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As Muslim celebrate Ramadan/ Eid happening next Tuesday & Wednesday, there is a local cuisine that is done called "pulut" or "ketupat" on bambom stick with rice. There could be some significance to this practice/method of preparation as well?

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PHO - VIETNAM will disappear and become plain noodles  

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PHO - VIETNAM will disappear and become plain noodles  

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Pho has long been one of my absolute favorite things to eat. There has been more than one occasion in which I have actually gotten in my car and driven over 45 minutes for the express purpose of indulging in good bowl of the stuff, which is why this pho recipe is sorely needed.

Pho (I found out in college that it's actually pronounced "fuh." For someone who'd been shamelessly calling it "foe" for twenty years, this was an embarrassing revelation) is a Vietnamese noodle soup that's often made with beef and topped with awesome things like fresh bean sprouts, basil, and chilies.

There's just something about it-the fragrant broth, the slightly chewy rice noodles, and all the aromatic toppings (the squeeze of lime at the end is the BEST)-that seriously justify a 90 minute round trip drive.

Basically, a bowl of pho is only as good as its broth. There's no trick to the noodles, really, and the beef is often added to the soup raw. The toppings are ALL raw. In short? No broth, no bacon.

I never really thought it would be realistic to make it myself at home...as I generally have very poor confidence when it comes to making broth, as well as the cynical but very much substantiated opinion that no broth I could make at home will ever taste as good as the MSG-laden restaurant equivalent.

I decided to take a stab at it anyway, and the results were both surprising and awesome. So there is a bit of prep involved to get the broth going, but after that, it's just a long, slow simmer until you're ready to assemble the dish.

Here are the three basic steps to a great pho broth:

1. Pre-boiling the beef bones and meat

2. Charring the ginger and onions

3. Toasting the spices

It's pretty simple, and, as I found out after talking with a Vietnamese friend who cooks this dish on a regular basis for her family, totally accurate! She actually mentioned that one of the secrets to a great pho recipe is actually to not add salt, and instead add enough fish sauce to bring the broth to the correct level of saltiness.

Dat's a lotta fish sauce.

She said that this method tastes the best, but most people don't do it because fish sauce is so expensive. She also mentioned, rather proudly, that the Vietnamese brands of fish sauce are much more flavorful (and expensive at $9-$12 a bottle) than the Thai brands that most people buy. Which is just food for thought.

In accordance with this insider information, feel free to add more fish sauce to the broth and decrease the amount of salt. As is our mantra here at The Woks of Life, it's all up to your own taste preferences!
Garnishes: You'll need:
Start by charring your ginger and onions. One at a time, use tongs to hold the ginger and onions (one at a time) over an open flame, or place it directly on an electric burner. Turn until they're lightly blackened and fragrant about 3 minutes. Rinse away all the blackened skins and set aside.

Place the bones and beef chuck in large stockpot and add water to cover. Bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes. Drain in a colander and thoroughly clean the stockpot. This process will give you a much cleaner broth.

Add 5 quarts fresh water back to the stockpot and bring to a boil. Transfer the bones and meat back to the pot, along with the charred/cleaned ginger and onions. Add the scallions, fish sauce and sugar. Reduce the heat to low, and simmer until the beef chuck is tender, about 40 minutes. Skim the surface often to remove any foam and fat.

Remove one piece of the chuck and transfer to a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking process. Transfer the beef to a container and refrigerate (you will slice this to serve with your pho later). Leave the other piece of chuck in the pot to flavor the broth.

Now toast the spices (star anise, cloves, cinnamon stick, cardamom pod (if using), fennel seeds, and coriander seeds) in a dry pan over medium low heat for about 3 minutes, until fragrant. Use kitchen string to tie up the spices in a piece of cheesecloth, and add it to the broth.

Continue simmering for another 4 hours. Add the salt and continue to simmer, skimming as necessary, until you're ready to assemble the rest of the dish. Taste broth and adjust seasoning by adding more salt, sugar, and/or fish sauce as needed.

To serve, boil the noodles according to package instructions. Add to a bowl. Place a few slices of the beef chuck and the raw sirloin on the noodles. Bring the broth to a rolling boil and ladle it into each bowl. The hot broth will cook the beef. Garnish with your toppings, and be sure to squeeze a lot of fresh lime juice over the top!

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Pho has long been one of my absolute favorite things to eat. There has been more than one occasion in which I have actually gotten in my car and driven over 45 minutes for the express purpose of indulging in good bowl of the stuff, which is why this pho recipe is sorely needed.

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source of all colours

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Reshma Tree or flow chart from seed to house. 

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Reshma Tree or flow chart from seed to house. 

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Or house to back to seed.

Disappearing images.. and seed left last in situation without soil.
House-timber-wallpaper-flooring-furniture-vessels-cooking items-food-sapling-seed-soil

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Staple food

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Maori food cooked in soil
Underground fire

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Like how we had creatives on Un facts on soil degradation, or food crisis, and other matters. We would want to have local stories as creative as this can go with awareness on any ground activities we have, as much as how rally for rivers are connecting stories to rivers.

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'Ca Phe Sua Da' - Vietnamese Iced Coffee

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'Ca Phe Sua Da' - Vietnamese Iced Coffee

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Vietnamese Bread Roll/Vietnamese Baguette 

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Vietnamese Bread Roll/Vietnamese Baguette 

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This Banh Mi is very popular and 'iconic' for Vietnam as well

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One of the popular activities happens is picking up wild plants from land and mountains. Some very well known dishes made out of picked plants served at the typical Japanese restaurants

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Edible Wild Japanese Mountain Vegetables - SHIZUOKA GOURMETS

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Drop down your most precious item and take a picture of it with soil on earthday. Tweet on how you feel disconnected with the item, and you want to connect to the soil and how long you were connecting to soil on earthday.

#disconnectoreconnect
#whatsnotsoil
#savesoil
#journeyforsoil

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To keep water bodies flowing, soil regeneration is needed. Your body, my body, water body and every body comes from soil

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Tateyama Kurobe Alphine is an popular tourist attraction to visit in the month of May.
What will happen to this if global warming continues?

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Japan koi fish singing for savesoil . In general koi represents the prosperity and longevity around Asian countries especially in japan.
One example video attached

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Cherry blossom reel

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If we don't regenerate the soil, the future generation will not enjoy the beauty of Sakura

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Video with the rare flowers from JP and soil song in the background and with save soil if you want to enjoy the colorful flowers

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Montage of  4 - 5 short clips of Sadhguru mentioning the importance of twitter (e.g. Prajakta Koli interview approx 20 minutes in) or just saying to use twitter. Outro text: "Make tweeting part of your sadhana"

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1) Kiwi
2) Royal Gala Apple

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'3 degrees of soil' - pick an object and try to relate it to soil in 3 or less steps. E.g. rugby ball: is made of rubber - rubber comes from rubber tree - tree grows in soil.

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Mr Kevin Bacon Plays Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon

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A representative video linking climate change, bush fires and soil degradation. Something on these lines could be made into a reel.

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Something similar to this video, where children are playing in the mud, and then a message displays, "Save soil, for our children"

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Like in the video, an alarm clock is ringing, and the person is trying to snooze. An message displays, "Cant snooze anymore, Act now to Save Soil"

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As in the video, we could have a short video on the dire state of soil playing on one side and a child responding with unhappy emotions to the corresponding facts in the soil video, on the other side. At the end the child displays the poster with text "Save soil for me please"

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1) A person dresses up as a tree, or an animation of a tree, and the tree says, "I give you apples, I give you bananas, I give you mangoes, and so many other delicious fruits. In response a human (could be a child, an adult or an animation) says, "That's true. What do you want in return?". The tree says, "Save Soil, so that I can live." The entire conversation could be on placards. Jovial music would go well with this reel.
2) Kids hiding behind the trees with posters, jovial music is plays. They appear one after the other with Posters The posters could contain the message "I love mangoes, I love kiwis, I love bananas. But in 60 years time, I will not have them anymore." "Please help us, Save Soil."

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Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. The dessert is believed to have been created in honour of the dancer either during or after one of her tours to Australia and New Zealand in the 1920s. (Information from Wikipedia). Although being a meringue-based dessert, the recipe requires the use of egg whites, however modifications for a vegan recipe have also been devised.

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A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture. (Information from Wikipedia).

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It is basically edible mould! https://kaname-inn.com/ideas/japan-superfood-kouji-soy-sauce-miso-amazake/

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Japanese brown rice

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Madeof Barley

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made of buckwheat flour

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Made of rice and occasionally red beans filled inside

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1. Poem About soil by Kiyoko Nagase san https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/15072/auto/0/0/Kiyoko-Nagase/I-am-the-Earth/en/tile
2. Show pictures of women farmers and how women have always been integral to agriculture in Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_agriculture_in_Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/01/national/women-taking-farming-japan/
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2018/11/25/lifestyle/women-help-bolster-japans-farming-industry/

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Women have always been active in agriculture in Japan. Women farmers have, throughout Japan's history, outnumbered male farmers. Traditionally, women farmers in Japan did farm work and cared for other members of the family. Some held part-time jobs and then came home to do farm work. Most farmland in Japan is used by small family farms, though other types of agricultural collectives are appearing in the country. The Japanese government has been active in encouraging women to go into agriculture in the early 21st century.

Japan's small family farms are the dominant source of agriculture in the country and, while the number of farmers has declined over the years, women working as farmers still outnumber men.

Small farms were traditionally passed down from the father to the oldest son and women were not often involved in leadership roles on agricultural committees or agricultural cooperatives. Because of this arrangement, agriculture remained a male-dominated industry. Despite women working side by side on the farm, traditionally men and women did not spend much time with one another when not farming. Until recently, women who wanted to become farmers under this traditional model could succeed only by being born into or marrying into an agricultural family. Today, this pattern continues in some areas. Haruna Takano, who set up a farm in Hokkaido with Eri Sawai, asserts that women who want to go into agriculture are encouraged to marry into farming families. Many men also held jobs off of the farm to supplement family income and so women have been expected to contribute significantly to farm work. By 1976, Japanese women farmers were taking part-time jobs in addition to their farm work.

After World War II, agricultural production slowed in Japan. As of 2013, Japanese farmers produced only 39 percent of food demand in Japan. After WWII, many farms owned by non-farming landlords were transferred to former peasant tenants. After the war, women were encouraged to participate in men's organizations but with often with limited privileges.

Many traditional norms continued in Japan after the enactment of the Constitution of 1947. Rural women farmers during this time had a dual role of caring for family members and working on the farm. As women began to work off the farm, they were expected to continue farming.

During the 1980s, there was a large shift in agricultural demographics, with young people, especially young women, leaving farm work and going to work in urban areas.

In 1994, the largest and best-known agricultural network, Rural Heroines (or Inakano Heroine Wakuwaku Network) was formed. Rural Heroines has created a national convention for farming women to network, publishes Heroine News, and organizes local lectures, seminars and produce exchange.

By 1995, farming was changing for women. Younger farming women were considered more independent than in previous generations. In 1996, a school called the Ladies Farm School ( Redīsu Fāmu Sukūru) was formed in Hokkaido to train women to become "emancipated farming ladies". The school was created to train women about agriculture and to draw women into rural areas.

After 1999, when the Basic Act for Gender-Equal Society ( Danjo Kyōdō Sankaku Shakai Kihon Hō) went into effect, agricultural committees and cooperatives began encouraging women's participation and have increased women's leadership roles in agriculture.

Government data from 2011 showed women heading more than three-quarters of new agribusiness ventures. Many young people in Japan have become attracted to farming and the Japanese government is supporting programs to support new farmers. The government in 2014 began to encourage collaboration between companies and female farmers. Products developed included new trucks, outdoor toilets for women, and stain removers. The government has also encouraged women farmers to network with one another. However, as of 2010, there were few women with executive positions in agricultural cooperatives and women made up only 16% of all members.

Urban farms such as Shiho Fujita's farm outside of Tokyo are part of a collective formed by young women who live in the city and work part-time on the farm. The Yamagata Girls Farm in Yamagata Prefecture encourages women to work in agriculture but insists that women "must wear make-up, they must wear functional but cute farm wear, and they must behave like well-bred young women". Urban women who are interested in farming are known as "farm gals", or nōgyaru.

Bernstein, Gail Lee (1976). "Women in Rural Japan". In Lebra, Joyce; Paulson, Joy; Powers, Elizabeth (eds.). Women in Changing Japan. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804709718.

Bowman, Mary Jean; Osawa, Machiko (1986). Developmental Perspectives on the Education and Economic Activities of Japanese Women (Report). Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED).

Gergely, Mohácsi (June 2004). "Regendering the Rural: The Agricultural Training of Office Ladies in Hokkaido". Women's Studies. 33 (4): 507-539. doi:10.1080/00497870490445036. S2CID 144234661.

Hara-Fukuyo, Juri (2010). "Women Farmers' Networking in Japan: A Case Study of a Pioneering Network". In Bonanno, Alessandro; Bakker, Hans; Jussaume, Raymond; Kawamura, Yoshio; Shucksmith, Mark (eds.). From Community to Consumption: New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9780857242815.

Iijima, Midori (26 February 2015). Japanese Women in Agriculture - Overview (PDF) (Report). USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2016.

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Women in agriculture in Japan - Wikipedia

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Women have always been active in agriculture in Japan. Women farmers have, throughout Japan's history, outnumbered male farmers. Traditionally, women farmers in Japan did farm work and cared for other members of the family. Some held part-time jobs and then came home to do farm work.

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1. Food imports in Japan - which food comes from which country in Japan
2. How landslides have degraded our soil - testimonies from people
3. easy composting methods
4. Showing your garden with a nice song in the background

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Made with grated and sliced watermelon, chopped pineapple, grated coconut and coconut milk. Sprinkle with sugar to taste.

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creative inspiration - could be done with soil textures and branches for arms. 

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In Maori tradition, Papatūānuku is mother earth, the land.

She emerged from the water and in some tribal stories, all things including trees, animals and humans are born or made directly from the earth. She enables physical and spirtual connection to the land.

This mother's day, pledge to protect our mother earth. Join the conscious planet movement and become an earth buddy.

All you need to do is pledge to spend 10 minutes a day fostering awareness about the destruction of soil.

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The Manuka tree is a native NZ and AU tree (also known as tea tree in Australia). The honey is made by bees that pollinate the Manuka flower.
Manuka honey has unique antibacterial benefits which makes it different from other honey.

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The Hangi traditionally consists of a meat and vegetables such as kumara or sweet potato. The food is wrapped in foil and steamed underground for a few hours.

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Similar to the popular game '6 degrees of Kevin Bacon', this is '3 degrees of Soil'. The idea is to pick any object and find it's link to soil within 3 steps. Then nominate/tag other people and give them an object. Try to make it harder for the next person. Can do country specific items e.g. rugby ball

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Vegemite on toast

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Ideas for creatives - Australia

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VID - POPULAR MALAYSIAN VEG/FRUIT DESSERT

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VID - POPULAR MALAYSIAN VEG/FRUIT DESSERT

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The Lao word for Mother Earth is Mae(mother) thorani(earth) - ທໍຣະນີ tʰɔ́ː rā níː 1 noun world; earth. Pali

-I remember many moons ago before we left Laos fleeing the war, my mother poured water (libation) on to the ground and mumbled something like, “Oh Mother Earth, please protect your child from harm and danger as me and my children are about to embark on this arduous journey.”

-💡having a group of women giving birth to Mother Earth - figuratively and G-rated of course

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🌹 Reel idea: Cosplay/make up/ Transform from Soil 🤎 (brown ton) to 10-20 flowers 🌷 / fruits 🥭 / vegetables, starch 🥬🌾 / legend animal made from clay (tò he) 🐉/ landscape which is popular in Vietnam in 30s reel.

For example: transform from Soil 🤎 -> 🌱 -> 🍌 -> 🥭->🍍->🍊->🍑->🍉->🍎->🍓->🍋->🍈->🥥->🥑

Or 🤎->🌱->🌾->🌽->🥕->🌶️->🍠->🧅->🥬->🥒->🥦->🍅->🍆->🧄->🥜

From Yu Huang

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The TRINITY of Laos Cuisine 🥁🛼1) Papaya salad with a handful of chili peppers (Tụtù dies with just one!); 2) Steamed Sticky Rice; 3) BBQ free-range chicken
-Life is complete and thus, we have the happy farmers!

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Laos, we have the “Happy Farmer Song” https://youtu.be/Ns0R59zdi0I
—Very catchy! We could do something like this.

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Examples of famous cooked dishes in Vietnam: https://instagram.com/lerin_illustration?utm_medium=copy_link

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✨Join this movement to save the most important woman in our life 😳😍

Pick up line on Women's Day:
🌷Rose are red
🍫 Chocolate are brown
🧚 All the abundant you can have
🤎 Are gift from our Precious Mother Earth somehow

🌱 So Please sign up for Earth Buddies to Save The Ultimate Feminine Now 🎉🎊