Kamis, 22 Mei 2014
Chicken 65 Happy friendship day wishes to all bloggywood foodies!!!!
I learnt some traditional dishes from my mother, but not very good at it. After my marriage, I came to USA last November and started cooking on my own. If I were in India my mother or mother-in-law would have helped me, but here I have to learn on my own(thats so sad!!!!!). First I used to follow youtube videos by vahchef and now Im able to cook on my own. I love the way how he explains and explores the dish. He is always ready, right from history of the dish under lime light to share with us. Thank you vahchef for your yummy recipes. So, now how this dish got its name is a big question mark for every one, out of several myths vahchef reviled the original story behind the name of the recipe. This chicken 65 originated in a military canteen in Tamilnadu(one of the state in south India) and this recipe used to be the 65th item in the menu list and every one used to order it as "chicken 65". That was a lovely story, now coming to the recipe.
Ingredients:
Chicken cleaned and chopped to medium size cubes-1/4KG
Oil for deep fry
egg 1
pepper powder-1tbsp
salt to taste
red chili powder-1/2tbsp
Aginamoto-1/tbsp
Ginger garlic paste-1tbsp
Green chili-3 in number
Corn flour-1tbsp
curry leafs-1 spring
Ginger grated-1tbsp
Garlic minced-1tbsp
cilantro/coriander and onions for garnishing
lemon juice for extra flavor

Directions:
Mix egg, pepper powder, little salt,ginger garlic paste, aginamoto, corn flour and chicken and deep fry the marinated chicken pieces. Keep them aside. Now take a pan and heat 2tbsp of oil and add ginger, garlic saute until raw flavor goes away, add green chili and saute it till they are completely done, then add some red color if you wish. (to prepare red color take 2tbsp of water and add 1/4pinch of color and dissolve well). Then add salt and red chili powder and mix well, cook for few minutes under simmer. Now the chicken 65 is ready to serve with lemon juice & onions.
Senin, 10 Februari 2014
How to Cook a Turkey Part 2 All About the Gravy
Gravy is the lifeblood of any real thanksgiving feast. It will moisten the driest turkey, and saturate the most solid stuffing. Lumpy mashed potatoes are no match for its slow-moving seduction. I like gravy, I like it a lot.This is Part 2 in the How to Cook a Turkey miniseries. We join the turkey in progress, with about an hour left to cook. As youll see, the foil is removed, the turkey browns beautifully, and then it’s time to get our gravy on. I hope this video recipe leads you to a nice boat of gravy at your holiday table, and even though your turkey will be moist and tender, youll have this liquid love on hand just in case.
A few words for you advanced turkey chefs. These video recipes are intended for the novice chefs among us, which is why I tried to use a minimum of steps. There was no brining, frying, injecting, smoking, bagging, or upside-downing. Thats not to say I dont appreciate all those techniques, and the endless quest for turkey perfection. So, enjoy your turkey no matter what you did to it.Gravy Ingredients:
3 cups cooking liquid from turkey pan (fat removed)
4 cups turkey stock from the neck
1/2 cup cooked onions from pan
*2-3 tbsp turkey fat
*1 tbsp butter
*1/4 cup flour
salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp chopped sage
*double for thick gravy
Rabu, 05 Februari 2014
All the Tea from China


TeaVivre is a company run by a group of tea lovers and aficionados from China, Canada and France, who all share a passion for drinking great tea and appreciate the healthy life style it brings. They all live in China, and frequently travel through the country visiting Chinas tea plantations so they can track down only truly exceptional teas. As a result TeaVivre are able to bring to us the absolute highest quality Chinese teas that are, wherever possible, 100% organically grown and produced.

The green tea sample pack contains two of each of the following teas, beautifully packaged in individual foil sachets inside a larger sealed foil package:
Organic Tian Mu Mao Feng Green Tea
Organic Hangzhou Tian Mu Qing Ding Green Tea
Superfine Pre-Ming Dragon Well Long Jing Tea
Premium Jasmine Dragon Pearls Green Tea
I tasted the Premium Jasmine Dragon Pearls Green Tea, it had a light clean flavour with just a hint of jasmine, no overpowering floral taste that you can get with some jasmine teas. I drink my tea black and not strongly brewed, so really enjoyed this delicately flavoured tea. Here is how TeaVivre describe the tea:
Jasmine “Dragon Pearls” is a deliciously sweet green tea that combines the absolute highest quality green tea with a jasmine aroma and taste. Made from one unopened bud and one small leaf, this tea hand rolled into small balls, which slowly unfurl during brewing, releasing an amazing taste and aroma combination of green tea and sweet jasmine. Brewing a cup of this sweet, fragrant tea only requires a few tiny pearls!

The Black Tea sample pack contains the following teas:
Yun Nan Dian Hong Black Tea – Golden Tip
Fengqing Dragon Pearl Black Tea
Bailin Gongfu Black Tea
Organic Superfine Keemun Fragrant Black Tea
Lapsang Souchong Smoky Black Tea (Yan Xun Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong)
I am not a huge fan of Lapsang Souchong tea as I usually find it rather overpowering but, after enjoying the Jasmine tea, I thought I would see what the TeaVivre Lapsang Souchong Smoky Black Tea was like. It was a nice surprise to find that the smoky flavour was subtle and the tea had a clean taste, without any real bitterness. Here is what is said about this tea on the website:
Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong (Lapsang Souchong) used pine wood or pine charcoal from Tongmu kuan in Wuyi mountain as materials. Because black tea has a strong capability of absorption, while pine charcoal will release plenty of smoke when burning. So the Lapsang Souchong, produced by hands and machines, has a heavy flavor of smoked and pine, which is suitable for people who prefer strong flavor.

Im looking forward to trying more of the tea samples and reviving my taste for exotic tea. TeaVivre ships to the UK, be sure to change the currency indicator, in the top right of the web page, to GBP to see the prices in sterling. The Green Tea Assortment costs £7.40 and the Black Tea Assortment is £6.50, shipping costs depend on the weight of the parcel, but start at £2.70. This might seem expensive but given the outstanding quality of the tea and the fact that you could easily pay that for a bottle of wine, it is really not such a high price to pay. I think any of these teas would be the ideal gift for a tea connoisseur.
Jumat, 24 Januari 2014
Fun with all kinds of recipes
A new recipe to Add Spice table, a meal to improve that add a regular at your home or to your wonderful, growing collection of recipe s for meals later.
A recipe is mixed from two or more ingredients. Some recipe-s too many ingredients, the organization require very complicated. The instructions can be as simple as mixing two things together or as several different steps to the ultimate step of putting the meal in the oven for final cooking like be involved. The fact is, the more effort going is the better in the recipe to get it right there.
Some cooks keep a collection of spices, herbs and other ingredients you use regularly in a certain part of their wardrobe. These items are always available as you signature to the taste of food that are certain Cook. It could be Greek oregano or Mexican chili powder or Jamaican jerk. Then there are items that bought, never used again. But you were an absolute necessity for a special dish that was prepared for the special occasion to be.
If you become really experimental, try recipe s from different countries. Might want to try your hand at Chinese food. A Caribbean meal can be a challenge. Or you can try something with saffron and rice from the Middle East.
The spices, you can find the biggest difference is when you start cooking from other countries. See also, that certain types of meat and vegetables in other regions as well as be used. India, used, for example, a lot of lamb in yours while Mexicans use mostly beef and Chinese have many with chicken.
And if you like books and magazines, collected a never end supply that on-line outlets about cooking may occur in the stores and flea markets and thrift. There are books about burgers, pans and fish Cook. Find others on crepes, and a pot meals and 30 minute meals. There are books that only include cooking for Christmas, or FRY stirring or frying. The list goes on and then there are the magazines.
You are shops, book stores all kinds of collectable cook books from thrift, used bookstores, encounter yard sales, and on line. There are many types of collectible books like this as a member of a cooking club collections that have been placed in binders from someone. These people have get every month, sometimes for years. There are annual collections in you for the year, cook books. There are collections in a magazine, too. And other people collect-s your recipe and then typing on index cards and put their favorite of ones in an index box. If you are organized, it is crazy not you. At least you do not have that ensure the closing up on you while you from a recipe in there cooking Cookbook.
You can collect, you dont even need recipe-s forever, but the very best chefs.
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