Home Made Mayo
Well, I've finally bought the dijon mustard from the supermarket and set to work making my first batch of mayo. I've gone through the internet for home made mayo recipes and they basically use quite the same proportions but I've made a little adjustment here and there to my taste and here's what I used:
1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons of dijon mustard
1 tablespoon of lemon juce
1/2 cup of oil (the suggestion's to use a light-tasting oil so it won't mar the taste of your mayo)
1 teaspoon of salt (to taste)
And straighaway, I made myself a mini tuna mayo sub topped with green olives. Oh I added a few shakes of cayenne pepper to the tuna mayo too!
Bon Apetite!
Soup Pasta
Dessert will probably be kiwis but I'm still waiting for the king to finish his food before deciding.
Christmas Trees Sugar Biscuits
My very first attempt at making sugar biscuits with royal icing! The icing's made with egg white. I'm bringing them to our potluck Christmas party today at Betsy's. I'll put up the photo of the Christmas Basket that I'll be putting together as a present for everyone.
My First Loaf
My friends know that I am into cakes and cookies. The bread baker at home is really Moobe. This is my virgin attempt, using a recipe found in a blog called A Year in Bread. All in all, it took 4.5 hours (from the word go to the finished product) but it's well worth it. I could have left it for a little longer on the final proofing as it's not as light as I wished but nonetheless, it's nice. I halved the recipe, and used 5g of dry yeast with a couple spoons of warm water to get the yeast going. I'd use a little less yeast next time. Oh a little less salt will be good too.
I think I will mix in herbs the next time. Here's the ingredients that I used (approximately half of what the original recipe called for):
283g plain flour
14g sugar
5g dry yeast (mixed with 2 tbl sp warm water)
15g butter (melted)
454g milk (room temperature, though it called for warm milk in the recipe)
412g bread flour
for the method, do refer to the original blog post. The writer had step-by-step instructions, right down to the nitty gritty. Very useful indeed!
Eyeballs anyone?
Halloween potluck at Ayako's called for a 'scary but edible' dish. What's scarier than bloody eyeballs?
It's simply red jelly (we've put in cut-up strawberries) wrapped in a snowskin (see recipe from my mooncake) and then streaked with food colouring for effect. The 'pupil' is the snowskin mixed with a bit of cocoa powder. I'll probably make it in other shapes for other occassions haha!
New Thangka added
A beautiful Thangka made of leather and bronze pieces. It's about 200 years old and has been sitting in storage at the owner's home for too long :)
So M's helped clean it up, loaned a part of our wall to W T so the Thangka can be admired the way it should :)
One Pot Wonder
A 1 pot dinner for Sunday that costs less than $20 (and enough for 2 meals!) See the crab shell on the top? (oops, forgot to turn it over... hahhaa!)
