Intelligent Living Mums - Panasonic
Did you know Panasonic have an ideas kitchen in the
middle of their offices? No neither did I till last month. I have been
incredibly lucky to be chosen as one of 10 of Panasonic intelligent livingmums. Panasonic launched last month a wonderful new blogging program to help “understand the ever changing needs of today’s busy
family life, introducing the concept of ”Intelligent Living Mums” to UK
bloggers community” 10 bloggers were invited to attend a day discovering about
Panasonic the brand (wow) and learning more about their products.
Ideas Kitchen - Where the magic takes place! |
Now Panasonic is the largest consumer
electronics company so you wouldn’t expect it to have the sort of atmosphere it
does. It’s as though all members are family – seriously! Really nice people who
passionate about a company who take care of them well equals this fabulous
atmosphere (of course the kitchen producing amazing bakes everyday might help) We all know their products are high quality
but did you know the reasons behind this? They make every part that goes in
their products and they have a fabulous philosophy “If it doesn’t make your
life better, don’t make it”
Panasonic Museum - What do you recognise? |
Konosuke Matsushita
founded the company in after a pretty tough childhood. He started Panasonic in 1918
as a vendor of lamp lights and within 10 years began producing bicycle lamps. Quickly
opening factories across Japan and was the only company who after the 2ndWW had
his reinstatement as president demanded by his employees signing a 15000 strong petition. This gentleman who left home to work in a bicycle
shop and live in the basement at 9 years old went on to fund a hospital for the
poor and elderly where he later died himself in 1989. He was hugely philanthropic
and ran his company on 7 goals by which they still run today:
v Contribution to
society
v Fairness and
honesty
v Cooperation and
team spirit
v Untiring effort for
Improvement
v Courtesy and
humility
v Adaptability
v Gratitude
Pretty impressive hey? That’s what gives it the
great atmosphere!
So any how the products we were shown this event
were the amazing bread makers, such impressive gluten free bread I made my mum
go out and buy one (the recipe is below) tumble dryers, washing machines other
kitchen appliances and personal appliances. The folk at Panasonic run something they call
the Ideas Kitchen. A fabulous site where no matter where you bought a Panasonic
product from (yes even ebay) you can go along and see how to get the best out
of your product. There’s also a phone number which directly goes through to
their ideas kitchen so if you ever get stuck or you want a bit of help you can
speak to someone directly – no robots, no dodgy call centres. In this ideas
kitchen they taste each product repeatedly, for example the bread machines are
tested with different brands of flour, yeast, oil regularly to see which
produces the best results!
Square kettle? Makes it flush against the wall so cables are loose for the children to pull on! Safety and space saving! |
So much happened that I think I’ll have to save the
rest for another post but just to say it involves a couple of reviews (hd video
camera and epilator – not anywhere near as painful as I thought!)
But here’s the AMAZING gluten free bread recipe (I haven’t
seen such springy loaves GF for a long time)
Gluten free bread
with nuts and seeds
Ingredients
1tbsp linseeds
1tbsp pumpkin seeds
1tbsp sesame seeds
1tbsp millet seeds
1tbsp walnuts, chopped
350ml water
1tsp cider vinegar
4tsp vegetable oil
2 medium eggs
1tsp salt
1tsp sugar or honey
450g gluten free flour
1 ½ tsp fast action easy blend yeast
Method
- Before
making the bread, roast the nuts and seeds to enhance their nutty
flavour. Sprinkle with a little
salt and leave to cool. (I suggest
you buy a packet of each of the seeds and nuts, cook them all together and
when cooled store in an air tight containers as they are great for baking
or stirring through salads to give texture and flavour).
- Place
water, vinegar, oil, eggs, salt and sugar into the bread pan.
- Add
the flour, seeds and yeast and set your bread maker to the gluten free
setting with the dark crust.
This recipe is adapted from a recipe by Peter Sidwell in
association with Panasonic
Check our the other intelligent Living Mums Here:
Claire at The Lazy Girl's Guide to Life
Emma at Mummy.. Mummy.. mum!
Filipa at Gourmet Mum
Laura at The Life and Times of the Working Mum
Marianne at Maris World
Monika at Mum On The Brink
Penny at Are Residence
Emma at Mummy.. Mummy.. mum!
Filipa at Gourmet Mum
Laura at The Life and Times of the Working Mum
Marianne at Maris World
Monika at Mum On The Brink
Penny at Are Residence
Ruth at Geek Mummy
Sara at Walking With Angels
Sara at Walking With Angels
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