Sunday, October 16, 2011
Buttercream
This recipe I got from someone blog (I forgot), like usual, made a bit change to make fits to our families taste bud.
Ingredients :
- 4 pounds powdered (confectioners') sugar
- 1 1/2 cups Crisco or hi-ratio shortening
- 1/2 C salted butter
- 1/2 cup corn starch
- 1/3 cup powdered milk mixed with enough water to make 1 cup or 1 C heavy milk
- 1/2 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon clear butter extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 teaspoon Crème Royale or crème bouquet, optional
Viva paper towels
Into the mixer bowl, place the Crisco shortening and cream until fluffy. Add the powdered sugar to the creamed shortening in the mixer bowl and mix. Add 1/2 cup cornstarch and beat well on low for about 15 minutes.
In a small bowl, combine the water and the powdered milk; add the vanilla extract, butter extract, almond extract, and crème royale or crème bouquet, and salt; set aside. Add to the shortening/sugar mixture and combine until well mixed.
This icing needs to be made ahead of time. As it sets up it gets firmer. When ready to use, just re-whip on low and you get a smooth, non-airy buttercream icing. I like this recipe better than Wilton’s buttercream because it tastes less sweet and uses half the amount of Crisco shortening.
Ratatouille
I thought Ratatouille is a mouse (or rat) in Disney movie. Then I found this recipe in a book "Baking in a commonsense guide". I made a little bit change for the recipe, and the result...awesome !
Pastry :
- 3 C all purpose flour
- 3/4 C chilled butter, chopped
- 1/2 C iced water
- 1 T vinegar
Mix all ingredients in food processor, don't over mix. If you don't have food processor, put all dry ingredients in a big bowl and mix them use 2 knife, add liquid a little by little. Until shape like a rough ball.
Cover with plastic wrap and let rest in fridge, while you make the filling.
Filling :
- 1 big eggplant, cut cube
- 1/4 C olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 zucchini, slice or cubed
- 2 tomatoes, cubed
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 T balsamic vinegar
- 1 C grated cheddar cheese
- 1/4 C grated parmesan
- salt and ground white pepper, for taste
Preheat oven 400F
Heat oil in a big skillet, add onion..cook until soft.
Add garlic, cook about 1 minute. Add zucchini and bell pepper...cook until soften.
Add eggplant and tomatoes, cook about 2 minutes. Turn off the stove.
Stir in balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Then cover and let cool a little bit.
Roll pastry and put in tart pan. Prick bases with fork.
Bake about 20 - 25 minutes until golden color.
Pull out from oven .
Reduce oven to 350F.
Mix all cheeses with vegetable and pour into the shell.
Bake again for 15 minutes.
Enjoy !
Monday, October 3, 2011
Cinnamon Walnut Coffee Cake
I found this recipe inside my head while jogging and exercise Turbo Sculpt on weekend. This idea insist me to try.. :))
The result not bad and easy to make.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 C all purpose flour
- 3 eggs
- 1 C brown sugar
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 C walnut, chopped
- 1/2 C raisin
- a pinch salt
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350F
- Mixing brown sugar and eggs, with mixer (high speed) about 7 minutes.
- Shift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
- Pour a cup by a cup into egg-sugar mixture, use spatula or wooden spoon to stir slowly.
- Add melted butter, Stir again..
- Add raisin and walnut
- Spray 9 inch cake pan with cooking spray and pour the batter into the pan.
- Bake about 30 -35 minutes or until if you insert toothpick, it come out clean.
Enjoy !!
Cinnamon Sticky Rolls
Only one word : YUMMY !!!
Ingredients :
- 3 C All purpose flour
- 1/4 C Sugar
- 1/4 C Shortening
- 2 1/4 tsp Dry active yeast
- 1 C Warm milk or heavy cream or water ( no more than 115 F)
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 stick Butter, melted
- 1 C Brown sugar
Pour on the bottom of your 9x13 pan. Set aside..
- Cinnamon sugar
- 1/4 C Melted butter
- 1 C Nut (pecan, walnut, almond, etc)
In a big bowl mix together 1 C flour, sugar, yeast, shortening. Make a hole in the middle, pour warm milk or water or heavy cream. Stir again or knead use mixer with hook.
Add 1 C flour and salt, keep stirring....add flour until the dough doesn't stick on your hand. Half cup each time....pour onto the smooth surface and knead about 8 minute. Or if you use mixer, keep kneading for 8 minutes.
Shape the dough as a big bowl, smear bowl with shortening..put the dough back to the bowl and rest for 90 minutes. Cover with clean towel or plastic wrap..keep in warm room.
Punch the dough to release the air. Roll rectangle shape about half inch thick, brush melted butter on the surface, pour cinnamon sugar then nuts. Roll the dough, seal the edge and cut the dough use sharp knife or thread, 12 rolls.
Put the rolls into the pan, let rest for 1 hour. Cover with clean towel.
Preheat oven 400F, bake rolls about 25 -35 minutes.
Pull from oven, brush the top of rolls with butter, let it cool before turn the roll onto tray or big plate...upside down.
Enjoy warm Cinnamon Sticky Rolls with coffee or tea.
Turmeric Fried Rice
Originally in Indonesia my mom told me this is a village fried rice. And use terasi instead salted soybean. Since I became a vegetarian, I'm using salted soybean..you can find in asian store. Some brand really salty...
Ingredients:
- 4 C jasmine rice, cooked
Ground spice :
- 5 shallot
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 serano chilies or other chilies you prefer, Omit if you don like spicy
- 1 tsp salted soybean (vegetarian and vegan) or dried shrimp if you not vegetarian or vegan
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp garlic salt
- 1/2 T onion mix ( optional )
- 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
- 1/2 C mungbean sprouts
- 1/2 C shredded cabbage
- 1 T chopped green onion
- 1 tsp low sodium shoyu
- 1 1/2 T oil
Directions:
- On medium heat stove, Heat oil in the pan and saute ground spice, stir well. Don't let burn because it has sugar. Add 2 T water...turn heat to low.
- Add vegetable, stir about 1 minute
- Add shoyu
- Pour rice into the mixture, stirring well..taste it..maybe need more salt or pepper.
Enjoy your fried rice !
Pesto
I made this without measured the ingredients, just added what my family like more. The basil came from my plants in courtyard only one pot, amazing the result is one medium pot.
Ingredient :
- Regular basil or Italian basil
- Olive oil
- Hard cheese (parmesan, romano, asiago), feel free to mix the cheese
- Pine nut ( you can use almond, pecan, walnut...whatever tree nut you have in your pantry)
- Garlic
- Salt
Mix all the ingredients using food processor or blender until smooth.
Enjoy with your pasta or you can use as pizza sauce too.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Sayur Sambal Godog
I missed this kind of pedestrian food from Indonesia. We called " Lontong Sayur "...because we eat "Sayur Sambal Godog " with lontong or ketupat.
Ingredients :
- 1 can green beans
- 1 chayote, diced
- 1 block tempeh (8 oz)
- 1 block tofu, fried in teflon pan until firm
- 1 pack (8 oz) seitan or you can make your own seitan.
- 2 tomato, diced
- 4 bay leaves
- 3 T oil
- 1 C coconut milk
- 1 1/2 pint vegetable stock
You free to add long bean and shredded young papaya too.
Ground spice :
- 5 Thai chili or red jalapeno or any red chili
- 3 shallots
- 1/4 medium onion
- 1 tsp crushed garlic
- 1 T unsweetened shredded coconut
- salt
- 1 T brown sugar or palm brown sugar
- 1 tsp galangal powder
- 1/2 tomato paste
1. Put oil in big soup pan, heat in medium heat on stove. Add ground spice, cook for about 3 minutes until fragrance. Add tomato, tempeh, chayote....cook about 5 - 6 minutes, keep stirring.
2. Add coconut milk, let boil. Add bay leaves, green bean, seitan, tofu and vegetables stock...taste...add sugar or salt, whatever you prefer. If you like spicy, add cayenne pepper powder.
3. Enjoy with rice or lontong (rice cake).
PS : I added new picture, better....
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- Yvonne
- Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- I'm just a house wive with many hobbies. Cooking, card making, baking (especially pastry), diving and the new one caking. I never thought I will decorate cake or cook before. In Indonesia, the country where I came from...maybe with people whom I knew..friends and families, no one vegetarian. Only me and my son...something odd for them. Sometimes I felt uncomfortable when they looked at me strange..I could read their mind " this lady is freak ". Once, I ordered fried noodle in restaurant. Special request..no meat, no shrimp, only vegetable. They added sausage and meat ball (bakso in Indonesia language). When I complained, the waiter said : But that's sausage and bakso. Geez, I didn't know what I have to do. I'm Budhist. So, after that I just said I'm Budhist and they respect more than vegetarian..hahaha. About cake, hhmmm...never made beautiful cake or delicious cake. I like cooking or baking just for myself and my son...until I met my husband Keith. He opened my eyes. I can cook delicious and I found the last thing I can bake nicely too. Thanks Honey !!! I still need to learn still newbie..
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