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I really hope you take the opportunity to make this incredible Red Lobster Clam Chowder Recipe for yourself and someone(s) you love.  It’s a really nice, simple chowder in a classic New England style.  Prepare to smile in delight!

Red Lobster Clam Chowder Ingredients:

2 tbsp. butter 1/2 cup diced celery 1 cup diced onion 1/4 tsp. chopped garlic 2 tbsp. flour 1 quart milk 1 cup clams (in juice) 1 cup diced potatoes 1 tbsp. salt 1/4 tsp. white pepper 1 tsp. dried thyme 1/2 cup heavy cream

Red Lobster Clam Chowder Directions:

Melt butter over medium heat in a large soup pot.
Add onion, celery, leeks, and garlic. Saute for 3 minutes, stirring often.
Remove from heat. Stir in flour. Mix well.
Add milk. Whisk it like you really mean it!
Set a colander over soup pot. Pour clams into the colendar, allowing the juice to drain into the pot. When completely strained, set clams aside.
Return pot to heat (med-high heat) and slowly bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Add potatoes and seasonings. Reduce heat to low.
Let simmer for 10 minutes.
Add clams and let simmer an additional 6-9 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir in heavy cream. Let simmer another minute or two.
Serve in hot sourdough bread bowls or in your favorite cup or bowl.
Enjoy!

And there you have it! Your very own Red Lobster Clam Chowder to serve on its own in a nice crisp sourdough bread bowl or as a nice starter before a special meal.  But I’m sure you already know how you’d like to eat it, so I’ll just let you do it your way!

Leading barcode and labelling company, AM Labels develops bespoke label applicator for Wine Industry

Company: Kingsland Wines & Spirits was established 40 years ago and has since grown to become the largest independent bottler of wine and spirits in the UK. Based in Manchester they provide a complete solution from vine to shelf.

Challenge: Kingsland Wines & Spirits (Kingsland) already had a standard application to apply labels to wine boxes that needed modification to ensure that their labelling lines were running more efficiently. Kingsland wanted to apply labels to the front of their wine boxes containing 6 or 12 wine bottles. The previously installed label applicator had never run to their requirements and frequently failed to apply the labels often skipping numerous wine boxes.

Solution: AM Labels provided a customised label applicator to apply labels to wine boxes, the label applicator was initially supplied as a prototype and under went rigorous testing for one year to get the best result. After this testing AM Labels installed a further four label applicators to automate the rest of Kingsland’s labelling lines. The solution solved problems with previous applicators that failed to apply the labels to wine boxes properly.

Tony Mariani (MD of AM Labels) Commented: “We aim to build good partnerships with our customers, we became part of the Kingsland team… we modified the label applicator to fit their purposes and when they took the further four applicators we brought those machines up to the same standard and also supplied Zebra Z4M printers and rewinders – a complete package for their business requirements”

Company Benefits: With excellent communication and collaboration from both companies the benefits were clear to see. An increase in productivity was achieved as production lines were faster and more efficient. From this less time was spent double checking that the labels had been applied properly, the four extra labelling lines saved labour costs as less staff were needed. There was also a dramatic reduction on the costs associated with wasted labels.

Nigel Smith Company Engineering Manager at Kingsland commented on three main advantages of the new system:
1) The old method of printing cartons required 4 people across the shift patterns due to the slow manual rate at which the cartons were printed. Under the new system the printing of labels is managed by just one person as the printers can be programmed and left to run. This has allowed for three employees to be re-assigned elsewhere.
2) Under the old system of carton printing, an automatic additional 5% of cartons were printed to allow for wastage. As the information on each carton is specific to the run, any unused cartons can not be retained for future runs. Hence if the cartons are not used they still have to be scrapped. With the new application carton wastage has been reduced as all unused cartons are returned to Stores at the end of the run.
3) Taking into account the consumables that are required under each system e.g. ink and stereos compared to labels, ribbons and print heads the saving using the online label application is £20,000 per year based on 3.25 million labels.

AM Labels can also supply semi automatic or automatic bottle labellers for labelling wine bottles.

If you are having a full course dinner, then you would surely have desserts at the end. Usually the desserts served are usually high in calories and can easily get you fat. It is unfortunate we are used to having rich desserts as we don’t mind taking those extra unneeded calories. We even crave for more desserts even though unconsciously we know our body knows we don’t need more of it.

Having a lot of fat in the body is unhealthy. Our body will grow to a large proportion. Then we risk having heart complications and high blood pressure. The list would just keep on going. Cancer possibilities and higher chance to get a stroke. If you want to live past 60, then I suggest you make a change in your diet with low fat dessert recipes.

Rather than refraining ourselves from eating desserts, we should find ways to make desserts more healthy. Making a low fat dessert from low fat dessert recipes is one of the way to do it. You don’t need to worry about getting too much calories when you eat from low fat dessert recipes and can keep eating them without worries of getting fat.

It’s 8AM and your kids are screaming and jumping because they need the most important part of their day, breakfast. There’s many good breakfast recipes around, but a simple one is the good old French toast.

So while your kids are running around and calling “mommy!”  you can swiftly open up the fridge and pull out 2 eggs and some milk. Then move yourslef close to the cupboards and pull out the all mighty French bread. Now your kids are probably wondering what your going to make them. This usually ends up calming them down and eagerly waiting to see what your preparing.

Crack both eggs into a medium bowl, but don’t get any shell inside. Add a tiny bit of milk in the bowl, just use your eye and estimate half the size of your fist. Make sure you had the pan hot and ready. Mix the eggs and milk till well battered and then dip your French bread inside of it till it soaks up nicely. Then splatter that on a hot pan and flip over when you feel its golden.

After having about 6 pieces of French toast cooked and ready to serve, place this on the table with some maple syrop and watch your kids devour it.

If you have kept yourself up to date with what is going on around the world, I’m sure you are aware that we are currently facing a health epidemic. Research has shown that there has been a 95% increase in the number of teens who are obese and suffering from various diseases. The main cause to individuals being overweight has mainly been sourced down to the desserts that they eat. For this reason there has been a lot of urge from medical professionals to get individuals to eat healthy dessert recipes instead of the normal fattening recipes. The good thing about these healthy recipes is that they are known not to increase your weight as long as they are eaten in proportion.

Many doctors are urging everyone, regardless of your age, to switch to recipes for healthy desserts. Consuming desserts on a regular basis takes place in nearly every home. For this reason it is important that we all focus our attention towards eating healthy dessert recipes. There are many reasons why these recipes are better than ordinary dessert recipes.

Attention: This recipe is going to knock your socks off!

Your NEW Outback Steakhouse coconut shrimp recipe is now here, and ready for you to put it to the test!  Everyone who has the privilege to try these succulent morsels of sweet & crunchy delight are going to absolutely LOVE you!

My daughters and I made this, and they thought it was an absolute blast.  We raved about the dipping sauce.  It’s got a great bold flavor that compliments the shrimp perfectly.  When you make it, you’ll know what I mean!

So let’s get right to it!  Here’s the recipe…

Outback Steakhouse Coconut Shrimp – Ingredients:

1.5 lbs. large, raw shrimp .5 cup all-purpose flour .5 cup cornstarch 1 tbsp. salt .5 tbsp. white pepper 2 tbsp. vegetable oil 1 cup ice water 2 cups shredded coconut (short shreds) Oil for deep frying

Dipping sauce:

.5 cup orange marmalade .25 cup Grey Poupon country mustard .25 cup honey 3 to 4 drops Tabasco pepper sauce (I like to use more!) Mix ‘em all together!

Outback Steakhouse Coconut Shrimp – Directions: