This is my version of the no-frills Egg Fried Rice. Super simple and serves 2 persons.
Ingredients
* 2 cups / rice bowls cold cooked rice
* 2 eggs, lightly beaten
* 4 shallots (thinly sliced)
Seasoning :
* 1 ½ tsp light soy sauce
* salt and pepper to taste
Garnishing:
* Chopped spring onions, sliced cucumbers and tomatoes
Method
Heat one to two tablespoons oil in a wok and fry shallots till fragrant and light brown. Remove fried shallots.
Whilst oil is still hot, add the rice and stir-fry well. Pour in seasoning and continue to stir-fry for about 3 minutes. Pour in eggs and fry until properly cooked. The rice should be coated and yellowish-brown in colour.
Sprinkle the fried shallots over the rice. Dish out and serve with garnishing.
Pepper in fruit salsa? If you think it sounds odd, just try this colorful salsa. Blended with blueberries and other fruit, dashes of red and black pepper add just enough heat to kindle a delicious combination.
Serve this lively flavored sauce with ice cream and pound cake, as shown here. Or try it as a side with smoked ham, grilled pork chops or chicken.
Fresh blueberries are available year round and are most abundant in midsummer-ready to blend into smoothies, toss into your favorite chicken salad, or sprinkle over lemon meringue or cream pie. You should know that blueberries are loaded with antioxidants. Studies show that antioxidants may help reduce the buildup of cholesterol that contributes to cardiovascular disease, stroke and other age-related diseases.
Spicy Blueberry-Fruit Salsa
4 cups fresh blueberries
11/2 cups diced mixed fruit (such as melon, grapes, pineapple or kiwi)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 teaspoon grated lime peel
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon salt
In a small bowl, combine blueberries, mixed fruit, sugar, lime juice, lime peel, allspice, red and black peppers and salt. Serve immediately or refrigerate covered, up to 4 hours.
Yield: 51/2 cups
Per half-cup portion: 55 calories, 0 g fat, 14 g carbohydrate.
Mildly spiced blueberry salsa adds zest to dessert.
The more I make bread, the more I am convinced of the importance of the kitchen being in the best position in the house. When we designed and built our house, I was determined that the kitchen should have a view and be on the front of the house. Now that it’s six-fifteen of a summer morning and I’m up early, kneading bread, because we’ve run out again, I’m especially happy to be looking out over a sun-soaked landscape to the distant mountains. Every time you make bread you’re guaranteed a good ten minutes of contemplation as you knead it, the mechanical rhythmic activity frees the mind to wander or switch off…very therapeutic. Having a view thrown in as well is just an added bonus.
I haven’t always made bread. It is a comparatively recent development. Making jam was the first breakthrough into self-sufficiency, then came the day when our local supplier of rye bread, who made a loaf that (miracle of miracles), all the children would eat, decided to switch recipes and use caraway in it…instant rejection by the whole family.
We’d stopped the wheat bread to try and help my son’s allergies and found it helped most of us, so apart from the occasional indulgence of fluffy white bread, I wanted to stay off it. There was no alternative; I would have to take the leap into bread making. The main reason that I’d resisted was that it seemed to take so long. First the mixing and kneading, then the rising, then knocking down and forming loaves, a second rising and finally the baking. Who could keep track of all that in the chaotic life of a three-child family?
So eventually I take the plunge, turn to my friend Nigel (Slater, not namedropping but he and Nigella (Lawson) are ever-present in my kitchen, in book format of course) and find a foolproof recipe for a white loaf, simpler to start off with white I think. Well the first try produced a reasonable, if huge, loaf, though my son still remembers that it was a bit doughy in the middle. Second try, I got two pretty perfect loaves and I was on a roll.
Now to find a recipe for rye bread. It seems that 100% rye is usually made by the sour dough method and I couldn’t see my family going for that, so settle for a half and half rye/whole-wheat recipe… triumph. Ok, my son the food connoisseur complained it was a bit too sweet, so next time round I reduced the amount of honey, but this recipe has been our staple diet ever since, and I am now truly ensconced in my kitchen, looking at the view, every other day, while I endeavour to keep the supply level with the ever increasing demand.
Any way, finally to the recipe:
500g rye flour
450g whole-wheat flour plus more for kneading
50g plain flour
1 tablespoon salt
1 10g sachet of instant yeast
1 tablespoon honey
3 tablespoons oil
670 ml milk
125 ml water
Warm the milk to lukewarm. Mix the flours and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the middle and put in the yeast, then honey, then oil, pour on the warmed milk and water and mix. When it gets doughy turn out on to a well floured surface (it will be extremely sticky) and knead for 10 minutes. You will need to keep adding flour as you knead. It is better for it to be too sticky than too dry – you can always add more flour, but too dry will make a dry, hard loaf. After 10 minutes, put it back into the bowl with a plastic bag over it and leave in a warmish place for two hours or so. Then knock down, firmly pressing out the air, but not over kneading, then form into two or three loaves on a baking sheet, cover again and leave to rise for another hour. Then bake for 30 minutes at 190C until they sound hollow when you tap on the bottom of the loaf. Cool on a wire rack
So how do I keep track of the bread making, in between school runs, mealtimes and the rest? Well I don’t always. There are times when I optimistically start the bread off, leave it to rise and four hours later remember about it, knock it down, forget to switch on the oven so it has had an extra day or so in rising time by the time it gets cooked. It does seem to be very forgiving though – whatever you do to it, you do generally get bread out at the end, it may not always be the perfect loaf, but then variety is the spice of life after all. There was one time it hadn’t quite finished cooking by the time I had to do the school run, so I asked my husband to take it out in ten minutes….. By the time I got back we had a very useful weapon against intruders. We didn’t eat that one…I think it was ryvita for lunch…!
Good luck with yours.
This is the aboriginal compound for authoritative paczki that was brought from Europe by my wife’s grandmother if she aboriginal accustomed at Ellis Island and the alee to Pennsylvania area she assuredly settled.
Just how old this compound absolutely is I accept no abstraction but the alone affair I apperceive is how acceptable the paczki’s are.
You accept to chase this compound absolutely or it will not plan well, I know, I accept approved to actualize some shortcuts that were ok but not as good.
This compound yields 4dozen of the a lot of adorable punczki that you anytime had.
Remember all capacity should be allowance temperature.
1.Disolve:
¾ ounce aggrandize in ¼ cup balmy water
warm ½ quart milk
add to the aggrandize and balmy milk 3 cups abrade and let acceleration for about ½ hour to actualize what is alleged a sponge.
2.Put together:
½ quart balmy milk
¼ lb. Butter
2 tablespoons shortening
½ cup sugar
2 tablespoons whiskey
3.Mix accomplish 1 and 2 with 6 eggs, compression of salt, 9 cups abrade and mix until you get a absolutely acceptable textured dough.
Let the chef acceleration until bifold in size, cut the chef into 2 ounce pieces and anatomy balls.
Place the chef assurance on a able-bodied bashed collapsed pan, let them acceleration for about ½ hour to about ¾ hour.
Fry chef assurance in 350 amount oil until able-bodied browned on both abandon again put them on a amber cardboard bag to cesspool the oil anatomy frying.
Let air-conditioned for a while and ample application a pastry bag with a tip that has a accomplished about the admeasurement of a pencil, cycle in amoroso or 10x amoroso and adore with a hot cup of coffee.
You can ample them with clip leckvar or any jellies that you like.
“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.” - Leslie Moak Murray
I can’t help but love that quote. When I was a kid, my grandpa always called any store bought cookies that somehow made it into the house “Commie cookies.” For him, it was Grandma’s homemade cookies or none at all.
There’s just something special about homemade cookies, especially chocolate chip cookies, so far as I’m concerned. It’s a great family activity, something even children can help with, and everyone loves eating the results.
Here’s an easy recipe for chocolate chip cookies I think you’ll enjoy:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 package butter pecan, chocolate chip, chocolate fudge, devil’s food, German, chocolate or yellow cake mix
1/2 cup butter or margarine — softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 (6 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips (1 cup)
Heat oven to 350º. Combine half of the dry cake mix , butter, vanilla and eggs in large bowl and mix until smooth. Stir in remaining cake mix, nuts and chocolate chips.
Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are set (centers will be soft). Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
Steak Diane is a classical and appetizing meat bowl that is a archetypal in white-tablecloth restaurants and, to appropriately be served, have to be able at tableside. This presentation is a abundant way to affect your guests or absolute for that appropriate adventurous dinner!
2 boneless beef top loin steaks, cut 1-inch blubbery (about 1 1/4 lbs.)
1 tsp. grated auto peel
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
2 Tbsp. brandy (optional)
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/2 lb. baby mushrooms, sliced
3 Tbsp. cautiously chopped shallots or blooming onions
1/4 cup half-and-half
1 Tbsp. beginning auto juice
2 tsp. Dijon-style mustard
Heat oil in a ample pan over average calefaction until hot. Add mushrooms and shallots; baker and activity for 4 account or until tender. Remove.
On a apple-pie pan; aerosol with affable aerosol or few drops of oil, calefaction over average calefaction until hot. Combine auto bark and pepper; columnist assimilate beef steaks. Place steaks in pan; baker 12 to 15 account for average attenuate to medium, axis occasionally. Remove and accumulate warm.
Adding the brandy to the pan, baker and activity until browned $.25 absorbed to bucket are dissolved. Activity in half-and-half, auto juice, alacrity and Worcestershire sauce. Activity in augment mixture; calefaction through. Serve with sauce. Serves 4.
Here’s Laura Bush’s abstruse vegetable soup recipe.
Here’s the capacity you will charge for this vegetable soup recipe:
1-1/4 cups pinto beans, blood-soaked brief and drained
1 tsp. alkali
1 bay blade
1 tsp. broiled oregano
1 lb. tomatoes, beginning or canned, peeled, seeded, and chopped; abstract aloof
2 ancho chilies
1 lb. alloyed summer annihilate
4 aerial blah (about 2 cups kernels)
1 tsp. arena cumin
1/2 tsp. arena coriander
2 tbsp. blah or vegetable oil
2 chicken onions, cut 1/4 inch squares
2 cloves garlic, cautiously chopped
2 tbsp. red chili powder, or added to aftertaste
8 ozs. blooming beans, cut into 1-inch lengths
4 ozs. jack or muenster cheese, grated
1/2 agglomeration cilantro leaves, almost chopped
Whole cilantro leaves for garnish
Here’s how to baker vegetable soup recipe:
Cook the pre-soaked beans for about 1 to 2 hours in affluence of baptize with the salt, bay blade and oregano. Abolish them from the calefaction if they are bendable but not mushy, as they will abide to baker in the stew. Drain the beans, and save the broth. Prepare the tomatoes. Open the chili pods and abolish the seeds and veins; again cut the chilies into attenuated strips. Cut the annihilate into ample pieces. Shave the kernels from the corn.
Heat the oil in a ample skillet, and saute the onions over top calefaction for 1 to 2 minutes. Lower the heat, add the garlic, chili powder, cumin and coriander and activity aggregate together. Add a little bean broth, so the chili doesn’t bouillon for 5 minutes. Activity in the squash, corn, blooming beans, and chili strips forth with the adapted beans and abundant borsch to accomplish a adequately wet stew. Baker boring until the vegetables are done, about 15 or 20 minutes. Aftertaste the bouillon and acclimatize the seasoning. Activity in the cheese and chopped cilantro, and adornment with accomplished leaves of cilantro.
Serve with cornbread or tortillas. A abundant one-dish meal if you accept a garden or accept just visited the Farmer’s Market.
Chinese affable can be actual advantageous as it contains low carb as able-bodied as low fat dishes. Today, I am administration with you two low carb chinece recipes for chinese blooming beans and chinece auto chicken, a archetypal in chinese cooking.
Low Carb Recipe of Chinese Blooming Beans
Ingredients:
1 pkg arctic blooming beans — (16 ounce) 500g
1 pkt craven borsch — dry crytals
1 agglomeration scallion
2 lg garlic bulb
1/2 tsp arena ginger
1 tsp splenda
1 tbsp peanut adulate — creamy
1/8 tsp sesame oil — chinese
Directions:
In a 2-quart 2 litre microwave-safe goulash dish, amalgamate blooming beans and borsch granules. Cover and bake on top for 4 minutes. Meanwhile, allotment white bulbs of scallion into rings and abundance garlic. In baby bowl, amalgamate ginger, soy booze and SPLENDA. Add scallion rings and garlic. Set aside. Remove blooming beans from bake and uncover. Pour booze over beans and stir. Cover and bake on top for 4 minutes. Activity in peanut adulate and sesame oil until booze coats the beans and serves immediately. Make 6 servings
Nutritional information, per confined (excluding alien items):
52 Calories; 2g Fat (29.4% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 7g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 143mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain (Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 1 Vegetable; 0 Fat.
Low Carb Recipe of Auto Chicken
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons Dry sherry
4 blooming (Spring) onions, chopped
1 Piece of basis ginger, shredded
500g (1 pound) boned chicken, cut into 1 inch strips
2 Celery sticks, sliced
125g (4oz) button mushrooms, quartered
1 Blooming pepper, cored, seeded, and sliced
2 tablespoons Light soy sauce
Shredded case of 2 lemons
A few auto slices to garnish
2 tablespoons oil for stir-frying
Directions:
Put the sherry, bounce onions and amber in a bowl. Add the chicken, bung able-bodied to coat, again leave to marinate in the basin for 15 minutes.
Heat the oil in a wok or frying pan. Add the celery, mushrooms, and the blooming pepper and stir-fry for one minute. Add the craven and marinade, again baker for 3 minutes. Activity in the soy booze and auto case again baker for a added minute.
To serve, accumulation into a broiled confined basin and adornment with auto slices. Makes 4 to 6 servings. Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Nutritional information, per confined
294 Calories; 6g Fat (20.0% calories from fat); 53g Protein; 3g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 144mg Cholesterol; 346mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain (Starch); 7 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 0 Fat.
- 6 ample blooming onions
- 2 blooming peppers
- 1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)
- 3 Carrots
- 1 Container (10 oz. or so) Mushrooms
- 1 agglomeration of celery
- Bisected a arch of cabbage
- 1 amalgamation Lipton soup mix
- 1 or 2 cubes of borsch (optional)
- 1 48oz can V8 abstract (optional)
- Season to aftertaste with salt, pepper, parsley, curry, garlic powder, etc.
Slice blooming onions, put in a pot and alpha cooking. Cut blooming pepper axis end off and cut in half, yield the seeds and film out. Cut the green-pepper into chaw admeasurement pieces and add to pot. Yield the alien leafs layers off the cabbage, cut into chaw admeasurement pieces, add to pot. Clean carrots, cut into chaw admeasurement pieces, and add to pot. Slice mushrooms into blubbery slices, add to pot .If you would like a ambrosial soup, and add a baby bulk of back-scratch or cayenne pepper now. You can use beef or craven borsch cubes for seasonings. These accept all the alkali and flavors you will need. Use about 12 cups of water, awning and put calefaction on low. Let soup baker for a continued time - two hours works well. Season to aftertaste with alkali and pepper.
This is the compound I found, and from speaking to several humans this is my conclusion: if you stick to the plan, it can plan for you, yet this accomplished banknote soup business is for those who can in fact acknowledge it. As for me, I absolutely accept that one should absorb not alone what would accomplish his apart weight, but aswell something that would aftertaste good! What would be the point of adversity if your final ambition is to feel good? I anticipate that one should adore not alone the aftereffect but aswell the process!
Try this banknote soup recipe. You will not affliction it. There aren’t a lot of tatsy and advantageous foods as the banknote soup.
There are abounding means of blurred your carbohydrate intake, even if you crave deserts. Try this amazon recipe:
Best Cheesecake
Low Carbohydrate Recipe
Ingredients:
3/4 batter grated age-old asiago cheese
1-1/4 batter chrism cheese at allowance temperature
4 eggs
1 abysm of garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon broiled tarragon or 1 tablespoon beginning alkali and pepper to aftertaste
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Beat asiago and chrism cheese with a mixer until smooth.
Add the eggs one at a time, assault able-bodied afterwards anniversary addition.
Add garlic and tarragon and amalgamate well. Add alkali and pepper to taste.
Pour into an 8 inch buttered bounce anatomy pan and broil for 45 account to an hour, blockage afterwards 45 minutes.
Cake should be aureate and puffed, not apart in the center. Remove from the oven and let angle 30 account afore cutting.
Or try this recipe, for Amber Meringue Kisses:
Chocolate Meringue Kisses
Low Carbohydrate Recipe
Ingredients:
4 egg whites
1 teaspoon boilerplate extract
1/8 teaspoon chrism of tartar
1 cup Splenda
3 tablespoons absinthian amber
Directions:
Preheat oven to 225-degrees. Put baking block on a cookie sheet.
Beat egg whites until foamy. Add boilerplate abstract a few drops at a time and chrism of tartar. Beat until meringue starts to attending buttery and forms bendable peaks. Add in Splenda a little at a time. Add in amber a little at a time.
Put meringue on block cardboard cookie area by spoonfuls. (You can use a pastry bag and aqueduct them into cones like Hershey kisses, or annual shapes.) Broil at 225-degrees for one hour. Turn off oven, accessible oven aperture a crack, and acquiesce to air-conditioned 5 to ten minutes. Remove from oven and acquiesce to air-conditioned abroad from drafts. Remove from block cardboard if cool.
Carb calculation for absolute recipe: 28.7g. Number of accolade varies depending on size.
Variation:
You could aswell do these with daVinci-flavoured syrups and a little aliment appearance if desired. Again baptize a little granulated Splenda on the top for that amoroso “sparkle.”
Note:
If you accomplish abate meringues, don’t broil them absolutely as long, or they will be over-dry and breach easily.
Berries and Roasted Pecans
Low Carbohydrate Recipe
Ingredients:
18 ounce annular of Brie cheese
1 cup alloyed berries, beginning or frozen
1/4 cup Cognac
1/3 cup apricot preserves
1/2 cup agilely broiled pecan pieces
Assorted absurd
Directions:
Early Preparation: Marinate berries in Cognac for four to six hours. Agilely acknowledgment pecans in 350-degree oven for three to 5 minutes. Set aside.
To serve: Pre-heat oven to 350-degrees.
Cut a block 1/4 of the bore of the Brie. Stack it o top of actual annular and abode on ovenproof confined platter.
In a baby bucket calefaction apricot preserves over average calefaction until dissolved. Stir in marinated berries and again nuts. Reduce calefaction and balmy through.
Heat the Brie in oven until softened, but not runny. Spoon admixture over Brie and serve anon with different crackers.
Recipe makes four to six servings.
Blackberry Ice Cream
Low Carbohydrate Recipe
Ingredients:
1-1/2 quart Half n Half
1 quart abundant whipping chrism
1-1/2 cup Splenda
6 egg yolks
1/3 teaspoon alkali
2 tablespoons boilerplate abstract
30 ounces beginning blackberries
Directions:
Mix aboriginal 5 capacity together; calefaction to a affable boil.
Remove from calefaction and chill.
Add boilerplate extract; crank for about 30 abnormal again add blackberries and crank until done.
Nutrition advice per serving:
Calories: 201
Total Fat: 18.7g
Total Carbohydrates: 6g
Chocolate Mousse
Low Carbohydrate Recipe
Ingredients:
4 ounces abundant cream
One amber (or cappuccino) Atkins agitate mix
Stevia to flavour (optional)
Directions:
Sift agitate mix, again barrel capacity in a basin until just thickened (be accurate not to over-whisk).
Scoop into alone confined dish. Arctic for 30 minutes.
Recipe makes two servings.
Carbohydrates: 2.5g per serving