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How To Make Japanese Desserts

Alyssa12 — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:11:00 -0600

Japanese desserts are known to be nutritious and delicious. In this article you will find recipes for three types of Ohagi, or sweet rice cake, and Daigaku Imo, Fried Sweet Potato.

Sanshoku Ohagi (Tri-colored Sweet Rice Cake)
Ohagis are popular sticky rice cakes. This recipe will show you how to make Red Bean Ohagi, Edamame Ohagi and Sesame Ohagi.

Ingredients:(makes 18 cakes) Sticky rice:

2 cups of sticky rice
2 cups of water

Used for Read Bean and Sesame Ohagi

1 1/2 cups of red bean paste

Used for Edamame Ohagi

1 1/2 cups of edamame (soy beans)
1/2 cup of sugar
a pinch of salt

Used Sesame Ohagi

3 teaspoons of black sesame seeds
5 teaspoons of sugar
a pinch of salt

Preparation:

Salvadoran Tamales

Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:00:00 -0600

Salvadoran tamales (wrapped in banana leaves)

Salvadoran Tamales (Tamales Salvadoreños)

Total Servings: 70 tamales
Serving: 1 or 2 tamales

The number of servings may look huge, but tamales are something to share with relatives, friends, co-workers, and club or church members, or sold in a fundraiser.

For lesser quantities, except for the salty-water brine for the steamer, reduce ingredients and steaming time proportionally. Tamales can be served at breakfast, lunch or supper.

How To Make Japanese Breakfast

Alyssa12 — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:18:00 -0600

Japanese breakfast typically includes the following dishes:

A bowl of rice
Fillet of grilled salted salmon with the skin still intact
A side of pickles (cucumber, radish, and/or eggplant)
One sour plum
A bowl of miso soup
A side of Natto, or fermented soy beans
Several sheets of seasoned seaweed

While you can easily purchase rice, salmon and miso at your local grocery store, you should consider visiting an Asian grocery store to purchase the pickles, sour plum, natto and seaweed.

Directions on how to prepare and eat the dishes:

A bowl of rice: The rice should be served hot in a small bowl. Short grain white rice is most widely eaten for breakfast but you can substitute with brown rice if you wish to do so. The other dishes listed below are meant to be eaten with the rice.

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How To Cook Chicken Tinola (Tinolang Manok)

Adeleah — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:15:56 -0500

This chicken recipe is one of the famous and favorite dishes in the Philippines. You don't need to be a master-chef to cook this. I can suggest this dish for the beginner. In fact, this is the first recipe that I learned to cook!

Most of the vegetables ingredients in Tinolang Manok can be found in Asian stores (Filipino or Indian Stores). You can buy them fresh or frozen. But if you're too far away or too lazy to go around and find a Filipino store, you can be more creative and look for substitute vegetables. For example, you can use potatoes for the unripe papaya/upo/sayote (chayote squash), and you can also use spinach leaves for the sili (chili)/malunggay leaves.

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How To Make Paella

Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:00:00 -0600

Authentic Valencian Style, Seafood & Chicken Paella recipe for 12 hungry adults

Authentic Valencian Style Seafood & Chicken Paella

Paella: 1
Paella (Pan) Size: 16 in. diameter
Servings per paella: 12 adults

ANTHROPOLOGY, ETYMOLOGY AND OTHER SILLY STUFF ABOUT PAELLA
The recipe for this exquisite Valencian Paella (from Latin "pagella" a circular, semi-cylindrical container with one or two hoop-shaped handles, which derived into Castillian-language "paella", the actual name of the pan where the famous dish is cooked) is based on René's mother's recipe, and includes a splendid panoply of herbs, vegetables, seafood and non-hot spices. The spices are better if green-fresh. This Valencian Paella is best if accompanied by a good Spanish Grand Reserve Rioja wine, or a California Rhine wine.
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How To Make a California Roll

Uninvited Writer — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:03:58 -0500

For many people, sushi is one of those foods they have to be convinced to try. I was one of those people.

I am a bit of a coward when it comes to trying new foods; I blame my British upbringing for that. Sushi is one food that I had trouble "getting into" and I admit that I still don't like most sushi. California rolls were the first sushi that I was introduced to, and they remain my favorite. Of course, a purist might say, "that's not real sushi", but it was a good first sushi dish for me to try. Now I have even tried and enjoyed barbequed eel, but that is another story...

California rolls are different from other sushi rolls in that most restaurants serve them "inside-out" with the rice on the outside as opposed to seaweed (nori). The ingredients for making the California roll should be available in most grocery stores or in specialty Asian markets.

How To Make Pasta 'n Sauce

Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:00:00 -0500

Ingredients

20g fresh coriander
20g fresh parsley
1 small onion
2 tins chopped tomatoes
1 clove garlic
5 tsp olive oil
1 or 2 chillies (optional to taste)
2 - 3 Mugs of pasta
Salt and Pepper (ground black pepper is good)

Directions:

Drain the juice from the tins of tomatoes using a sieve.
Peel the onion and chop into very small pieces.
Remove the stalks from the Coriander and chop into small pieces.
Finely chop the chillies.
Roughly chop the clove of garlic.
Remove the stalks from the coriander and roughly chop into pieces about twice the size of the coriander.
Place the olive oil in a frying pan on a medium to high heat.
Place the pasta in a saucepan add water and bring to the boil.

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How To Make Latkes

Annette165 — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:03:00 -0600

Although latkes are traditionally made from potatoes, they can be made from a number of other foods that can be grated: sweet potatoes, parsnips (mixed with other things!), carrots, beets, squash and even salmon. The Food Network has a list of more than 20 different kinds of latkes from a variety of ingredients, but the basic steps and techniques are the same for them all.

How To Make Bolognese Sauce

bronwyn — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:23:48 -0600

This sauce takes a while to make but it is definitely worth it! If you've ever wanted to impress that certain someone with your cooking, this is the dish for you!

Ingredients:

1 medium onion
1 large carrot
2 or 3 stalks of celery
1 ounce pancetta
1 pound ground beef
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Pinch of allspice
1 cup whole milk
1 cup dry white wine
15 ounce can of diced tomatoes
1 pound pasta
Parmesan cheese

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How To Make Curried Chickpeas (Cholay)

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:35:00 -0600

Recipe submitted by: Shammi Edwards.

This is a very flavourful recipe from North India, usually eaten with fried bread like bhatura or puri. I like to serve it over rice for a very filling meal. You can also try it as a quick snack over toasted bread. This recipe is much quicker to make if you use precooked canned beans, but I like to think that the authentic flavor comes from doing it the hard way!

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