Portobello Ragú

Ingredients:

1 lb. RP’s Fresh Tri-color Fusilli
4 T olive oil
2 cloves garlic crushed
1 lb. portobello mushrooms cleaned and cut into 1/2 in. pieces
1 medium onion chopped fine
1 t fresh rosemary chopped fine
1 28oz can good quality crushed tomatoes
1/4 T black pepper
salt to taste
fresh grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

Preparation

Heat the olive oil over medium high heat and add the garlic. Cook garlic for about 30 seconds, do not brown. Add portobello mushrooms and onion and sauté till slightly softened. Add all of the remaining ingredients and simmer for 15 min. partially covered. Boil fresh pasta until tender. Drain the pasta and top with portobello ragú.

Daily updates of Kodak Olympic Picture of the Day, blog posts and other Olympic action direct from Beijing.
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Competition Schedules
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/Schedule/index.shtml
How many different sports are in the Summer Olympics? How long has each sport been in the Olympics? Research sports that are no longer part of the Olympics. What are demonstration sports? How many different sports have you tried that are in the Olympics?

Note: This is a sister post to Olympics 2008 where I will add new things to.

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We had Kroger Private Selection’s Stone Fired Spinach Pizza for Mother’s Day dinner last night. I liked it. However I found the dough to be a bit dry, but that could be due to my oven or how long we cooked it for. Regularly priced each pizza costs over $6.00. We found them for 75% off! It cost us $1.55 each pizza! We snagged what we could and popped the rest of them in the freezer for future use. We also got the Stone Fired Pesto Pizza. The pizzas are vegetarian.

Info taken directly from back of box

Stone Fired Spinach Pizza with feta cheese sauce made with organize wheat flour, organic tomato paste and organic honey and focaccia wheat crust.
Serving size = 1/3 pizza
Calories = 330
Calories from fat = 110
Fat grams = 13g
Trans fat = 0g
Protein grams = 13g
Carbs grams = 44g
Fiber grams = 4g
Sodium = 420mg

Stone Fired Pesto Pizza with pesto sauce, cheese, tomatoes and broccoli made with organic wheat flour, organic broccoli and organic honey and focaccia wheat crust.
Serving size = 1/3 pizza
Calories = 300
Calories from fat = 80
Fat grams = 9g
Trans fat = 0g
Protein grams = 11g
Carbs grams = 44g
Fiber grams = 4g
Sodium = 240mg

Traditional Celebration of the Chinese New Year
Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, the new Year was perhaps the most elaborate, colorful, and important. This was a time for the Chinese to congratulate each other and themselves on having passed through another year, a time to finish out the old, and to welcome in the new year. Common expressions heard at this time are: GUONIAN to have made it through the old year, and BAINIAN to congratulate the new year.

The 15-Day Celebration of Chinese New Year.

In these activities, students learn about Chinese New Year or Spring Festival and do lantern, paper cut and scroll activities related to the celebration of Chinese New Year.

Dim Sum: A Connection to Chinese-American Culture.

Celebrating Chinese New Year make Lucky Red Envelopes.

Notes from the Vegan Feast Kitchen
Chinese recipes from Vegetarian Times
Party ideas from Food Network.

Lesson Plan for Chinese New Year (Grade 2-3).
Chinese New Year activities from Activity Village.
Printables & worksheets.
Jackie Chan’s Kids Corner.
D is For Dancing Dragon: A China Alphabet download the teacher guide for the book.
Practice counting in Chinese using a comet counting tool designed with Chinese numerals.
Crafts & activities from Enchanted Learning.
PBS Kids-Sagwa: Countdown to the New Year (online game).
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