Eggplant corn salad with sweet salty cashews

Summer is here and it is corn season! I decided to make an easy summer salad using corn and the sweet salty cashews. It is so easy and the cashews added some healthy crunch to salad. I have never cook with eggplant before so I decided to give it a try for this salad. Please check out the link below to get the bitter taste of your eggplant.
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food/cooking/cooking-prep-eggplant

Ingredients:
2 ear of corns (can be substitute with 1 canned corn)
1 medium eggplant
1 cup of cherry tomatoes
3 tbsp of goat cheese
1 pack of Nuts+Nuts sweet salty cashews
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 cup of cilantro

-Cut eggplant about 1/2" thick round and lay eggplant on paper towel and sprinkle each slice with salt. Leave it for about 30 minutes. Then afterwards brush off the water and remaining salt from the eggplant. Cut eggplant into cubes.
-Boil corns for about 10 minutes and let it cool.
-Heat olive oil in pan and stir fry eggplant until soft.
-Shave off corn
-Cut tomatoes to quarters
-Mix eggplant, corns, tomatoes, cashews and goat cheese. Pour lemon juice.
-Garnish with cilantro

Pesto Cashews

Ingredients:
2 cloves of garlic
1/4 cup of Nuts+Nuts lightly salted cashews
1/4 cup of parmesan cheese
2 cups of basil
1 lemon
salt and pepper
1/2 cup of olive oil

Place garlic, cashews, basil and juice of 1 lemon in food processor until finely chopped. Blend while slowly pour olive oil. Mix all well together. Serve over pasta. Pesto can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Store in airtight container.

Greenpoint Food Market: Spring Awakening

This is our first time joining Greenpoint Food Market. There were about 40 food vendors down at the basement of Church of the Messiah. This was a definetely a food fest for your taste buds. There were pulled pork buns ( I did not get to try them because the line was so long), kimchi empanadas, and sandwiches among other goodies. There was also amazing live music by People's Champs. We had such a great time selling and eating there. Please come and join us for the next Greenpoint Food Market on May 22nd.

Greenpoint Food Market
Church of the Messiah
129 Russel Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
12 pm- 5 pm
http://greenpointfoodmarket.wordpress.com/

Cashews for a cause

Thank you Mollie for writing about Nuts+Nuts at Condé Nast Traveler "Moveable Feast".

I’d never thought about where cashews came from until I met Cyrilla Suwarsa, half of the entrepreneurial duo behind Nuts + Nuts, a direct farm to consumer company. In a twist on the old lemons into lemonade adage, she and her sister Caecilia have turned an unfortunate illness into a fledging food company that is invigorating the Indonesian cashew industry. Five years ago, when Cyrilla, a New York-based graphic designer, was diagnosed with lupus, she went home to Indonesia to recover. While she was there, Caecilia introduced her to locally grown cashews, which were delicious but having trouble reaching the global market. To help the farmers, Caecilia was buying bulk raw nuts, then roasting and spicing them using a family recipe. Cyrilla was hooked, and knew that other people would be too—if she added smart marketing and appealing packaging. She created the logo and branding for their new venture, Nuts + Nuts, and enlisted Java artisans to make gift boxes out of indigenous banana bark, wood bark, and pandanus leaves. These days Cyrilla is back in New York, where she handles the business and marketing side of the company, while Caecilia works in Indonesia, sourcing the cashews and creating new recipes. The proceeds, once the company gets off the ground, will go to the Lupus Foundation. As for the cashews? Completely addictive, especially the salty-sweet version. Eat up—after all, it's for a good cause.

http://food.truth.travel/2010/03/nuts-plus-nuts-cashews-direct-trade-sustainable-food.html

Nuts+Nuts at Foozie.com

We are soo excited to be at Foodzie.com.
It is definetely a website for foodies where you can buy and discover food directly from small food producers. This is our store
http://nutsplusnuts.foodzie.com/

Full antioxidant yogurt with honey sesame cashews

Everybody is getting sick these days. The winter has been very cold and snowy here in New York. I am trying to stay healthy this winter by eating this breakfast loaded with antioxidant. It is plain yogurt that I mix with blueberries, strawberries and a banana. Blueberries are rich in proanthocyanidins, antioxidants that can help prevent cancer and heart disease. Strawberries contain ellagic acid, a plant compound that combats carcinogens. Banana is loaded with potassium that protect your kidney and heart function. Then I sprinkle Nuts+Nuts honey sesame roasted cashews. Cashew nuts have lower fat content than most other nuts. It contains healthy monounsaturated fat that promotes good cardiovascular health. The combination of the fruits and the crunchy nutty flavors is definetely a satisfying healthy breakfast.

Ingredients:
1 cup of plain yogurt
1 handful of blueberries
1 handful of strawberries
(I used the frozen berries since they are not in season. The berries can be substitute with any fruits that are in season)
1 pack of Nuts+Nuts honey sesame roasted cashews
1 tbs of honey/agave syrup if you like it sweet

Mix all fruits and yogurt in a blender, add honey/agave syrup if you like the yogurt sweet. Sprinkle with honey sesame roasted cashews.

Upcoming events 2010

February 20, 2010
Maker's Market on Sundays
Old Can Factory
3rd Street and 3rd Avenue
Gowanus, Brooklyn
11 am - 5 pm
http://www.xoprojects.com/market/index.html

February 23, 2010
Future of Food Panel
92nd Y Tribeca
200 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
Panel starts at 7.30 pm
Food tasting starts at 8.30 pm
http://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/calendar/12396827/

March 7, April 4 and 18, 2010
Maker's Market on Sundays
Old Can Factory
3rd Street and 3rd Avenue
Gowanus, Brooklyn
11 am - 5 pm
http://www.xoprojects.com/market/index.html

April 10, 2010
Greenpoint Food Market
Church of the Mesiah
129 Russel Street
Brooklyn
12 - 5 pm
http://greenpointfoodmarket.wordpress.com/

May 1-2, 2010
Brooklyn Lyceum Spring
Food and Craft Market
227 4th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn
11 am - 7 pm
BrooklynLyceum.com