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Wikipedia says, "A Scotch egg consists of a cold, hard-boiled egg removed from its shell, wrapped in a sausage meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs, and deep-fried. The dish was invented by the London food shop Fortnum & Mason, in 1738.Contrary to popular belief, it is not a Scottish dish."
Mummy's scotch egg, however, does not contain sausage meat mixture. Instead, she wraps it with mashed potato. And I pan fried it instead of deep frying. ;p
A note on mashed potatoes: It's one of America's greatest comfort food. I used this garlic mashed potato recipe that I made in a few days ago.
mashed potato ingredients: russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces , 1 teaspoon salt, 2 to 3 teaspoons warm soy milk, 2 tablespoons chopped garlic cloves, 1 tablespoon chopped onion, olive oil, ground black pepper
directions: Put the potatoes in a medium saucepan and add just enough water to cover them. Add 1 teaspoon salt and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Do not boil. Cook for 12 to 15 minutes or until the potatoes are just tender enough to slide off a paring knife when pierced. Drain well and return to the pan. Set the pan over low heat and cook for 1 to 2 minutes or dry the potatoes out.
Remove from the heat and lightly mash the potatoes with a fork just to break them up. On another oiled pan, fry the minced garlic and onions. Stir in the soy milk, garlic and onions. Run the potatoes through a food mill or mash them with a potato masher to the desired consistency. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
To make the scotch egg:
Ingredients: hard boiled eggs, 1 egg white, seasoned bread crumbs, mashed potatoes, oil for frying, chili sauce!
Shell the hard-boiled eggs. Wrap the mashed potatoes around the hard boiled eggs making sure that it is properly sealed and there are no air spaces. Brush with egg. Roll in bread crumbs. Heat the oil and fry the scotch egg with medium heat for a few minutes until crust is golden brown and crisp. Remove from pan and drain on paper towel. Garnish with parsley or tomatoes. But it is best eaten with Maggi chili sauce! *yum*
Braised E-Fu Noodles with mushrooms and chives.
It's absolutely one of her signature dishes!( I didn't take a good picture of it...seems like there's too little light exposure. )
Ingredients: 1 can straw mushrooms,6 shitake mushrooms, chives, 1 packet e fu noodle, 1 can button mushroom, 1 can mock abalone/gluten, minced garlic and shallots. salt, pepper, soy sauce, maggi sauce, vegetarian oyster sayce
Blanch the noodles with boiling water until tender. Drain and marinate with onion oil, salt and soy sauce. Mix well.Saute the garlic and onions until fragrant. Then add in all the sliced mushrooms and mock abalone. Add in the mushroom water that was used to soak the shitake mushrooms. Season with salt/Maggi sauce or vegetarian oyster sauce. Add in green chives. Finally, add in the marinated noodles and mix everything together. Season accordingly.
Since there were over ripe bananas, I decided (as usual) to make banana-something. After looking at a few recipes, I decided to make this ultra-soft banana cake recipe from Richard's class....
5 eggs, 300g sugar, 400g banana, 300g plain flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp soda bi carbonate, 200g corn oil.
Preheat oven to 160C. Grease and line a deep 10 in square or 11 in round baking tin. Whisk eggs, sugar and banana for 10-15 minutes at max speed until stiff. Add sifted flour, baking powder and soda bicarbonate and fold well by hand. Add in corn oil and mix well. Pour into baking tin and bake for about 40-45 minutes.


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When Brad Fogg did volunteer work in India, the adventure came with unwelcome insects and other discomforts, as well as a chance to benefit the country and find opportunities for his employer, Dow Corning Corp.
"It was not easy putting up with cold-water showers, bugs, unreliable electricity and stomach problems from the different foods," says Fogg, a commercial manager in Michigan who went to Ujire in southern India to design a peeling machine for a nut important to the local economy. "But that was all part of the adventure of getting to know India's society and culture and the opportunities bottom-of-the-pyramid markets offer."
Dow Corning, a silicone supplier whose materials are used in products from cars to parachutes, is among a wave of companies, including SAP AG and International Business Machines Corp., sending employees on volunteer assignments to developing countries. In return, the businesses anticipate greater loyalty from workers, improved skills, insight into growth markets and more sales.
"Our volunteering program is an incredibly rich source of business ideas and an inexpensive source of market research," says Laura Asiala, director of corporate citizenship at Dow Corning. Two volunteer teams sent to India in the last two years have come up with almost 30 business ideas in renewable energy and affordable housing, Asiala said.
Market research
Dow Corning, based in Midland, Mich., is a joint venture of Dow Chemical Co. and Corning Inc., and pushes volunteers to research markets and identify business opportunities during their missions.
"Products that have reached the end of their life cycle in developed markets may still have some great potential when selling them at a lower price" in other countries, Fogg says. Dow Corning's business-development unit identifies the most promising ideas from volunteers and helps to realize them, Fogg says.
Dow Corning declined to provide more information on individual projects as they concern proprietary information.
Companies may also find it easier to attract and retain talented workers by offering volunteer programs.
"The benefits of our international volunteer program for the company are undeniable," says Stanley Litow, president of the IBM International Foundation in New York. "The program improves employee retention, helps people decide to come work for IBM and allows the next generation of IBM leaders to build capabilities and understanding about the growth markets."
Worker loyalty
IBM, the largest computer-services provider, has sent 2,000 employees on one-month missions since beginning its program in 2008. Projects range from helping a Romanian furniture manufacturer become as paperless as possible to conducting a study of the Sri Lankan government's IT infrastructure needs. If IBM charged for the work of its 500 volunteers each year, the bill would be about $15 million.
A Deloitte survey of 350 employees at large companies worldwide in 2011 found that about one-third of workers younger than 31 were considering other career options. It also found that corporate sustainability and volunteering were nearly three times as important for this age group than for baby boomers in their job choices.
"Providing unique benefits to star-type talents, such as international volunteering, has huge financial benefits," said Chris Marquis, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who has analyzed IBM's program. "It makes a company attractive in the job market and helps improve employees' company loyalty."
Leadership skills
Workers participating in IBM's program are less likely to leave, according to a study commissioned by the Armonk, N.Y.-based company. It found former volunteers have a higher commitment to IBM and "an improved perspective" of their employer.
This explains why companies have an increasing interest in the volunteering model pioneered by IBM and drugmaker Pfizer Inc., according to Deirdre White, chief executive officer of CDC Development Solutions, a nonprofit organization that plans volunteering missions for 12 Fortune 500 companies. "Many companies have piloted projects with us in 2011 and 2012, and all of them say that they want to expand," White said.
Such programs may also provide another payoff.
"Improving the volunteers' leadership skills" was cited as the most common reason for creating the missions, in a 2012 survey of 22 companies.
Valuable contacts
Volunteers dealing with non-governmental organizations and governments in developing countries may gain a better understanding of future business opportunities.
"Many companies believe that the international corporate volunteering experience can stimulate new insights and learning for their top employees in a way that traditional leadership development programs cannot," according to a 2012 George Washington University study.
A 28-day volunteering mission costs about $12,100, while universities may charge $14,000 for a traditional 5-day executive leadership program, according to the study.
Volunteering missions may also yield business deals as employees get to know potential clients while staying in developing countries.
Policy makers
Such missions in Cambodia, Nigeria and other nations led to the expansion of IBM's business operations and the permanent transfer of employees initially sent as volunteers, Litow said. After last year's mission to Cambodia, IBM opened an office in the capital Phnom Penh. IBM has increased its headcount in Nigeria from 17 to more than 100 since the first mission in 2009.
In Nigeria, IBM has collaborated on volunteer projects with departments of the Cross River State government, including the Finance Ministry and the Information, Communication and Technology Development Department.
"Some companies have found such volunteering programs extremely helpful in getting access to top policy makers," said Marquis of Harvard Business School. "This is important from a business perspective, considering that governments are the potential clients of multinationals selling large services in developing countries."
SAP, the world's biggest maker of business-management software, set up its first international volunteering program this year, with missions in Brazil, India and South Africa. The German company is betting on emerging markets to drive future growth and hired 698 people in Brazil, Latin America's biggest economy, from the start of 2011 through March 2012, bringing its headcount in the country to 1,533.
"Getting out of my comfort zone was a tremendously valuable opportunity for me," said Jan Seger, a training program developer at SAP in Vancouver who volunteered for a month in Brazil, working with a non-governmental organization for waste collection. "The whole project says to me: SAP is providing an opportunity to help people grow, including me."
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ERIC Number: ED172217
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Publication Date: 1979-Apr
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A Comparative Evaluation of Student and Professional Prose.
Freedman, Sarah Warshauer
The hypothesis that professional writers would be judged superior to college students on both holistic and analytic evaluations was only partially confirmed when four teacher-evaluators rated the anonymously submitted compositions of 64 college students and 5 professional writers. On the holistic scale the professionals did not distinguish themselves, although they were rated more highly than the average student (2.65 versus 2.25 on a four-point scale). The professionals did score significantly higher on the analytic scale than the students. Whereas the students received the three highest scores on the holistic scale, the professionals received the three highest scores on the analytic scale. Similarly, the college students usually received the same score regardless of the scale used, while the professionals received consistently higher analytic ratings. The main difference between the two groups' writing styles seemed to be "register," in that students did school writing for a grade by the teacher, and the professionals were not concerned about grades and wrote in a world writing register, aiming at a diverse audience. For this reason, the results suggest that the register of school writing needs to be examined critically and modified by the teaching profession to make it less distinct from world writing, which is the true goal of communication. (RL)
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Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, California, April 8-12, 1979)


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Starting from modest beginnings in West Yorkshire and now a nationwide company, we have always been a family run business and very much remain so. Despite expanding greatly, we always instil a family spirit in all of our work, from upholsterers' right through to marketers. What makes us different to other companies is that we don't just sell products but we endeavour to make the perfect piece of furniture to suit an individual.
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