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Monday, December 14, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Black Sambo Recipe | Classic Filipino Dessert made of layers of chocolat...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Best Fresh Fruit Tart recipe | Make this classic fruit tart at home with...
Make this at home with your favorite fruits, I'm using fresh strawberries, blue berries, black berries and raspberries. This is a decadent dessert that you can make at home, following the same technique, you can substitute the berries with your favorite fruit. These mixed berries do well together, the tartness of each berry is balanced with homemade pastry cream and pastry shell. Don't be intimidated by the process, once you made it once, it will be easier the next time.
Related videos:
How to make pastry shell :
https://youtu.be/gNTWBxZlzTY
How to make pastry cream (creme patissiere)
https://youtu.be/0vRcgOL_kp0
Pastry Shell Recipe
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter (softened)
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 egg
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Procedure:
Using a stand mixer:
Beat softened butter until light and fluffy, add eggs, add sugar lastly add flour. when the mixture comes together, replace the hook with a dough hook, continue mixing for a minute, it should be crumbly. Press it onto a tart pan and blind bake for 10 minutes at 280 F.
Without mixer:
Cut butter into small pieces. In a bowl, place four and sugar, add the butter and crumble it with your fingers until it comes together, press it into a tart pan and blind bake for 10 mins at 280 F.
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Creme Patissiere (Pastry Cream) recipe:
3 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons corn starch dissolved in 3 Tablespoons water.
1 vanilla bean or vanilla extract
Heat milk to just about to boil. While heating the milk, beat the eggs and sugar using a whisk. When the milk is just about to boil, slowly pour into the egg and sugar mixture. Continue beating while adding the milk on a steady stream, slowly incorporating the warm milk. Pour the mixture back to the pan and continue cooking on low heat. Add the cornstarch mixture and keep on stirring using a spatula, making sure that nothing sticks to the bottom of the pan. Don't stop stirring until it thickens a little bit. Continue mixing with a whisk and when the mixture comes to a boil, it should be thick enough and smooth, without lumps.
Friday, September 18, 2020
Friday, September 11, 2020
Monday, August 24, 2020
Saturday, August 08, 2020
Halo halo | All time Filipino Dessert
Halo halo literally means mix-mix. When served with halo halo, you have to mix everything so that the there is variety of texture in every bite. It is mixture of variety of fruits served with shaved ice and milk.
The preparation of halo-halo varies in different regions of the country. In northern part of Philippines, they use a lot of beans. In Central Philippines, there are more fruits than beans. Usually fresh fruits, like mango and banana. Also coconut jelly is added to give a different texture in every bite.
Thursday, August 06, 2020
Friday, July 31, 2020
House Warming Cake Design | The Kitchen Journal | Sweets Gourmet
Made as a replica of the house, served during a house warming party. Definitely a show stopper. Chocolate cake covered in fondant. Details include textured front door, brick walls, fondant flowers, detailed window frame, buttercream grass, textured cobble stone pathway, shingle roof with chimney.
Monday, July 27, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Butterfly Pea Flower Tea/Blue Ternate Benefits and side effects.
This is a fun drink to make and share with family and friends. Learn the benefits and side effects of this blue ternate or butterfly pea flower. How to prepare tea, hot or cold.
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Calamari (Squid Rings) recipe. Step by step video on how to make homemad...
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Salmon Wellington with Spinach and cheese
Salmon Wellington
ingredients:
salmon fillet
puff pastry
spinach
parmesan cheese
Cheddar cheese
garlic
onion
oil to sautee (1 Tablespoon)
salt and pepper
Sautee garlic and onion, add spinach and continue cooking until spinach is almost cooked, add parmesan cheese and cheddar cheese, season with salt and pepper. set aside to cool.
Pull out the puff pastry in the fridge, (pastry must be cold). On a baking dish, unfold the puff pastry, add salmon in the center of the pastry, season with salt and pepper, add the prepared spinach on top of the salmon and fold half of the pastry and seal, keeping all the air out of the pastry, seal with egg. Brush all top of the pastry with beaten egg.
In a preheated oven,Bake 450 F for 30 minutes. Switch off the oven and leave it inside to cook through for about 20 minutes.
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