ingredients:
- one chicken carcass
- veggie - onion / one or half whole garlic / celery / stock of parsley / 大蔥 / carrot / any other left over veggie are fine
- black pepper corns - crushed
- thyme if available
- pull in cold water enough to cover all ingredients, bring it to boil
- 細火 cook for 30 to 40 min maximum
- smell excellent when being cooked now ..
ingredients:
- tomatoes - several, cooked into tomato paste, with garlic and chilli
- minced beef - marinated w/ olive oil, salt, soya sauce, sugar, black pepper, etc
- one onion, diced
- garlic, crushed
- basil
- cherry tomatoes
steps:
- crushed garlic and chilli into the pan, add cold olive oil, under low heat, and heat up till smell comes out
- add into it the diced onion, stir fry it till soften, but not browned
- then add into it the minced beef, keep stir-frying until a point, where you will add some wine
- wine is key, which add aroma to the whole thing
- then stir into the tomato paste + cherry tomatoes
- adding cherry tomatoes enhance the favour of the end product
- season it
- cover with lid, and keep cooking for at least 1 to 2 hours
- lastly add the basil leaves and kill the fire immediately. Basil leaves if cooked on high heat will just lost its beautiful fragrance.
1/2 of a Japanese pumpkin, half used as ROASTED PUMPKIN, the other half used as PUMPKIN SOUP
PUMPKIN SOUP
- pre-heat oven t 180 deg C
- bake the entire half in a baking tray, together with whole garlic, halfed, drizzled with olive oil, for 45 minutes or so
- gut of pumpkin put into a small pot with water; boil for 10 minute to use as soup base
- take out the tray when done; smash the softened pumpkin flesh, sparing the skin (adding some salt and is ready to eat
- sautee diced onion and crushed garlic with oil in a separate pot, adding pumpkin flesh, and lastly some shredded parmesan cheese
- soon will smell the aroma of the cheese, and adding soup base + veggie stock or chicken stock
- cook till boil, season it, adding cream, and blend it till smooth.
- taste delicious; next time try veggie stock as a base.
ROASTED PUMPKIN
- prepare marinate by mixing honey (maple syrup is used in orgiinal recipt), olive oil, crushed rosemary, crushed garlic, salt and pepper
- cut the pumpkin into wedges, keep the skin on
- put away all pumpkin slices into the marinate and keep it for 24 hours before bake
最近為什經常中伏?! 先是榴槤, 以為 TP 品牌一定沒錯，怎料居然買了個放在雪柜後, 零釋出香味的. 哈!
然後是今天, 探完媽後就想著去大成街市買海鮮什麼的, 一路想著東星, ok 看中了一條, 檔說是野的, 剩下兩條, 賣2百, 我買一條 $128, 他只收了$120..... 回家後蒸7分鐘出來, 味道木然. 怪不得. ..
下回買東西打醒十二分精神, 免再次被搵笨.
(1) 泰式咖哩青班塊 - 好好味
Green curry paste:
(2) 炒絲蒜泥豆鼓辣椒蒸青班塊
(3) 清蒸東星班
Ingredients:
