Ingredients: 1/2 kg beef brisket 4 cups of water, add more if needed and 1/4 cup for cornstarch 2 tbsp Kikoman soy sauce 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 star anise 2 tbsp onion , minced 1-2 tbsp sugar 1 tsp cornstarch ground p
I'm using ovenight sponge dough for this recipe. I find that the result is better than normal mixing method. This time I reduce the sponge dough amount from 3 cups flour to 1/2 cup (60g) flour. (Do refer to my last post Smilling char siew pau for st
Hi, this is the twenty second post about Italian cooking. In the last post we spoke you about an easy winter menu composed by three courses all made with winter ingredients. Today we d like to tell people who live south the Equator. Summer is going t
I had Tom yum spaghetti for dinner tonight. I havn t cook this dish since I finished my last bottle of Tom yum paste. The other day when I was in Plymouth, I went to the chinese store to top up some goods, where I bought my Tom yum paste, this time I boug
C lassic Aloo Gobi ( Potato - Cauliflower curry) is a dry curry with a mix of 2 bland versatile veggies , absolutely divine, blessing any dinning table at meal time. They pair very well with Phulka's / Nan or with Rice too.. Serves - 8 ING
By now you know I have a bit of an addiction to roasted vegetables. Things like roasted asparagus , carrots and an infinite number of roasted cauliflower recipes . But these cauliflower steaks take the knobby white vegetable to another level. Take a
This is yet another simple dish loved by everyone in my family. PRAWN AND QUAIL EGG MASALA by love2cook Ingredients :~ 800gm small prawns ~ cleaned ( I prefer small sized prawns for this dish) 10-15 nos boiled quail eggs 2 garlic
Today for the 6th day of the marathon...Here is another restuarant recreation....and an yummy one that is.... Whenever we go to downtown Boston, we prefer going to the Malaysian restuarant in China town. Its a whole new atmosphere when we enter. We usual
The secret files of the foodisphere revealed that : 4. There is no Salmon In Japan Salmon has always been my all-time favorite fish for eating raw. Imagine our utter shock and surprise when we realized that Kyubey (and other high end sushi restaurants
I love a good meatloaf and while there are a ton of variations on this dish, once in a while I run across one that I just have to try. Like this one.....Sicilian Meatloaf. Filled with ham and cheese and rolled jelly roll like, the minute you cut into it
I live on the Central Coast of California. We are thankful for the rain we've been receiving, over the last few weeks. The Golden Hills are bursting with fresh green grass... our wisteria plants are already budding. Along with that, I am seeing a thick
These wonderfully romantically named cookies are so called because the meringue like cookies are put into a preheated oven which is then switched-off and the cookies left overnight, forgotten about until morning. I had intended to make these beautiful sn
I recently bought The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook and I have bookmarked a lot of recipes. To be honest, I didn't bookmark this particular recipe, because it didn't fully grab my full attention... ...until last weekend, whe
My son loves to eat Nai Huang Bao but he only eat it if the custard is creamy, sometimes is hard to find a really creamy custard bun for him. I did my research on the internet and found some videos on how to make the creamy custard bun ???????1-4 (videos
Tomorrow, the 26th of January is India's Republic Day and it is the first time that I am not in the country. But that doesn't stop me from celebrating it. Does it? Over the years I have tried to prepare something that symbolizes the Tri Coloured Indian fl
Hi All!! Sorry for being away from the blog all of a sudden..the intention was definitely not to disappear but somehow life became too busy with traveling, then unpacking and getting back to a regular routine.. I’m posting yet another healthy preparat
I have been making biscotti since I was a kid with my mother. We made the Greek version which is called Paximathia. This recipe is a no-fail biscotti recipe. See my post on bunches of Biscotti. This base recipe is the one I always use and I change it
I LOVE big-ass salad bars! They never cease to entertain me! During the summer, the Dudley Café in Harvard Yard offers an Extreme Salad Bar , featuring 50+ salad items, as well as rolls, chips, fruit, and drinks. The Salad Bar is located inside, but
In France, during Christmas time, eating foie gras is very popular. Remember that the sous vide method was developed by Georges Pralus in the 70s in order to cook foie gras in an optimal way. For the first time I tried to cook myself a duck foie gras
One of the beauties of living in Hong Kong....apart from... - HK$10 wonton noodle - Coffee shop whole day breakfasts - In some places, food being smashed on your table delivered to you within seconds after you uttered your orders - HK$18 BBQ pork lunch
I am here to kick start my first event titled, ' Cooking with Family-Series ' which I had highlighted in my last post. The theme that I have chosen for this event is, ' BREAKFAST '. I plan to post the recipes once a week on every Friday and hence name
I know I am still yet to feature here the popular beef dish called ?bistek?, a type of beef steak prepared the Filipino-style, but I have already shared a fish variation of the entree in my post ?bistik na bangus? . While I remained unable to post the re