Showing posts with label I got it from somewhere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I got it from somewhere. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2013

Slow poached eggs

[from Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan]

1. Fill your biggest, deepest pot with water and put it on the hob over the lowest possible heat.

2. Use something to keep the eggs from sitting on the bottom of the pot where the temperature will be the highest. E.g. a cake rack or steamer rack.

3. Use an instant-read thermometer to monitor the tmperature in the pot. If it is too hot, add cold water or an ice cube, once the water is between 60 to 63 degree celsius, add the eggs to the pot.l let them bathe for 40 to 45 minutes, checking the temperature regularly with the thermometer, or sticking your finger in the water  (it should be the temperature of a very hot bath water) and moderating it as needed.

4. You can use the eggs immediately or store them in the fridge  up to 24 hrs. if you plan to store them, chill them until cold in an ice water bath. If you refrigerate the egss, warm them under pipping hot tap water for 1 minute before using. 

5. To serve the eggs, crack them one at a time into a small saucer, the thin white will not and should not be firm or solid; top the dish to pour off and discard the loosest part of the white and slide the egg onto the dish it's destined for.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Hokkaido White Chocolate Cookies

Hokkaido White Chocolate Cookies [img source: The Traveling Hungry Boy]
I have always been fascinated by this white chocolate cookies ever since Mutter brought a box home from her Japan trip with Vater. The cookies came with two loving pussy cats, and was light in taste with a melt-in-your-mouth quality.

Today I was reading "Popular Cakes in Hong Kong" when I cam across this recipe for said cookies. Don't look as pretty but I hope anyone who reads this, please give it a try and tell me how is the recipe? Maybe I could do it as part of Xmas presents (provided I am not exhausted. I am very easily tired nowadays).

Ingredients
Cookie Dough
60g butter, 40g icing sugar, 4g emulsifier
30g egg whites, 20g sugar, 60g low gluten flour (低筋)
  
Chocolate filling
100g white chocolate, 40g whipping cream

Method
Chocolate filling
Bring whipping cream to boil. Add white chocolate to melt. Rest at room temperature for one hour.

Cookie Dough
Soften butter at room termperature. Cream emulsifier and icing sugar until pale yellow and slightly fluffy.
Whisk egg whites and icing sugar when peaked.
Sieve flour and stir in soft butter. GHold in egg white by twice to combine.

Spread egg white batter on slit mat. Place in preheated oven. Bake at 160 degree celsisu for 10-15min.

Assembly
Pipe chocolate filling on biscuit. Top with another biscuit. Press slightly

Monday, June 18, 2012

Quick Mittwoch Dinner

I literally got it (meaning dinner) from somewhere. I just didn't have the mood to go to violin class on Wednesday, especially since I did OT until nearly 8pm, which made class nearly pointless.
I bought honey baked chicken from the supermarket, tortilla chips (massive weakness for them), and quickly made tamagoyaki and a salad. Oopz  now just realized I forgot to take photos of my dinner with my Bruder with his family. We were picnicking in our own apartment =D. Probably a taste of what we will be doing when we go backpacking again this year.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Karei Rilakkuma-wannabe

B1 knowing I have a Rilakkuma craze, sent me this photo he saw on Facebook. I didn't think he look like Rilakkuma but still cute nonetheless.