Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Indo Chinese Indian Chicken Noodles
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
SANDRA’S ITALIAN PESTO SPAGHETTI SQUASH
| The strands of squash resemble spaghetti noodles, which makes a healthy and tasty substitute for pasta... |
--(longer for larger spaghetti squash)
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| Pulp resembles spaghetti |
| Amount that a 2.5# squash yields |
Monday, April 28, 2014
Curried Mushroom Salad
4 servings
50 minutes - 20 minutes prep time
Cook Some of the Mushrooms:
125 grams (1/4 pound; about 8) button mushrooms
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
a pinch of savory or thyme
Clean and slice the mushrooms. Heat the butter in a small skillet with the savory or thyme. Add the mushrooms and sauté gently until soft and slightly browned. Remove them from the pan and let them cool.
Make the Dressing:
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon mild curry powder
a pinch of salt
Mix these thoroughly and set them aside.
Finish the Salad:
125 grams (1/4 pound; about 8) button mushrooms
2 or 3 tablespoons finely minced fresh chives
1 or 2 tablespoons finely minced fresh parsley
Clean and slice the mushrooms. Mix them with the chives and parsley, and the cooked mushrooms. Mix in the salad dressing and stir gently. Let the salad rest for about half an hour in a cool spot before serving, to allow the flavours to meld.
Last year at this time I made Bean & Pesto Soup.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Makeup Monday Eyebrow Tutorial
Friday, April 25, 2014
HOT HOT HOT this Curry is the most daring challenge Indian food lover even feel
Welcome to the gourmet Indian recipe series. Today is the spicy dish, the eyes, mouth and forehead water and sweating with excitement, the Bengali red Dal Curry has.
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups red lenses, 3 1/2 cups of water, 6 Serrano chili (or 3 fruit) either whole or in slices cut into quarters, 1 / 4 TEASPOON turmeric, taste, 1 1/2 tsp salt, 4 El ghee butter or Pflanzenoel1 of cup chopped onion, 1 Cup chopped tomatoes, 1 tablespoon of grated fresh ginger, 2 El ghee or vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon Panch Phanon mix, 4 small dried red peppers 1-3 cloves of garlic
Method:
1. Rinse lenses add water, Serrano Chili, turmeric and salt.
2. Bring to boil and cook partially covered in low to medium-high heat for 25 minutes carefully.
3) Cover and cook another 10 minutes. Adjust the salt.
(4) While lentils are cooking, you stirring constantly cooking onions in a pan in the oil until they are golden brown (about 10 minutes).
5. Add tomatoes and ginger and continue cooking until the tomatoes cutting in a delicious and fragrant pulp (about 8 minutes.)
6. Stir constantly, so stick tomato mixture not. Turn heat to low demand.
7. Scrape the pulp in the lenses and so is he in. Let sit lenses while you make the spiced oil.
8. Make a quick rinse of the Pan without SOAP, and dry thoroughly.
9. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons oil and heat over medium-high heat. When oil is hot, add Panch Phanon mix and heat, until the seeds start to pop, about 15 seconds.
(10) Add you red chili and roast for 15 seconds, until you turn a little darker.
11. Turn heat and add the crushed garlic and FRY for about 30 seconds you. Stir this mixture in the lens/tomato mixture and serve with rice. Adjust the salt.
BON GOOD...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
We Came We Saw We Concassed
If youre feeling really ambitious, you could do a few quarts, and can them for the winter. Sure, those San Marzano tomatoes are fine, but theres nothing like putting up your own. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Seed to Sausage – Inspiration Wrapped in Bacon
All that stuff I said about being inspired to raise my game after watching White on Rice Couples video for Gluten-Free Girl and the Chefs new cookbook, applies here as well. Not only is this one of the most beautiful food videos Ive ever seen, its about pork. I never get tired watching pork. Its my second favorite thing to do with it.
For more information, you can check out their YouTube channel, or contact them on ChezUs. Enjoy!
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Electric lemonade

Ingredients:
- Water 1 cup
- Lemon juice powder 2 tbsp
- Mint leaves 15
- Crushed ice 1 cup
- Lemon juice 2 tbsp
- Sugar 2 tbsp
- Blue color 2 drops
- Blend all the Ingredients .
Monday, April 21, 2014
Butter icing for cakes and cookies Smjörkrem
125 g sweet butter or margarine
125-200 g icing sugar
1 egg yolk
to taste: flavouring (see notes)
1 tbs cream (optional)
few drops food colouring (optional)
a pinch of salt (leave out if youre using salted butter)
Soften the butter at room temperature, or put in the microwave for a few seconds. Whip together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Adjust amount of sugar according to how sweet you want the icing. Add the egg yolk and flavouring, and cream, if using (will make the icing smoother). Frost the cake and enjoy.
Notes:
Vanilla essence is the usual flavouring for white icing, but many other flavours are excellent. Rum, sherry, amaretto/almond and hazelnut are good flavours for many kinds of cake. Fruit, berry and flower flavours, such as orange, lemon, strawberry, cherry, peppermint or rosewater, are good with vanilla-flavoured cakes.
Other variations:
-add some cocoa powder or melted chocolate to make chocolate-flavoured icing
-flavour with fresh, strong coffee. This combines well with chocolate.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Middle Eastern Spice Mix Recipe

How to make a Middle Eastern Spice Mix
There are many different spice blends in the Middle East varying from country to region.
This Middle Eastern spice mix recipe has been specially blended by Chef Jeena.
As with Indian spices, Middle Eastern spice blends have a variation of some select spices such as cumin, coriander, turmeric, sumac, mint, thyme, nutmeg, pomegranate, cinnamon and many more.
Middle Eastern cuisine uses garlic, olive oil and lemons just as the Mediterranean.
This delicious and aromatic spice blend is very easy to make, there is no roasting of the spices.
Chefs Middle Eastern spice blend recipe can be used to sprinkle on food, marinate meats and more.


1 + 1/2 tsp Cumin
1 tsp Coriander
1/2 tsp Sumac
1/4 tsp Dried mint
1/2 tsp Dried thyme
1/4 tsp Dried pomegranate seeds
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1/4 tsp Nutmeg
2 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Light brown sugar
1/2 tsp Turmeric
Pinch black pepper
Picture of Chefs spice blend mixed with lemon, olive oil and garlic.

How to make Middle Eastern spice mix/blend
Pulse for 1-2 minutes until the pommegranate seeds become powder.






Saturday, April 19, 2014
Vegan Spiced Cookies Recipe
My vegan spiced cookie recipe is also a gluten free cookie recipe.
These spiced cookies taste wonderful. The spices are a perfect blend and compliment the cherries and raisins so very well.
The texture of my vegan spiced cookies are a mixture of soft and chewy.
These cookies use no butter, eggs or wheat and still taste fabulous.
5oz Rice flour
4oz Light brown sugar
100ml Rapeseed oil
1 tsp Baking powder
4 Tbsp Soya milk
2oz Raisins
2oz Glazed cherries
1oz Cornmeal flour (fine polenta)
1/4 tsp Xanthan gum
1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp Aniseed powder
Pinch mace
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 Tbsp Agave syrup
1 Tbsp Cornflour (corn starch)
How to make Chef Jeenas Vegan Spiced Cookies

Cover and place into the fridge for 1-2 hours.
Place teaspoons of the cookie mixture onto the tray.
Cook in a hot oven at 180C for 7-10 minutes, remove from the oven and press the cookies flat using the back of a spatula.
Place back into the oven for another 5-8 minutes or until golden brown.
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Friday, April 18, 2014
Jellied Gazpacho
I didnt have any white wine vinegar, only balsamic. Which was fine for flavour, but left the aspic looking a bit murky.
6 to 8 servings
45 minutes prep time; at least 2 hours to set
Make the Tomato Broth:
2 cups diced tomatoes
1 stalk celery
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
Put the tomatoes, celery and water into a pot, and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, until soft, then strain through a fine seive. You should have 2 cups of liquid when finished; add a little vegetable broth or water if you are short.
Make the Gazpacho:
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon powdered gelatine
1 large cucumber (cups chopped)
1 small stalk celery, with the leaves
3 tablespoons chopped green pepper
2 sprigs parsley
1 small clove of garlic
Put the vinegar in a mixing bowl, and sprinkle the gelatine over it.
Peel the cucumber, if it warrants it, and cut it up roughly. Trim and chop the celery, pepper, parsley and garlic. You can chop it all fairly finely by hand, or put it in a food processor and chop finely, but do leave some texture.
Bring the tomato broth up to a boil, then mix it with the vinegar and gelatine until the gelatine is completely dissolved. Mix in the chopped vegetables and pour the mixture into a 4 cup mold. Chill until set.
Last year at this time I made Peach Jelly.
