28/1/10 : Dumplings

100 dumplings, 3 hard working Asian.

6/1/2010 | Sperng invites

Sperng welcomes herself into the flat with some kind of 'flat-warming ceremony', notice how the ornaments have been meticulously placed in position awaiting human sacrifice.

ciabatta bread accompanied with pesto and paté

mesculin salad with feta and fresh tomato

test subjects 1.1 & 1.2, enjoying their bowlful of joy topped with parmesan

complementary panacotta with berry sauce, éclair and feijoa ice-cream

I think they are ready to kill.

The Making of a House-man: 7) Grilled Eel Meal

Reinventing Creamy Mushroom and Sweet Corn SoupPotato Salad

Bird Eye View

HOliday Feast

Warm Beef SaladCreamy mushroom sauce on meat

Minute Angus

Oat slice with yoghurt

Ha-ha pancakes

spiced meatballs

Corn beef and stuff

chicken

Beef noodle soup with an egg on top...

The Making of a House-man: 6) Roast Chicken and Tomato Salsa

With a touch of NZ's 'world-famous' L&P

The Making of a House-man: 5) Baked Hoki

ok laa

The Making of a House-man: 4) Pork Katsu

The Making of a House-man: 3) Chicken Wings & somehow pasta bake appears

Chicken cooked with seaseme oil

Pasta bake..

The Making of a House-man: 2) Soy Sauce Chicken Wings & Fried Eggs

Everything in the fry pan

actually doing two things at once

good - full of food

can't tell if the rice's going in or out...

The Making of a House-man: 1) Tom Yum Soup & Park'n'Chive Dumplings

This is seafood soup made with Tom Yum paste, also known as commercial Tom Yum Soup

Home-made dumplings with 'plastic' pastry (what! no!)
It is as much about the making as the eating

White Bread

Mixing the Dough

In a measuring cup, sprinkle the yeast over the warm water.
Mix together salt, sugar, and 5 cups flour in a large bowl.
Add milk, oil and yeast mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl. Start by stirring with a wooden spoon, but you might graduate to your hands after a few minutes.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead it for 10 to 15 minutes, adding as much as flour as necessary if the dough feels sticky.
Form the dough into a ball.


Preparing and Baking
- 1/2C lukewarm water
- 2t salt
- 1 1/2 C warm milk
- 1T sugars
- 2T vegetable oils
- 5-6C bread flour
- 1T dry yeasts

Put the smooth ball of dough into a clean bowl coated lightly with vegetable oil. Turn the dough once so that the top is oiled.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in a warm place until the dough rises to roughly double its original size. Check after 45 minutes.
Dump the dough back onto the floured surface and punch it down.
Divide the dough into two equal pieces and let rest for five minutes.
To make a pan loaf, use your hands to roll each piece into a thick cylinder a little longer than your bread pan. Using the heels of your hands, press the cylinder in to compress it to the length of the pan.
Put the loaves into oiled bread pans. The sides of the loaves, especially the short ends, should touch the sides of the pan.
Put a kitchen towel over the bread pans and let the dough rise in a warm place until it is roughly twice its original size, about 35 to 40 minutes.
Put the loaves in the oven at 400 degrees F and bake for approximately 30 minutes, or until golden brown and the bottoms have a hollow sound when thwacked with your hand.
Remove from pans and cool on racks.

Yogurt Cake

- 1 yogurt (small pot, the pot is the container used to measure quantities for other ingredients)
- 2 pots of sugar
- 3 pots of flour
- 2 eggs
- 1T oil
- 2T baking powder
- 1T vanilla or lemon flavour

Start by emptying the yogurt in a bowl, clean the yogurt pot with water and dry it well.
Add the 2 pots of sugar, only 2 pots of flour and 2 eggs.
Add the 3rd pot of flour, mix with the whip and add the oil and the baking powder.
Add the flavour and cool at 190°C for 25-30min.

preparation 15 min, cooking 25-30min. Serves 4.

Pear Nut Case

finished in one day! though it looked like crap before being put in the oven.

- 2/3 C + 2T flour
- 1/2 C of butter
- 2/3 C of sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1t of baking powder
- 1 large can of pears in syrup
- cinnamon, nuts

Drain the liquid from pears and discard liquid.
Cut the pears into small pieces and put into a bowl, then sprinkle them with cinnamon.
In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, melted butter, eggs, baking powder and nuts. When well mixed, add the pears and mix delicately.
Pour into a cake pan bake in a preheated oven for 10min at 160°C, then 30mins at 180°C.
DONE~!

Preparation 15min, cooking 40min. Serves 6.

Spring Onion Oily Pancake

Nicole's made some lovely pancakes, let's see how it's happened.

4 cups of all-purpose flour

1 cup of high grade flour

salt

boiling water 60% of the flour mass

Mix well, knead until smooth and shiny. Cover the dough with a wet cloth for half an hour.

Meanwhile, chop finely spring onion green, mix with sesame oil, salt and pepper.

Pokes her finger in the dough and finds it springs up lightly, means the dough is ready.

Divide the dough into appropriate sizes, a bit smaller than the palm of her hands. Sandwich the spring onion in between 2 flatten dough and fry both sides in hot hot pan.

Serve HOT.

An egg can also be added while frying.

orange dumplings

soup-round

sweet ass

white stuff

roll and balls.

Bread cake!!!! (gateau de pain)

Bread cake is easy and cheap!
That's what we like....

The basic receipe is just like this:


_Old hard bread (more baguette like, not sandwich bread)
_Milk
_Sugar





Pre-heat the oven at 180 °C. Break the bread into small pieces in a big bowl and add milk to soak the bread. Put enought milk so the mixture becomes moisty but not drowning into the milk. Add a bit of sugar depending how sweet you'd like it.
Put the cake into the oven for 45 minutes keeping the same 180°C all along.
Try out from time to time to poke the cake with a knife, it must not be sticky.

But my favourite thing about this cake is the creativity around it. The picture here is actually a bread cake with fresh banana, raisins and a sugar crust on top of it.
I made it once with fijoas and nuts!

So take the basic receipe as such but let your imagination do the rest! And do not throw away any old bread now, keep it and when you have enought of it, change it into a bread cake!!

Whose is this??

Well done Nico! Now please kindly tell us how did this miracle happen...