Kill with food beats kill with knife.
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1. Thyme
Thyme is supposed to have antiseptic properties. It is an antioxidant and would help reduce your waist-line. Its aid in digestion rumours extend to include curing stomach ulcers. With a slightly pungent, spicy, clove-like flavour, thyme is as easy to use as it is to grow. Thyme is a dry herb meaning it prefers to be dry between watering. It requires good drainage.
Theme can be used on all meats, vegetables, casseroles and soups. Keep in mind the herb has a strong flavour, so a little goes a long way. Continue reading
There is really nothing new under the sun. A lot of culinary ideas are borrowed, copied or transferred from one country to the other.
long grain
short grain
Chinese people regard rice as their most important food. There are all different varieties of them. There
are the long grain rice and the short grain rice too.
The short grain rice is sometimes called gluttonous rice or sweet rice. It has this unique sticky feature when cooked and they are a lot softer than the long grain rice. It is almost similar to the Japanese sushi rice. Continue reading
The Chinese Grocery store is a place well worth an adventure. The stores have so much variety and the qualities are generally satisfactory. Asian cooking does not have much taboo as Western cooking, especially North America. The living standard in Asian is high and people pay more respect to food. We eat almost anything. Things that run, fly, swim we devour. One type of food attracts the general admiration is the seafood and shellfish. Chinese grocery stores have particular sections built around the supply of seafood. Continue reading
When you have the knives, you need the cutting board.
There are lots of designs for cutting boards on the market. The most common ones are the ones made of wood. There are treated bamboo ones, and there are ones made from resin or sanitized plastic. There are also disposable ones. Choose whatever material you desire but choose a fair size one. A workable size would be 24 x 18, and it should be 1 to 1.5” thick.
You do not need to be so elaborate to use the checker design but the little cells can serve as measurement when you are baking and measuring the dough or puff pastry. The measurement also comes in handy if you are carving a roast. You would know how many slices you can get out of the roast. A plain old fashion cutting board should be good enough. We choose the depth because we need the thickness to cushion chopping. Continue reading
Your mother never taught you this. Her mother never taught her either. The skill has always been passed down through practice and experience. Most people would spend a quarter of their life time preparing, watching and doing it. There had never been any written rules or records of how it is done. There had been no formal cook book or written manual either. Of course we are talking about cooking skills.
Sure you can explore and find recipes on websites, journal, books, videos, tapes and many other forms of media that gives you knowledge about what ingredients to use. The fact still remains this cooking skill problem is more complicated than it appears. Continue reading
Wino #33 was held in Mon Sheong Court on April 11, 2013. Click here to read the food report from our Master Chef and here is the link to the menu and the pictures. The wine report with a personal touch can be found here.
Sunday night dinner with the idiot cook and chief bottle washer
Believing is your first mistake.
My recipes come mostly in proportions for different ingredients rather than exact measurements. The fact that most taste buds do not work the same way, it will be more flexible if we use proportions to come in with a likeable product. Besides it will be far less typing for me. Continue reading