Chocolate Cornets

Japanese Bread! I know I said this quite a lot, but it's another recipe from cookingwithdog! YAY :D 

I've seen this before on the internet. It has a cute shape of POOP or shell, but I prefer poop anyway :P
But DOESN'T taste like it. It's filled with chocolate and taste nice!

Before

After 1 hour

I don't make bread as much as I bake cakes. So I was so shock when I saw my bread dough puff up that much.. 

Uneven shapes :p

I had an enjoyable time making this, since I made them together with my sister, her friend, and my lil' cousin ~(^_^~)(~^_^)~ I think I'm going to try another bread recipe when my sisters came home on 26th! 


CLICK HERE for recipe

another post after a long break

Hi, it's been a long time since my last post. Do you miss me? ;;)
Actually during the long break, I have cooked/baked some food I wanna post in here. But I am (will always will- I guess) too lazy to search the photos that are buried under other 2,525 *catchy number, eh?* photos. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, you know.

So, I only have two of them in hand right now. Meringue Cookies and Kani Cream Korokke (another food from runnyrunny999)

*crisp*

Green Tea and Chocolate Meringue

Kani (Crab) Cream Korokke

 MERINGUE :

I'm going to talk about the meringue first, so that you don't get confused :p I think making meringue cookies is like making macarons but minus almond meal? It's easy and only took FEW ingredients to make for the basic ones (egg whites, sugar, vanilla extract, and cream of tartar). You can skip the cream of tartar and add a pinch of salt instead. SEE?! You can make this anytime. If you don't have those ingredients I guess there's something wrong with you *teehee*

Swiss Meringue Cookies
recipe adapted from somewhere

-4 egg whites 
-1 cup of sugar 
-a pinch of cream of tartar/salt
-1/4 tsp vanilla extract or other flavorings

1. Put everything except vanilla in a double boiler (You put ingredients in a heatproof metal bowl, then put the bowl on a pan filled with water)
2. Constantly whisk the mixture until it's warm to the touch or water is simmering (just almost boiling point, not boiled)
3. With an electric beater/stand mixer, whip up the egg whites until stiff and glossy peaks form. 
4. Then, put your flavoring and mix until just combine.
5. Pipe / scoop dough onto a cookie pan (greased and lined with a cookie sheet or parchment paper)
6. Bake on a preheated oven (100 degrees celsius) for 50-60 minutes.

Notes :

To make green tea meringues -add 2 tbsp green tea powder
        chocolate           -add 2 tbsp cocoa powder 

*I always add 1/4 tsp vanilla extract for any flavor though*


KANI CREAM KOROKKE :


A crispy yet creamy tasty Japanese treat! Just click on the link I gave you above for the recipe :) 
In the video, he (the cook) divided his dough into four pieces. I think it's too big, so I made mine into 13 balls *I gave my maid two balls BEFORE I took the photo. I DIDN'T eat it*

 Thanks for stopping bye, have a nice day in the kitchen! :D

Caramel Karaage

Caramel is sweet. Fried Chicken is salty and savory. Combining them together never crossed my mind. I tried to do it today, after watching a video from runnyrunny999 (a Japanese blogger)last night. And you know what? It taste amazing! 

Picture from Google

Picture from Google

When I was about to make it, I realize I didn't have any caramel candy! :( *look at recipe* So I made my own substitute instead.

Caramel Sauce (NOT candy, but works well) :

-8 tbsp brown sugar (or palm sugar)
-2 tbsp condensed milk
-2 tbsp butter
-3 tbsp whipping cream

Method :

1.Cook sugar and condensed milk on low heat until it bubbles
2.Remove from heat. Stir in butter and whipping cream until butter melts.
3.Continue stirring until mixture thicken. 

You really have to try this dish at home. It's easy to make one, so give it a try! :)

Ingredients :

-300g chicken

-1 beaten egg　

-1 tbsp soy sauce　

-2 tbsp flour

-30g grated ginger　

Sauce:

-5 tbsp bouillon stock　

-50g minced onion 　

-1 tbsp white wine　

-1 tbsp butter　

-2 tbsp ketchup

-1 tbsp minced garlic　

-1/2 tbsp soy sauce　
-3 pieces caramel candy (I use caramel sauce instead)


Method : Click HERE

TA-DA! This is my caramel karaage! 

I sprinkle them with seaweed and sesame seeds

Japanese Hamburger Steak (Hambagu)

I cooked for lunch today. I guess I'm interested in cooking too, beside baking :D

So, I've been watching videos from cookingwithdog on youtube recently. And what I cooked today is one of her dish. It's Japanese hamburger steak (hambagu). A different way of eating a hamburger, this dish is eaten with hot rice instead of bread, but taste just great! 

I really felt playing the game"cooking mama" directly in the kitchen when I was cooking this :P

My tool really looks like Mama's :D

Hamburger Steak   
Serves 2

Ingredients : *CLICK HERE FOR METHOD 


- Fried Onion -
1 Onion (200g/7.05 oz) - 2/3 for hamburg meat mixture, 1/3 for onion sauce
1 tbsp Olive Oil

150g Broccoli (5.29 oz)
1 Steamed Potato (160g/5.64 oz)
1 tsp Olive Oil
1 Tomato

250g Mixture of Ground Beef and Pork (8.82 oz) - beef : pork=7 : 3 (I use 250g ground beef)
1/3 tsp Salt
A pinch of Black Pepper
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
2/3 Fried Onion

15g Panko - Breadcrumbs (0.53 oz)
2 tbsp Milk
1 Egg

- Onion Gravy -
1/3 Fried Onion
50ml Water (1.69 fl. oz)
1 1/2 tbsp Soy Sauce
1 tbsp Mirin (substitute : lemon juice + sugar)
1 clove of Grated Garlic
10g Butter (0.353 oz)

These are how I served them :)
I served them with a Japanese-looking-dish :P Add a bowl of miso soup if you like. *Good luck in the kitchen*