MANPREETS LETTER IN INDIA 3080 DISTRICT

MANPREET`S MONTHLY ROTARY NEWSLETTER IS VERRY GOOD

GOVERNORS COLLEGE FOR DISTRICT 4550 MEET AND TAKE DECISIONS

In a fellowship atmosphere the College of District 4550 Governors held their meetings at  Durval`s and Teresa`s home, this September 16th. Various decisions for strengthening management in the District were taken and information exchanged mainly concerning youth safety. The Group of 38 Brazilian Governors approved being called the Governors of Rotary New Generations.

1.      The Rotary District Governor 4550 Rotary year 2014-2015 – the YEAR OF THE SÃO PALLO BRAZIL CONVENTION - nominating system was started with a public notice to all District Rotarians by means of the www.rotarygestor.com.br, the management tool of the District 4550.

2.       Discussed - Rotary 2012 April 27^th through 29^th 2012 Conference of the Young Rotary – at the Club Med Itaparica, near Salvador. Deadline for reservations under special conditions for Rotary may expire September 30^th. From then on every Rotarian has to deal directly with ClubMed under market conditions. Rotarians who may not want to use hotel sleeping facilities may adopt the day-use fares for the price of US$100,00 per day, plus registration fee.

3.       Governor Durval stressed the importance of the attendance of more than twenty Bahia Rotarians to the Bangkok Convention on May 6-9,  2012, in honor of our president Kalyan Banerjee. It is estimated at about five thousand dollars for air travel, accommodation and tours, including stop in Dubai or Cairo, or in Portugal, for two days. 

4.       Approved criteria for grants awarded based on official Federal Lottery draws to give prizes to those Rotarians and their friends who donate to the Rotary Foundation. There will be three stages of awards: the first on November 19, the second on Xmas, and third at before the Mardi Gras. Awards:  two motorcycles, two “camarotes’(balconies) for the famous Carnival of Salvador, four trips to Bangkok for the Convention of Rotary 6 to May 9, 2012 (or equivalent if the winner is not a Rotarian) and a Volkswagen Gol. Awards will be officially delivered on the date of the conference between District 27 and April 29, 2012.

5.       Approved the plan of the district Associates Development Seminar, Rotary Foundation and Corporate Image and Public Administration Seminars, with the guest speakers PDG José Ubiracy, Leader  for South America, coming from Recife, PDG Francisco Schlabitz, Rotary Leading Instructor, Brasília, PDG Roberto Barroso, head of Sao Paulo and Santos and Julio Lossio, deputy to Ubiracy, from Fortaleza. The District Instructor Oliveira Jr. will conduct a training workshop on Rotary Gestor which will start even before the seminar date. There will be a practical workshop for filling up a[applications for matching Funds for those foreign districts interested in sharing with us their experiences in humanistic projects for the needy.

6.       The seminar is scheduled for October 8, 2011, at the Fiesta Hotel, close to shopping malls in the city of Salvador. The speakers will come the day before and they will be honored with a dinner by Assistant Governor Maria Augusta Abdon, at her apartment in Vitoria, overlooking the Bay of All Saints. Bahia food will be served, scheduled to 19.40hs. 

7.       Approved by all - the next meeting of the College of Governors in Guanambi fellowship with lunch being offered by EGD Iracy Santos at his farm, he and his wife Teresinha, who is the Assistant Governor for the region. Simultaneously the Governors will hold a seminar there Associate Growth and Rotary Foundation seminar and workshops, on the date of December 3, Saturday morning, between 8 hours and 12.30hs. PDG Luis Coelho will hire a charter flight for this purpose.

8.       Approved by all -  the Portuguese-Brazilian seminar in Porto Seguro with the presence of Rotarians from São Paulo, Lisbon, Angola and Mozambique, for discussing matters of Rotary Growth, the Convention of Lisbon 2013  and Sao Paulo 2015 and with a lecture by former President Lula. If he confirms the lecture the date is set - Flag day, November 19, 2011. If not, the date will be postponed to 2012 in a compatible date, considering PETS and GATS. The ex-president invited by the Honorary Consul of Portugal will confirm his talk about the agreements on the Brazil-Africa-Angola for health, technology and environment and includes support by Rotary Polio Plus, through the Brazilian companies that operate there in Africa.

9.       Durval the governor asked for help from all governors to have the largest number of possible candidates for Youth Exchange (deadline  30 Sept) and members for the GSE- focused on health and environment - sustainable urban planning, etc. The GSE will go in March 2012 to Saint Paul and Rochester, Minn. and Hudson, Wisconsin, USA. 

10.    We will host in Bahia visitors from Rochester and Hudson, Wisconsin, USA and Lyon Rhone Alps, France. The French leader is Jean Pierre Nalet a good friend of Baianos during the 2000 and 2010 visits by IGE. Our goal is 50 candidates for the Exchange and we only have 30. The best program for the current younger generation, because the work involved in fellowship generate all clubs and international fellowship if we fail to centralize all operations. Durval praised the performance of the District Leader of International Relations and Exchanges David Ferrell and we already have the district leader RESPONSIBLE for exchange students – Attorney at Law Rotarian Jayme Baleeiro Neto, Counselor of the Court of Government Accounts of the State of Bahia, and a 2001 GSE to the United States. Besides being the leading supervisor and councilor for YEP Jayme will lead the legal Assistance Board for the District and the minutes will soon be published.

11.    The Council for Image and Transparency was also installed.

12.    The District Governor reported that two applications for Rotary for peace were accepted by a committee of RI. Both candidates with good chances, although the number of scholarships to be small, around the world, only seventy seats. 
The basic design of our E-clubs was discussed and approved. The focus is on improving our existing clubs and help them create new clubs in cities that have not yet twenty-five candidates for Rotary. The members would be enrolled in the E-club and would receive the integrated guidelines and would give their contributions over the Internet. They will attend once a month the clubs in nearby cities. 

13.    PDG Paulo Dacach asked advice on participation in the RI Council of Legislation as assistant participant without vote and under his own expenses. All approved.

The PDG 2010-2012 Valdomiro Jr. said the improvements required for the site management and a more accessible and open to Rotarians and their friends,  would only be ready by March 2012, which means the end of present mandate.  District Governor nominee complained that the GSE site is one year obsolete, due to lack of action by the operator and the YEP is two months behind. Poor performance to be corrected soon. 
An official minutes of the meeting will be submitted to the governors for approval by District Secretary Jorge Augusto Novis Filho. 

A RECIPE - PIZZA BAHIAN STYLE

The basic concept is substituting the tapioca-manioc coarse flower for the regular bread wheat flower mix.

Take a pizza pan, while cold spread some butter all around and spread over some raw wheat flour or better fine starch. 

On top of that spread an even layer of tapioca coarse flour pre-seasoned with salt and some parmesan cheese. If you have cocoanut cut small pieces and spread evenly.

The pan is then placed over light fire.

While the heat is drying and making the tapioca yellowish cut fine slices of melting cheese (mozzarella is fine) and cover evenly the most you an

Stir four eggs with a fork and add some salt in a bow and spread evenly and fast uniformly over the round shape. Cut slices of tomatoes or other vegetables you like, spread over slightly oregano or jambalaya mix and place in the oven for about fifteen minutes until tomatoes dry a little and cheese melts but not hardens

Cut the slices and carefully raise them to the serving plate- it is a crispy pizza you never had anything like it before.

PREMIACAO INEDITA DA CANDIDATA DO ROTARY CLUB DE BARREIRAS RIO DE ONDAS ANDREA DE CASTRO MOURA

ANDREA RECEIVES WORLD PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE POETRY PRIZE BY ROTARY INTERNATIONAL, THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF PORTUGAL, GIVEN BY ROTARIAN PAST GOVERNOR DIAMANTINO GOMES, PRESET HENRIQUE GOMES, GUEIROS, PIMENTEL THE LAST TWO DIRECTORS OF THE ROTARIAN FOUNDATION OF SAO APULO AND MARIO JASKULSKI THE PRESIDENT OF THE BARREIRAS RIO DE ONDAS ROTARY CLUB

INSTITUTE ROTARY BRAZIL IS HAPPNEING IN GOIANIA AT THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF BRAZIL

CARTA MENSAL DO DISTRITO 4550 http://www.rotary4550.org.br/2011-2012/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/carta-03-web-print.pdf

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feijoada brasileira and italo-brazilian desserts

Dessert Palais Enchanté (6 servings)

A dessert introduced by Lorenzo Devoto in Salvador, Bahia, in 1897

Four egg whites well whipped

A soup spoon full of baking sugar

100grams of peeled and grated good quality almonds

Preparation:

The well whipped egg white foam and gradually one adds sugar. Aside one prepares a form with butter and hot caramel and one adds carefully (refrain from wind drifts) the egg-white and gated almonds. The set is taken to a medium temperature oven for ten to twelve minutes carefully placing the form inside another form with water to control maximum temperature in the under and lateral parts of the form.

For a faster cooling the set can be placed in a refrigerator for a few minutes.

Carefully remove from the form placing it upside down in the final serving plate.

Cover the dessert with English Cream) vanilla cream) or serve the cream apart.

Vanila (English) Cream

Three egg yolks whipped with one table spoon of baking or regular sugar per egg.

In light fire in an enamel pan mix the ingredients and stir slowly until it gets creamy. Slowly add a glass of warm milk and later on the mixture is sieved. Again to the pan on medium temperature and it is now time to add a half tea spoon of vanilla and stop the stove and keep stirring until colder.

 Palladian Dessert (8 servings)

Coconut white milk from one dry coconut

Grease with good butter and caramel a as form of reasonable size. Sugar and butter must be very well mixed in caramel. Do not use readymade caramel.

Cook rice in dissolved one to one water and coconut milk the rice with a little sugar to satisfy one’s preference.

Place the cooked sweet rice in the rest of concentrated coconut milk.

Two egg yolks after being sieved are placed over the sweet rice and the set is placed in a form.

Use oven for ten minutes in medium temperature. Serve with English Cream.

Recipe for Paella Gallega da Bahia a lá Família Pinon

(8 servings)

Ingredients;

Cooked Mussels without shells ..;……….........200g

Mussels with shells cooked (for decoration)….200g

Cooked or baked oysters without shells ………200g

Fried fish filets………………………………...200g

Lobster (if on season or available)...................250g

Pealed Medium size shrimp…………............500g

Squid cut in rings..............................................200g

Octopus cooked with one onion and

cut into pieces…................................................500g

Saphron in powder to add yellow color to rice

Large Red Pepper

(not hot – cut in triangles for decor)………..…two

Green Pepper – not hot......................................one

Coriander, onion, Lemon Juice, Catch-up, Garlic, Salt, Good Olive Oil.

Preparation Instructions:

1.   Mussels have their shells well cleaned with water and lemon before cooking in water.

2.   The pealed mussels are sautéed with catch-up, chopped coriander, garlic, salt, olive oil, onion in particles, also particles of green pepper and you can add water to improve cooking as needed. As cooking point is neared you start reducing to heavy gravy like mix.

3.   The same is done separately with shrimp, squids and octopus. Please remember the taste they will have in the paella is the taste you give them now.

4.   The lobster one cooks in water with some salt and one sautéed it with onion pieces and olive oil and one reserves it for decoration of the final plate. It is better when cut in halves after cooking but it can be used whole.

5.   Fish pieces can be salteed or not, depending on preference. We prefer whole. Remove all bones, please.

NOW THE PAELLA IS ORGANIZED IN A LARGE SERVING PLATE THAT CAN BE USED IN HOT OVEN

                   First Layer – Cooked rice yellowed with saphron.

Second layer – mussels, oysters, shrimp, squids rings and fish pieces – do   not let one touch the other and dip their gravy in the empty spaces.

Spray a lot of olive oil (or spread it also over the sea food).

Third layer – yellowed rice

Fourth layer – same as second

Fifth layer – yellowed rice

Décor layer – lobsters, red pepper in spears shapes large shrimps and mussels in shells as well as larger round sections of octopus and squid rings

NOW ONE TAKES THE SET TO MEDIUM TEMPERATURE OVEN UNTILL SERVING TIME

RECIPE FOR BAHIAN FEIJOADA (Dark Been Stew a la Bahia, Brazil) (15 servings)

Black or Dark Brown Beans................................2,5 pounds

Salted Dried Beef (..................................................1,5 pounds

Bacon…………………………………………….0,5pounds

Fresh Beef (not filet mignon or steak)……………..1 pound

Smoked pork tails..................................................0.8 pounds

Smoked Pork Ears..................................................12 pound

Pork cutlets..............................................................1.2 pounds

Calabria Pepperoni................................................one pound

NOTE – Some people use just peperoni in lieu of all other pork pieces – it is quite good and it is much easier.

Cut tomatoes.....................................half a pound

Onions in rings ..............................half a pound

Garlic – one whole cut into small pieces or minced

Five branches of mint or parsley

One table spoon of powdered black pepper

Eight table spoons of catch-up

5 laurel dried laurel leaves

Salt to taste

PREPARATION OF THE FEIJOADA

All meat and smoked pieces one leaves from the previous night in water in a large pan to remove salt and some grease, changing water two or three times.

Sautéed the meat pieces in bacon and as you see some juice you add the cooking water and the beans (some people will let the beans in water for over five hours)

Season with tomatoes, onions, parsley or mint, black (or white) pepper, catch-up and laurel (basic). As the set gets well-cooked for the beef and smoked pork to taste remove all pieces of beef to a separate casserole for serving and let the beans keep on cooking to point.

Serve with white rice or with cassava flour.

Some people will serve with pealed oranges and with salteed garlic chopped cabbage.