Daily Archives: December 5, 2012

Dessert

Yuzu cheesecake, na dojebke. :-)

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Yeah, just a final word on this genius culinary day.

For 2 small beauties I crumbled 3 biscuits, mixed with a small amount of melted butter and tsp of caster sugar, pressed into the rings and baked for 10 minutes. The rest is whipped cream with about 2 tbps of cream cheese,  and yuzu syrup ( 1/4 cup of yuzu juice with 2 tbps of sugar and 1 gelatine leaf,  all heated up) all sweetened to taste with icing sugar.

It took them 3 hours to nicely set in the fridge, finished off with toasted almonds-that’s right before  serving, great texture and just a touch of maple syrup, which added sweetness to the tangy cheesecake. A glorious cooking day.;-)

 

Good Food

Chicken meatballs with home made teriyaki sauce.

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10 out of  10, slash triumph! 🙂

I’m really pleased with it. The recipe from the recent GF with lots of my personal touches. First, the chicken bollocks. I pulsed some chicken thigh meat in my tiny blender inherited from Colin, grated a carrot and chopped a large shallot. Seasoned it well, salt, pepper, soy sauce, good splash of sesame oil and baked in the hot oven for about 20 minutes on the baking parchment. Then I made teriyaki. I. MADE. TERIYAKI. From scratch. By myself. And it’s absolutely fucking lovely!!!!!

What GF was suggesting did not convince me, so I googled it and used my common sense plus what I know from Ubon and Dinings, what it should look like, what it should taste like. I threw 5 tbsp of brown sugar onto the pan, 1/2 tsp of ground ginger, 1/4 cup of soy sauce, 1/2 cup of water, 2 tbsp of honey and warmed it up slowly, it had the wrong, muddy colour and was not thickening. I added a generous tbsp of corn flour mixed with 1/2 cup of water and after a good 10 minutes of  patient stirring I had a triumph. It was so good, that I poured myself a glass of martini to toast it, while chatting online with Agata.

I served with basmati rice, seasoned well and with lots of fresh coriander and some steamed pak choi, which I nearly forgot about….

 

Yeah. I’m a talent.:-)