Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Gold Flakes/Cristal Champagne Doughnut
A restaurant in Brooklyn is making waves on social media after revealing it is selling a doughnut with Cristal champagne icing covered in 24-karat gold flakes. (Continue reading...)
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Friday, September 4, 2015
Kuro Burger - Would you try this?
Kuro
Burger (Black Burger) is a product line of hamburger sold by the Japanese franchises
of the Burger King fast food restaurant chain. The buns and the cheese
of the hamburger are colored black with bamboo charcoal. Wikipedia
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
How to Grow 100 Pounds Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet
On many occasions, we've been tempted to grow our own potatoes. They're fairly low maintenance, can be grown in a pot or in the ground, last a fairly long time if stored properly, and can be very nutritious (high in potassium and vitamin C). Here's more incentive: according to this article, you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 sq. feet.
According to this article from the Seattle Times, potatoes planted
inside a box with this method can grow up to 100 pounds of potatoes in
just 4 square feet. All that is required:
Lumber
Seed potatoes
Soil
Careful attention to watering
The Times' guide for building a potato growing box yields up to a 100 lbs. of potatoes in a mere 4 square feet is shown below:
Plant as early as April or as late as August 1, with an approximated 3 month till harvest turnaround time.
Cut apart larger seed potatoes, making sure there are at least two eyes in each piece you plant.
Dust the cut pieces with fir dust, which seals the open ends from bacteria.
Fertilize with 10-20-20 fertilizer at planting and a couple of times during the season.
Water so that the plants are kept at an even level of moisture.
Don't plant in the same area in consecutive years or use the same soil to fill your potato box, as potatoes can attract various diseases.
"To save space, Lutovsky recommends building a box and planting inside it, adding sides to the box as the plant grows and filling the new space with mulch or soil. When the plant blossoms, it starts setting potatoes in this added soil. Soon after that, you can start removing the bottom boards from your box and "robbing" the plant, reaching in carefully and pulling out new potatoes."
Source:
apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-grow-100-pounds-of-potatoes-in-…
seattletimes.com/html/homegarden/2002347126_potatoes25.html
Lumber
Seed potatoes
Soil
Careful attention to watering
The Times' guide for building a potato growing box yields up to a 100 lbs. of potatoes in a mere 4 square feet is shown below:
Plant as early as April or as late as August 1, with an approximated 3 month till harvest turnaround time.
Cut apart larger seed potatoes, making sure there are at least two eyes in each piece you plant.
Dust the cut pieces with fir dust, which seals the open ends from bacteria.
Fertilize with 10-20-20 fertilizer at planting and a couple of times during the season.
Water so that the plants are kept at an even level of moisture.
Don't plant in the same area in consecutive years or use the same soil to fill your potato box, as potatoes can attract various diseases.
"To save space, Lutovsky recommends building a box and planting inside it, adding sides to the box as the plant grows and filling the new space with mulch or soil. When the plant blossoms, it starts setting potatoes in this added soil. Soon after that, you can start removing the bottom boards from your box and "robbing" the plant, reaching in carefully and pulling out new potatoes."
Source:
apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-grow-100-pounds-of-potatoes-in-…
seattletimes.com/html/homegarden/2002347126_potatoes25.html
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
How to Store Coffee at Home
Melissa Aki, Yahoo
Contributor Network
Aug 21, 2012
Aug 21, 2012
Many
people spend upwards of $15 on top quality coffee, only to do the
unthinkable-have it ground before taking it home. From the moment you grind
coffee, it begins to lose freshness and even after one day, the taste and smell
are noticeably different.
The
situation is made worse when multiple pounds of coffee are bought and ground at
one time. No one would buy two or three bottles of wine, open them, and stick
them in the refrigerator for weeks before drinking them, so why would you do
the same with coffee?
If
you are going to spend money on top-notch coffee, then it's best to invest in a
grinder. A quality burr grinder can be purchased for less than fifty
bucks. (A blade grinder will not give you a precise grind,
therefore the coffee will not be the best.)
Once
you have a grinder, storing the coffee at home is simple. Keep whole beans in a
dark, air-tight container and leave it in a cool, dry place. Any opaque,
sealable container or specially made coffee canister works well. (Exposure to light
also affects the quality of the coffee).
If
you don't have an air-tight container, keeping the beans in the bag is ok as
long as you let the air out and seal it as tightly as possible and for God's
sake, don't freeze or refrigerate the coffee! Moisture and cold causes the
beans to lose taste and the beans also absorb odors from the refrigerator, much
like baking soda. On the converse, don't leave whole bean coffee in a place
where heat and humidity can get to it.
If
you want to be a coffee purist, you can grind the beans fresh each time you
make coffee. I tried this for awhile and it became a bit tedious every morning,
so now I grind a small amount of coffee (enough for a day or two) and store it
in an air-tight coffee tin.
When
buying whole bean coffee, it's best to buy in small quantities. The date the
beans were roasted also affects the flavor. Even unground whole bean coffee
will eventually lose flavor, so there's no need to stockpile several pounds at
a time.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
FDA Adds Alaska Salmon Testing To Radiation Monitoring Program
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Watermelon Cake Recipe スイカケーキ 青汁 グラサージュケーキ Summer Recipes
夏になるとスイカのお菓子が作りたくなります。
ヘルシーで想像以上に美味しいので、ぜひ作ってみてください！
今回のレシピは、大胆に丸く抜いたスイカに
練乳ムースをのせ、青汁の色を生かしたグラサージュをかけて仕上げました。
全て自己流 Moso-Styleです。
実は完成までに 2回、失敗してしまいました（汗）
In Japan, one of the most popular ways to beat the heat is by eating watermelon. For the Moso family, summer makes us want to make watermelon sweets!
This recipe is made from a literal watermelon cake that is covered with a condensed milk moose and glaze colored green with aojiru. This recipe is our original - Moso-Style! It tastes incredible and is healthy too!
*RECIPE*
▶ Watermelon Cake (Makes one 15cm cake)
1. Cut out watermelon using circular shape
2.Cut it in thickness of 3.5 cm.
▶ White Mousse:
3. Whip 50g (50 cc) fresh cream 80%.
4.Put 100g (100 cc) milk, 25g condensed milk and 10g granulated sugar into a pan.
Heat it until melted.
5. Turn off heat just before boiling. Add 2.5g powdered gelatin and melt.
6.Cool the whole pan by ice water.
Put in vanilla essence.
Cool it while mixing and thicken it.
7.Add 6 in 3 and mix it.
8.Reinsert the circle mold into 2.
Put it in thinly.
Cool and hardens in a refrigerator.
9.Steep 5g powdered gelatin into 15g (tablespoon 1) water.
▶ Black Glaze:
10.Mix 10g black cocoa , 28g (tablespoon 2) granulated sugar , 20g (20 cc) water, and 20g (20 cc) fresh cream. Make it boil with a microwave oven.
11.Take the quantity of 1/5（4g）from 9. Put it in 10, mix and melt.
12.Put 11 into a forcing bag or a thick plastic bag and cool it.
▶ Green Glaze
13.Dissolve 40g Aojiru powder in water 100g (100 cc).
14. Add 100g granulated sugar and 100g (100 cc) fresh cream into a pan. Hang it on the fire.
15. After boiling and melting,stop the fire. Put the steeped gelatin (the remainder of 11) in and melt.
16. Filter with a net.
17. Thicken while ice water cools.
18. Taken out 8 from the refrigerator. Remove the cake from the mold wrapped around a wet warm towel.
19. Pour 17(green glaçage) on 18. Even if thickness is strong and it is loose, it does not go well.
20. Pour 12 on 19 Like the black lines of the watermelon. If it cools too much, a lump is made and it cannot draw well.
21. You get it after chilled in the refrigerator.
*レシピ* 15センチのケーキ1個
１．スイカをお好みの大きさに丸く抜く。
（小さなサイズをいっぱい作るのもいいと思います。）
２．3.5センチの厚さに切る。
白いムースを作ります。
３．生クリーム50g（50cc）を8分立てにする。
４．鍋に牛乳100g（100cc）、練乳25g、グラニュー糖10gを入れ
火にかけ、煮溶かす。
５．沸騰直前に火から下ろし、粉ゼラチン2.5gを振り入れ、
溶かす。
６．鍋ごと氷水にあてる。
バニラエッセンスも入れ、混ぜながら冷やし、
とろみを付ける。
７．３に６を加え混ぜる。
８．２にセルクルをはめ直し、７を薄く入れ、
冷蔵庫で冷やし固める。
９．粉ゼラチン5gを水15g（大さじ1）に入れ、ふやかしておく。
黒いグラサージュを作ります。
１０．ブラックココア10g、グラニュー糖28g（大さじ2）、
水20g（20cc）、生クリーム20g（20cc）を混ぜ、
電子レンジで沸騰するまでかける。
１１．９から1/5（4g）の分量を取り、１０に入れ混ぜ溶かす。
１２．絞り袋や厚手のビニール袋に１１を入れ粗熱をとっておく。
緑のグラサージュを作ります。
１３．青汁の粉40gを水100g（100cc）で溶かしておく。
１４．鍋に１３とグラニュー糖（100g）、生クリーム100g（100cc）を
入れ、火にかける。
１５．煮溶かしながら沸騰させ火を止め、
１１の残りのふやかしたゼラチンを入れ溶かす。
１６．網で濾す。
１７．氷水で冷やしながらとろみをつける。
１８．８を冷蔵庫から取り出し、電子レンジなどで
温めた濡れタオルなどを巻いてケーキを
セルクルから取り出す。
１９．１７の緑のグラサージュを１８にかける。
とろみが緩いとキレイにかかりません。
とろみが強すぎても同じです。
２０．１２を１９にスイカの黒い線の様にかける。
冷やしすぎると塊ができて上手く描けません。
２１．冷蔵庫に入れ冷やしてからいただく。
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Polish Boy
Photo courtesy of Deck On Food.
A local favorite from Cleveland, OH.
Polish Boys consist of kielbasa on a bun topped with french fries, coleslaw, and BBQ sauce. I miss these!
Friday, January 3, 2014
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