you can add more if you
wish to)
- 5 cm kencur (also known as
kaempferia galangal), peel off the
skin
- 1 tablespoon dried prawn paste
(terasi)
- 7 kaffir lime leafs
- 2 tablespoon tamarind mixed
and squeeze with 100 ml
lukewarm water and drain.
- 50 g palm sugar or more if you
like more sweet taste
- 1 tsp sugar
Additional Ingredients
- 100 g bean sprouts, cleaned
- 100 g spinach, cut
- 100 cabbage, shredded
Directions
1. Fry garlic and the chillies. Set
aside. And then grind or blend
together with the rest of
ingredients of spice paste. Add
the fried peanut. Continue
blending to make it smooth.
2. Add some of warm water to
make the sauce thicken
3. Cook all the vegetables. Set
aside.
4. Serve: Arrange the vegetables,
and then pour with the peanut
sauce. Serve withplain rice (nasi
putih), crispy rice flour cracker
(rempeyek), fried egg and
cucumber.

Jengkol Intoxication

Definition
Jengkol intoxication is a kind of
food intoxication. Food
intoxication itself means
intoxication that occurs after
ingestion of food contaminated
or containing toxin.
Jengkolintoxication is not well
for people outside indonesia,
because not many cultures that
used jengkol as food ingredients.
Jengkol itself is a kind of beans
(Pithecolobium lobatum)
Jengkol being used as food
ingredients because its flavour,
smells, etc.
Brief Introduction
Jengkol always caused
intoxication. Component of
jengkol that caused intoxication
is jengkolic acid, that is a kind of
amino acid that contains sulfur
that can be isolated from jengkol
beans. Intoxication occurs
independent of amounts of
beans that being consumed and
whether it's being cooked or not,
alsowhether it's rape or raw.
Van Veen and Hyman concluded
that intoxication occurs depends
on individual susceptibility to
jengkolic acid..
Symptoms
Symptoms that occurs, is caused
by obstruction of urinary tract by
jengkolic acid crystal. Complains
usually occurs in 5-12 hours after
eatingjengkol. Fastest onset is
within 2 hours, the latest onset is
after 36 hours.
Usuallypatients tell that he/she
feel abdominal pain/discomfort
after eating few jengkol beans.
Sometimes accompany by vomit,
colic pain at micturition. Urine
volume also decreased, even can
be anuria. Sometimes hematuria
can be found. Also urine and
breath smells jengkol.
LABORATORIUM
In urine examination with
microscope, can be found
jengkolic acid crystal that being
seen as sharp needle or
sometimes agglutinated as
bound or rosette.
Treatment
If the symptoms is mild (vomit,
abdominal/flank pain only),
patient don't have to stay in
hospital, can be managed by
advice to drink a lot and giving
sodium bicarbonate.
Ifthe symptoms is severe
(oliguria, anuria, hematuria and
can't drink), patient have to stay
in hospital or opname and
receive Sodium bicarbonate in 5
% glucose I.V.

Arsenic? Eat more!

But even as its arsenic-
containing product is pulled off
the shelves,the FDA continues its
campaign of denial, claiming
arsenic in chickens is at such a
low level that it's stillsafe to eat.
This is even as the FDA says
arsenic is a carcinogen, meaning
it increases the risk ofcancer.
The National Chicken Council
agrees with the FDA. In a
statement issued in response to
the news that Roxarsone would
be pulled from feed store shelves,
it stated, "Chicken is safe to eat"
even while admitting arsenic was
used in many flocks grown and
sold aschicken meat in the
United States.
What's astonishing about all this
is that the FDA tells consumers
it's safe to eat cancer-causing
arsenicbut it's dangerous to
drink elderberry juice! The FDA
recently conducted an armed
raid in an elderberryjuice
manufacturer, accusing it of the
"crime" of selling "unapproved
drugs." (http://
www.naturalnews.com/032631_e...)
Which drugs would those be?
The elderberry juice, explains the
FDA. You see, the elderberry juice
magically becomes a "drug" if
you tell people how it can help
support good health.
The FDA has also gone after
dozens of othercompanies for
selling natural herbal products or
nutritional products that
enhance and supporthealth.
Plus, it's waging a war on raw
milk which it says is dangerous.
So now in America, we have a
food and drug regulatory agency
that saysit's okay to eat
arsenic, but dangerous to drink
elderberry juice or raw milk.
Eat more poison, in other words,
but don't consume any healing
foods. That's the FDA, killing off
Americans one meal at a time
while protecting the profits of
the very companies that are
poisoning us with their deadly
ingredients.
Oh, by the way, here's another
sweet little disturbing fact you
probably didn't know about
hamburgers and conventional
beef: Chicken litter containing
arsenic is fed to cows in factory
beef operations. So the arsenic
that's pooped out by the
chickens gets consumed and
concentrated in the tissues of
cows, which is then ground into
hamburger to be consumed by
the clueless masses who don't
even know they'reeating
second-hand chicken sh*t.