Paahdetut kik-herneet

1 tlk kik-herneitä
2 rkl öljyä
2 tl garam masala -mausteseosta
1 tl kurkumaa
1 tl suolaa
1/2 tl jauhettua inkivääriä
1/2 tl chiliä

Huuhtele kik-herneet kylmällä vedellä ja kuivaa ennen mausteöljyn lisäämistä.

Sekoita kaikki mausteet öljyn joukkoon ja yhdistä kik-herneet ja mausteöljy leivinpaperilla päällystetyllä uunipellillä.

Paahda kik-herneitä 200-asteisen uunin kiertoilmatoiminnolla noin 35 minuuttia. Herneet saavat rapeutua ihan kunnolla.

Nämä maistuvat erinomaisilta salaateissa ja välipalana.

Hyviä ruokahetkiä

toivottelee Otaniemen wannabe-kokki

Leivo itse

Yön yli lepäävät sämpylät kaupan kumipallojen sijaan ja lime-lohta

Nythän on niin, että paras sämpyläohje (ja myös pizza-, kts tulevan perjantain pizzaohje) syntyy ajan kanssa, ei hätiköiden eikä varsinkaan murjoen!

(ohje Myllyn paras)

Yön yli lepäävät sämpylät

 10-12 kpl

3 dl maitoa, piimää tai vettä
15 g hiivaa
1 tl suolaa
1 rkl siirappia
2 rkl rypsiöljyä
6-7 dl sämpyläjauhoseosta

Tee taikina illalla:
Liota hiiva kylmään veteen. Lisää suola ja siirappi ja alusta taikinaksi jauhojen avulla. Lisää loppuvaiheessa öljy. Taikina saa olla löysähköä. Peitä kulho kelmulla ja laita yöksi jääkaappiin.

Ja leivo seuraavana päivänä:
Leivo kohonnat taikina tangoksi ja leikkaa siitä 9-12 palasta. Voit pyöritellä sämpylöiksi, mutta helpommalla pääsee vain leikkaamalla ja taputtelemalla palat pellille. Itse olen käyttänyt muffinssivuokia, jotta sämpylät pysyvät kuosissaan. Lämmitä uuni 40 asteeseen ja kohota sämpylöitä uunissa leivinliinalla peiteltyinä puolisen tuntia. Nosta pelti pois uunista, muuta lämpötilaksi 225 astetta. Kun uuni on lämmennyt, laita sämpylät takaisin uuniin ja paista keskitasolla 10-15 minuuttia.

Ja sämpylöiden kaverina maistuu maukas linssikeitto tai sitten lime-lohi, helpoin ruoka ikinä.

Lime-mehu kypsentää lohen hetkessä kypsäksi. Tee näin:

Osta lohifile, leikkaa siitä ohuen ohuita siivuja ja laita ne laakeaan vuokaan, kaada lime-mehupullosta mehua niin paljon, että lohisiivut peittyvät, laita jääkaappin odottamaan 20 minuutiksi -> valmista!

Lime-mehua myydään kaikissa ruokakaupoissa (ne kirkkaanvihreät pikkupullot, samanlaiset kuin vastaavat sitruuna-), voit toki käyttää halutessasi myös oikeasta limestä itsepuristettua mehua tai sitruunaa.

Tässä ei mainita mitään määriä, kas, koska riippuu täysin itsestäsi, kuinka valtavan satsin haluat tehdä?

Itse teen aina koko viikon annoksen: ensimmäisenä päivänä syön näitä ryynättyjen juuresten kanssa (pilko kuoritut punajuuret, nauriit ja lantut pieniksi kuutioiksi ja paahda kuivalla paistinpannulla, lisää lopuksi suola ja hieman siirappia), toisena päivänä raakapaistan pieniä perunakuutioita lisukkeeksi ja kolmantena syön lohta leivän päällä, neljäntenä munakkaan kanssa, viidentenä pienen (ja miksei isommankin) vihreän salaatin kera jne.

Yleensä en lisää lainkaan suolaa, en mustaapippuria, en tilliä enkä lehtipersiljaa, maku on oiva jo tuollaisenaan.

Mutta jos haluat enemmän makua, niin nuo yllämainitut sopivat kyllä oikein hyvin.

Enjoy

toivoo

Otaniemen wannabe-kokki

Kaaliteema jatkuu…

KAALISALAATTI

Nyt keväällä saadaan uuden sadon valkokaalia, mikäpä sen maukkaampaa ja edukkaampaa:

Poista varhaiskaalista uloimmat lehdet, halkaise kaali kahtia ja poista kova kanta.Suikaloi kaali ohueksi ja anna levätä hetki.

Valmista salaatinkastike näin: sekoita 1 purkki kermaviiliä, puoli punttia hienoksi hakattua tilliä, 1 rkl Dijon-sinappia,

loraus sitruunamehua, kaksi keitettyä kananmunaaa pilkottuna, ripaus suolaa ja mustapippuria.

Kaada kastike kaalin sekaan ja sekoita. Nauti sellaisenaan ja/tai lihan, kanan tai kalan kera.

Terkuin

Otaniemen wannabe-kokki

Lähes (!) kaikki ainekset löytyvät paikallisesta (Otaniemi) A-kaupasta.

Kaalia kaaliin – maanantaina

Mikä ruokaraaka-aine vastaisikaan pääotsikon tekstiä paremmin kuin kukkakaali?

Tässä oiva ohje mille tahansa gourmet-illalliselle:

Kukkakaalipesto

4 annosta, 20 min

½  (noin 250 g) kukkakaalista

1 dl kuorittuja manteleita

1 ½ dl parmesaaniraastetta

1 valkosipulinkynsi

½ sitruunan raastettu kuori

veitsenkärjellinen kuivattuja chilihiutaleita

ripaus suolaa ja rouhittua mustapippuria

1 – 1  1/2 dl oliiviöljyä

Tee näin: paloittele kukkakaalit pieniksi ja keitä niitä 2-3 minuuttia kevyesti suolatussa vedessä.

Valuta ja anna jäähtyä. Lado mantelit monitoimikoneeseen, jossa on leikkuuterä. Aja karkeaksi. Lisää kukkakaalit, parmesaani, hienonnettu valkosipulinkynsi ja mausteet. Aja tasaiseksi soseeksi. Ohenna öljyllä sopivan notkeaksi. Maistuu mainiosti kanaruuan lisukkeena tai ihan sellaisenaan.

Mantelin sijasta voit käyttää pähkinöitä tai pannulla paahdettuja pinjansiemeniä. Chilihiutaleet voit jättää poiskin, jos et niistä tykkää tai niitä ei löydy mistään (ainakin niistä Punnitse&Säästä –kaupoista löytyy) ja sitruunamehua voit kaataa suoraan pullosta jos ei huvita raastaa.

Terkuin

Otaniemen wannabe-kokki

BLOOM – Bridge of Learning: Operation OndA! in Maputo began in the spring of  2013, when Aleksi Wallenius heard that he was elected as ETVO volunteer in Maputo. He wanted to bring Aalto University students from different fields to teach and learn in Mozambique and began to organise the project through Aalto University Student Union. The project was implemented in early 2014, when ten Aalto members headed to southern Africa for one month. They spent two weeks as guests of the local organisation ASSCODECHA in the slum of Chamanculo.

Children on the streets of Chamanculo. (above)// Older children took care of the younger ones. (C) Mariko Landström

Some of the participants used their experience for the university course Sustainable Global Technologies: Facing Local and Global Challenges, which includes a project related to sanitation challenges in Chamanculo, which is implemented in cooperation with the local organisation ASSCODECHA. During the first week on site, we provided the locals with various workshops and intensive courses, such as the English language course, IT course, business workshops, film-making workshop, future workshop, ultimate tournament and a variety of education events for children. In the second week, we organised Waste and Sanitation Hackathon in cooperation with STIFIMO, the common project of Mozambique Science and Technology Ministry and the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In the project, the teams consisting of ASSCODECHA’s employees, local young people and the hacker community of the local university spent four days trying to come up with solutions for sanitation challenges in Chamanculo. Our group also formed a team and presented a dry toilet and urban farming concept as example solutions, but did not participate in the actual contest. The winning team was awarded with laptops. The jury included the World Bank consultant, Chamanculo’s local representative of municipal politics and the representative of the Embassy of Finland. On our last day in Chamanculo, we organised a festival where we cooked for everyone and taught various skills. The locals were also invited to participate in the arrangements by offering them food or by teaching their own skills. In the evening, we organised a traditional academic dinner party for the employees of ASSCODECHA in a local restaurant.

QuickRep-team presenting their ideas (above). // Future workshop (C) Caroline Moinel

During our visit, we collected background information for our course about sanitation challenges by visiting local homes, the school and different parts of Chamanculo and interviewed numerous people. When we got back to Finland, we have considered everything that we experienced and aimed at determining the focus for our project. We have decided to study the empowerment of the community and an individual through participatory processes, among other things, and particularly study the use of participatory processes in resolving sanitary challenges. Depending on ASSCODECHA, we will work with them to organise the next hackathon or similar kind of events, or the launching of a dry toilet or urban farming through a participatory process. In general, our wish is to empower the community and change their attitude towards the future and the control of their own life, as well as to improve sanitation in the area. The project is still in progress and slowly taking shape along with our literature research and the wishes of ASSCODECHA.

Teenagers from Chamanculo learning English (above) (C) Caroline Moinel//Aalto representatives and Camilla Nyroth heading back to the city centre in the evening. (C) Mariko Landström

The direction of our project reflects perhaps the biggest culture shock that at least I have experienced in Chamanculo; people live so strongly in the moment that they have no plans for the future. They neither seemed to have the concept of responsibility. People do not seem to take responsibility for their own lives, let alone anything else, and do not assume that anyone else, such as politicians or officials would take responsibility or initiative to improve the state of affairs. No one really seems to expect that things would change. People can name issues that could be changed, which would make them happier, but they have no intentions to change them. Usually, these are small issues, such as having a better house or a better toilet (usually self-made). Surely there are exceptions, and we met a family which had diligently improved their home and even planned to build an indoor toilet, for which they had already acquired the material. Naturally, income levels have effect on this issue.

Children doing Caroline’s hair (above). (C) Mariko Landström // Children learning how to recycle plastic bags (C) Caroline Moinel

Foremost, however, we remember the warmth and kindness of people in Chamanculo, the groups of children seeking attention, the sun and the neatly dressed locals. This experience also made us ponder on whether they are happier than we are.

You can read about our experiences, thoughts and the progress of our project on our blog:

sgtchamanculo.blogspot.fi.

-Mariko Landström and SGT team

Tämän vuoden suuri projekti AYY:n järjestösektorilla on yhdistysten toiminta-avustusten pistemallin uudistaminen. Nykyään käytetty malli on tehty vuonna 2010 ylioppilaskuntien yhdistyessä Helsingin yliopiston ylioppilaskunnan mallin pohjalta. Mallia on sen jälkeen tarkennettu hieman vuonna 2011, ilman suurempia muutoksia. Yhteisömme kehittyy kuitenkin jatkuvasti ja sen takia tahdomme pohtia toiminta-avustuksia tarkemmin. Vuodelle 2014 toiminta-avustuksia on budjetoitu 94 500 euroa, joka on merkittävä summa AYY:n budjetista.

AYY:n yhdistysrekisteriin on kirjattu yli 200 yhdistystä. Yhdistyksiä löytyy laidasta laitaan pienistä kymmenen jäsenen harrastusyhdistyksistä yli 500 henkeä tavoittaviin, opintosuuntaa edustaviin yhdistyksiin. Yhdistysten toiminta hyvin erilaista; osa harrastaa viikottain jalkapalloa, osa käy pelaamassa roolipelejä, toiset tukevat start-up toimintaa. Uusia yhdistyksiä syntyy vuosittain useita ja vaikka osa yhdistyksistä lopettaa toimintansa, on trendi silti ollut kasvava.

Maaliskuun ajan on käynnissä AYY:n toiminta-avustushaku ja osalla yhdistyksistä tämä tuki on huomattavan merkittävä osa jatkuvaa toimintaa. Avustusten summat vaihtelevat 100 eurosta vajaaseen 2000 euroon riippuen yhdistyksen koosta, toiminnan kattavuudesta, määrästä ja monipuolisuudesta sekä sen vastuullisuudesta.

Käytössä olevaan pisteytysmalliin voi tutustua /wp-content/uploads/Pisteytysmalli_2012.pdf). Lyhyesti pisteytys tapahtuu seuraavanlaisen ohjauksen mukaan:

– Yhdistyksen koko (20 p)

– Toiminnan määrä (40 p)

– Toiminnan monipuolisuus (20 p)

– Toiminnan kattavuus (15 p)

– Toiminnan vastuullisuus (5 p)

Kyseinen malli on hyvin neutraali, eikä ohjaa suoranaisesti yhdistysten toimintaa tai ota konkreettisesti moraalista kantaa niiden toimintaan. Mietinnän alla onkin muu muassa se, tulisiko toiminta-avustuksilla pyrkiä ohjaamaan yhdistyksiä suurempaan vastuullisuuteen esimerkiksi taloudenpidossa tai kannustaa AYY:n linjojen mukaiseen toimintaan, esimerkiksi kansainvälisyyden edistämiseen. Pitäisikö huomioida, miten yhdistyksen toiminta tukee AYY:n omia tavoitteita? Miten sinun mielestä AYY:n tulisi tukea yhdistysten toimintaa? Onko nykyinen malli hyvä, puuttuuko siitä jotain tai pitäisikö jotain kohtia painottaa enemmän? Palautetta ja ehdotuksia voi laittaa AYY:n järjestösektorille jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi.

Hyvää alkanutta kevättä ja muistakaa täytellä toiminta-avustushakemukset ajoissa!

Terkuin järjestösektorilta

Niko Ferm

Hallituksen jäsen, järjestöt ja viestintä

Aalto-yliopiston ylioppilaskunta (AYY)

Fortunately, the Equal Marriage Act is once again being debated. In AYY, this became visible already on 20 Feb, when the citizens’ initiative was submitted to the Parliament for consideration. On that day, the student unions across Finland posted love-themed images to social media, which were marked with the hashtag #rakkauskuuluukaikille (lovebelongstoeveryone).

In addition, AYY started a card campaign one week ago, in which students can write their greetings in favour of the Equal Marriage Act to a member of parliament of their choice. AYY collects the cards and delivers them to the members of parliament. As expected, the card campaign has been a small and significant way of influence and a much talked about topic.

Along with the card campaign, questions have been raised in relation to AYY’s role as an organisation which has influence and prepares statements. Aalto University Student Union’s strategy, approved in the Representative Council meeting 12/2012, determines four organisation principles, one of which is ”AYY as an influencer”. AYY wants to be a responsible and social actor, which ”also raises difficult social problems and offers daring solutions for them”. On this basis, the Board has decided to participate in Tahdon2013 campaign in the year of 2013. AYY wishes that all Finnish citizens are equal before the law and that is why we openly present our view.

One of the most popular questions related to the card campaign seems to be why AYY uses its resources to such non-core activities. The card campaign took approximately five of AYY’s personnel hours. This is quite a small percentage of the personnel hours of a single week, let alone the personnel hours of an entire year.

In addition, in AYY’s viewpoint it is sometimes important to implement small projects, which are related to the acknowledgment of the special needs of minority groups (e.g. students with families, adult students). The card campaign is this kind of a small project. Also, the reality is that AYY’s employees, board and volunteers mainly focus on core activities, such as the promotion of better studies and student life, the so-called ”invisible work”.

Hopefully, the previously mentioned issues answered even some of the questions raised. Finally, I could summarise the main idea, which is hopefully endorsed by everyone: our students deserve fair and equal treatment.

On behalf of AYY,

Pauliina Mäkkeli

Board Member, Social Policy and Sports

Aalto University Student Union (AYY)

Our student union appears to everyone in a different way. For some, it appears as an organisation which provides housing, for others it means advocacy work in our Aalto community. Some think about the student union’s support for our diverse association field. Rarely, however, we think about the international aspect. Our university is very international and we have plenty of international students. Many Aalto students travel abroad for exchange studies. The activities of our student union are also international. Many sub-associations have active international students and some associations provide the Finnish students with opportunities to become international. Our student union also keeps in touch with student unions in other countries and has influence on education policy across the borders.

What is Mosaic then? It is the international section of our student union. The mission of the section is to organise international events both for the Finnish and international students. It also organises Café Linguas, for example, where you can discover new languages and cultures. Mosaic also organises World Dinner 1-2 times per year, where you can explore dishes from various countries. You may also have participated in MP3 Experience, which brings people together, regardless of their nationality. Mosaic is also responsible for bringing together all international students operating within the student union, which mainly takes place in an international super meeting twice a year. For this year, Mosaic has also planned completely new events that have not been seen before.

At the moment, six people are involved in Mosaic, two of whom are international students. However, everyone has the desire to work internationally and get to know international people. This year, we have organised two Café Linguas and checkpoints on Winter Day and Jämeränjälki. Together we have made plans for the spring and for the autumn to some extent. However, we do not only implement events but we also have leisure activities. We have spent evenings together and cooked tasty food, such as Chinese dumplings. Currently, our group is still small. If you are interested in international activities, you can still get involved and organise events or possibly even develop something completely new. In this case, you may contact the undersigned.

If you are interested in our activities, you can like Mosaic site on Facebook and get more information on our events: https://www.facebook.com/AYYMosaic.

Our next event will be Café Lingua at Restaurant Cantina next Wednesday, 5pm-7pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/215850255286356/. Also remember to sign up for World Dinner on 6th of March https://www.facebook.com/events/284121428408103/?fref=ts

On behalf of the international section of our student union, I wish you all a happy spring!

Lauri Peltola

Chair of Mosaic

I was still struggling with my thesis in a poorly ventilated classroom in the middle of May, when a job opportunity came up. I had stumbled upon a marketing intern job posted by Tieto, which offered the possibility to work in two cities, Helsinki and Stockholm. Having lived in both cities for many years, this was an opportunity to work in both cities I consider home. While I originally hadn’t planned to start working until after my graduation, I knew that this was an opportunity too good to pass up.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and I was now working as a marketeer (intern) for Tieto’s Financial Services industry group. Right from the start another intern and I were assigned responsibility for managing the content of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – related project. While the project was challenging, it felt really rewarding to make a valuable contribution to our team.  During this fall, I have even had the opportunity to conduct market research that has supported top management in their decision making.

While my learning curve has certainly been steep, my colleagues have always been there to support me with any questions I might have. The people at Tieto have also been very keen upon hearing how we, the interns, would approach different challenges.

With 15,000 employees, Tieto offers an opportunity to build an invaluable professional network. For us recent graduates we have Tieto Young Professionals (TYP) that encourages us to make valuable connections and build a stronger team spirit. With TYP I have been able to join several events with other young professionals alike from different companies. But it is not only TYP that offers activities outside of work hours; I will for example also join in a course in HTML5-coding during this week. The course is held by employees that are keen on sharing their knowledge and passion for coding, and I am looking forward to learning from the best.

Having worked at Tieto for almost eight months now, I still feel the same enthusiasm towards my work; this is partly due to my challenging and versatile responsibilities, but mostly I have my colleagues who are located all over Europe to thank for that. At Tieto I have learned that by being self-driven and ambitious, I am able to acquire tasks that are challenging and fun to work with.

My six month intern period ended in the beginning of December and now it looks like I will be able to continue as a fulltime employee at Tieto. Whereas the reason for applying was the possibility to work in a large Nordic company – the reason I choose to stay here is because of the people that make me grow as young professional.

If you would like to know more about working at Tieto or if you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact me at calle.lindahl@tieto.com

When I first started in the position of AYY board member in the spring, I was advised to review my time use for a period of one month. After having done so, I was inspired to keep track of my time use throughout the year. Now that my career in the board begins to turn towards the end and new enthusiastic people appear with their questions, it is good that I can present data on the subject.

I have divided the working time into seven sectors at my own discretion. Discussions, gatherings and meetings are perhaps the most difficult to distinguish. Discussions are single meetings with less than 5 people, while gatherings can occur weekly and include several people. Meetings are official gatherings, where minutes are recorded and decisions are made. Under representation, I have also included event organising, planning and the work after events. In addition, I have daily written down the main topics of the day, on which I have mainly spent my working hours. My weekly working hours vary between 38–49. In addition to the common issues of the entire board, this year I have spent my time on regulation reforms, tenant democracy and zoning. Here is a pie chart on the division of working hours into different sectors.

It is not my intention to scare you with large amount of work. On the contrary, I can now say that when looking back, time has flied by, because the work has been varying, diverse, challenging and great fun.

Kind regards,

Jani Laamanen,
AYY Board Member in charge of housing affairs