A Multicultural Food Idea, about Indonesia: Prebiotic Stuffed Tofu

Prebiotic Stuffed Tofu

Cooking time: 45 minutes

Serves: 20

Note: you can add or change the vegetables based on your preference

Ingredients:

20 tofu (recommended to use the square shaped tofu)

• 1 cup of bean sprouts

• ½ cup of shredded carrot

• ½ cup of shredded cabbage

• 5 cloves of garlic (blend them finely)

• a tea spoon of salt

• a pinch of ground coriander

• a pinch of ground pepper

• 2 dessert spoons of rice flour

• 4 dessert spoons of tapioca flour

• 200 ml of water

• 2 tea spoons of chicken powder (optional)

• Extra virgin olive oil/ vegetable oil/ canola oil for frying the tofu

Filling:

• Combine the carrot, bean sprouts, cabbage, ¼ tea spoon of salt and a tea spoon of blended garlic. 

• Squeeze them to shrivel.

Batter:

• Mix the blended garlic, water, chicken powder, coriander, pepper, rice flour and tapioca flour

Note: add ¼ tea spoon of salt if you do not use the chicken powder.

Cooking method:

• Cut 3 sides of the tofu (square shaped tofu) and leave 1 side uncut.

• Stuff each tofu with the filing approximately 1 dessert spoon or less ( based on your preference)

• Dip each stuffed tofu into the batter.

• Fry the battered tofu using medium heat until golden brown.

• Serve the fried stuffed tofu with green/ red birds eye chillis.

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A Simple Ice Cream Making Activity Idea

 

Prebiotic Chocolate Ice Cream Making

Ingredients:

• 360 gr of Toblerone chocolate

• 200 ml of water

• a pinch of salt

• 1 dessert spoon of tapioca flour

Note: tapioca flour can be added based on your taste

Cooking time: 20 minutes

How to make:

• Boil the chocolate and then add the salt.

• Add the tapioca flour with a little bit of water (use room temperature water)

• Pour the tapioca liquid into the boiling chocolate.

• Stirr it evenly until the consistency of the chocolate liquid is thicker.

• Let it cool down.

• Put it in a container to freeze.

• Ready to be served.

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How to Train Your Student to Boost Their Self Esteem

Look at this story.

 

Georgia was crying with tears coming down her cheeks.

I approached her and asked her what happened.

She told me that Amelia wanted her to apologise to Amelia three times.

Georgia apologised three times but Amelia rejected all her apologies.

 

I then told Georgia that she is a kind person because she apologised three times to Amelia. If Amelia rejected her apologies, the problem is not in her but in Amelia.

I also asked Georgia whether she agreed with my statement that she is a kind person.  

Georgia nodded her head and said yes in between of her sobbing.

 

I explained to Georgia that Amelia was rude to her by rejecting her apologies based on Amelia’s requests.

I said to Georgia, ”You do not deserve to be treated rudely by Amelia.”

 

I tapped my left shoulder using my right hand and then said, ”Georgia, you are a kind person.” After that I told Georgia to tap her shoulder and say to herself, ”Georgia, you are a kind person.”

Georgia tapped her shoulder and said, ”Georgia, you are a kind person.”

I also told Georgia to tap her shoulder and say to herself, ”Georgia, you do not deserve to be treated rudely by Amelia.”

Georgia did what I advised her to do.

I then asked Georgia, ”Do you feel better now?”

Georgia nodded her head and I saw that her sob went down a lot.

 

I then encouraged Georgia to pick a fun activity to do.

Georgia then told me that she wanted to build walls using plastic building toys.

Georgia’s facial expressions showed me that she completely forgot about her problem.

She played enthusiastically and smiling when I was building the walls together with her.

©Tina Adi

Teamwork

Today's thought is about 'Teamwork'.

We have to remember that we live on this earth together. It means that we are sharing this earth with others.

The word teamwork by itself contains two words which is team and work.

We need to question ourselves whether we are contributing our work to the team efforts or not.

As a leader, we need to be more careful to lead and direct our team. 

It is important that everyone in the team have a healthy body and mind.

Example:

Some people trip others up to get what they want.

Explanation:

That example shows that there is no teamwork.

Another example:

A leader deceives one or more people in the team to get a certain result.

Explanation:

A leader is the head of the team.

If the leader deceives the team, the leader is destroying the team spirit.

Self-reflection: 

What will we do as a team member or as the leader of a team to maintain the team spirit?

©Tina Adi

THINGS THAT EDUCATORS DON'T DO

Being an educator means he or she is always aware to be a role model for children. 

While in front of children, Educators are not supposed to do the things that are listed below :

• sit down on a table. 

• eat any food that fell down on a table even though it landed on the table less than a minute (or ten seconds!).
• wipe their wet hands on their clothes after washing their hands.

• call a child's name using the name of the country of their ancestry.

©Tina Adi

HOW TO STOP COMPLAINTS QUICKLY

Back then I was a Head of Department of Early Childhood, an Acting Early Childhood and Primary School Principal and a Primary School Principal in international and national schools in Indonesia, I used to handle complaints from parents. 

I succeeded in softening the complaints by listening their complaints attentively and then waiting until they (parents) finished talking.  After that I would say, "I am sorry about that". Then I promised them to find out what caused it to happen and then to get back to them as soon as possible to sort out all the problems. I also encouraged them to complaint to me if they were not happy with the results or conditions that occurred during that time.

To cut a long story short, I could reduce complaints that occured or might occur by delivering what I promised to them (parents),  making myself available to listen to their complaints respectfully and solving the problems that occurred as soon as possible.

©Tina Adi

BE AWARE OF SOME TYPES OF LEADERSHIP STYLES

When we are a newcomer in an organisation or company, we have no idea why our colleagues are doing this and that. Most of the time people are responding to the leadership style in the workplace.

Here are some tips to understand the workplace environment:

• Humiliate and crush leadership style

This style is absolutely against the psychological, professional, development and  wellbeing their subordinates.

• Lip service leadership style

It feels nice in the beginning, but it will be destructive at a  certain point.

• No communication leadership style

This leadership style will cause frustration to their subordinates because communication is important.

• Handball the problem leadership style

This leader has a tendency to handball the problem to their subordinates inappropriately. This leadership style is enjoying their position, reward (salary) and facilities, but not the responsibility as a leader.

©Tina Adi