‘Stocked shrimp in tomato sauce’
WIAS magazine - Fall edition 2021
Student lifestyle
Cooking
When the WIAS magazine asked me to write a piece for the student lifestyle section, I thought it might be a good possibility to share a great shrimp recipe. It will take you about 25 minutes and as ingredients (~4 persons) you only need:
- Fresh shrimp with head - 800 g
- Garlic - 2 toes
- Cherry tomatoes - 250 g
- Smashed tomatoes - 1 can
- White wine
- Lime or lemon - ¼ to ½
- Parsley - 40 g
- Sugar - 2 tsp
- Salt and pepper
Noodles - 750 g
Step 1
Add quartered cherry tomatoes and the small-pieced garlic into the pan with olive oil and fry it until the cherry tomatoes are melted. This gives you quite a good basic sauce which you can use for a lot of other dishes as well.
Step 2
You can now add the can of smashed tomatoes, the white wine and the ¼ to ½ lime/lemon. In my opinion, it is always nice to add some sweetness to tomato-based sauces (especially in combination with the lime/lemon), to get a nice acid-sweet interaction. Therefore, add 2 tsp (small spoon) sugar and round it up with salt and pepper.
Step 3
Now, the time is there to stock the shrimp (prior to stocking: peel them and remove the gut, however, do not remove the head as it adds a lot of flavour). Release them into the sauce and let them swim for 10-15 minutes (in the meantime you can cook the noodles). To finish your dish, add the parsley to the pan.
Enjoy your meal!
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WIAS magazine - Fall edition 2021
Research Overview
Fish farmers want healthy fish to grow faster. However, to properly measure their health status and growth speed, fish needs to be killed or paralyzed for biological samples. This will easily stress the fish and disturb their health. On top of that, the acquired measurements are often lagging behind the real-time development. In Xue’s PhD project, together with breeding company Hendrix Genetics, she will explore the possibility of using image analysis as a fast, real-time and fish-friendly alternative.
Why is early life feeding important in piglets?
WIAS magazine - Fall edition 2021
Research Highlight
Early-life bacterial colonisation can be of particular importance to the overall growth and health of an animal, especially influencing intestinal and immune system development with long-term implications. This is especially relevant in pig production where post-weaning enteric infection is one of the major concerns related to the (gut) health of pigs, and is associated with economic losses and welfare problems. Commercial pig production systems involves early and abrupt weaning, which contrasts with the gradual transition from mother’s milk to solid feed in nature. Due to such abrupt weaning, a piglet is challenged with multiple stressors (including environmental-, nutritional- and psychological-) which is usually associated with changes in gut microbiota and a high incidence of diarrhoea. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the impact of early-life feeding (pre-weaning provision of fibrous feed) on the intestinal microbiota and mucosa development in neonatal piglets, thereby preparing piglets for weaning transition.
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WIAS magazine - Fall edition 2021
Research light
The populations of rays, flat bodied relatives of sharks with wing like fins, in the North Sea have been drastically decreased over the last 50 years. Little is known about their exact population sizes. Kinship among rays may help to shed a light on how many rays are currently inhabiting the North Sea. Timo Staeudle, a marine ecologist and PhD candidate at Wageningen University and Research, is obtaining this kinship information from the similarities and differences found in the genetic code of ray individuals.
Genotypes of animals selected out early in selection process are not always needed in subsequent evaluations of their retained relatives
WIAS magazine - Fall edition 2021
Research light
To further evaluate retained animals, genetic evaluation models known as ‘single-step genomic evaluation models’ only require genotypes of animals selected out early in selection process if their parents are not genotyped. This is the main conclusion from an investigation by researchers in the Animal Breeding and Genomics Group of Wageningen University & Research. The research was published in the Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
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