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    Current Obsession

    in General Chin Wagging

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    Nebulas.

     

    I'm so there with you!

     

    Other than Mika?? Doctor Who!!!

     

    I'm so there with you too! :biggrin2:

     

    Can't believe my previous post in this thread was just below David Tennant's name and I didn't even notice! :aah: I must have had some star dust particles blocking my view :naughty:

    The *Handsome, Ridiculously Good Looking Guys that you fancy the heck out of* thread.

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    I'm personally a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes. He's generally cute however, but there's something about the manic personality and black curls he has as Sherlock

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    I find him irresistibly spooky :teehee:.

     

    And here's a man I find utterly charming:

     

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    It was against all odds for me to ever like a man like him (I even had trouble finding a remotely sexy picture of him :naughty:). But he's just SO charming! And he's Scottish :wub2:

    Wonka's kitchen cooking thread

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    you can also make a thumb print in the center, and put a little bit of your favorite jam... they then look like this:

     

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    These cookies are not a French Canadian tradition at all... i think it's from Scotland. But they are soooooooo good, that the recipe made it over here too :blush-anim-cl:

     

    Yup, the crown jewel of Scottish baking :licks_lips:.

     

    I've never bothered to bake them (or even look for a recipe) before, but Guy, you make the baking sound so easy I may even be able to resist the temptation to grab a box in the store and try making them myself :thumb_yello:

    Wonka's kitchen cooking thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted · Edited by Siu

    I used to be like your kids, addicted to Western food :aah: but now I know to taste and "analyze" (as my mum would say) Asian food, I really like them, especially the spices!

     

    I guess it's kids and spices that doesn't often agree. As a child I used to hate many foods I now love.

    Wonka's kitchen cooking thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    We usually eat rice for dinner, but you can still make things like this :wink2: very popular, you might have heard of it :biggrin2:

    Beef Pho Recipe

    (Rice Noodles Soup)

    Ingredients : Serves 6

     

    Broth

    1 kg Shin beef bones

    340 g Lean stewing beef

    5 1/4 pints Water

    1 Onion, unpeeled and halved

    3 Ginger, unpeeled and halved

    1 Cinnamon stick

    6 Peppercorns

    6 Coriander seeds

    4Star anise

    2 Carrots, unpeeled, cut into chunks

     

    Additions

    225 g Thick steak in one piece

    225 g Rice noodles

    455 g Flat, thick dried noodles

    2 tablespoon Nuoc Mam (fish sauce)

    1 Brown onion, thinly sliced

    3 Green onions (scallions), finely chopped

    125 g Beansprouts

    50 g Coriander (cilantro) leaves, torn into sprigs

    50 g Mint leaves, chopped

    1 Red chili pepper, seeded and sliced into rings

    2 Limes cut into wedges

    Method :

    Pour the water into a large pot. Add the shin bones and beef. Bring to the boil and skim the surface. Turn heat to medium-low, partially cover and simmer for two hours. skimming often, before add in remaining broth ingredients. Simmer another 90 minutes and remove from heat. Leave to cool.

    Strain the broth through a fine sieve and discard bones, carrots, onion and spices. Skim fat from broth. Cut the beef finely across the grain to paper thinness. Reserve.

    Soak rice noodles in warm water about 20 minutes until soft, drain and reserve.

    Return broth pot to heat. Boil with Nuoc Cham then reduce heat to very low. Fill a separate big pot three-quarters full of water and boil, add noodles and rinsed bean sprouts.

    Continue cooking until noodles are tender but not mushy. Bean sprouts should retain some crispness.

    Serve boiling broth first then drain noodles into 6 bowls, top equally with beef, raw onion rings, chopped green onions (scallions), and thin raw steak slices, which will par-cook in the bowls.

    Garnish with coriander and mint leaves.

    Tip

    The beef will be easiest to slice if semi-frozen from the freezer. Diners help themselves to chili rings and lime wedges. This recipe can also be adapted for chicken which takes less time to cook.

     

     

    Sorry for taking so long to reply, the website's orientation is really weird so I have to rearrange it :original:

     

    Thanks! :thumb_yello:. And I have all the ingredients! So today we're having noodle soup :licks_lips:

    Wonka's kitchen cooking thread

    in General Chin Wagging

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    Awwwww :wub2: great to hear that! I'm not sure if you could buy these ingredients where you live, 'cause I had to choose a recipe that you guys could buy the ingredients, which is kinda hard, since we use a lot of authentic spices :teehee:

     

    There's a Vietnamese shop I go to when I can't find the ingredients I need in the supermarket, but it's not on my usual route, so when I've planned to make a Vietnamese dish I have to take on a pilgrimage :naughty:.

    Wonka's kitchen cooking thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    I'm sorry that I stole this recipe from the internet, because I can't get my mum to write a recipe for me, she does everything by her instinct :blink: but this is my favourite Vietnamese dessert, so I hope you'd like it as I do :biggrin2: it's Vietnamese name is Chè Khoai Tía :licks_lips:

    Purple Yam Pudding Recipe

     

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    Purple yams are tubers with grayish brown skins and purple flesh. They taste sweet and are sold fresh in supermarkets or wet markets.

     

    Ingredients : Serves 8

     

    3 Purple yams (about 500 g)

    500 ml Water

    1 tablespoon Melted butter

    125 g Rice flour

    400 g Sugar

    300 ml Evaporated milk

    1/2 teaspoon Vanilla extract

    1 teaspoon Baking powder

    Method :

    Peel the yams then boil in water until tender. about 30 minutes.

    Set aside to cool then grate the yams.

    Brush a 9 x 5 x 3 in loaf pan with butter.

    Combine the grated yam, rice flour, sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla extract and baking powder.

    Stir to mix thoroughly. Pour mixture into prepared loaf pan and steam for 40 minutes or until firm.

    Remove from the heat and set aside to cool for several minutes before serving.

    Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.

     

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    Vietnamese and Thai cuisines are my favs :mf_lustslow:! I make sth from that part of the world whenever I feel like hunting down the ingredients. Which happens considerably less now, as a new Thai restaurant+take-away was opened just a few hundred yards from my house :biggrin2:

    Wonka's kitchen cooking thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted · Edited by Siu

    A pic to go with the marzipan-apple pie http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3593267&postcount=358

     

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    And another ingenious recipe for those, who (like me) love making ice-cream and are left with countless egg whites and not too many ideas of what to do with them: egg white and cheese snacks

     

    Ingredients:

     

    3 egg whites

    100 gr grated cheese (mature 3 or 4 is the best)

    3 tbs plain flour

     

    Whisk the whites. Mix the grated cheese with flour. Mix all the ingredients. Drop the mixture by spoonful on a baking sheet.

    Bake at 180 degrees until golden (around 12-15 minutes). Turn off the oven, leave the biscuits in the oven until cooled. Although they're great also when warm.

     

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    Any other ideas on what to do with egg whites are highly appreciated as the ice-cream making season is in full swing :biggrin2:. It always is :naughty:

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