Cooking Tips

What is dashi ?

Joanzo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:57:16 -0700

In fact, dashi can be made by ourself with boiling kombu dashi ( thick cutted sea weeds ) and bonito ( shaved wood fish meat ) that can create fragrance and delicious liquid. Nowadays, dashi sold in instant form, pink grain and is used for soup base for miso soup, hot pot, and soup noodles. Dashi is the most important flavor of Japanese food and it's used in many different dishes.

Making Aromatic Cakes

administrator — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:00:24 -0700

When making cakes, never miss with aroma. Two of them are tied one to each other. Giving aroma to cake make it more delicious. Just read the tips below.

Type of Aromatic you can use :

Margarine or Butter?

administrator — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:05:13 -0700

People often wrong with margarine and butter because its appearance approximately equal. In fact, each material of those cake ingredients are different. What is the difference?

Margarine itself make from vegetable fat or flora and contain water and salt. Therefore if using margarine, better not to add another salt. Most margarine sold in bowl or plastic packaging in various measure. Not like butter, margarine easily soften when shaked.

About Thyme

administrator — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:13:12 -0700

What is thyme?

This mini spice used a lot in western cuisine. Thyme is one of famous leaf spice come from Egypt. It has mini leaf, has oval shape, and hard stalk. Has exclusive and fragrance aroma. In greek thyme used a lot as herbal medicine.

How to create almond powder

administrator — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:34:09 -0700

Almond powder made from almond bean which has been refined. It is easy to make it, peel the bean skin, then bake for a moment. Just wait until becomes cold, then put into grinder and process until smooth. You can buy which in the state grinded, but the aroma is not fresh. Almond powder can be all purpose replacement to make better cake, if there is no almond bean you can replace it with cashew

Holiday Cooking Tips

administrator — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:07:47 -0700

Holiday is similar with eating with family, enjoy dinner together and share joyful time with all friends, family, and relations. Cooking is one thing that can be shared with love with others at holiday. These are a couple tips of cooking tips for holiday :

Prepare for your ingredients
When you want to cook for a special day, make sure to prepare all of your ingredients ( chopped, sliced, measured ) according to the recipe. So on the day you can concentrate on preparing the recipe.