Reflective Journal #SeventhWeek

Liana Riani Ramli
Reflective Journal
April 14th, 2017

Hello, it's been a while since the last reflective journal, it's already more than one month! Still, I really miss the time I did not need to write anything. Because the mid-term exam was over, I'm quite lazy to do any other tasks. Was I this lazy before? I don't know. I'll try my best to be more enthusiastic in studying from now on.

Due to my lack idea of what I should write this week, I picked a really random topic in the first blog I wrote this week, about pasta. I actually wanted to try to write about beaches around the world, but I was bored with something related to tourism, it would make me wanting more holiday. I watched a drama before, I love the Maple trees that shows in that drama, so I thought I would write about it. But in the second thought, too many contents in only one tree, and I didn't what I should write first. I changed the topic again, and I suddenly thought about spaghetti and finally, I chose pasta as the main idea.

Because of the first blog of this week was about pasta, so I made up my mind to make the theme of this week is about staple food. The next post was about rice, corn, sorghum, and bread. I don't know that sorghum is actually a staple food. Because the development of sorghum in Indonesia is not so big and not many people in Indonesia know it. And there is more staple food I didn't write. Potatoes, sago, cassavas, nuts, yams, and etc, but I preferred to write what I've already known about, so I chose those topics in this week. Even though this week theme is quite general information, I wish it will still useful for everyone who reads my blog.

Serving Bread

Liana Riani Ramli
Daily Journal
April 14th, 2017

Bread is a staple food of Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Bread is served in various forms with any meal of the day. It's eaten as a snack and used as an ingredient in other culinary preparations, such as sandwiches that containing meat and cheese, and fried items coated in bread crumbs. It also forms the bland main component of bread pudding. Bread can be dipped into liquids such as gravy, olive oil, and soup or can be topped with various sweet and savory spreads. White bread is usually toasted with some tops like jams or butter. Different with sweet bread that contains with sweet ingredients such as fruit jams or chocolate jam, but sometimes people like to fill sweat bread with salty food like cheese or meat. In short, there are many forms of bread can be served.


Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread
http://www.binasyifa.com/169/60/27/jenis-roti-dan-cara-penyajiannya.htm

Benefits Contain in Sorghum

Liana Riani Ramli
Daily Journal
April 13th, 2017

Sorghum is a versatile plant that commonly used as staple food in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, animal feed, and industrial raw ingredient. As an important food source, many benefits are obtained from eating sorghum. Bran layer from grains of sorghum can prevent our body from cancer because those contain antioxidant that can not be found in any other food. The bran layer of sorghum that rich of tannins substances can help human body to regulate insulin levels and glucose. It's really helpful for people with diabetes so they will not worry about food. Vitamin B6 is the key compound that changes food becomes energy as human body's fuel and sorghum contain 28% of vitamin B6, it already fulfills the recommended of daily intake. There is no worry to add sorghum as the part of someone's diet, but keep to eat sorghum with a proper dose so the benefits can be digested well.


Source :
https://www.google.co.id/amp/www.carakhasiatmanfaat.com/artikel/manfaat-sorgum-bagi-kesehatan.html/amp
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorgum

The Varieties of Corn

Liana Riani Ramli
Daily Journal
April 12th, 2017

There are more than 300 kinds of corn in the world, but the major types of corn eaten only four kinds, those are dent corn, flint corn, popcorn, and sweet corn. Dent corn, also known as yellow dent corn or field corn, is a variety of corn with a high soft starch content. This type is the most corn grown in the United States today. Dent corn is usually used in food manufacturing as the base ingredient for cornmeal flour, corn chips, tortillas, and taco shells. Flint corn is the common species corn which has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm. This type of corn preferred for making hominy, a staple food in the Americas since pre-Columbian times, and for making an ornament, notably as part of Thanksgiving decoration in the United States. Flint corn is often called "ornamental corn". Popcorn is a type of corn that expands from the kernel and puffs up like amaranth grain, sorghum, quinoa, and millet when heated. Popcorn is commonly eaten in movie theaters. This snack is usually served salted, sweetened, or in many different flavors. Sweet corn also called sugar corn and pole corn is a variety of corn with a high sugar content. This corn is usually used as the ingredient in making cream soup, stew, pudding, risottos, pasta, and ect. Those are the varieties of major corn around the world.


Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_corn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_corn

Rice as the Staple Food

Liana Riani Ramli
Daily Journal
April 11th, 2017

Rice is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the human population in the world, especially in Asia. For Japanese people, rice is eaten as a staple food with side dishes like fish or meat, some vegetable, and soup. Japonica, the most widely grown type of rice in Japan, has a sticky texture that made it easier to eat the rice with a chopstick. This kind of rice is mostly consumed by Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese. Slightly different from Japan, in Thailand, a grain of rice is made into dessert. Khao niaow ma muang, a mango sticky rice, is the favorite desert in Thailand uses rice as the ingredient. Even though rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and calorie intake, it's not the staple food for Europeans. They prefer to eat bread, potatoes, meat, or another protein food because paddy in there can not grow as good as in Asia. Indeed, although not everyone eats rice as the main dish, it still becomes the most eaten staple food in the world.



Source :

http://food.detik.com/read/2014/11/17/193852/2750886/294/japonica-indica-dan-javanica-3-jenis-beras-populer-di-dunia
http://www.id.emb-japan.go.jp/expljp_03.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice
http://www.gen22.net/2013/09/menu-makanan-pokok-orang-eropa.html

Facts about Pasta

Liana Riani Ramli
Daily Journal
April 10th, 2017

Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. This delicious Italian noodle that made from a wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and cooked by boiling or baking it has not much known by people. The first fact is that pasta was first eaten in China, not in Italy. It's not shocking fact because actually Chinese people use to eat noodle as much as Italian people do. The next fact is according to the International Pasta Organization, there are more than 600 different shapes of pasta produced throughout the world. The varieties are long pasta, short pasta, minute pasta, pasta all'uovo, fresh pasta and pasta al fomo. For American, the most favorite pasta is spaghetti, penne, and rotini, according to 2013 Barilla World Pasta Day. And the last fact about pasta is eating that delicious dish can make someone be happier. The carbohydrates in pasta increase the body's production of serotonin that scientists believe trigger feelings of happiness and well-being.


Source :
http://www.foodnetwork.ca/fun-with-food/photos/facts-you-didnt-know-about-pasta/#!Happy-woman-eating-Pasta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta