Now Lounge Italian Summer Party - Promo

Now Lounge presents: "Italian Summer Party" With summer getting into full swing, Now Lounge returns to the stylish Granada Suite for another night of international flair, fashion and fun. This time around, we're celebrating Italian-style with the very best of Mediterranean cuisine and culture. Enjoy mouth-watering pizza, creamy gelato and an assortment of free finger food, while you mingle with Fukuoka's international community. Entertainment begins with Jean-Christian Bouvier and his band introducing award-winning and entertaining Italian TV commercials. Then our MC and wine connoisseur Dominic Walker presides over a massive group taste-testing of Italian wines, followed by a sizzling salsa display from Tiempo Iberoamericano. After a performance by our "secret" special guest, DJ H keeps the party going until late into the night. Tickets are just ¥2500, including two drinks and free finger food. Our last event attracted nearly 800 revelers, so get there early or book online in advance to avoid disappointment, not to mention the line! A group discount is available - six tickets for the price of five. Free gelato for the first 300 to purchase their tickets online! Access our website for more details: www.fukuoka-now.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Now Lounge Friday, July 2, 19:00 ~ 01:00 Granada Suite Fukuoka 11F Aqua Hakata Bldg., 5-3-8 Nakasu, Fukuoka 19:00 ~ 01:00 (092) 283-5235 ¥2500 advance or at the door (includes 2 drinks) Book advance ...



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How to Use a gelato apparatus this Summer

When planning that summertime barbecue for family and friends, remember to add home ice cream makers to the menu. But, if you've forgotten how to use that old fashioned ice cream maker that is stored in the garage, don't worry. The process is fairly standard for both the manual crank and traditional electric ice cream maker.Unpack the ice cream maker and make sure it has all its parts. There should be an outer tub, a metal canister and lid for the ice cream that fits inside the tub, a paddle that fits in the canister, and a lid that fits on top of the ice cream maker. If it is a commercial ice maker the lid will be a motor to turn the paddle, and a manual ice cream maker will have a crank.

Find a recipe for homemade ice cream. Look in your cookbooks or go online, and find a recipe to use. Typically they will be a combination of milk, cream, sugar, eggs, flavoring and fruit, all cooked up on the stove before freezing. Fresh strawberry or peach ice cream is a special summertime treat.Wash the canister and its lid, and insert the paddle. The top of the paddle should extend over the rim of the canister, which will be turned during the freezing process.Pour the ice cream mixture into the canister, and fit the lid on top of the canister. When making your recipe note the size of the canister as the ice cream will expand during the freezing, so you don't want to overfill.Set the canister into the center of the tub of the ice cream maker .

Fit the motor/lid onto the top of the drum and canister. It will normally fit into hinge like groves along the outer rim of the tub, and the top of the paddle will fit into the center of the bottom of the motor/lid. A manual crank may fit together a bit differently.Add crushed ice and rock salt between the inner wall of the tub and the outer wall of the canister. Spread a layer of ice, followed by a liberal layer of rock salt, and repeat. The salt is needed to freeze the ice cream.Plug in and turn on or start manually cranking the gelato machines . Continually add more salt and ice. When the paddle will no longer turn, the ice cream should be frozen.Unplug the ice cream maker, remove the motorized lid and lift the canister from the tub. Wipe down the sides and top of the canister to remove any salt. You don't want salt to get into your ice cream.

Ice Cream Wholesale - Stock Up on This Summer Treat!

If you buy Ice Cream Wholesale, you probably have a thriving stand or fleet of trucks. Everyone has heard the story of Ben and Jerry, who started out with no more knowledge than most ice cream retailers have. They took their obsession to the limit by turning wonderful and unique flavors and funny names into an American icon. But not everyone who loves it will ever be a retailer. You can be your own version of Ben and Jerry if you establish your own ice cream business.

First, you will want to have a good understanding of retail. You need to be able to negotiate, and have a happy talent for knowing which ice cream business trends are on the rise, and which are on the fall. You also need to be able to purchase your ice cream and resell it at a tidy profit, or you won't be in business for very long.

You will need to purchase an freezer and other equipment in order to properly store and serve your desert. You will also want to determine what type of ice cream you will concentrate on selling, be it sorbet or dairy cream, and how big a stand or store you can afford to operate, and make sure that the local economy will support a store of this type.

If you have no experience in the operation of parlors, check with your local Small Business Association, other merchants in the area, or friends with retail knowledge. You need a solid working knowledge of marketing and you'll want to set up a business plan for your shop, one that includes short and long-term goals, a solid working plan and a means of funding your store.

In addition to purchasing ice cream wholesale, you'll also need to purchase cones and other accessories for your business. Find a funding source to begin your business and run it for a year or so. You will need to show collateral for your business loans, if you need that type of funding. You'll need to rent warehouse space for storing your product if you don't have enough room in the building you'll be running the shop from.

Research the wholesale availability before you make any concrete steps towards your goal of owning an shop. And look into the retail market as well. In times of economic downturn, it is sometimes considered a luxury, and something people cut out of their budgets. Select how many flavors you will offer, if the market will support the type of business you desire to run.

If you will be running trucks, research the licensing fees involved in setting up and running this aspect of your store. Make sure that you get all the permits and licenses that your business will require, and have your establishment inspected and approved by the local health department. Then you're ready to start purchasing Ice Cream Wholesale and selling it to your hungry customers.

Summer Wedding Ideas

The summer wedding ranges between May and September. In summer, there are no elements of weather that might ruin the wedding. Many bride and groom take advantage of warm weather, sultry summer evenings, endless sunshine, lush green vegetations, and clear blue skies.

For tropical countries, the summer starts at April and ends at May. For northern and southern countries, the summer starts at June and ends at September.

The wedding dresses for summer are mostly sleeveless, and strapless. Naturally, the summer weather is beautifully warm. For a cooler wedding dress, the wedding dresses are made of light silk material like crepe, chiffon, linen, organdy, and georgette. Same goes to suits, ties, and pants of the men. Prepare to go barefoot on beach for wedding photos. Think about sunsets, sand sculptures, white sands, mountain background, beach rocks, palm trees, coconut trees, and clear blue waves for wedding photos.

The summer weather opens the wedding to outdoors like beach, garden, backyard, and park. Think of outdoor games, colorful parades, picnics, tented backyard, tented garden, green lawns, tropical cocktails, beaches, palm trees, lanterns, sea shells, torches, parks, and white flowers as the wedding summer theme.

The actual wedding ceremony can be held outside on a tented lush green garden, or park. So, the sponsors and guests enjoy the warm breeze of summer. At the same time, it helps cool them off from the summer heat. The wedding reception can be held on tented garden by the park, tented backyard by the flowery garden, outdoor tent by the beach, and cabin by the lake. Decorate the wedding reception with torches and lanterns for a really outdoor feel.

The guests might like outdoor games. The outdoor games are a variety of badminton, volleyball, football, sack race, lawn bowling, horseshoe dart, and Frisbee. Summer is also abundant of parades, festivals, and carnivals. The wedding planner might be able to plan to take advantage of colorful and fun parades, festivals, and carnivals.

White wedding flowers goes very well in summer wedding like roses, daisies, snowball mums, phlox, calla lilies, casa Blanca lilies, hydrangea, and stephanotis. There are colorful summer flowers that bring joy and smile like sun flower, roses, cosmos, orchids, dahlias, and zinnias. Flower accent on wedding dress elegantly complements the already lovely wedding dress like crown of flowers, and bouquet of flowers. The bridesmaids, maid of honor, and flower girls will look stunning with flower accent.

Start with lobster bisque, green salads or fruits at the wedding reception. Fruits can be water melon, melon, honey dew, berries, and mangoes. To quench thirsts, you may use tropical cocktails, lemonade, lime soda, or any fruit juices. The main course may include a variety of seafood like crabs, shrimps, lobsters, and king crabs. Also, you may serve vegetarian dishes. Vegetables and fruits are bountiful. To cover guests with allergy on seafood, you may also barbecue a variety of vegetables and meats. As for dessert, the different flavors ice cream, gelato, and sorbet will cool off the summer heat. The variety yoghurts are healthy choice for many.

Here are a few summer wedding favors. Give gifts of love-boat candles, wooden sailboats, coconut shell candles, seashells gel candles, miniature Adirondack chair, mini torch, mini lanterns, palm tree candles, orchid gel candles, mini flip flops card holders, mini vine chair, ice cream scoop, paper fan, golf tee set, palm leaf fan, palm leaf handbags, miniature sandals, mini flip flop keychain, and river stone candy.

A Tuscan Summer

The Rubeshes join our friends and family for a couple weeks in the Tuscan Countryside.



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Summer Entertaining Idea - Acai Berry Sorbet

With summer in full swing, many people will be entertaining and feeding guests. After the delicious BBQ or other meal, many hosts will want to serve a dessert to end the meal on a sweet note. On these hot days and warm summer nights, many hosts will be thinking of cold desserts: ice-cream, sorbet, gelato, etc. These desserts are favorites of summer, and for good reason.

On the other hand, many guests are health conscious these days. People don't want empty, sugary or fat calories. Many hosts, in response to this are serving fruit based sorbets rather than more fattening ice cream. Sorbets are delicous, refreshing frozen fruit pulps. They are natural and nutritous. What could be better?

Well here is the tip. One of the latest heath trends it to increase the consumption of anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants are compounds that occur naturally in many foods. Anti-oxidants have the capability to inhibit the damaging action of free radicals. Nutritionists tell us that a lot of cell damage is caused by the destructive action of free radicals, and they recommend eating 3000-5000 ORAC units per day (ORAC is Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity- a means of indexing the anti-oxidant capibility of foods).

One of the recent most popular high ORAC foods is the acai (pronounced "assa-hee") berry from Brazil. The acai berry has one of the highest ORAC scores of any fruit known to date, and beats pomegranate, blueberry, cranberry, etc. And acai has been popular in large Brazilian cities for almost 20 years, so the Brazilians know how to serve acai well. On of the most popular forms in Brazil is the acai bowl, which is basically frozen acai pulp mixed with guarana syrup (a common flavorant in Brazil made from the gurana fruit seed), and cane sugar. The resulting mixture is mainly acai pulp, and has a pleasant sorbet like texture and very nice berry flavor, similar, but distinct from blue-berry. Normally in Brazil , the acai bowl is served with sliced bananas and a sprinkle of granola.

Acai Roots, a company in San Diego run by Brazilians who were raised on acai bowls in Rio de Jainero, produces an excellent acai puree mixture [http://www.acai-berry.tv/acaipulp.html] in the style of the Brazilian acai bowl. As for cost, based on the 7.2 pound size (about 36 servings) priced in July 2008, the cost is 39.4 cents per ounce. One serving is considered 100 grams (about 3.4 ounces). I surveyed sorbets from netgrocers.com, and they ranged from 33.7 (Haagen Daaz raspberry) to 42.2 (Cia Bella Raspberry) cents per ounce. Frozen fruit purees of raspberry went from 43.1 cents per ounce to $1.42 per ounce on different websites!

Impress your health conscious guests by serving them acai bowls (acai sorbet). They will appreciate your thinking about their health, and for many, it will be their first chance to try acai.