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Friday, February 14, 2014

Different Types of Ice Cream Cake

During summer, everyone enjoys a cold drink or a frozen dessert. You can easily beat the heat of the sun by having a refreshing snack. If you are crazy about cakes and ice cream, you should try making a sweet treat by combining the two food items. You can make an ice cream cake that comes with a rich taste and an exciting look. This fabulous treat has several variations; you can add in slices of fruits as topping or as part of the mixture. If you love chocolates, you can also put chocolate chips or syrup to blend in the batter. Simply use your creativity so you can come up with a great ice cream recipe cake.

Chocolate cake is a classic favorite, and you can come up with a frozen treat using your favorite brand of chocolate. However, you might want to try something different to put a variation in the usual dessert you eat. If you like to discover great new ways to make ice cream cake, read along to find out about the several types of this cool and refreshing cake with ice cream.

1. Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake

If you are crazy about peanut butter, you might want to try using it in the cake recipe. Simply add in about half a cup of peanut butter to the mixture. You can use whichever type of peanut butter for this recipe (chunky, creamy or crunchy). However, I suggest you use chunky peanut butter so it will go well with some chopped peanuts in the mixture. As for the rest of the cake, you may use crushed graham cracker to match the overall brown color of the cake. Garnish the top of the cake with chopped salted peanuts or walnuts.

2. Brownie Chilled Cake

This recipe is quite easy to make. You may decide to bake a batch of brownies, or buy about a dozen of your favorite brownies. Then, line them up in a cookie sheet, until the brownies has filled all the spaces in the sheet. Chill the brownies for about 30 minutes. Afterwards, top the brownies with raspberry sorbet mixed with a good quality vanilla ice cream. Serve with slices of fresh raspberries on top.

3. Cranberry and Pistachio

The fabulous mix of color of this ice cream cake recipe will surely be a feast to the eyes. The green pistachios and red cranberries make this recipe perfect for a Christmas dessert. You may opt to use fresh or frozen cranberries for the recipe. As for the pistachios, chop them into small pieces to create a crunchy appeal to the cake. Then, use vanilla ice cream to combine with crushed saltines or crackers. Garnish the top portion of the cake with a few chopped pistachios and some cranberries.

These recipes are truly fabulous because of their excellent taste and enticing look. Moreover, the ingredients used in each recipe are very nutritious; thus, these treats are definitely good for your health. Try making these great ice cream cake recipes that the whole family will love.

Monday, January 13, 2014

How to Deep Fry Fish

There are various cooking methods for fish, including steaming, poaching, grilling, and sauteing. Deep fried fish, however, is in a league of its own and it is true that fried fish is a real comfort food. You can choose from a crispy breadcrumb coating or a crunchy batter and there are also various types of fish that suit this cooking method.

Frying has been a popular cooking method in the South for a long time and you can serve battered, fried fish with French fries, spicy potato wedges or anything else you like. Other popular gourmet recipes for fried fish include baked beans, creamy coleslaw or crispy onion rings.

The Right Oil Temperature

Most good deep fryers will have a temperature indicator on them but if yours does not, drop a bread cube into the hot oil. If it is golden brown in fifty seconds, the oil is the perfect temperature for making a deep fried fish recipe. Battering and frying fish might add calories but if your oil is at the correct temperature before you begin, this helps to keep the absorption level down.

Also, do not crowd food in the deep fryer because this makes the temperature of the oil drop and increases the oil absorption, resulting in a soggy batter. Fry three or four pieces of battered fish at once, for the best results.

Handy Tips for Fantastic Fried Fish

Fish cooks quickly in the deep fryer. When the batter is crispy and browned, the fish ought to be cooked all the way through. Use small pieces of fish for easier handling and to ensure it cooks perfectly all the way through.

If you are frying a lot of fish at once, you can keep the cooked fish warm on a paper towel-lined cookie sheet in a 200 degrees F oven until you have finished all the fish. You should choose a mild-flavored fish with a firm texture. Cod is a great fish to deep fry. Other possibilities include catfish and haddock.

Recipe for Deep Fried Cod

This is a simple recipe for fried cod. The fish comes out deliciously tender with a mouthwatering crunchy batter. This recipe makes enough crispy fried cod to serve six people.

You will need:

2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 lbs cod fillets
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 teaspoons salt
Vegetable oil, for deep frying

How to make it:

Preheat some oil in a deep fat fryer to 375 degrees F. Combine the salt, baking powder, and flour and coat the cod in this mixture. Beat the eggs with the milk and two tablespoons of oil, then mix in the rest of the flour mixture and keep beating until the batter is smooth.

Dip the fish into this mixture then deep fry the fillets until they are golden brown and crispy. Drain the fried cod on paper towels and serve hot with your favorite side dishes.

Source: www.bhg.com/recipes/fish/basics/how-to-fry-fish/

Saturday, August 3, 2013

How to keep fruit and vegetables fresh for longer

HOW TO STORE YOUR FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES?
Keeping fruit & vegetables fresh

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How to keep fruit and vegetables fresh for longer.
You may have just returned from the grocery store with a whole bag full of green goodness. When you've reached home and you stare at the good buy you've made, you ask yourself, 'how am I going to keep vegetables fresh? How am I going to keep fruits fresh?' When you've bought more than you can consume within a few days, you know that some of it is definitely going to get spoiled and wasted.

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables often lose their firmness, dis-colour or begin to rot when left out in the open or not stored properly. One of the main reasons for such degradation is 'ethylene'. It is a natural ripening hormone that is secreted in the form of gas by all fresh produce. Ethylene production varies by type of fresh produce and can affect anything fresh that's stored around it. Even one part of ethylene in a million parts of air is able to start the process of ripening and eventual decay. The only way to keep vegetables fresh or keep fruits fresh(recettes bernard loiseau) is by making sure they are not exposed to ethylene and hence degradation and damage.
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When we store food we tend to put all our storage in one place or one compartment. One important fact to bear in mind when you want to keep fruits fresh and keep vegetables fresh is that you should separate these from each other. Fruits are known to produce more ethylene than vegetables. Ethylene from one particular type of food can also affect the others stored around it. Such placement and storage practices are employed when ethylene producing foods are used to ripen ethylene sensitive foods. If that is not the intention, proper care should be taken to store them separately so you can keep fruit fresh and keep vegetables fresh for longer.

Ethylene producing fruits and vegetables- Apples, apricots, asian pears, avocados, cherimoya, nectarines, papaya, peaches, pears, cantaloupe, asian pears, green onions, pineapple, kiwi, mangoes, melons.

Ethylene sensitive fruits and vegetables- Bananas, broccoli, brussel sprouts, lettuce, mangoes, lemons, melons, passion fruit, carrots, cabbage, spinach, asparagus.
Kennedy Restoration @KennedyRes

@amfam Canning and freezing fresh fruit and vegetables in the summer is great way to keep it going long into the winter!

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How to store these fresh fruits and vegetables?

- Fruits produce more ethylene than vegetables. When fruits are stored along with the sensitive vegetables, the vegetables get decayed faster. Hence, always store your fruits and vegetables separately in your fridge in order to keep your fruits and to keep your vegetables fresh.

- Never store your fresh fruits or vegetables in polythene bags. Because the ethylene gas produced by them then gets collected in the polythene bags thus, causing the fruits and vegetables to lose their freshness and decay faster. If you want to store them in polythene bags, then create perforations on them by punching holes on them, so the ethylene gas produced can escape. This way your gorgeous fresh fruits and vegetables will remain fresh and luscious longer.

- Diced fruits and vegetables produce 100 percent times more ethylene gas. If these are kept with the other fruits and vegetables, the fresh ones maybe spoiled within a couple of days.

- In order to keep fruits fresh and to keep vegetables fresh, diced fruits and vegetables should be kept in airtight containers. This will prevent the ethylene gas produced from escaping and affecting the neighboring fresh fruits and vegetables.

- Ethylene production is very high in over ripened and rotten fruits and vegetables, " "one rotten apple spoils the whole barrel" goes the old saying. Science has discovered that high amount of ethylene produced by a rotten apple can spoil the whole basket within 1-2 days. Keep such produce out of your refrigerator.

- Cooked vegetables also produce very high amount of ethylene and this will affect the neighboring fresh fruits and vegetables kept in the fridge. In order to keep fruits fresh and to keep vegetables fresh always store any leftover cooked food in air tight containers.
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Corn Flakes And Nut Cookies

The nutritional value of your breakfast can be enhanced with the consumption of fortified breakfast cereals. Corn flakes include a number of vitamins and minerals with the power to meet the daily nutritional requirements. It includes no cholesterol and sugar. Therefore it is often considered to be a healthy food item that can be consumed for a complete breakfast. It is often consumed with nuts and chocolates too.
Corn Flakes Vitamins and Iron

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Health benefits of Sweet corn

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There are many health benefits associated with the use of cereals. Today it is easy to find a wide range of breakfast cereals which include different flavors, nuts, fruits and so forth. Some of the most delicious flavors include strawberry, mango, pineapple, orange, banana(omelette aux truffes) and chocolate.

Cereal breakfast can be bought in different varieties from most of the stores these days. These cereals are fortified with vitamins and minerals. Daily intake of vitamins such as Vitamin C, D, A, and B6 are known to improve overall health of a person on various ways. A bowl of breakfast cereals with nuts, fruits, low fat cream or yogurt can help a person to stay healthy and energetic all throughout the day.
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Moreover, these cereal products seldom contain fat or sugar and therefore it includes fewer calories compared to the other food items. It is also light weight and easy to digest. This ready-to-eat breakfast is among the most popular and widely consumed food items in the entire world.

There are breakfast cereal products with honey and high fiber which helps to lose weight. These types of cereals are hugely demanded due to constant rise of obesity and health issues in most of the people today. The modern lifestyle includes the consumption of junk food items such as fried food, burgers and pastries which increases the consumption of calories.
How to Make Crepe for Breakfast

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A MONTH AGO
Wake up to a delicious gourmet dish for breakfast. A quick to make breakfast that would start your day in no time and help you wake up your sleeping cells in your body. Brought to you by http://www.gourmandia.ca
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