January 18 is Global Pulse Day + free pulse cookbooks download

Happy Global Pulse Day!

Aren't pulses = legumes?

Why today is not Global Legume Day?

Photo copyright @ pulsepledge.com

According to Pulse Canada, pulses are part of the legume family. But only dried seed such as dried peas, edible beans, lentils and chickpeas are in the pulse family.

Why pulses are good?

1. Have very high level of protein and fibre but low in fat

2. Rich in minerals such as iron, zinc, and phosphorous

3. Have folate and other B-vitamins

I love the fact that I can use pulses to make gluten-free yummy food. Up-to-now, I have been using rice flour, brown rice flour, almond flour, oat flour or coconut flour to replace wheat flour. Well, it's getting boring and I'm open to explore new ingredients.

So, I'm very happy to see we can download free recipe books from Pulse Canada.

Pulses and the Gluten-Free Diet: Cooking with Beans, Peas Lentils and Chickpeas (2011)

http://www.pulsecanada.com/uploads/18/80/18803bffce32141f8806c00cde430149/14-Oct-28-Gluten-Free-Booklet-FOR-WEB.pdf

Pulses: Cooking with Beans, Peas, Lentils and Chickpeas (2016)

http://www.pulsecanada.com/uploads/f6/b7/f6b7de24e22394f569dca8671b37e2ff/PC_cooking_with_pulses_web-ready_spreads.pdf

Guide to Cooking with Pulses

http://www.pulsecanada.com/uploads/a3/a6/a3a6d7f53f7881244818e4b598842dd2/Guide-to-cooking-pulses.pdf 

French cookbook

Les Légumineuses: Haricots, Pois, Pois chiches & Lentilles (2010)

http://www.pulsecanada.com/uploads/40/31/4031892012b86ac47e8ff91f083116f8/14-oct-28-Cuisiner-avec-legumineuses.-WEB.pdf 

We can also download Printable Recipe Cards from Pulse Canada. Some are written in French, too. 

Printable Recipe Cards 

http://www.pulsecanada.com/food-health/recipes/printable-recipe-cards

Thank you Pulse Canada ♥

Let's have fun cooking with pulses, my friends!!

Related sites:

Pulse Canada

http://www.pulsecanada.com/

Pulse Pledge

https://pulsepledge.com/

Protein Quality of Cooked Pulses

http://www.pulsecanada.com/uploads/ff/28/ff280f2f10206d5a53a241ef6e2e2d25/USA_PC_protein_fact_sheet_p6.pdf 

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2048 Cupcakes - a free online game

2048 Cupcakes - a free online game

I found a free online game by chance today. It's called 2048 Cupcakes and it's a very easy, fun but additive game.

How to play this game?

Just join the cupcake tiles by moving your up, down, left or right arrow key.

The score of this game is based on the highest level of cupcake tile on the screen.

This is cookies and creme cupcake tile.

We start from vanilla birthday cupcake and work our way up to white chocolate peppermint cupcake.

Here are all the tile levels from the lowest vanilla birthday to the highest white chocolate peppermint.

vanilla birthday

bubblegum pink

sunshine vanilla

valrhona blonde ganache

chocolare peanut butter cheesecake

chocolate mint fudge

chocolate spider web

toasted marshmallow

cookies and creme

chocolate sundae

white chocolate peppermint

My best score is chocolate sundae.

When will I be able to go to the level of white chocolate peppermint? When will I see the white chocolate peppermint cupcake tile in one of the squares of this 2048 Cupcakes game? Maybe I go bake some white chocolate peppermint cupcakes instead of waiting. Ha ha.

Try this fun game my friends! Get your white chocolate peppermint cupcake tile!

2048 Cupcakes

http://0x0800.github.io/2048-CUPCAKES/ 

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Grimm - The Final Chapter Will Be Grimm

The sixth and last season of Grimm is going to premiere tonight at 8pm on CTV / NBC.

My mum is happy to be able to watch another season of the Grimm. But she is also sad to know this is the show's final season.

So, what will happen to Portland homicide investigator Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli), his partner, Detective Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby), his colleague, Sergeant Drew Wu (Reggie Lee), his friend Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and his girl friend Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch)? Will they be able to fight the pro-Wesen organization Black Claw?

Here is it's preview from YouTube.

Grimm - The Final Chapter Will Be Grimm (Preview)

https://youtu.be/pVrXKiseS58

Related sites:

Grimm - ctv.com

http://www.ctv.ca/Grimm

Grimm - NBC.com

http://www.nbc.com/grimm 

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Free printable inspiring quote colouring page - Today is going to be awesome 

Free printable inspiring quote colouring page - Today is going to be awesome

Do you love to colour? I do. I found this beautiful colouring page today. It's inspirational, printable and free !!!

Thank you for a British website In The Playroom, we can download PDF file of this colouring page from Valentina Harper of www.valentinadesign.com.

Photo copyright @ Valentina Harper / www.walentinadesign.com

Download from In The Playroom

While colouring, I think this page will help inspiring me. Yes, today is going to be awesome. And, tomorrow is going to be more awesome, my friends.

Enjoying your awesome day already? Here is another free printable colouring page for you. An owl mandala colouring page from Thaneeya McArdle of www.thaneeya.com.

Photo copyright @ Thaneeya McArdle / www.thaneeya.com

Download from In The Playroom

Happy colouring my friends ♥ xox ♥

Reference sites:

Valentina Harper

http://www.valentinadesign.com/

Thaneeya McArdle

https://www.thaneeya.com/

In The Playroom

http://intheplayroom.co.uk/2015/01/09/grown-up-colouring-books/ 

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