Monday, June 20, 2016

How to make old-fashioned peanut brittle

Make old-fashioned peanut brittle just like the professionals. Who would ever think making candy at home could be such fun!

Ingredients
 1 1/2teaspoons baking soda
1teaspoon water
1teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2cups sugar
1cup water
1cup light corn syrup
3tablespoons butter or margarine
1pound shelled unroasted peanuts

Directions
 1 Heat oven to 200ºF. Butter 2 cookie sheets, 15 1/2x12 inches, and keep warm in oven. Mix baking soda, 1 teaspoon water and the vanilla; reserve.
2 Mix sugar, 1 cup water and the corn syrup in 3-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, to 240ºF on candy thermometer or until small amount of syrup dropped into very cold water forms a soft ball that flattens when removed from water.
3 Stir in butter and peanuts. Cook, stirring constantly, to 300ºF or until small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard, brittle threads. (Watch carefully so mixture does not burn.) Immediately remove from heat. Quickly stir in baking soda mixture until light and foamy.
4 Pour half the candy mixture onto each cookie sheet; quickly spread about 1/4 inch thick. Cool completely, at least 1 hour. Break into pieces. Store in covered container.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Japanese-style Beef Row - Full of Power

Beef is full of protein, it will make people feel full of strength, full of boundless energy.

Raw Materials:
Patty (do McDonald's patty Patty size of about 4 to 5): 350 g beef, pig meat, 150 grams, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, 1/2 onion, 1 teaspoon of flour, bread crumbs 30 ~ 40 g, 1 teaspoon butter, 2 tablespoons milk, a little nutmeg, a little black pepper.
Sauce: wine (sake or white wine), 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon tomato sauce 2 tablespoons mirin 2 tablespoons, 1/2 onion, garlic 2 to 3, and 1 tablespoon of butter, a little black pepper, 2 tablespoons water.

Step:
1, take half of the onion cut into very fine.
2, the other half of the onion into onion rub mud; also rub garlic into garlic spare.
3, the milk into the dry bread crumbs, and stir well soaked.
4, pot put a little butter and fry the onions simmered soft, fried to the water.

5, until the onion and let cool, pour a little flour and thoroughly mix evenly, so Patty taste more tight.
6, ground beef and minced pork mixed, stir until salt and about 2 to 3 minutes with the clutch meat.
7, according to taste and then add a little black pepper, nutmeg and mix well.
8, was added to the meat in the egg, chopped onion, bread crumbs soaked in milk.

9, hands dipped in a little oil, the marinated meat group into a ball, then press into a pie, then put the pad into the kitchen paper (kitchen paper requires inhalation, not broken, non-stick) on the plate into the refrigerator, cold about 1 hour.
10, to boil hot, pour the oil, then add meat pie, in gently for about 1 minute and a half, turn over; after the turn over, drained of excess oil and water, low heat and cook the other side for 2 minutes, then cover cap, small gently for about 6-7 minutes, turn off the heat and then simmer for 2 to 3 minutes.
11, remove the Hamburg discharged into the pan, add 2 tablespoons of wine in the pot to boil, then add the onion paste, garlic, ketchup, soy sauce, mirin and a little sugar to boil the sauce, you can add a little butter and a little sticky after and black pepper mix, and finally poured into to the Hamburg steak. Made Japanese-style beef row is generally equipped with rice or mashed potatoes to eat, of course, you can also caught in the bread or biscuits in it.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Milk Balls Broccoli for Your Child


This is a very "stretchable" dish, parents only need the child's age and preferences, and make some adjustments, you can make this dish suitable from 1 year old to teenagers, and even adults will eat I feel good. For example, when the child reaches the hour, we should pay attention to the broccoli and cook softer, more easily digested with boiled chicken meatballs cooking, but also can not add directly to the cream sauce and boiled broccoli cream; while some older, you can put broccoli Some hard-cooked, you can also add baby corn, mushrooms and other children like vegetables; of course, can also be used to cook fried beef meatball dish, or with cauliflower, cabbage and other robe instead of broccoli; even, who do not like milk children, can also be used to do face Italian tomato sauce; and the dish can not only rice, noodles can meet the different needs of the child.
In short, a favorite sauce to cook vegetables is the core.

Raw Material:
Broccoli and a half trees, 8 to 10 meatballs cooked, 1/2 cup whipping cream, 1/2 cup milk, flour 30 grams, 30 grams of butter, 2 cups chicken broth, salt to taste.

Step:
1, Wash broccoli, select into small pieces; the light cream and milk mixed use.

2, the butter into the pot to low heat and pour into the flour into the liquid and continue to low heat and slowly stir constantly with a shovel, the oil, flour mixed Stir and rich flavor.
3, after a little butter batter cooling the milk, pour cream mixture slowly, stirring one-sided, in order to avoid agglomeration of flour, boiled thick, creamy sauce.

4, pour chicken broth diluted cream sauce and put in advance Zhashu balls into the pot, simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes tasty, or until sauce is slightly thick.

5, Pour the broccoli Sprinkle the salt, turn up the heat and simmer for about 2 minutes, or until soup is thick wrap the meatballs and broccoli can be.

Recommendations: cream sauce making too much trouble, but a lot of useful, either soup, gratin dishes can also be done using. Therefore, one can do more, into the ice box, or stored frozen in the crisper, remove the used cooking every demand.