Ginger Bread!

おはいよ！クリスマスおめでとう！

Christmas would not be complete if there was no party.. or if there weren't any cake and cookies, so I figured i'd bake cookies and throw a party (of course I cooked other things , actually lots of things) So here is a blog about my Cookies and even a bonus recipe to show you the ropes if its your first time (wish someone could have showed me the ropes)

So basically its

6 cups of all purpose flour (regular flour will do)

1 table spoon of Baking powder (if you are using multi purpose or self raising flour you can skip this ingredient and add another 1/2 cup of flour to the already 6 cup above)

1 Table spoon ginger powder (if you use raw ginger you gotta make it 2 table spoon, or more depending on how gingery you want it)

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon cloves (you can skip this if you don't like the smell of cloves)

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (they don't have to be in a powdered form but its crucial that they can fit trough a strainer)

1 cup butter or margarine melted into liquid form

1 cup brown sugar (you can use white sugar but they might turn out white)

1 cup honey (you can use mollases if you want)

1/2 cup water

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

So for the Process:

Sift all the powders and dry ingredients (not the brown sugar)

Mix together the melted butter/margarine with all the other liquid ingredients until they are well in together (you can cheat this part with using an electric mixer)

Pour in the dry ingredients and mix slowly (manually stir with a flat object for this part)

mix until they are well together until the batter reaches a consistency softer than bread but not as watery as cake

split the dough into 3 or 4 and put each into a respective plastic bag, flatten them in the bag and let them sit in the refrigerator for 3 or more hours

take them out and flour up a board

if the dough sticks onto either your rolling pin or board keep on flouring it (but not too much)

flatten the dough unto the board to a thickness of 1/4 or more inches

cut with cookie cutters or manually

place them on a piece of baking paper

preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius

toss them in and for about 20 minutes and constantly check until they reach a light brown color (you can play around with the temperature)

then you're done

let them sit till they have cooled down (not low as room temperature)

add your royal frosting to decorate

Royal Icing:

Add 3 egg whites and let them sit for a few minutes (remember just the whites)

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

4 cups of fine/grounded/pounded/caster or even rough sugar

Mix the "waooogas" out of them till it turns a milky white

now feel free to apply but be sure to always cover the bowl with the frostings with a damp towel (to prevent them form hardening)

Hey look at me with no sleeves, all me frens are there

The After math of the party with me going online

U need da Maskel to do da Cookie flattening

Power level over 9000

This piece gonna get thumped

my baking souce

The secret happy face (a 1 in every 75 ginger bread)

Them bread is Nekid

Them bread is clothed

Cyclops

I can has pants

Ten Hut soldiers!

Making them trees

the table before baking began

Alright guys thanks for taking your time to read my cookie blog

see you guys on another post

さよなら！

Have a great Christmas

and for the record i'm gonna make more cookies to bring on over to campus when the semester starts for someone special hehehe =)

Brown Pepper Fillet

おはよう！みんな　で　お元気　ですか？

Today I have come presenting one of my own secret recipes! A brown sauce black pepper Fillet of fish! I call it Brown Pepper Fillet!

I fried the fillet before making the sauce, and after making the sauce i fried the fish fillet in it, infusing it with a grand taste (the sauce taste tangy and sweet, but its very thick and to be blunt has the same texture as Honey)

Well I guess for this I can tell you what I put in the sauce, It s mix of Sugar, H.P sauce(Malt, vinegar, Tomato sauce tamarind, salt), Soy sauce, and a little starch to add to the viscosity and of course pepper.

The fish fillet was also marinated with salt pepper and turmeric.

Thats all for today, will update on what I am gonna make for my Christmas party on the 26th.

じゃ　また！

Run Forest Run for the hills! Cuz Bubba gump's got competition!

やあ～！　よろしく！　This is my first time blogging about food, I have been cooking awhile now but I never thought of posting it here because I feel that my cooking skills are not good at all, and it would not be appreciated, but after months of looking around, I realized that lots of people post crappy info on their blogs (no no no dont get mad! I didnt say all, やめて～!) so why not? I made this blog for the sake of food, and I'm gonna run it off with my own cooking, below are briefs on my てんぷら　shrimps, おいし　で　す！

Here is my Tempura （てんぷら）, prepared by yours truly..

This is the Medium (also known as the Batter　衣）its simple to make all you need are Eggs, corn starch, flour, some carbonate and yeast, and some super secret thing that I cant tell you.

These are the Tiger Prawns, really big buggers they are.

here is the flour to spread over the prawn after its battered, Its a secret mixture which cannot be disclosed publicly ごめなさい

The before and after of the prawn

Wooh, dont they look gorgeous? すごい！

Well those are all the pictures of the Tempura, ow and my dad made two dishes as well, look below ^^

These are the sweet and sour prawns made by my father

and this is a Thai style also by my dad.

ok thats all on this post for now じゃ　まった！