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January 26th, 2012Fashion InfoTags: Executive Sous Chef, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, Sunday Brunch, Wanda Gunawan
Actually the most delicious meat dishes cooked together with sliced ??fresh vegetables. Unfortunately, the wrong way to cook meat so often make the flavor was bland when mixed with vegetables, and also feel more dry.According to Wanda Gunawan, Executive Sous Chef of InterContinental Jakarta MidPlaza, the meat will lose the pleasure of taste and the juice when pan-fried meat. Therefore, the order penumisan be aware of when mixing and cooking the meat with vegetables. Usually, when sauteing meat and vegetables, you’ll be sauteing the meat first, then add the vegetables. Consideration, the meat has a texture that is harder than with vegetables.
“When creating a stir the meat and vegetables, try stir-fry vegetables in advance,” advises Wanda, when the show “Sunday Brunch” at the Grand Hyatt Jakarta, Jakarta, some time ago.
When the pan, the vegetables will also issue its own juice is tasty and aromatic. This juice will be left behind and stuck to the pan so that when meat is added to it, this meat will absorb the vegetable juice is tasty. This will strengthen the vegetable juice flavors the meat juices, and make foods taste a whole is much more enjoyable. “This fragrant sauce vegetables that will make the meat taste better and there is a smell,” she said.
So that the vegetables are cooked with meat is not lodoh, lift the vegetables first after briefly sauteed until slightly wilted, then set aside. But, do not clean skillet saute vegetables used, because the sari-sari stuck to the pan can still be used when sauteing meat again.
“However, this process can only be done for a dish that is not too long cooking process, such as a simple stir with a thin flesh. If you want to cook the meat with the old process and added vegetables, the meat should be cooked first,” she added.
Several types of vegetables and spices that can be used to make juices of meat taste better include onions, onions, carrots, celery, rosemary, mint, thyme, and others.
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January 24th, 2012Cooking Tips
Grilled fish is delicious and healthy dishes. Unfortunately, many people who do not know how to bake the fish is good and not displaying the charred on the outside while the meat was still raw inside.Fish and fish fry in a pan fire do tend to differ. Burn the fish is much more complicated because it requires patience and diligence when burned. In order for your grilled fish cooked through, you should avoid using the pan when grilling fish on the stove. As a final step, you can ripen browned in the oven so that the texture that are outside the fixed maturity of the fish was moist and evenly.
For more details, follow the following tricks:
. Remove fish from refrigerator. Let the fish while on a plate. Cover the saucepan lid sekama uses approximately half an hour. After that, heat the fish in the oven in a temperature of 400 degrees.
. Dry the fish with paper so the moisture is absorbed. It is important that during the process of cooking the fish will be easily cooked. Do not forget to sprinkle salt or sugar on the fish to help give the crust and prevent it from drying out during the burn later.
. Heat a wok with high heat for three to four minutes. Add three tablespoons of oil in the wok and roll up the entire pan coated with oil. Let the pan heat for one to two minutes. But avoid using olive oil because it will make the burning of overcooked fish.
. Grilled fish for three minutes for each side. Turn the fish with the help of a spatula and then grilled fish for three minutes for the next hand. Do not touch or move the fish while it is burning because it will only disturb the process maturity of the fish.
. Place fish in dish and bake the fish in the anti-hot oven, so the maturity evenly. After that move the fish to a platter and let stand for a moment.
. Make a fish sauce according to taste you want. Then pour the sauce over the fish that have been cooked and browned it. Grilled fish was ready to be enjoyed.
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January 23rd, 2012Food News
You definitely know the name apple, but did you know that the apples contained many benefits for health, Apple’s great for use as a favorite fruit diet to lose weight. Apples have a low fat content but the existing fiber in apples is very high, this fiber will help you feel full faster. There are many health benefits of apples.When we are hungry is actually happening is the emergence of gastric stimulation. The brain is ordered to immediately seek food and fill an empty stomach by the stomach earlier. If the stomach has been filled then naturally we will feel a sense of satiety and food intake will immediately cease.
Benefits of apple: foods rich in fiber and high water levels.
Choose foods with fiber content like fruits, vegetables, cereals, wheat. Apples along with pears, citrus fruits are among the high-yield fibers. Fruits with high water content can also often cause gastric stretch. Melon and watermelon with its high water content, although low in fiber can easily create a hull filled and filling.Apple when eaten with the skin will make the blood glucose levels slowly rose. Glicemic skinned apple has a low index. The speed increase blood sugar levels can be reduced by foods that are low glicemic index. In addition to these skinned apples, vegetables average glicemic index also had low levels indicated by the number of fibers on the leaves and stems.
The other benefits of apples
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Apples contain high antioxidant, anti-oxidants may also help lower bad cholesterol, lower bad cholesterol will protect you from heart disease.
In addition, there are many benefits of apple juice, among others, as follows:
* Relieves diarrhea
* Smooth digestion and reduce weight
* Apple juice can fend off viral infections
* Helps treat asthma
* Preventing tooth decay and gum disease
* Strengthen the kidney
* Lowers blood pressure
* Fighting arthritis
* Stabilize blood sugar
* As an anticancer agent
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January 22nd, 2012Food News
If previously we’ve felt the peculiar sensation of Banyuwangi pecel rawon, now we want to try to taste the salad soup. This one is also one of the typical food of Banyuwangi and can only be enjoyed in this city anyway.There are enough sellers salad soup that can be found in the town of Banyuwangi. But according to recommendation of few friends who live in Banyuwangi as well as culinary hobby, so we decided to try the soup salad menu that is in the path of the archipelago. More precisely the salad stall “Bu Ning” in front of the cinema rhythm, but the movie is old does not operate anymore.
Back again to the salad soup, when it arrived in the archipelago-hour road show number 3 and the sun was not as oppressive as in the middle of the day. We’ve found the shop in question, see the deserted stall, there was a little doubt, and we did not stop. We circled around and around the town of Banyuwangi, looking at a few places that sell soup salad menu. Until finally we stopped at the town square, according to the experience they had done before, to find out a famous place to eat delicious, people who can be trusted is a parking, a pedicab driver or the local people who look like to have a hobby of eating. After asking several people, it was decided to return to the salad shop in front of the ex. Rhythm cinema.
Without any doubt, we went straight in and order a salad soup. The seller was a nimble and agile start concocting our order. In less than 10 minutes, salad soup that we ordered was available over the counter. Before eating it, I was watching a plate of salad soup carefully. There did exist any complete salad ingredients mixed with tripe soup. And slowly I began to eat it, again I do not can not find words suitable to describe the combination of taste. But the flavor of this soup is created from the salad is really unique, delicious, tasty, fresh and all the expressions of any kind no one can represent it with certainty. It can only be said as soup and also as a salad. But indeed it’s a mix to make people addicted to return again to enjoy when they travel to the city of Banyuwangi.
After chatting with Ms. Pon as owner with her daughter Ms. Anik, it has been standing stalls from 23 years ago. And already many people who never experience the joys of soup salad mix, both of Banyuwangi own or those coming from out of town. First stall is open from morning till night, but since he was old enough and was tired, so now this stall was opened from 9 am until 5 pm today. After a talk at length, it turns out this shop also sells salad cingur, an office employee who usually come more often ordered cingur salad and eaten with white rice. Out of curiosity, one of the partners was immediately asked Mrs. Pon to make a serving of salad cingur.
Just when making soup salad, in a short time only a portion of salad cingur was already delivered to the table. And wow, portions are quite a lot too, abundant spices mixed with other ingredients. Apparently it is true, the cingur is clean and does not smell the cow, having eaten it feels really solid, the composition of ingredients that do not make it so it feels stingy. Cingurnya soft and tasteless, because never try salad cingur but the cingur is not there in a sense, if the Javanese say “cingure anyep, the taste is not nauseated” in contrast to cingur in this shop.
After a full stomach, it was time to make up for the pleasure we had just enjoyed. And it turns out, for serving soup salad and the cingur salad, you only need to pay 9ribu rupiahs for each portion. But unfortunately, this shop does not exist in Denpasar, even if there might be every day we ate at this stall. Although the stall is open every day except week, but when Ramadan comes, this shop will be closed for 1 full month and will return to serve the buyer at the time of the feast of Eid al-Fitr is the first. So for those of you who happen to want to enjoy the salad soup during the holidays, just get ready to queue up patiently.
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January 20th, 2012Food lovers
Are you a fan of rawon rice? If the answer is correct, then it is better if you stop by the Bik Ati Rawon restaurant. It is located at Jl. No. Ahmad Yani. 83, Banyuwangi, if the direction toward the Banyuwangi Ketapang town, just follow the road to the Jember. Following up on a red light south of the square a straight course toward Jl. Piere Tendean to meet again with the red light, continue straight towards Jl. K.H. Wahid Hashim to meet again with the red lights then turn left to Jl. Ahmad Yani, eating house located on the left of the road with a fairly large sign board.That afternoon, before returning to the island of Bali, I was with the team taking the time to enjoy the rawon rice. At approximately 12:10 pm, we arrived at the location. The diner is large enough, might be able to accommodate more than 50 visitors. There is considerable variation rawon rice are available, such as usual rawon rice, empal, lung, spleen, tripe, oxtail, mixed dishes and there are still some other variations. Each of us ordered a plain rawon rice and empal rice, after waiting a few minutes our order was delivered to the table.
A plate of rawon rice is served in a plate of white rice with meat and bean sprouts. Not too dark broth with chopped chives is quite a lot. Fairly mild flavor marinade and the meat tender, though dipotongan rather large and quite a lot of fat attached. But for the empal, it is somewhat tough (according to a team that tries menu rawon empal rice) although it did not disappoint, so take a little more effort to enjoy the empal of the rawon rice. In the majority of our judgments about where to eat rawon this time is a Good and should be tried.
For a portion of rawon rice, it is priced at 16ribu rupiahs, perhaps somewhat less expensive but with portions of meat that is served by I the price is quite fitting. In addition to presenting varied rawon rice, this restaurant also offers special menus of fresh vegetables. Usually this restaurant began serving its visitors ranging from a 6.30 am to 9.30 pm every day. Until now, Bik Ati Rawon restaurant already has two branches, each located Jl. Embong Ploso 27 (Bamboo Runcing turn left), east and PMI Surabaya Jl. Kingdom Situbondo (front Ketapang TELKOM), Ketapang. So, if you’re passing the Java-Bali or vice versa, you can also enjoy rawon rice in Ketapang (open 24 hours) without having to go all the way to Banyuwangi first.
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Tiramisu
0January 16th, 2012Cooking Tips
A special dessert, of course, can make a memorable meal. This time we present the Italian dessert, Tiramisu. Indeed, in a large pastry shop or restaurant dessert is widely available, not hurt you to try at home. For the container can be placed on a baking sheet or in a cocktail glass.
The materials needed:• 400 gr mascarpone cheese
• 150 ml heavy cream
• 20 pieces of sponge cake dry or cat’s tongue
• 4 tablespoons strong coffee solution
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons brandy
• 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
• ¼ teaspoon of vanilla powderMocha cream:
• 50 grams of cooking chocolate, chopped
• 1 tablespoon coffee essence
• 1 teaspoon powdered sugar, sifted
• shaved chocolate or chocolate coffee beans form, for garnishHow to Make it:
1. Beat the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla until smooth.
2. Add the cheese gradually while beat until smooth and blended.
3. Place the brandy and coffee in a bowl. Dip the dry sponge in the solution until slightly damp coffee.
4. Prepare 4 glasses of cocktail. Place the biscuits and cheese dough alternately until the glass is full.
5. Sprinkle each surface with cocoa powder. Store in refrigerator until hardened.Moka Cream:
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6. Tim Brown with coffee essence until melted. Remove and let cool.
7. Beat the cream until thick, put chocolate is melted with a shake until blended. Store in refrigerator, for 30 minutes.
8. Presentation: Garnish the surface of the tiramisu with mocha cream. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate with shaved chocolate or chocolate coffee bean shape.