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Thai Style Carrot & Mango Salad Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:48:00 +0000

Ingredients:

4 carrots
1 small, ripe mango
200 g firm tofu
1 tbsp chopped fresh chives

Dressing:
2 tbsps orange juice
1 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp clear honey
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp sesame seeds, toasted

Method:

Peel and coarsely grate the carrots.

Peel the mango and thinly slice the flesh away from the stone.

Drain the tofu, pat dry with kitchen paper and cut into 1cm dice. Toss together with the carrots and mango in a salad bowl.

For the dressing, put all the ingredients in a screw top jar and shake well to mix evenly.

Pour the dressing over the salad and toss well to coat the salad evenly.

Just before serving, toss the salad lightly and sprinkle with chopped chives. Serve immediately.

Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:15:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 ¼ cups flour
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup milk chocolate flavor
1 cup cooking oil
¾ cup cocoa powder
½ cup sweetened condensed milk
3 eggs

Preparation :

Heat a steamer.

Sift flour with bicarbonate soda and baking powder. Set aside.

Combine brown sugar, chocolate milk, oil and cocoa powder in a small pot. Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Turn off the fire and keep warm.. Meanwhile, beat eggs until light and fluffy.

Strain the chocolate mixture into a bowl. Then add the beaten egg and stir until the mixture blended. Next add the sifted flour gradually while stirring until well blended.

Lined and greased a 8 or 9 inch baking pan. Pour the batter into prepared pan and place the pans into the steamer and cover the top of the pan loosely with a piece of aluminum foil.

Steam the cake over low heat for about an hour. Cool the cake in pan before serve.

Water Chestnut Chicken Patties Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:29:00 +0000

Ingredients:

200 g chicken meat (minced)
50 g water chestnuts (chopped)
Some corianders (chopped)
10 g Chinese mushrooms (cut into small dices)
1 stalk spring onions (chopped)
Cooking oil for deep fry

Seasonings A:

1 tsp salt
Some pepper (to taste)
1 tsp potato starch

Seasonings B:

100 ml water
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp oyster sauce
Some pepper (to taste)

Cooking instructions:

Beat minced chicken, water chestnuts, corianders and 8g of Chinese Mushrooms with Seasonings A vigorously. Mould into balls then flatten them into patties.

Heat up a pan and pan-fry the patties till both sides turn golden brown.

Bring Seasonings B to a boil before thickening it with ½ teaspoon of potato starch. Put in 2g of Chinese mushrooms and the chopped spring onions and stir into sauce.

Serve the meat patties with the sauce.

Best Banana Bread Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:05:00 +0000

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.

Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Reference:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Banana-Banana-Bread/Detail.aspx

Thai-style Burger Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:03:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 small lemon grass stalk
400 g minced chicken
1 small fresh red chilli - deseeded
1 tbsp Thai fish sauce
2 garlic cloves, peeled
2 spring onions
200 g closed-cup mushrooms
3 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
Sunflower oil, for frying
2 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp lime juice
Salt and pepper to taste

To serve:
4 sesame burger buns
Shredded cabbage leaves

Method:

Place the lemon grass stalk, chilli, garlic and spring onions in a food processor and process to a smooth paste.

Add the mushrooms and process until very finely chopped and mixed in.

Add the minced chicken, fish sauce and coriander. Season well with salt and pepper.

Divide the mixture into 4 equal portions and, with lightly floured hands, shape them into flat burger shapes.

Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the burgers and fry gently for 6- 8 minutes until done or as you like.

Meanwhile, mix the mayonnaise with the limejuice. Split the burger buns and spread the lime-flavoured mayonnaise on the cut surfaces. Add a few shredded cabbage leaves, top with a burger and sandwich together. Serve immediately while still hot.

Chickpea Salad Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:22:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 can of chickpeas
1 onion
1 tomato
Black olives
Basil
Chopped fresh chilies or chili flakes
2 tablespoon olive oil

Preparation:
Chop it all up, mix it together and serve.

Burnt Rice Pudding /Sütlâç Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:12:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 ¾ c. water
½ c. uncooked short-grain rice
4 c. milk
1 c. sugar
1/8 c. rice flour
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. cinnamon

Method:

In a small saucepan, bring water to a boil. Stir in rice, cover pan, and lower heat to a simmer. Cook for 20 to 30 minutes, or until almost all water is absorbed.

Meanwhile, combine milk and sugar in a medium saucepan. Cook over low heat and stir until sugar dissolves.

In a small bowl, combine rice flour with 2 or 3 tablespoons of the warm milk, stirring to make a thick paste.

Add cooked rice to warmed milk and bring to a boil over medium heat.

Add rice flour paste to rice and milk mixture, stirring constantly.

Lower heat to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes, stirring often.

Turn off heat and stir in vanilla. Divide pudding into four ovenproof serving bowls and sprinkle with cinnamon.

Preheat broiler for 5 minutes. Broil bowls of pudding for 5 to 10 minutes, or until browned on top.

Serve warm.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1 to 1 ¼ hour
Serves 4

Turkish Meat Pizza Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:25:00 +0000

Ingredients:

Dough:
1/2 envelope (1 tsp.) active dry yeast
1 tsp. sugar
2 tbsp. milk
5 c. flour
4 tbsp. butter at room temperature
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp. salt

Topping:
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 onion, chopped
8 oz. ground lamb
1 handful fresh parsley, chopped
1 egg yolk, separated (the white can be thrown away)*
1 tbsp. butter, melted

Method:

1. In a small bowl, combine yeast and sugar with milk. Allow to sit for about 10 minutes.
2. Pour flour into a large bowl and create a well in center. Pour yeast mixture into well, and add butter and eggs. Stir to combine, and then turn dough out onto a clean floured surface. Use your hands to knead mixture for about 10 minutes, or until a soft dough mixture. Put in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a damp towel. Set aside and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 450ºF. Divide dough into golf ball-sized pieces. On a floured cookie sheet, use your hands to flatten each piece into a circle about ø-inch thick.
4. In a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onion and sauté for 5 minutes. Add meat and cook for 5 minutes more, stirring often. Mix in parsley.
5. Spread a layer of topping about 1/2 -inch thick in the middle of each piece of dough. Along the outside edge of each pizza, fold 1/4 inch of dough toward center to create a border of crust.
6. Leave pizzas in a warm place to rise for another 30 minutes. Use a pastry brush to coat outer crusts with egg yolk (discard egg white). Bake for 5 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown.
7. When cooked, brush lightly with melted butter and stack in a covered saucepan for 5 minutes before serving. (This step is to soften the pastry. If you want a crisp crust, serve straight from the oven.)

London Restaurants Where Good Food Doesn't Cost the World

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:26:00 +0000

You are able to cut many corners on a holiday to London, staying at inexpensive hotels, keeping yourself to a daily spending budget, keeping off the tourist-trap souvenir shops. But if you are not careful, you are able to end up spending a small fortune on eating out.

There are thousands of restaurants London and pubs London. The best restaurants or pubs to find the most reasonably priced ones are in places such as Soho, Leicester Square, the South Bank and Covent Garden. Of all of these, Covent Garden is the most extravagant restaurants as well as the most entertaining parts of the city, with any number of street acts performing in the famous town square. The area really comes alive at night, and is a fine place to visit if you're just in London for the whole day. If you're into upmarket and exotic dishes, in that case you can't look past Hoxton Square. The area is seen as the trendiest part of London at this time.

The old paradigm of London as a city of terrible food is a matter of the past; however most people believe you need to spend a little fortune to find out decent nosh. But you really don't have to waste a lot of money to enjoy exceptional food. Browse qype website to find great restaurants and pubs...

As part of a complete package for the budget-conscious traveler who has studied the London hotel deals, planned the daily souvenir hunt like a military campaign and even researched which West End pubs sell the cheapest drink, eating out for less is simply the icing on the cake. Now there's no need to make a meal of it.

Zesty Mustard Chicken Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:06:00 +0000

Ingredients:

½ cup prepared mustard
½ cup honey
1 tablespoon salt-free seasoning blend
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 broiler/fryer chicken, cut in half

Cooking Method:

In a bowl, combine the first four ingredients and mix well.

Carefully loosen the skin of the chicken; spoon some of the mustard sauce under the skin.

Coat grill rack with nonstick cooking spray before starting the grill. Place chicken skin side up on grill rack. Grill, covered, over indirect medium heat for 20 minutes.

Turn; grill 20-30 minutes longer or until juices run clear, basting occasionally with remaining mustard sauce.

Vietnamese Rice-Noodle Salad Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:21:00 +0000

Ingredients:

5 cloves garlic
1 cup loosely packed chopped cilantro
½ jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
3 tablespoons white sugar
¼ cup fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons vegetarian fish sauce
12 ounce dried rice noodles
2 carrots, julienned
1 cucumber, halved lengthwise and chopped
¼ cup chopped fresh mint
4 leaves napa cabbage
¼ cup unsalted peanuts
4 sprigs fresh mint

Cooking method:

Mince the garlic with the cilantro and the hot pepper. Transfer the mixture to a bowl, add the lime juice, fish sauce or salt and sugar; stir well. Let the sauce sit for about 5 minutes.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the rice noodles; boil them for 2 minutes. Drain well. Rinse the noodles with cold water until they have cooled. Let them drain again.

Combine the sauce, noodles, carrots, cucumber, mint and Napa cabbage in a large serving bowl. Toss well and serve the salad garnished with the peanuts and mint sprigs.

Reference: http://allrecipes.com/

Diabetic Friendly Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:05:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking soda
¾ cup creamy peanut butter
½ cup light butter, softened
¼ cup Splenda Blend
½ cup Splenda Brown Sugar Blend, packed tight
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
11 ½ -oz semi-sweet chocolate chunks (or sugar-free chocolate chips)

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a small bowl combine the flour and baking soda; set aside.
In a large mixer bowl, combine the peanut butter, butter, Splenda Blend, and Splenda Brown Sugar Blend; beating at medium speed until creamy. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Gradually beat in the flour mixture. Stir in the chocolate pieces. Press the mixture into an ungreased 9 x 13-inch baking pan, making sure chocolate is distributed out evenly. Bake at 350 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes or until the center is set. Allow to cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars when completely cooled. Cut each bar in half diagonally to form triangles.

Yield: 3 1/2 dozen cookie triangles

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Linda_Carol_Wilson

Poutine Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:08:00 +0000

Poutine very versatile gravy fries recipe in Canada. It has many local and thematic variations.
Ingredients:

4 large potatoes, peeled
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup cheese curds
1 1/3 cups chicken gravy, heated
Oil for frying

Preparation:

Cut the potatoes lengthwise into thin strips and soak them in ice-cold water for about an hour. Drain and pat completely dry.

Heat the oil in a deep fryer and fry the potatoes until they turn dark white-yellow, for about 3 minutes. Drain the fries on paper towels and allow them to rest for a few minutes.

Re-fry the potatoes again until they turn crisp and medium golden brown, for 4 to 5 minutes. Drain the fries on fresh paper towels, salt them, and divide them onto 4 serving plates or bowls.

Add 1/4 cup of the cheese curds and 1/3 cup of the hot chicken gravy on each serving of fries. Serve hot.

This poutine recipe makes 4 servings.

Butter Milk Kadi Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:17:00 +0000

Ingredients :

2 cups thick butter milk
1 cup water
½ cup coconut gratings
4 green chillies
1 small piece haldi
1 tsp jeera
3 tsp ghee
½ tsp mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
salt to taste

Cooking Method :

Grind coconut gratings with haldi smoothly.
While removing masala put green chillies and cumin.
Grind for about 2 minutes.
Put enough water to bring the kadi to desired consistency.
Add in salt. Keep it to boil. Then put thick butter milk.
Again bring to boil. Take out from flame.
Season with mustard and curry leaves in ghee.

Pasta Aglio Olio Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Preparation 15 mins
Cooking 15 mins
Serves 4-5

Ingredients:

100 gm butter
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
8 cloves garlic, chopped
500g fusilli pasta, cooked according to packet instructions, reserve 1 cup pasta water
1 tsp sea salt (use normal salt it unavailable)
1 tsp black pepper
10 dried chilies, soaked in water for 15 minutes and sliced into thin strips

Cooking Instructions:

Melt butter in a large pan over medium heat. Add oil and garlic. Stir for 1 minute until softened and oil begins to bubble. Add ½ cup pasta water, salt, pepper and chilies.

Increase the heat, add cooked pasta to pan and toss. Add remaining ½ cup pasta water. Toss again. Serve immediately.

Red Cabbage with Apples Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:11:00 +0000

Red Cabbage with Apples Recipe
(Austrian Christmas Recipe)

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 ½ hours
Serves 6

Red cabbage is a typical Austrian side dish. During holidays, such as Christmas, people add apples to sweeten this already tasty dish. Red cabbage makes a good accompaniment to a Christmas Day holiday meal of roast goose, potato dumplings, and desserts such as Sacher torte and Christmas cookies.

Ingredients:

1 head red cabbage, finely chopped
1 small peeled onion, cut into quarters*
4 to 6 whole cloves
1 large green apple, cut into quarters
2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
1 ½ tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 ½ tbsp flour

Cooking Methods:

1. Combine cabbage, onion, cloves, apple, vinegar, æ tbsp. sugar, and oil in a large pot.
2. Add enough water to cover the bottom of the pot.
3. Bring to a boil and then simmer until tender for about 1 to 1 ½ hours. Add boiling water if needed during cooking to maintain enough water at the bottom of the pan to keep the food from sticking.
4. Sprinkle flour and the rest of sugar over the mixture before serving.

Mini Puddings with Sweetened Butter Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Prep: 30 mins (plus standing time)
Cook: 1½ hours
Makes: 16

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups mixed dried fruit
½ cup orange juice
125 gm butter - chopped
¼ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
½ cup plain flour, plus extra for rubbing into cloth
¼ tsp baking soda
2 cups stale breadcrumbs
16 x 20cm square pieces of cotton
16 x 12cm lengths of string

For Sweetened butter (makes 1 cup)
200g unsalted butter, chopped
½ cup icing sugar

Cooking methods:

1) Combine mixed fruit and orange juice in a bowl; leave overnight in fridge. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until combined. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Fold in fruit, flour, baking soda and breadcrumbs.

2) Wearing rubber gloves, dip cloth pieces into just boiled water for 1 mm. Wring out, spread on table, sprinkle extra flour over and lightly rub it into each piece. Spoon ¼ cup of pudding mixture into the centre of the cloth. Gather cloth around pudding and tie string tightly. Repeat with remaining pudding mixture and cloths.

3) Lower puddings into a large pan of boiling water. Cover pan with lid; boil for 1½ hours, replenishing with hot water as needed.

4) Use an electric beater to beat butter with icing sugar until creamy. Remove puddings from pan, leave to cool and serve with sweet butter.

Christmas tree Cupcakes Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:11:00 +0000

Preparation 10 mins
Cooking 20 mins
Serves 10

Ingredients:

Vanilla Cupcake:

125g plain flour
8g baking powder
125g butter
100g sugar
2 eggs
¼ tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsps milk

Butter Icing:
90g butter
210g icing sugar
Few drops of green food coloring

Decoration:
10 standalone cupcake cups
10 small ice cream cones
Some hundreds and thousands

Cooking Methods:

Preheat microwave oven to 180°C.

In a bowl, sieve together flour and baking powder.

Cream butter and sugar till fluffy.

Beat in eggs and fold in flour carefully. Stir in vanilla essence and milk. Be careful not to overmix.

Fill cupcake cups till about ½ full and place onto metal tray.

Bake on Convection 1 level at 180°C for about 20 mins.

Butter Icing:

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and icing sugar together until smooth and a spreadable consistency is achieved.

Set aside some plain color icing to spread on the surface of cupcake.

Add a few drops of green food coloring to the remaining butter icing and stir until color is well mixed.

To Decorate:

Place the green butter icing into a piping bag with a small star tip/nozzle. If necessary, use a serrated knife to trim top of each cupcake to create a flat surface. Spread the surface of each cupcake with plain butter icing and position an ice-cream cone (upside down) on top.

With the piping bag in one hand, pipe around the cone from bottom to top. Sprinkle with colorful sugar decoration.

Christmas Yule Log Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:33:00 +0000

Preparation 45 mins
Cooking 15 wins
Serves 10

Ingredients:

Cake:
160g semi-sweet chocolate, chopped and melted
50g warm water
5 egg whites
20g castor sugar
6 egg yolks
15g plain flour, sifted

Filling:
180g non-dairy whipped topping
¾ tsp chocolate emulco

Icing:
150g cooking chocolate
90g unsalted butter
90g whipping cream

Cooking Preparation:

Cake:
Preheat microwave oven to 180°C.

Line a 10.5” x l 4.5” metal tray with parchment paper.

Mix melted chocolate with warm water.

In a mixing bowl, whisk egg whites until frothy, add sugar and continue to whisk until egg whites are almost stiff.

In another bowl, whisk egg yolks till thick and pale. Fold in melted chocolate and flour.

Lightly fold one-third of the egg whites into chocolate mixture until combined, then fold in remaining egg whites.

Pour batter into prepared metal tray. Bake at 180°C for 12 to 15 wins or till cake is cooked.

Filling:

Whip ingredients in a mixer until thick.

Icing:

Place chocolate and butter in a microwave safe bowl. Melt in microwave oven for 20 secs. Stir and repeat process till chocolate is melted.
Stir in the cream until combined. Refrigerate for 30 mins, stir at times, till mixture is firm and spreadable.

To assemble, spread cake with whipped topping and roll into a log. Diagonally cut into two. Spread icing on each log. Use fork to make log pattern on icing. Sift icing sugar on top of log to make ‘frost’.

Refrigerate and serve chilled.

Turmeric Prawns and Scallops Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:37:00 +0000

Preparation 10 minutes
Cooking 15 minutes
Serves 4

Ingredients:

30g butter
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp chili sauce
3 cloves garlic, crushed
2 pinches turmeric powder
2 ½ tbsp lemon juice
300m1 thickened cream
500g grey prawns, shelled, and tails left intact
300g scallops
Salt to taste
¼ cup snipped spring onions
Toasted bread slices and lemon wedges to serve

Cooking methods:

Preheat a deep frying pan and cook butter and oil until frothy. Add chili sauce, garlic and turmeric. Stir for 1 minute.

Add lemon juice. Leave to simmer, stirring for another minute. Stir in cream. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 4 to 5 minutes or until sauce thickens.

Add prawns and scallops. Stir occasionally for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the seafood changes color. Add in salt to taste.

Stir in spring onions. Serve on toast with lemon wedges.

Christmas Orange Bread Pudding Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:58:00 +0000

Preparation 15 mins
Cooking 35 mins
Serves 8

Ingredients:

7 slices white bread
4 eggs
300ml milk
120ml orange juice
65g sugar
½ tbsp grated orange rind
25g butter, melted
½ cup mixture of raisins, green cherries and cranberries or red cherries
Snow powder and apricot jam for dusting and glazing

Cooking Methods:

Preheat the microwave oven to 180°C.
Remove the crusts from the bread and cut bread into cubes.
Whisk together eggs, milk, orange juice, sugar and orange rind.
In a greased baking dish, layer half of the bread cubes, pour over half of the egg mixture, then drizzle with half the melted butter.
Sprinkle some of the mixed fruits over. Repeat layers.
Place the baking dish onto a metal tray and bake at 180°C for 35 mins or until a knife stick inserted near the center comes out clean.
Before serving, sift some snow powder over pudding or brush top with some warmed apricot jam for an attractive glaze. Serve warm.

Gingerbread Man Cookies Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:37:00 +0000

Preparation 10 mins
Cooking 15 mins
Serves 10

Ingredients:

176g plain flour
¼ tsp soda bicarbonate
Pinch of salt
2 tsps ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
66g unsalted butter, cut in pieces
76g brown sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 tbsp black treacle
½ tbsp milk
1 egg yolk, beaten

Royal Icing:
30g egg white
180g icing sugar
Few drops of food coloring

Cooking methods:

Preheat microwave oven 180°C.

In a large bowl, sift together flour, soda bicarbonate, salt, ground ginger and ground cinnamon. Rub butter into mixture until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Add in brown sugar, golden syrup, black treacle, milk and egg. Stir well to combine.

Knead lightly until dough is formed. Place dough in between two plastic sheets and roll into ½ cm thickness. Cut out shapes with gingerbread man cookie cutter.

Place cookie dough onto a metal tray lined with parchment paper.

Bake the cookies for about 12 minutes or until the cookies brown in color. Let cool on a cooling rack.

The Royal Icing:

Mix egg white and icing sugar together bit by bit. (You may not need all the icing sugar). Add in a few drops of food coloring if you are making colored icing. Stir until color is even and well mixed.

Fill several bags with royal icing and decorate as desired.

Florentines Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:09:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 oz cherries
1.5 oz flaked almonds
2.5 oz unsalted butter
2 oz caster sugar
2 tbsp double cream
1 oz sunflower seeds
0.75 oz chopped mixed peel
0.75 sultanas
0.5 oz plain white flour
4 oz dark chocolate, plain pieces

Instructions:

Crush the almonds slightly.

Prepare roughly cut pieces of cherries.

Prepare a solution of sugar in the butter and bring to the boil. Away from the heat, mix in flour, almonds, cherries, sultanas, mixed peel, sunflower seeds and cream. Grease a sheet of baking paper and place heaped teaspoonful amounts of the mixture onto it ensuring there is enough room for expansion during cooking. Bake till the edges are golden brown in 180 degrees centigrade (gas mark 4, 350 F) for about 7 minutes.

Take out of the oven and use a plain large metal biscuit cutter to make rounds by pushing into the biscuits. Bake again until golden brown.

Cool for a couple of minutes before removing to a wire rack for complete cooling.

Prepare melted chocolate by heating in a bowl over water at boiling point. Then take each biscuit and dip it into the chocolate so all the edge is covered. Place on non-stick paper till cooled.

No Bake Peanut Butter Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:39:00 +0000

Ingredients:

• 1 box of powdered sugar plus a little extra for rolling the dough
• 1 stick butter (slightly softened)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 16oz jar creamy peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon milk

Cooking Directions

In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar.

Add vanilla and milk. Use your hands or a kneading attachment for your mixer to mix these ingredients together.

Divide the dough into 3 pieces. Dust a sheet of wax paper with powdered sugar. Place 1 of the 3 pieces of dough onto the wax paper. Dust with powdered sugar and place another sheet of wax paper on top. Use a rolling pin to flatten the sugar dough.

Remove the top sheet of wax paper. Spread 1/3 of the peanut butter onto the sugar dough.

Roll the dough into a log and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Repeat with the remaining two pieces of sugar dough.

After 1 hour remove the logs from the refrigerator and cut into slices for serving.

Chicken Pastel Recipe (Filipino Recipe)

noreply@blogger.com (Wan) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:57:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken (1 ½ kg) cut in pieces
1 can (14 ounces) Vienna sausage, sliced
3 potatoes, diced
1 carrot, diced
1 cup mushrooms, cut in half
1 green bell pepper, sliced in strips
½ cup sweet peas
1 onion, minced
¼ cup grated cheese
1 cup margarine
2 cups chicken stock (broth)
½ cup evaporated milk
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1 lemon extract (juice)
1 egg, beaten
Salt and pepper to taste

Pie Crust
2 cups flour
½ cup corn oil or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
¼ cup cup of water

Cooking Instructions:

In a bowl, marinate chicken lemon juice and soy sauce for an hour. In a skillet, melt margarine and brown chicken, set aside.

Sauté onion, bell pepper an mushrooms then add chicken broth. Simmer for 15 minutes then add potatoes, carrots, sweet peas, sausages, grated cheese and milk. Continue cooking for 10 minutes. Salt to taste.

Transfer to a baking dish. Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. On a bowl, combine the flour, salt, cold water and oil. Mix into a ball. On a flat surface, roll flat the pastry and cover the chicken pastel mixture and seal the sides by pressing on the edges. Remove excess pastry.

Punch small holes on the pastry to let out steam during baking then brush with beaten egg.Bake until golden brown (about 15 minutes).