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Monday, December 24, 2012
Merry Christmas
Here's wishing all fellow bloggers and friends,
"A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013!"
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"A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013!"
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Crunchy Rice Crispies Jumbles
These are really crunchy and one piece is not enough! I baked these for my grandsons who are cookie 'monsters'. Hmmm.... which kid isn't?
Ingredients:
115g butter
90g caster sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
175g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
75g rice crispies (I used Kellog's)
50g mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
a few glaced cherries, optional
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add egg and vanilla essence and cream well.
3. Add flour sifted with bicarbonate soda and mix well.
4. Add rice crispies and chocolate chips and mix well.
5. Spoon mixture onto lightly greased tray, spacing the batter to allow for spreading.
6. Bake in preheated oven 150deg C for 25 to 35 minutes. Slow bake to get the rice crispies crunchy.
Ingredients:
115g butter
90g caster sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
175g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
75g rice crispies (I used Kellog's)
50g mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
a few glaced cherries, optional
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add egg and vanilla essence and cream well.
3. Add flour sifted with bicarbonate soda and mix well.
4. Add rice crispies and chocolate chips and mix well.
5. Spoon mixture onto lightly greased tray, spacing the batter to allow for spreading.
6. Bake in preheated oven 150deg C for 25 to 35 minutes. Slow bake to get the rice crispies crunchy.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Rugelach
What is a Rugelach?
It's a cookie made with cream cheese dough, rolled around a filling of a variety of nuts, dried fruit, chocolate and jam.
I came across this recipe from Dorie Greenspan book. I wondered what it would taste like.
No wondering anymore! I baked it today and had a yummy time savouring a few pieces!
Ingredients: (from Dorie's)
For the Dough:
4 ozs cold cream cheese, cut into 4 pieces
1 stick butter (8 tablespoons) cold unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1. Let cream cheese and butter softenn slightly.
2. Put flour and salt in a food processor and scatter cream cheese and butter and pulse the machine for 6 to 10 times or until the dough forms large pieces. Do not let it form into a ball.
3. Gather dough into a ball (no kneading) and divide it in half. Shape each half into a disk and wrap in cling wrap individually and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or up to 1 day.
For the Filling:
2/3 cup raspberry jam/ apricot jam/ marmalade, microwaved for 20s to liquefy
2 tablespoons sugar, mixed with 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped nuts (I used pecan)
1/4 cup moist dried currants (I used mixed fruit which is soaked in liquor meant for fruit cake)
4 ozs mini chocolate chips
Set aside until dough is ready.
For the Glaze:
1 egg, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon cold water
2 tablespoons coarse sugar for sprinkling
To shape the cookies:
1. Take one piece of dough and leave the other piece in the refrigerator.
2. On a floured surface, place a plastic sheet over the dough and roll it out into a 11 to 12 inch circle.(I rolled a 10-inch). Dough tends to soften quickly and get sticky.
3. Spoon a thin layer of jam over the dough and sprinkle half the sugar mixture. Scatter half the nuts, currants and chocolate chips. Place plastic sheet over and gently press the filling into the dough.
4. Use a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut into 16 pieces. ( Easier to cut into quarters, then cut each quarter into 4 pieces)
5. Starting from the circumference, roll each piece to the centre. Remove and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
6. Glaze with egg and sprinkle some coarse sugar.
7. Bake in preheated oven 160deg C for 20 to 25 minutes.
It's a cookie made with cream cheese dough, rolled around a filling of a variety of nuts, dried fruit, chocolate and jam.
I came across this recipe from Dorie Greenspan book. I wondered what it would taste like.
No wondering anymore! I baked it today and had a yummy time savouring a few pieces!
Ingredients: (from Dorie's)
For the Dough:
4 ozs cold cream cheese, cut into 4 pieces
1 stick butter (8 tablespoons) cold unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1. Let cream cheese and butter softenn slightly.
2. Put flour and salt in a food processor and scatter cream cheese and butter and pulse the machine for 6 to 10 times or until the dough forms large pieces. Do not let it form into a ball.
3. Gather dough into a ball (no kneading) and divide it in half. Shape each half into a disk and wrap in cling wrap individually and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or up to 1 day.
For the Filling:
2/3 cup raspberry jam/ apricot jam/ marmalade, microwaved for 20s to liquefy
2 tablespoons sugar, mixed with 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped nuts (I used pecan)
1/4 cup moist dried currants (I used mixed fruit which is soaked in liquor meant for fruit cake)
4 ozs mini chocolate chips
Set aside until dough is ready.
For the Glaze:
1 egg, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon cold water
2 tablespoons coarse sugar for sprinkling
To shape the cookies:
1. Take one piece of dough and leave the other piece in the refrigerator.
2. On a floured surface, place a plastic sheet over the dough and roll it out into a 11 to 12 inch circle.(I rolled a 10-inch). Dough tends to soften quickly and get sticky.
3. Spoon a thin layer of jam over the dough and sprinkle half the sugar mixture. Scatter half the nuts, currants and chocolate chips. Place plastic sheet over and gently press the filling into the dough.
4. Use a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut into 16 pieces. ( Easier to cut into quarters, then cut each quarter into 4 pieces)
5. Starting from the circumference, roll each piece to the centre. Remove and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
6. Glaze with egg and sprinkle some coarse sugar.
7. Bake in preheated oven 160deg C for 20 to 25 minutes.
All for Rugelach!
Unglazed!
Glazed and baked! They look like grilled ribs!
Monday, December 10, 2012
Tauhu Goreng / Fried Beancake with Peanut Sauce
Lunch was tauhu goreng. It was easy to prepare just as long as you have the ground peauts at hand, an essential ingredient for this dish.
I do not have specific quantities for the ingredients used. I just estimated the amount of this and that and go by taste with lots of finger-licking!
Ingredients:
Tau Kwa, pan-fried or deep-fried and cut to size
Tempeh, optiional (fermented soya beans), sliced and deep-fried
Taugay (beansprouts), scalded
Cucumber, sliced
Peanut Sauce: (to be prepared before frying the tau kwa etc)
Ground peanuts (I used store-bought)
Sugar and salt to taste
Lime juice to taste
Dark soya sauce to taste and colour
Garlic, minced, preference of how garlicky
Chilli padi, preferred spiciness
Water
1. Place garlic, chilli, lime juice and a little water and mix well.
2. Add ground peanuts, sugar and salt and mix together and add some water and soya sauce while mixing to the consistency and colour preferred.
3. Taste and add more of whatever you feel is required. Spoon a portion of the sauce over tau kwa and other veggies and tuck in!
I do not have specific quantities for the ingredients used. I just estimated the amount of this and that and go by taste with lots of finger-licking!
Ingredients:
Tau Kwa, pan-fried or deep-fried and cut to size
Tempeh, optiional (fermented soya beans), sliced and deep-fried
Taugay (beansprouts), scalded
Cucumber, sliced
Peanut Sauce: (to be prepared before frying the tau kwa etc)
Ground peanuts (I used store-bought)
Sugar and salt to taste
Lime juice to taste
Dark soya sauce to taste and colour
Garlic, minced, preference of how garlicky
Chilli padi, preferred spiciness
Water
1. Place garlic, chilli, lime juice and a little water and mix well.
2. Add ground peanuts, sugar and salt and mix together and add some water and soya sauce while mixing to the consistency and colour preferred.
3. Taste and add more of whatever you feel is required. Spoon a portion of the sauce over tau kwa and other veggies and tuck in!
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