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Юрий Зименко
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Food of the Mid-Autumn Festival: These baked moulds of pastries filled with lotus paste are most recognizable and they are the Cantonese style mooncakes. For this version, rounds of pastries are filled with lotus paste, wrapped in a delicious bake or snow skin pastry.
Mooncakes come in many varieties, People of the Hokkien and Teochew dialect groups have their own type of mooncakes, The Hokkien ones are called “tau sar piah” that are wrapped in red and white paper in a long cylindrical roll. The Teochew yam moonckakes come in flaky spiral crispy skin. Yam is always used as filling instead of the most common lotus paste.
Businessmen are so innovative, today; consumers are spoiled of choice of mooncakes in varieties of flavours, sizes and packaging. But, like us, old-timers prefer the traditional lotus paste with salted egg yolk mooncakes, which are still the best.
Pomelo, which resembles giant grapefruit, is imported from Malaysia and Thailand. It is a part of this festival and is considered an auspicious fruit. Miniature yams are only sold during the Mid-Autumn Festival. They are usually eaten along with mooncakes. They are steamed, eaten with the skin peeled and then dipped in granulated sugar.
Although cooking daily meals is the norm. There are times when I have to ponder in advance what’s for lunch or dinner. At such time, the mind will always be drifting to what’s available in the freezer or fresh boxes. Today the packet of frozen ground pork and canned pineapple were handy and hence this dish.
My version:
Recipe:
Ingredients for making meat balls:
500 g minced pork
1 egg white
1 ½ tbsp corn flour
1 tbsp soy sauce
½ tsp sea salt or to taste
¼ tsp pepper
½ tsp sesame oil
Sauce ingredients:
1 tbsp chopped garlic
1 chilli - sliced
1 onion - sliced
½ can of pineapple rings – cut into bite-size, more if you like
Some pineapple juice from the can
5 tbsp tomato sauce [ketchup]
Salt, sugar and ajinomoto to taste
Method:
1. Mix all the ingredients, for meat balls, well to a sticky paste, shaped into balls, roll in flour and fried in hot oil till golden. Set aside and drained.
2. Fry garlic till light golden in colour, add in onion and cook till it is translucent.
3. Add in pineapple slices, tomato sauce, pineapple juice, chilli and seasonings, stir to mix well. The sauce should have a thick consistency.
4. Add back the cooked meat balls; turn the contents to coat the meat balls well. It's ready for serving.
While on the way to the MRT Station after dinner at Kuishin-Bo during our family outing on the 11th day of Chinese New Year, these branches of beautiful blooming pussy willows at the showcase windows of a shop in Suntec City Mall were spotted. The blooms were really unique, hence prompted ER to take the photos.
In the beginning, I really scrutinized these branches to make sure they were real and not fake or plastic ones. The flowers were so differently from those, fox tail shaped, that I have seen before.
After a few days of enjoying our head cook Maria's delicious homestyle Tuscan dishes we recommend you get out and experiment with the excellent local dining options. In nearby Lucca you can enjoy Italian classics like pizza and gelato or local favorites like the torte con becchi, a tart with fillings ranging from swiss chard to dark chocolate. Mark Bittman of the New York Times calls Lucca home of "probably the best food in Tuscany". Hear more about his dining recommendations in and around Lucca in this audio slide show.
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Who thought it could be?!
Ingredients
2 tablespoons fresh chives, finely chopped (optional)
4–6 Deli chicken tenders (about 1 lb)
1 (24-oz) package refrigerated mashed potatoes
1 (12-oz) jar chicken gravy
1 (11-oz) can yellow and white corn, drained
aluminum foil
1 1/2 cups shredded Colby Jack cheese
Prep
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Chop chives. Cut chicken into bite-size pieces.
Steps
Spread potatoes evenly in 2-quart baking dish. Top with chicken, gravy, and then corn; cover with foil. Bake 30–35 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
Remove foil and top with cheese; bake 3–4 more minutes more or until cheese melts. Top with chives. Serve.
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My favorite! And my friends all swear that it's the best cookie ever!
Recipe by Dreena Burton, Homestyle Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Made the old fashioned way--no sugar, just meal, egg, buttermilk, dash of oil, salt, and soda--and, in this case, a bit of mixed herbs and chopped garden greens. Much better than "self-rise mixes"! (The buttermilk and the soda, working together, do the 'rising'.)
Наталия Покровская-Креус
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Noodles serve with blanched vegetables and homestyle sauce which also double up as a dipping sauce for fried fish.
Use and purpose of alkaline water:
Alkaline water, also known as “gan sui” in Cantonese and “air abu” in Malay, is a clear solution of the salts sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate, and sometimes sodium phosphate.
Because it is often called “lye” water, it is frequently confused with lye or caustic soda, which is sodium hydroxide, a much harsher chemical that has limited culinary applications in the West.
In the Asian kitchen, alkaline water has few and specific uses. The characteristic springiness of Hong Kong style “mee” noodle is due to “gan sui”, which is added to noodle dough to firm up its texture, and give it a yellow tint.
It does the same for glutinous rice in “kee chang” (yellow alkaline glutinous rice dumplings) and in their Malay cousin, “kuih lopes”.
Steamed rice-flour dough, for example, in Nyonya “kuih kosui” and “ang koo kuih” skin, can also be given a firmer consistency by carefully measured amounts of alkaline water.
Dried cuttlefish or squid are sometimes briefly soaked in “gan sui” for the opposite effect - it makes them more tender when rehydrated.
As Asians do not fancy the slightly sour, acidic flavour of slowly fermented bread dough so beloved in the West, dim sum chefs add alkaline water to buns “pau” dough to neutralise any yeasty, sour overtones.
Alkaline water is sometimes used as a rising agent in the same way that baking soda is. For instance, it is stirred into “ma lai kou” batter, where it reacts with acids in the brown sugar to produce bubbles that yield a light, fluffy steamed cake.
Tips extracted from Sunday Times
About Chinese Mooncakes (excerpt from Sunday Times)
It is said that mooncakes festival marked the end of the summer season in ancient China, and the people celebrated their harvest by admiring the full moon and eating mooncakes.
Handmade mooncakes have thinner and softer skins, because they are individual wrapped by hand around fillings before shaped inside wooden moulds and baked. Traditional fillings are plain lotus seed paste with one-salted egg yolk.
Cantonese-style – the type with lotus seed paste wrapped with a thin layer of baked skin.
Tai Chong Kok 34 Sago Street
Teochew style – characterized by the flaky skins. Fillings mixtures of candied melon, sesame seeds, orange peel and red bean or chewy malt sugar paste
Thye Moh Chan Cake House 53 Geylang Lorong 27
Sze Thye Cake Shop Block 2 Beach Road 01-4795
Hokkien style – are similar to the Cantonese “wife biscuit” filled with candied winter melon paste and have a slightly salty taste
Tan Hock Seng Cake Shop, 86 Telok Ayer, 01-01 Far East Square
The one shown above was bought from Tai Thong Chinatown, one of our frequently patronise shop :) - ER
City dwellers like us rarely see banana trees growing near a pedestrian walkway in a public housing estate. Hence I took a photo of this unusual sight, especially one bearing a bunch of fruits!
It would be fantastic if I were there again and chanced upon the top few bananas ripening! A photo will sure ensued