Dragon.Fly is a blog where young lady shares her interest by mainly posting animes, dramas, mangas, music, ect. A few years have passed and she wants to extend her post to foods, recipes, remedies, random things. ^^
Feb 8, 2014
Smooth Mashed Potatoes
In cooking class, week 2 french cuisine. The chef made this smooth mashed potato to go with our chicken basque. It was the best mashed potato I have ever tasted. It tasted devine. I found a recipe similar to what the chef used. I saw him using a electric hand mixer to smooth out the lumps. I'm thinking once the potato is boiled you can use the mixer to mash the potato and add in other ingredients and mix until smooth.
Ingredients
1 cup heavy cream
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
3 large Yukon gold potatoes, peeled
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper (or white pepper)
1/4 cup olive oil, optional
Directions
Warm the cream with the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat until the butter melts; set aside.
Put the potatoes in a medium saucepan with cold water to cover. Bring to boil then add 1 teaspoon of salt and reduce the heat and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, until the potatoes are very tender. Drain. Pass the potatoes through a food mill or a ricer into a large mixing bowl. Stir in the warm cream and butter mixture until the cream is absorbed and the mixture is smooth. Season the potatoes with salt and pepper and finish them off by stirring in 1/4 cup olive oil.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/velvety-mashed-potatoes-recipe.html
Jan 28, 2014
Happy Together - Bad Girl Hyori's Disclosure: Lee Hyori, Ahn Hyekyung...
The food that the guest cooked at the end looks mouth watery good and unique. If i have all the ingredients I would love to try them out!
Jan 25, 2014
Simple Kimchi Fried Rice
Kimchi fried rice was unexpectedly yummy. Like fried rice and to what I have in hand. Frozen peas, handful of kimchi, egg and half a bowl of rice.
Beforehand, boil/thaw the frozen peas. In a hot pan, add oil let it heat up then add sliced kimchi with some of its sauce, stir a bit then add rice and peas and let the kimchi color distributed. and your seasoning ( salt and chicken bouillon ) to your taste. Then finally add the beaten eggs, stir around until egg cooked.
Beforehand, boil/thaw the frozen peas. In a hot pan, add oil let it heat up then add sliced kimchi with some of its sauce, stir a bit then add rice and peas and let the kimchi color distributed. and your seasoning ( salt and chicken bouillon ) to your taste. Then finally add the beaten eggs, stir around until egg cooked.
Jan 23, 2014
I'm taking international cooking class.
I'm excited in taking international cuisine/cooking class! Had our first session and we cooked classic american food. We made few different recipes: shrimp and grits, potato salad, Caesar salad, and chocolate chip cookies and bratwurst sliders. We paired up and each group picked which recipe they want to make. My partner and I made choco chip cookies and grilled the chicken breast and bratwurst. The chef circle around and gave mini demonstration and facts.
I learned for any cookie making first always mix the sugar and butter together. then add all the other ingredients except the choco chip and fold with spatula. Our dough looked a bit dry so the chef added a bit of olive oil in. then add the choco chip. cookie dough complete. He suggested bake at 350F but he likes to bake at low temperature like 325F which would bake at a longer duration. He also said while baking and almost done, he suggest to turn the baking pan around.
For grilling the chef demo seasoning the chicken breast with plenty of olive oil, pepper and salt. Mix them around and let it sit so the salt would dissolve and be soak up my the meat. For the brat, he showed us to cut it in half not all the way through hotdog-wise and then cut it in half which you would get 2 square-ish brats. when done grilling he also instructed to bake them in the oven so its cooked through well.
I wanted to learn how the other groups made croutons, they tasted fabulous. and wanted to learn how to caramelized onions. I saw bits and pieces of what the others were doing but not completely observing.
I found few recipes we used and followed or seems similar. next time I would take picture of how the chef plated the foods.
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/caesar_salad/ -- I remember hearing the chef said substituting anchovy with something else or just omit it.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/shrimp-and-grits-recipe.html
I learned for any cookie making first always mix the sugar and butter together. then add all the other ingredients except the choco chip and fold with spatula. Our dough looked a bit dry so the chef added a bit of olive oil in. then add the choco chip. cookie dough complete. He suggested bake at 350F but he likes to bake at low temperature like 325F which would bake at a longer duration. He also said while baking and almost done, he suggest to turn the baking pan around.
For grilling the chef demo seasoning the chicken breast with plenty of olive oil, pepper and salt. Mix them around and let it sit so the salt would dissolve and be soak up my the meat. For the brat, he showed us to cut it in half not all the way through hotdog-wise and then cut it in half which you would get 2 square-ish brats. when done grilling he also instructed to bake them in the oven so its cooked through well.
I wanted to learn how the other groups made croutons, they tasted fabulous. and wanted to learn how to caramelized onions. I saw bits and pieces of what the others were doing but not completely observing.
I found few recipes we used and followed or seems similar. next time I would take picture of how the chef plated the foods.
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/caesar_salad/ -- I remember hearing the chef said substituting anchovy with something else or just omit it.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/shrimp-and-grits-recipe.html
Jan 21, 2014
Running Man! Haha's winter hat?
I have been watching Running Man this past few days. My friend recommend it to me. I laughed and laughed watching this series. I started on the first episode to 27. then I skipped around. I really like Haha's winter hat on ep 22. I tried looking for it online to buy it maybe but couldn't find a hat like Haha was wearing. I used search words like "winter hat earflap cap, running man haha's hat, korean cloths hat.."
Jan 16, 2014
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