Thursday, August 18, 2011

Jamie Oliver's Spinach and Feta Filo Pie



No French Fridays with Dorie for me again this week - I have been very busy and just did not get a chance to make this week's Eggplant Caviar (a dip similar to baba ghanoush).  If you'd like to see it, do visit the LYL section of the FFwD website.

Instead, I am posting an easy Spinach and Feta Filo Pie by Jamie Oliver from his smash hit cookbook, 30 Minute Meals.  The recipe can be found online here.  Jamie uses olive oil between the layers of filo instead of butter, which in my view makes it healthier.  As well as spinach and feta, this pie contains toasted pinenuts for additional texture and flavour - don't skip them, as they really make the pie.

No special pastry skills are needed to make this - everything is just placed onto baking paper in a pie pan and the filo is folded over to cover the filling:


It is a fantastic light meal when served with some fresh cooked veges - in my case, cauliflower and beans.

Have a great weekend! 

Thursday, July 14, 2011

SEO Strategies 2012

A lot of serious serious things going on with Google’s Panda update, how Bing and Facebook have collaborated, and how SEO 2.0 and Social Media are merging. This is a different thing than how one would use Social Media to get more personal with their users.
The Panda update, website load time, Google’s new +1 feature, microdata , rel="author", microdata,  Facebook’s like button on Bing, removal of real time search on Google and user feedback and ratings are all part of the new 2011 SEO 2.0 way in how Google is starting to use social media to make content rank better. The End User now decides. Traditional tactics will still work, but they will soon not have as much buoyancy as they did. Another important change that site with Google map details will get more preference. (For example search builders in cochin )