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Ingredients 3 large eggs 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp soy sauce 1 TBSP water 2 tsp canola oil Procedure Mix water, sugar, soy Add eggs Mix with chopsticks gently (to not add air) Put some of the oil in square egg pan Pour in 1/3 of mixture Roll eggs as they cook Add second layer ... Read more

Ingredients 500-600g potatoes 1/2 tsp salt thyme rosemary 1 TBSP canola oil Procedure Slice potatoes into wedges Immerse in water for 15 minutes Dry off Toss in salt, thyme, rosemary Toss in canola oil Place on parchement paper on baking pan Cook for 20 minutes at 230c Turn wedges over Cook for 20 minutes more ... Read more

Ingredients 8 cups of water 4 TBSP dashi miso or 4 TBSP white miso and one packet dashi 300 g of tofu one large sheet of nori, cut into thin bits sliced bits of carrot, potato, broccoli, cabbage, whatever is on hand (pre-cooked) Procedure Heat water in pan Add vegetables as desired Add miso by ... Read more

Ingredients 1 TBSP sugar 4 TBSP rice vinegar 4 TBSP white miso 4 TBSP canola oil splash lemon juice (if desired) Procedure Whisk sugar, vinegar, and miso smooth slowly add oil, whisking all the while, for a nice emulsion

Ingredients 1 cup milk 2 TBSP vinegar 1 egg 2 TBSP melted butter 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 170 g flour 1 TBSP sugar Procedure Put vinegar in milk for 5 minutes Melt butter and beat into egg Whisk milk and egg mixtures Combine and mix dry ingredients Combine ... Read more

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Ingredients 125 g graham / biscuit crumbs 500 g cream cheese 2 eggs 60 g butter 5 TBSP sugar (3g for filling, 2g for topping) 60 g strawberry compote (if desired) Procedure Use mixer or hand mix graham / biscuits of choice Melt 60 g butter and combine with graham / biscuits Press mixture into ... Read more

Ingredients 30 g peanut butter 30 g sliced almonds 30 g sunflower seeds 30 g pumpkin seeds 30 g dried cranberries 200 g apple sauce 250 g rolled oats cinnamon nutmeg olive oil Procedure Heat oven to 150 c parchment paper in a pan add all dry ingredients, mix add wet ingredients, mix pour into ... Read more

Update 30-09-24 Wow, turns out everyday induction cooktops are horrible to work with carbon steel. My guess is that gas is needed, or a much improved induction. Both of which I'm not really interested in. Therefore, for the standard frying pan, a non-stick option is a better result at this timee. Stainless (or non-stick) for ... Read more

Yogurt (Yoghurt) is a great food. Compared with cheese and milk, it is better in terms of a healthy body. It can be used in a variety of ways for cooking, not only a standard cup of yogurt with fruit. Here are some of the ways we use yogurt: Muesli, fruit, milk and creamy yogurt ... Read more

Ketchup is a bit expensive and full of not-so-nice ingredients (or super expensive and organic). We make ours in about 10 minutes using tomato paste, water, salt, sugar, and vinegar. One can always add more ingredients (garlic, onion, etc.), but it is not necessary. Ingredients One small can tomato paste 1/2 cup water 1 TBSP ... Read more

Cooking chicken thighs quickly and easily is important. The main concept is to have the skin side down for the first half of cooking (starting with a cold unoiled pan, or wire cooking rack, for about 15 minutes), then turning over for the final 10 minutes, and broiling. Oven temperature should be about 220c. Internal ... Read more

This recipe is adapted from Robert Rodriguez's 10 Minute Cooking School Ingredients Note that in the video above he only uses half of the recipe, and the use of lard means that the butter does not need to be more. Therefore: 250g flour 40g butter 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking powder 150g (more or ... Read more

This recipe takes about 30 minutes, and is mainly about being organized. It is very useful to have rubber gloves to do the hand kneading of butter into flour, otherwise cleanup is a lot messier. 30 minutes 8-9 scones Ingredients 200g flour 100g butter 1 tsp baking powder 2 TBSP sugar (plus a little for ... Read more

These last a few weeks (or longer), and are a quick alternative to a longer pickling procedure. Ingredients 500g small cucumbers (ideally 9 cucumbers, somewhat skinny bunch of fresh dill 250g water 120g white vinegar 1 tsp salt 2 cloves of garlic (more for spicy) Utensils 2 pint size mason jars Procedures Combine water, vinegar, ... Read more

Sriracha in the United States Sriracha sauce has been popularized in the United States by Huay Fong Foods famous rooster sauce which contains red jalapeno peppers (formerly they used serrano peppers). Huay Fong Foods was founded by a Vietnamese refugee of Chinese extraction in California in 1980. There is even a Sriracha Film made about ... Read more

Ingredients Six egg yolks 1/4 cup sugar (50 grams) 1.5 cups heavy cream (345 grams) 1.5 cups whole milk (360 grams) 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg pinch of salt Instructions Cream egg yolks with sugar in bowl In saucepan over medium heat mix heavy cream, milk, nutmeg, and salt. Stir until simmering, turn off heat. Add ... Read more

I tried the VB6 diet and here is how it went

Salt aka NaCL, Sodium Choride, is 40% sodium and 60% cloride. This is a trace mineral that is essential to our bodies. Apparently we need about 200-500mg per day for daily body function. However, it is common to oversalt food, and processed foods are heavily oversalted (to add taste to tasteless products). Excess salt increases ... Read more

It turns out dairy is an anti-inflammatory as well as an inflammatory depending on product and consumer. Those who claim cheese is bad for you or all dairy is inflammatory ignore the science. Dairy products and inflammation: A review of the clinical evidence

Favorite french baked good. Need a canele mould. Use a silicone mould to obviate need for wax or butter coating on the mould. Ingredients 400 ml milk 50 g butter 4 eggs (2 egg yolks, 2 whole eggs) 100 g sugar 100 g flour Procedure Scald milk mix in butter remove and cool combine two ... Read more

Not bad for you https://www.wired.com/story/cheese-actually-isnt-bad-for-you/

Description Scones are a great breakfast or anytime snack. Great warm with butter and jam, or by themselves. They can be a bit dry even with all the butter. The quality of a scone is based on the ingredients, which means quality flour, butter, eggs, and if desired, vanilla, and cashews. Total time about 25 ... Read more

Personally, I see the chia seeds fad as just that. However, there is some science to the purported benefits of chia seeds. One thing to note is that human studies do not show benefits when adding chia seeds as a supplement, but only as a part of a diverse plant-based diet (that is, adding chia ... Read more

> People have been eating bananas for a long time. The first written references to them come from 500BCE, but were most likely consumed long before then. > > Today, 100 billion bananas are consumed globally each year. There are more than one thousand varieties of bananas. -- Source In North America and Europe there ... Read more

Cacao or Raw Cocoa Powder This stuff is great. I imported it from the US and it in turn comes from Peru. There are two things I do with this: hot chocolate and cacao (cocoa) pancakes. Cocoa Pancakes Two teaspoons go into each pancake batter (also made from scratch with honey), making it a mocha-colored ... Read more

Block Kitchen Knife Steel Strop Knife steels are crap, have to hold proper angle, also leather strop The why of it all Therefore the angle kit is likely the best approach

While specific dairy farms and their cooperatives will be included in this article eventually (it is a work in progress). For now, we will focus on analysis of a whitepaper from the UN Food and Agriculture: The Economics of Milk Production in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with particular Emphasis on Small-scale Producers Basic Findings and Observations ... Read more

For some reason I have become more and more interested in consuming less-processed foods and beverages. Perhaps it is five years of living in Northern Thailand where very fresh and local food is actually less expensive and widely available. In addition, there are some kinds of foods which have a lot of interesting characteristics, but ... Read more

First, what kind of cheese, then ingredients, then process, otherwise fairly low tech! Try to keep the energy consumption to a minimum, as well as direct costs. The best approach is making it sustainable (and local) for future.

Both Hollandaise and Mayonnaise are oil-in-water emulsions based on a raw egg yolk (or whole raw egg). Making both of them requires raw egg yolk / whole egg, and the addition of mustard, and then the slow adding (or mixing-in) of oil or butter. Mayonnaise is cold and Hollandaise is hot. Mayonnaise is Spanish and ... Read more

The best approach I have seen is to basically use a blender with whipping cream, add honey (or sugar, not condensed milk), and then add additional items to this base, such as: Vanilla extract and vanilla bean caviar (add the spent pod to your sugar jar) Cacao and chocolate chips Strawberry compote (extra honey if ... Read more

Basic Bread Flatbread Buscuits Scones Cornbread Banana bread English Muffins

Parasites Freezing Fish, Killing Parasites Almost Every Kind of Wild Fish is Infected with Worms "I don't eat raw fish because of what I've seen," admitted the fish purveyor, who sells to many of the city's top restaurants. "I don't eat sushi anymore." ... "I urge people not to cook whole fish because the parasites ... Read more

Many various Mozarella recipes The Kitchn - Mozarella recipe - try this one first Serious Eats - Mozarella recipe 30 Minute Mozarella recipe - Cheesemaking.com Cultured (traditional) Mozarella recipe - Cheesemaking.com Need Rennet for Mozarella Curd - Yes and No 30 Minute Mozarella recipe - Cultures for Health Traditional Mozarella recipe - Cultures for Health ... Read more

Many Mommy and Cooking blogs give a recipe for Cream Cheese which does not include any culture or rennet. That is simply misinformed. Especially for those who claim a cooking pedigree. Honestly, the lies are thick out there. In any case, there is a simple dichotomy when making soft cheeses, in terms of cream cheese ... Read more

Living in Thailand, these concepts simply are the way that things are done. Having lived in Canada, I saw how it is possible for it to take place in North America. Having lived in Hawaii, I saw what it was like to have almost none of the food raised or sold within 100 miles. The ... Read more