Vegetarian recipes- Grind Salad Pizza

Makes 1 12-inch pizza

"The oven broiler "grills" greens to wilt them into a crisp-tender topping.

• 2 Tbs. balsamic vinegar
• 2 tsp. honey
• 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
• 1 small clove garlic, minced (½ tsp.)
• 3 Tbs. olive oil
• 1 recipe Chewy Pizza Dough
• 3 Tbs. grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 cup arugula
• 1 cup sliced romaine lettuce
• 1 head red endive, halved and sliced (1 cup)
• ½ cup thinly sliced fresh fennel
• ¼ cup thinly sliced red onion
• Shaved Parmesan for garnish, optional

To make Vinaigrette:

1. Whisk together vinegar, honey, mustard, and garlic. Whisk in oil, and season with salt and pepper, if desired. Let rest 30 minutes.

To make Pizza:

1. Prepare Chewy Pizza Dough, and sprinkle with grated Parmesan. Place pizza on middle rack in oven, and preheat oven to 350°F with pizza in oven. Once oven reaches 350°F, bake 25 minutes, or until bottom is crisp and brown. Remove from oven, and adjust setting to broil.

2. Brush crust with 3 Tbs. Vinaigrette. Toss arugula, lettuce, endive, fennel, and onion with remaining Vinaigrette. Top pizza with arugula mixture, and place under broiler 2 to 3 minutes, or until greens begin to wilt. Serve garnished with Parmesan curls."

Fonte: Vegeteriantimes.com

Hmmm.. seems delicious! I have to try :)

A Vegan Life

The teacher: "(...)I want to do a 2 minuts speech talking about "What is my biggest concern to the world?"

The Student: "My biggest concer is for the animals of this world and i belive that there aren't put here for us to eat or test or entertainment. (..) They  may be not talk and walk like we do but they are still the right to live. Did you know that a pig have a brain that a 5years child? and a Chiken can recognize 1.000 different faces? "

This film is about the life of a vegan girl, and  how hard to be vegan,  and what people like luisa( their classmate) think about this way of life. This is her concern to the world!
I found a very interesting challenge , so I challenge everyone who reads this post and also the teacher Noemia to think  : What is my biggest concern to the world?


Kisses and hugs :)

ERASMUS Motivation letter

Erasmus Environmental Engineering

Oregon Stare University

Jeffrey, Nason.


My name is Silvia Pinto, and I am writing to apply for the Erasmus student program. I would like to spend my training placement at Oregon Stare University in United State of America.
I am currently in my first year of graduate in environmental engineering at Eschol Superior Agrarian de Coimbra, Portugal.

The main reason why I would like to participate in Erasmus programmer is a great experience. Is a Experience of adapting oneself to completely different environment, meeting various nation people and growing my communication skills. So I want to improve my English and can be more efficient and spontaneous with this language.  I am really interested in the American lifestyle and the EUA has always been of interest to me; I have been travel to many places of the world but unfortunately I haven’t been in the United States of American yet.

I decided to apply for this program also because since I was a child I have always dream to “chance the world” and worked in environmental area. I grew up and realized that beyond the dreams you must have initiative and ideas. And today I can say that the desire to change the world made ​​me a reasonable personand with many and possible ideas and suggestion in this area. Taking part in Erasmus programme is a great possibility to test my abilities and ideas.

Why Oregon Stare University? The Oregon enchains my attention because of course environmental engineering and there programmer. I have a big interest in 3 units that was taught. The Wastewater Treatment Process, Modeling Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Waters Transport Phenomena. I would love to work and develop my knowledge in these units.

I love learning, every day is a lesson so with Erasmus Programa I expected to learn many things in a more professional way , in an International atmosphere and certainly with great professionals

Thank you for considering my request.

Yours Sincerely ,

Silvia Pinto,  

BSC Environmental Engineering