Maldives flooded with pork products!

Here is an email I received, on Thursday at 22:56 from the email address : concerned_maldivian@hotmail.com

The email was also copied to the following email addresses;
info@presidencymaldives.gov.mv,minivan.news@gmail.com,
haveeru@haveeru.com.mv,secretariat@mdp.org.mv,
nfo@islamicdemocrats.org,haama@haamadaily.com,
dhivehiobserver@gmail.com

I though it would be a great Idea to share this precious email so that you would also know the reality, if this email reveals the truth.

The email reads,

"Dear H.E. Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom

It is my duty as a Maldivian to inform you that our 100% Islamic Nation is getting flooded with food products that contain pork.

As you may already know, Gelatine(also known as E441) is used in many food products as a preservative. On a commercial scale, gelatine is made from by-products of the meat and leather industry, mainly pork skins, pork and cattle bones, or split cattle hides.

I recently purchased HARIBO Gummy bears from EuroStore on Chaandhanee Magu. It contained Gelatine so I thought of checking what type of Gelatine they use online. According to their website:

"During the manufacture of HARIBO products, HARIBO uses gelatine as a binding ingredient in their recipes. For many years in countries throughout Europe we have been using exclusively quality-tested and fresh pork gelatine from certified suppliers (IS0 9000) who abide by their own set of quality regulations (HACCP)"

(source: http://www.haribo.com/planet/uk/info/frameset.php )

It is not just with EuroStore products that I have found Gelatine in Male', there are many other products as well. I am sure that neither your Excellency nor Eurostore or any other importer knew that they were selling our children and brothers and sisters products that contained Pork Gelatine. But now since I have raised this issue, I hope that your excellency will speedily inform the relevant bodies within your government to ban the import and sale of pork Gelatine based products to our society. I also hope that you will make aware to all importers of food products to double check the products they are importing to make sure they are Halaal and also set up a special team to check whether the products sold to the Maldivian society are not only Pork free but also Halaal.

Thanking you

A concerned Muslim Citizen of Maldives"

The article was later (18 May 07) published on Minivan News Website.

Soup!

Besides surfing the Internet during my spare times, I spend times in the kitchen cooking...Yes, I enjoy cooking. The best part about cooking is that there is no one to tell me which ingredients I should use...Meaning I have my own rules in the kitchen. So I create my own recipes too.

Here is one good recipe you could try...I wont name it. Just try and let me know, how you would want to name it.

Ingredients:

500g tuna or reef fish -2lbs
salt - 3 tsp
water - 1ltrs
dried chilli -5
curry leaves - to taste
onions - 1 big

Method:

Peel the onion and chop into thick pieces cut the fish in to cubes (2inch) put water to boil and add salt. Put the fish into the boiling water and remove the oil which forms on the top while cooking. when the fish cubes appears white in colour add the remaining ingredients.

Source: Indolink Recipe

Here are some changes I would suggest

1. Instead of dried chillies use raw chillies to taste (preferably Githeyo mirus)

2. Add a pinch(about 5 g) ghee oil
3. Squeeze lemon if you want to try as a soup.

Hope you'd enjoy this!

Testing!

I have never tried embedding videos from Youtube before...So as a test I'm trying this very interesting video from Ummah Films. I don't know if you might like it, but I do love all their videos. Here is latest one...

Pursuit of Cleanliness - Season 2 - Ummah Films