Video - Gluten Free Christmas SEAFOOD Platter | Bart's Fish Tales

It’s nearly Christmas! So I’ll prepare the ultimate seafood dinner for you: a ‘Plateau Fruit de Mer’. A classic, low fat and gluten free recipe! I absolutely love this dinner, because it is great fun to gather around the platter with your family and friends and everyone has to get their hands dirty. The platter will look gorgeous on your Christmas table and is really convenient, because it can be prepared almost entirely beforehand. For a stress-free Christmas dinner, this seafood platter is perfect. Feel free to use whatever shellfish and crustaceans you might like to fill up your platter.

Find the recipe here: http://bit.ly/1DlRh1d

To really get into the holiday spirit dress your seafood platter with Christmas decorations. Just like a Christmas tree.

From everybody at Fish Tales we wish you a merry Christmas! Enjoy the holidays!!

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Pres Obama will have to stick to strict Jewish Kosher diet on Israel visit.

Pres Obama will have to stick to strict Jewish Kosher diet on Israel visit.(AA).U.S. President Obama will observe a strict Kosher diet on his visit to Jerusalem this March.

The stringent dietary restrictions are due to the timing of his arrival which coincides with preparations for the Jewish Passover festival.The landmark King David Hotel as changed to a full religious menu in preparation for the start of the occasion, reported The Telegraph on Tuesday.

Passover commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. Jews mark the occasion by eating unleavened bread, known as ‘matzah,’ while avoiding foods containing barley, wheat, rye, or oats.

Hotel staff say they will not be able to make an exception for the presidential party.

Obama and his aides can expect their dinner table to be laden with vegetables, while pasta dishes will remain very much off the menu, according to The Telegraph.However, the hotel will operate a 24-hour room service operation throughout the president’s stay.

“We’re used to hosting heads of state and also American presidents, but this situation is very special for us because it’s so close to Pesach (Passover). For us it will be double the preparations,” the hotel0s manager, Dror Danino, told Haaretz newspaper. The imposed diet may pose a trial for Obama, who has been known to enjoy rich foods during political meetings.Hmmm.....Somehow i can't imagine him eating Kosher, he might fly in his own personal chef.Read the full story here.

"Straight from the horse's mouth" - Nestle pulls meals in Italy, Spain as 'horse meat' scandal grows.

"Straight from the horse's mouth" - Nestle pulls meals in Italy, Spain as 'horse meat' scandal grows.(HD).Swiss giant Nestle has become the latest food company hit by Europe's horsemeat scandal, withdrawing two types of pasta meal from supermarket shelves in Italy and Spain due to contamination. The news came Monday as German discount chain Lidl pulled ready-made meals from the shelves of its Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Belgian stores as it also confirmed the presence of horsemeat.
Meanwhile the French firm that sparked the Europe-wide food alert, by allegedly passing off 750 tonnes of horsemeat as beef, was allowed to resume production of minced meat, sausages and ready-to-eat meals.
But Spanghero, whose horsemeat found its way into 4.5 million "beef" products sold across Europe, will no longer be allowed to stock frozen meat, France's Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll told AFP.
Nestle, the world's biggest food company, said in a statement that "our tests have found traces of horse DNA in two products," while assuring that there was no public health risk.
"The mislabeling of products means they fail to meet the very high standards consumers expect from us," it added. Therefore the company is "voluntarily removing" two chilled pasta products, Buitoni Beef Ravioli and Beef Tortellini from sale in Italy and Spain immediately.
Lidl said last week it had found traces of horse in beef goulash and a tortellini bolognese product sold by its Austrian subsidiary.
Concerns about horsemeat first emerged in mid-January when Irish authorities found traces of horse in beefburgers made by firms in Ireland and Britain and sold in supermarket chains including Tesco and Aldi.
Horsemeat in "beef" ready-to-eat meals had already been confirmed in products found in Britain, Ireland, France, Austria, Norway, the Netherlands and Germany.
With Italy, Spain and Belgium now also tainted by the horsemeat scandal it appears that most of the continent has been affected.
France's DGCCRF anti-fraud office concluded after an initial inquiry that 500 tonnes of Spanghero horsemeat were sent to Comigel, whose frozen meals were sold to 28 different companies in 13 European states.
The European Union, seeking to reassure nervous consumers that their food is safe and to end the horsemeat scandal, on Friday agreed the immediate launch of tests for horse DNA in meat products.
All parties have stressed that this is a food labelling issue, not a health issue.Read the full story here.

Related: The great horse meat scandal of 1948.

Insanely Cheap: Market Forces Took Horsemeat from Farm to Fork

"Donkey meat is found" at two firms at the centre of horse meat scandal probe

Insanely Cheap: Market Forces Took Horsemeat from Farm to Fork.(Spiegel).By SPIEGEL Staff.The current affair in Europe that has seen unlabeled horsemeat appear in store-bought frozen lasagne shows just how widely the demand for insanely cheap prices and murky supply channels have opened the door for fraud. in Germany last week after inspectors discovered that up to 2.8 million packages of lasagna, cannelloni and moussaka by Luxembourg manufacturer Tavola contained not only beef, as indicated on the label, but also horsemeat. Almost all major German food retailing chains, including Edeka, Rewe, Kaiser's Tengelmann and Real, recalled their products and cleared their freezer shelves after it was discovered that nearly 10 percent of the total 1,596 metric tons, or nearly 144 tons, of the convenience meals made by the Luxembourgian company between November 2012 and January 2013 had found its way to Germany. These figures stem from an internal European Commission list that SPIEGEL has obtained. On Friday evening, it was announced that meat products sold by German discounters Aldi and Lidl were also suspected of containing horsemeat. As a precautionary measure, these companies have withdrawn their corresponding products from the market. If the suspicion is confirmed, German manufacturers would now officially be drawn into the scandal.
Intense price pressure from retailers and discounters is forcing food manufacturers to purchase ingredients from all around the world, including preprocessed foodstuffs. This has resulted in enormous flows of goods, and once these products have passed through the hands of three, four or more middlemen before they reach manufacturers, it becomes extremely difficult to trace their origins. This jungle of cross-border trading gives criminals a golden opportunity to re-label commodities. After all, the authorities have little control over what is stored and transferred in Europe's cold storage warehouses.
A prime example is Werk II, a refrigerated warehouse in the western German town of Neuss, which served as a gateway for a large proportion of the allegedly tainted frozen convenience food to enter the country. In December and January alone, at least 14 shipments were unloaded here, and then sent to supermarket chains. The concrete complex in the district of Norf serves as a transshipment center for goods from across Europe. A sign in German, English, French, Spanish, Polish and Russian directs delivering drivers to the reception office.
This is only one of many such warehouses. Last week, the European Commission warned of 310 deliveries from Tavola since August 2012. This concerns the noodle dishes carried by German food retailers -- but the same product was also supplied to Denmark under the "Budget" brand name, delivered to ICA supermarkets in Norway under the "Delish" name, sold in France by leading grocery stores including Casino and Carrefour, and purchased by other customers under the "Findus" brand.
Until late last week, it was still unclear who was actually to blame for the food fiasco. France's consumer affairs minister, Benoit Hamon, alleged that the Spanghero meat processing company was the first participant in the chain to slap a "beef" label on horsemeat. By contrast, a Spanghero spokesman told SPIEGEL that the firm only ordered, received and sold meat that was "reputed to be beef."
Nevertheless, Spanghero also appears to use dubious sources. For some seven years now, the company has been working with Cypriot-registered Draap Trading Ltd., at least according to its Dutch owner, Jan Fasen. Last year, Fasen was tried on charges of fraud and lost in the first instance: He is accused of selling meat labeled as Dutch and German beef, which in reality came from South American horses. The name of the company, Draap, is the reverse spelling of paard, the Dutch word for horse. Hmmmmm......OK....Now we're talking lots of horses, who has that many horses for sale.....or is it Donkey meat?Read the full story here.

Related:  The Source of Horse: A Shadowy Market Ripe for Exploitation

Online 'Alibaba' discovers hole in the Market: "Halal Pork".

Online 'Alibaba' discovers hole in the Market: "Halal Pork".Alibaba Group is committed to the highest standards of business conduct in our relationships with each of our stakeholders, including our customers and other users, suppliers and other business partners, shareholders and others. This commitment requires that we conduct our business in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with the Alibaba Code of Business Conduct.

Halal pork:404 Products found

Doesn't sound to 'Kosher' to me........"Bon Appetit?"

 

American Olympic Team, Christian, Jewish and Hindu Athletes to be Fed with Halal Meat?

American Olympic Team, Christian, Jewish and Hindu Athletes to be Fed with Halal Meat?(AT).By Glen Jenvey.The 2012 Olympics is leaving a bad taste in many Athletes mouths since they found out the British assured food standard meat is 100% Halal! This is the deceit and hypocrisy of UK supermarket chains and slaughter houses which, whilst trumpeting the ‘Britishness’ of their products, surreptitiously purvey Halal meat to the general public and the Olympic teams. Halal is the Islamic method of religious slaughter whereby a live animal has its throat slit whilst being blessed in the name of Allah and it can take up to six minutes to die. In a investigation it was revealed that supermarkets, butchers and other retailers, restaurants, cafes and the food production and catering industry as a whole, all source from suppliers who serve Muslim as well as non-Muslim customers. Some of these suppliers process all their meat to Halal standards. For example, all New Zealand lamb meet’s Halal standards. And all British lamb and chicken is Halal. In these cases all processes still meet the same stringent animal welfare requirements it is claimed and some animals are stunned prior to slaughter whether the meat is sold as Halal or non-Halal but all is Islamically blessed so it can be used for both the Muslim and non-Muslim market. India whose Olympic team might also object under religious grounds being Hindus and Spain, Denmark and Russia are just a few who could ask London 2012 organizers what are we eating as British Red Tractor meat according to all major supermarkets is in fact now slaughtered islamically to save packaging costs.Hmmmm......Doesn't sound 'kosher' to me.Read the full story here.