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Miniature Roast Dinner with New Potatoes

22 September, 2011 (16:41) | Cookbook | By: admin

Some cool dishes images:

Miniature Roast Dinner with New Potatoes
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Image by Aminimanda
1/12th scale roast dinner with new potatoes, hand-crafted by myself from polymer clay and presented on porcelain dishes.

Sarah 02
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Image by Mike.Hanlon
More Ellison Park photos of my friend Sarah

Strobist info:
DIY 18" Beauty Dish with Canon 580exII just above to left of face.
1 Bare 285HV behind model.
1 Bare 285HV to right with CTO gel.

mmmmmm…… :-)
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Image by jmtimages
yes, exactly what my hungry stomach was waiting for all day long…deep dish pizza! :-)
anyway, back to more flowers soon!

Spiral Curry Puff

13 September, 2010 (10:36) | Chinese food recipes | By: admin

Spiral Curry Puff
Contributor: Ho Siew Loon

I would like to thank my mother-in-law, a refined Nyonya cook for sharing this recipe with me. It truly is a quite traditional way of generating spiral curry puffs. As a standard cook, her cooking is usually based on estimation and final weekend, I have managed to have the Recipe and the measurement down. The crispiness from the skin blended together with all the spicy chicken curry and potatoes is just ideal for a relaxing afternoon tea…(get curry puff recipe after the jump)

Curry puff can be a extremely well-liked Asian snack specially in Malaysia and Singapore. It really is really comparable for the western puff or pies except that for this curry puff, it is deep fried to give the crispiness. The skill in this popular snack lies inside creating of your pores and skin. But once you may have mastered it, this well-known snack will undoubtedly be a hit at your parties.

SPIRAL CURRY PUFF RECIPE

Ingredients:

FILLING Components

1kg hen meat, diced

1kg potatoes, diced

500g onions, diced

4-5 curry leaves

2-3 Tbsp curry powder

15 dried chillies

eight shallots

125ml h2o

Salt to style

Sugar to style

5 Tbsp oil

PASTRY Ingredients:

H2o DOUGH

900g flour

1.5tsp salt

335g h2o

OIL DOUGH

340g butter

20g Ghee (optional)

730g flour

System:

FILLING

Soak dried chillies in hot water for 5 minute. Rinse and blend collectively with shallots till fine. Mix in curry powder.

Warmth oil in wok and saute chilly paste and curry leaves till fragrant.

Include in diced rooster, potatoes. Fry for three mins on medium fire. Add in onions and normal water. Simmer forŅ mins or until eventually pretty much dry.

Eliminate to cool.

DOUGH

Normal water DOUGH

Mixed salt to water to produce salt drinking water.

Include salt standard water to flour gradually and slowly knead to kind a good white dough.

Divide into portions of 85 gram each. Roll right into a ball.

Leave aside.

OIL DOUGH

Include butter and ghee to flour and knead to style a dough.

Divide into 70 grams portion every single.

To generate SPIRAL Pores and skin

Flatten the drinking water dough and wrap the oil dough inside. Pinch the edges to seal it nicely.

Let dough rest for ten mins.

Utilizing a rolling pin, roll out dough to form a rectangle of 20 x 11 cm. Working on the shorter finish, slowly and gradually roll up tightly right into a swiss roll.

Roll from the shorter finish of your swiss roll to flatten dough. Little by little roll up from the shorter aspect to kind a swiss roll.

Let dough rest for 10 to 15 minutes.

Repeat the process right up until you completed aided by the relaxation of your dough.

Cut dough into four pieces.

TO FILL AND Shape PUFF

Roll a piece of your cut dough into a circle with rolling pin.

Put 1 Tbsp of filling from the centre.

Brush the edge with normal water and fold into 50 percent. Press the sting together and seal it. This may give you a half moon form.

Pinch the sting with the puff together with your thumb. Bring the back aspect forward and seal it together with the front. Repeat the method. You ought to be in a position to get about 8-9 pleats.

Warmth oil in wok or deep fryer. Oil ought to be quite sizzling prior to putting from the puff and sufficient to cover on the puff.

Deep fry the puff on medium heat till golden brown.

Potato Salad Recipes – How to Prepare Cold Dishes in the Chinese Vegetarian Cuisine

24 August, 2010 (07:57) | Chinese food recipes | By: admin

Just before we come on the potato salad tested recipes, it can be required to discuss about potatoes initial. Potatoes are a person in the 5 major substance that human becoming reside on. They’re indispensable in the diets of both the East as well as the West.

In my opinion, potatoes are so well-known for the dinning table because they can be cooked in various techniques. They could be steamed, toasted, stir-fried and even created into salads. I produced a challenge of residing on potatoes for one complete week without having repeating tested recipes. I discovered out that numerous potato tested recipes are accessible if you really look into them. You may see a spot from the potato salad quality recipes that we are going to talk about under.

To produce salads, the ingredients really should be edible at first. That may be why fruits are generally used for salads. On the other hand, potatoes can not be eaten raw. So they’ve being built edible in advance. There are two methods that could be applied to accomplish this from the Chinese cuisine – steaming and scalding.

In my opinion, steaming will be the best way. Everything we need to do is washing the potatoes clean, placing them into a steamer, placing the steamer on the pot containing some h2o and turning the heat on. Nevertheless, scalding consists of boiling some h2o, shredding the potatoes and straining the shreds.

Following the potato is completed, we need to cut the steamed potato into any shape that people like and then season them in order to comprehensive the potato salad tested recipes. In this step, it is possible to just count on your preferences for tastes and flavors. I like such seasonings as soy sauce and soy bean paste.

All that is left now is blending the seasonings and potato shreds or dices together.