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Chinese Banquet
Yesterday was my best friend’s daughter 156th days birthday. Weird number to celebrate, I know. The meal was served in traditional Chinese banquet style.
Here was the best dish of the night – Bake Conch.
If I need to replicate this, I would do the following…
Directions (I’m guessing)
1. Cut conch, celery, carrot, garlic and onion in small pieces.
2. Stir fry them and season with curry power.
3. Stuff the mixture back into the conch’s shell.
4. Bake at 300C for 10 minutes.
I will give this a try sometimes and see if I’m right.
Oh, since this is a Chinese birthday banquet, the tradition is to have Red Egg. Nothing special just hard boiled egg colored with red dye.
Viennese Apple Strudel
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Peel and cut 4 golden delicious apples into pieces. Combine apple with raisins (1/2 cup), sugar (1/4 cups), almonds (1/4 cups), vanilla extract (1 tsp) and lemon zest (from 1/2 lemon).
3. Roll out 4 sheets of filo dough. Brush butter between each sheet. Sprinkle bread crumbs over the pastry and spoon the filing over the dought. Roll up the pastry. Seal the end with butter.
4. Bake for 35 minutes. Brush more butter over the top.
5. Let it cool for 5 minutes. Sift icing sugar. Done.
The perfect pancake
I cheated… Made the perfect pancake with Aunt Jemima…
Spending a fortune on grocery shopping
I slowly found myself spending way too much on grocery. Every week minimum $100. Do I really eat this much food in one week? To fully understand my spending habit, here is a list of stuff I bought from my latest supermarket trip.
Meat: $40 Chicken wings, pork chop, hot pot slice meat (lamb, beef and pork)
Produce:$20 White radish, lettuce, green onion, snow pea, mushroom
Fruit: $10 Baby mandarin, apple, orange
Drink:$10 Apple juice, orange juice, milk
Processed food:$50 Squid ball, beef ball, fish ball, noodle, dumpling, tofu, bread
Stuff I don’t need at all: $30 Candies, snacks, sweet and savory pastry
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Total spending $160
Let me report back in a week and see how much I consume.
Modernist Cuisine
Modernist Cuisine cookbook is every chef’s cooking bible. I’m dying to get my hands on this six-volume, 2,438-page, 52-pounds, $500 cookbook. I know I can’t afford it. I know it is impossible to use any of the recipe at home. But that doesn’t mean I can’t learn a thing or two about modern cooking technique or enjoy the breathtaking, high speed photography features throughout the books.
I will put this into my 2012 Christmas wishlist.
Photos and video credit: Modernist Cuisine
