Lo Mein/捞面

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Cooked Lo mein 2 lbs
Beef 6 Oz
Squid 6 Oz
Chinese ba choy ½ lb
Some shredded carrot, shredded celery, dried fungus and mushroom
Soak dried vegetable in water for at least 2,3 hours ,wash carefully then shred. (Recommend soak in water overnight)
Peel the skin off the Squid then shred and marinate with salt, chicken power and cooking wine for at least half an hour.
Same for Beef, thin slice beef then marinate with salt, chicken powder and cooking wine and sweet potato starch for at least half an hour.
Bring a big pot of water to boil then add noodles in it stir and cook for one minute, take them out immediately because they are cooked noodles. In the same water add squid and a few thin slices of ginger and cook one minute, drain, set aside.
In a very hot non-stick skillet, add 4tbsp of oil stir fry beef until color turn light brown about 3 minutes, set aside.
In the same skillet add 3 more tbsp oil heat up a bit then add all the vegetable and stir fry for 5,6 minutes; then add 3tbsp water, noodles, beef, squid, 1 tsp salt, 2.5 tbsp oyster sauce and 1 tbsp dark soy sauce mix well and cook a few more minutes. Finally add 2tsp chicken powder, 1.5 tbsp cooking wine and alittle bit of white pepper. Mix until everything combines well.

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熟撈面 2 磅
牛肉 6 盎司
魷魚 6 盎司
中國白菜 ½ 磅
一些胡蘿蔔丝、 芹菜丝、 幹的木耳和蘑菇

乾的菜在水中的浸泡至少 2、 3 小時,然後仔細清洗切丝。(建議在水中的浸泡一夜)
魷魚絲用鹽、 鸡粉和料酒醃至少半小时
同樣的牛肉切薄牛肉片,然後用鹽、 雞粉,料酒和馬鈴薯澱粉醃至少半小时。
一大锅水燒開,然後加麵條进去并攪拌煮一分鐘,因為是熟得面条不要煮太久。在同一锅水里加魷魚和幾片薄生薑,煮一分鐘捞出,待用。
在一個很熱的不粘煎鍋里加4 湯匙油炒牛肉直到顏色轉淺棕色大約3 分鐘,撥出。
在 同一個鍋中再添加 3 湯匙油稍微加熱,然後加入所有的蔬菜炒 5,6 分鐘 ;加 3 湯匙水、 麵條、牛肉,鱿鱼, 1 茶匙鹽、 2.5 湯匙蠔油 1 湯匙老抽边拌边炒 几 分鐘。最後添加 2 茶匙雞粉、 1.5 湯匙料酒和一點白胡椒。混合好就可以吃了。

Basa Fillet with Garlic Sauce/鱼香龙利鱼

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This is a super easy dish, it will only take you 10 minutes from preparing to finish cooking. It is a must try yummy dish!!!!!

Basa fillet 1 pound/one whole piece

White rice vinegar 1/4 cup

Water ¼ cup

Balsamic vinegar ¼ cup

Sugar ¼ cup

Pinch of salt

Pinch of white pepper

1 tbsp of light soy sauce

Bring a big pot of water to boil, add in 2 slices of ginger and 2tsp of salt, turn the heat to medium, then cook the fish in the boiling water for about 7 minutes or until it is done. Place the fish in a long plate.

In another small pot, except white pepper and salt add in the rest ingredients and bring to bubbling, turn the heat to low and continue to cook for a minute or so, add 2 tbsp. of sweet potato starch water to thicken the sauce. Dust some white pepper and pinch of salt to the fish then pour the sauce over the fish.

So far this is the easiest fish dish I’ve ever cooked. It is easy but it tastes super delicious. Make sure you don’t overcook the fish. Turn the heat low when the sauce start to bubble otherwise all the sourness will evaporate. The original recipe doesn’t have water, I’ve tried it myself, and it is a bit too sour for me. If you don’t have Italy balsamic vinegar, you can use just regular Chinese Balsamic vinegar, after all this is a Chinese dish.

龙利魚柳 1 磅 / 一整条

白米醋 1/4 杯

¼ 杯水

香醋 ¼ 杯

糖 ¼ 杯

一点盐

一点白胡椒粉

一大勺生抽

一大锅水煮沸後,加入姜 2 片和 2 茶匙的鹽,火开小一些,然後放魚进去煮約 7 分鐘,或直到它熟。將魚放在長的盘子里。

在另一個小鍋裡,添加其他除盐和白胡椒以外的材料煮至冒泡,火调低,繼續煮一分鐘,加 2 湯匙的甘薯澱粉水勾芡醬汁。撒点白胡椒和盐在鱼上,然后把醬汁倒在魚上面。

到目前為止,這是我煮過最簡單的魚。它很容易煮,但它的味道却超級好吃。請你不要把鱼煮太过了。酱汁冒泡后一定把火溫調低,否則醋的酸味會蒸發掉。原來的食譜沒有水,我已經試了一次,對我來說有點太酸。如果你沒有義大利香醋,你可以使用普通的中国香醋。我是用義大利香醋煮的。

Pan Fried Shanghainese Buns/上海生煎包

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1. Dough
All-purpose flour 500g
Rapid rise highly active yeast 7g (1 bag)
Water 275g
Baking powder 5g
Sesame seeds 30g
2. Meat
Ground pork 500g
Minced Ginger 1tbsp
Minced Scallion 1/3 cup
Dark soy sauce 6 tbsp
Sugar 3 tbsp
Sesame oil 2tsp
Cooking wine 1 tbsp
Sweet potato starch 3 tbsp
Mix together all the ingredients in 2 for meat and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Mix flour, yeast and baking powder together then warm up the water to 130F and pour water into the flour mixture. Knead the flour until it is smooth, leave it in a big bowl and cover with a damp cloth for about one hour.
Cut the dough evenly into 30 pieces and roll out into round flat wraps, get the right portion of meat and wrap it.
Cover the finished products with damp cloth and let it rise for the second time for about 10 minutes.
Move all the buns onto a non-stick skillet in a circle, add the sweet potato starch water (1:6) to cover half of the buns, add one tbsp. of oil and cover with lid. Cook 6 minutes with medium low heat then turn the heat to high and cook about another 5-6 minutes or until the bottom of buns are golden brown. Serve with a little bit of sesame seeds and green scallion.

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生煎包

1.麵團
中筋麵粉 500 克
高活性酵母 7 g (1 袋)
水 275 克
泡打粉 5 克
熟芝麻 30 克

2.肉
碎豬肉 500 克
切碎的姜 1 湯匙
蔥花 1/3 杯
老抽 6 湯匙
糖 3 湯匙
麻油 2 茶匙
烹調酒 1 湯匙
甘薯澱粉 3 湯匙

把 2 中的所有原料都混合在一起,放冰箱冷藏至少 2 小時。

將麵粉、 酵母、 泡打粉混合在一起, 130F 的水倒進麵粉混合物。揉麵粉到表面光滑,把它放在大碗裡,用濕布蓋約一小時。
把麵團均勻地切成 30 塊然后擀成片,加肉包起来。
成品用濕布覆蓋,讓它二次发酵大約 10 分鐘。
接着移到一个不沾锅里围成一个圈,加澱粉水 (1: 6),水加到包子的一半,加一湯匙油蓋子上蓋。用中小火煮 6 分鐘然後關大火再煮 5-6 分鐘或直到包子底部是金黃色。配上一點點芝麻和青蔥。

Chicken with Bacon And Cheese/乳酪煙肉鸡

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Chicken Breast 1 pound
Bacon 6 strips
Cheddar cheese 3 Oz.
Mayonnaise 4Tbsp
Pinch of salt and black pepper
This recipe is super easy but super delicious. With around half an hour your chicken will be ready.
Preheat oven to 425F.
First flavor chicken with a pinch of salt and black pepper, make sure you don’t use too much because both cheese and bacon are salty. Cover your chicken with all the mayonnaise, then wrap the meat with bacons. Leave chicken on a baking sheet and put in the preheated oven and bake for 25 minutes. Take the chicken out of oven and spread cheese all over the chicken and continue to bake for 3 more minutes. This dish is very juicy and tender.

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雞胸肉 1 磅
培根 6 條
切達乾酪乳酪 3 盎司。
4 湯匙蛋黃醬
鹽和黑胡椒 少量

這個食譜是超級容易,但超級好吃。大約半個小時你的雞就準備好了。
預熱烤箱至 425F。

首先雞加少許鹽和黑胡椒调味,請確保您不使用太多盐和黑胡椒,因為乳酪和熏肉是咸的東西。用蛋黄酱覆蓋住鸡肉,然後用煙肉包起来。把雞放在烤盤上,放入已預熱的烘爐里烘烤 25 分鐘。雞从烤箱取出来撒上乳酪,繼續烤 3 分鐘。這道菜很多汁好吃又嫩。

Pumpkin Cheese Cake/南瓜芝士蛋糕

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Ingredients: 500 g cream cheese, pumpkin 270 g, eggs 2 egg yolks 2, 120 g sugar, lemon zest half, 60 grams of milk, cinnamon ½ tea spoon

Graham crackers 150 g, butter 80 g

Bake: preheat oven to 350 degrees, water bath and bake for 1.5-2 hours.

  1. Start by making the graham bottom first, put all the graham crackers in a zip log bag and roll into fine powder, and mix well with melted butter and spread it over the bottom of the cake pan, and flatten it with the back of the spoon. Bake in a preheated 350F oven for 7 minutes.
  1. Spoon all pumpkin seeds out, cut pumpkin into small pieces and steamed (or go two or three minutes in the microwave oven) until easily pierced through with chopsticks. Spoon pumpkin meat out with a spoon then smash it.
  1. Cream cheese softened in room temperature, add sugar then use an electronic mixer whisk off to a smooth condition.
  1. Add the eggs and egg yolks, whisk eggs and cheese to a really smooth condition. Add egg one at a time.
  1. Pour the pumpkin paste to egg and cream cheese mixture and mix well.
  2. Pour the milk, cinnamon, lemon zest and mix together until it form a fluffy cheesecake batter.
  1. Pour the batter into the bottom of the cake pan.
  1. Wrap the spring form pan with an aluminum foil and place it in the pan that is full of water, water needs to cover at least ½ of the spring form pan. Put the Pan in a preheated 350F degree oven and bake for about 1.5-2 hours, or until cake is completely solid, and the surface is slightly golden brown. (I’m using heavy duty aluminum foil so I baked 2 hours; every oven is different so you really need to bake accordingly. After 1.5 hours stick a tooth pick into the center of the cake, if the tooth pick comes out clean that means the cake is ready)

9. After the cake cools, refrigerate for 4 hours or more and it is ready to serve.

This recipe is based on JunZhi’s pumpkin cheese cake recipe with some changes.

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配料:奶油奶酪500克,南瓜泥270克,鸡蛋2个,蛋黄2个,细砂糖120克,柠檬皮屑半个,牛奶60克,肉桂粉1/2小勺
消化饼干底配料:消化饼干150克,黄油80克

烘焙:烤箱中下层,上下火350度,水浴法烤1.5-2个小时

南瓜芝士蛋糕制作过程
1、首先制作饼底。消化饼干碾压成粉末状,和溶化成液态的黄油混合在一起,拌匀,铺在蛋糕模底部,并用勺子背压平。放入预热好350F的烤炉中烤7分钟。

2、南瓜去籽以后,切成小块蒸熟(或放到微波炉里转两三分钟),直到用筷子可以轻松扎透。把瓜肉挖出后用擀面杖的一头把南瓜肉压成泥。
3、奶油奶酪室温软化以后,加入细砂糖用打蛋器打发到顺滑无颗粒的状态。
4、加入鸡蛋及蛋黄,用打蛋器搅打至鸡蛋与奶酪完全融合。鸡蛋要一个一个的加。
5、倒入南瓜泥,用打蛋器搅打均匀。
6、倒入牛奶、肉桂粉、柠檬皮屑,再次搅打均匀成为奶酪蛋糕糊。
7、把奶酪蛋糕糊倒入已经铺好消化饼干底的模具里。
8、把包过锡纸的模具放入烤盘,在烤盘里倒入热水,水的高度约为奶酪蛋糕糊高度的1/2。把烤盘放入预热好350度的烤箱,烤1.5-2个小时左右,直到蛋糕完全凝固,用手触摸没有流动感,并且表面呈微金黄色即可出炉。(我用很厚的锡纸包所以我烤了2个小时,每家的烤炉不同具体时间要自己掌握。一个半钟头后用牙签扎入蛋糕后拔出,没有东西粘牙签上就是好了)
9、出炉后的蛋糕待冷却后,放入冰箱冷藏4个小时以上再脱模食用。

这个食谱是根据君之的南瓜芝士蛋糕的方子略加改动做的。

卤猪头肉/Stew Pig’s Head Meat

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猪头肉 1磅
老抽1/4 杯
生抽 ¼ 杯
水 ½ 杯
可乐1/2 杯
八角3颗
陈皮1片
花椒1小勺
胡椒粉少许
冰糖50克
料酒1大勺
姜片3片
猪头肉去毛洗净放滚水中焯一下。(去毛花了我至少2个小时,没办法太爱猪头肉了)将所有的材料放一起后大火烧开放入猪头肉转小火慢慢煮大概30分钟。建议放冰箱过夜后切片。好吃到差点把舌头也吞了。
Stewed pig’s head meat
Pig’s head meat 1 pound
Dark soy sauce ¼ Cup
Light soy sauce ¼ Cup
Water ½ Cup
Coke ½ cup
Star Anise 3 pieces
Dried orange peel 1 piece
Chinese corn pepper 1 teaspoon
White Pepper a little bit
Rock Sugar 50 g
Cooking wine 1 tablespoon
Ginger 3 slices

Pull all the hair out of the meat and clean really well, then precook in boiling water for a few minutes (It took me at least 2 hours to pull all the hair out, I love the meat too much) place all ingredients together into a pot and bring to boil then add the meat then turn heat low to simmer the meat for about 30 minutes. Recommend to chill the meat in the refrigerator overnight then slice. It tastes better when serve cold.

草莓芝士蛋糕/Strawberry Cheese Cake

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【草莓芝士蛋糕】(参考分量:6寸圆形蛋糕一个)
配料:
消化饼底:消化饼干80克,黄油40克
原味芝士糊:奶油奶酪75克,动物性淡奶油75克,牛奶50克,明胶粉3克,细砂糖25克,柠檬汁10克
草莓芝士糊:奶油奶酪75,动物性淡奶油75克,新鲜草莓100克,明胶粉3克,细砂糖25克,柠檬汁10克

1、首先制作饼底。消化饼干碾压成粉末状,和溶化成液态的黄油混合在一起,拌匀,铺在蛋糕模底部,并用勺子背压平。放入预热好350F的烤炉中烤7分钟。
2、原味芝士糊和草莓芝士糊的明胶粉分别装入小碗,并倒入20-30克的动物性淡奶油(配方分量内),将明胶粉泡软。
3、将奶油奶酪、牛奶、剩余的淡奶油、柠檬汁、细砂糖倒入食品料理机的搅拌杯,用料理机搅打均匀。明胶粉加热溶化成明胶溶液。把搅打均匀的芝士糊倒一些到明胶溶液里。
4、搅拌均匀后,再倒回芝士糊里,用料理机再次搅打均匀,原味芝士糊就做好了。
5、制作草莓芝士糊的方法大致相同。草莓和奶油奶酪、淡奶油、细砂糖、柠檬汁一起用料理机搅打均匀至无颗粒
6、同样,将明胶粉加热溶化成明胶溶液,将芝士糊倒一部分到明胶溶液里,搅拌均匀后倒回芝士糊里再搅打均匀。
7、将做好的两种芝士糊放进冰箱冷藏片刻,直到变得比较浓稠。然后交替倒入烤好凉的烤盘里。
8、先倒一半草莓芝士糊,再倒一半原味芝士糊,再倒剩下的一半草莓芝士糊,最后倒入剩下的一半原味芝士糊。
9、倒完后,用一根筷子稍稍搅拌,产生花纹。然后放进冰箱冷藏数小时,直到完全凝固。脱模的时候,用热毛巾在包住蛋糕模周围捂一会儿,就能轻松脱模了。
这是根据君之的樱桃芝士蛋糕稍作改动做的。个人觉的因该用戚风蛋糕把它做成慕丝蛋糕更好吃因为它很细腻绵软。等下一次试过了再分享。

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Strawberry cheesecake (reference weight: 6 inch round spring form pan)
Ingredients:
Graham cookies 80 g butter 40 g
Plain cheese batter: cream cheese 75 grams, Heavy cream 75 g, milk 50 g, 3 g gelatin powder, 25 g sugar, lemon juice 10 g

Strawberry cheese batter: cream cheese 75, heavy cream 75 g, 100 g fresh strawberries, gelatin powder 3 grams, 25 g sugar, lemon juice 10 g

1. Start by making the graham bottom first, put all the graham cookies in a zip log bag and roll into fine powder, and mix well with melted butter and spread it over the bottom of the cake pan, and flatten it with the back of the spoon. Bake in a preheated 350F oven for 7 minutes.

2. The gelatin powder for both strawberry cheese and plain cheese batter each put into a small bowl with some of heavy cream (20-30 grams) to melt them.

3. Blend the rest of cream cheese, milk, whipping cream, sugar, lemon juice in a Blender until fluffy. Heat up the gelatin powder then Pour some fluffy cheese paste to the gelatin solution.

4. Mix well then pour back to the cheese paste, blend it again until fluffy. Plain cheese batter is ready.

5. It is pretty much the same method for making strawberry cheese batter. Blend strawberry and cream cheese, whipping cream, sugar and lemon juice together until fluffy.

6. Heat up gelatin powder into a gelatin solution, get some strawberry paste into the gelatin solution, stir and pour it back into the cheese paste and blend a little more.

7. Put both batter in the refrigerator for a while until they become thick and syrupy.

8. First pour half Strawberry cheese batter, then half plain cheese batter, again pour the remaining half strawberry cheese batter and finally pour the other half plain cheese batter.

9. After pouring, mixing with a chopstick for the patterns. Then put in the refrigerator for several hours, until it is complete solid. Wrap around a cake pan with a hot towel for a few minutes, you can easily release the cake.

This recipe is based on JunZhi’s cherry cheesecake with a little change. Personally I prefer it to be layered with chiffon cake like a mousse cake; it will taste better because it is very delicate and soft. So, I will share with you if I make one like that.

Potato Meat Balls/土豆鱼丸

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1.皮

土豆650 克

木薯粉200 克

糯米粉10 克

花生油 1大勺

2.肉馅

猪肉糜350 克

老抽4汤勺

葱花4汤勺

糖2汤勺

料酒2小勺

麻油1小勺

地瓜粉2大勺

把糯米粉加1大勺的水和好,烧开一小锅水,把糯米粉团子放进去煮熟备用。

将2中的所有材料中和备用。

土豆切半放水里煮熟后捞出去皮,去皮后放一大盆子里捣烂,加入木薯粉,花生油,糯米团子和一小勺的盐不停的上下搓揉混合直到他们变的非常的有韧性。其间如果粘手加入一点点的木薯粉中和一下。

揉好的土豆团子分成30-40份,看你自己要多大用湿毛巾盖好。把肉糜也分号30-40份。

拿一份土豆丸子搓成窝窝头状把肉放进去然后包起来。包好后放快烧开的水中煮大概10分钟。如果你跟我一样对包丸子没什么信心的话,就隔水蒸假鱼丸。蒸好后放入高汤中加盐,鸡粉,紫菜和虾米调味。

这是我的第N次作假鱼丸了,之前一直不是太满意。每次都发现有什么不太对。这次的肉馅是根据田园时光提供的肉馅做法做的真的很好吃。谢过。加糯米粉团是为了让皮不易散吃起来更有弹性包起来也好包,但不可加太多否则非常粘,加花生油是为了让没有吃完的丸子冻起来以后皮不会裂。如果在肉里加紫菜也很好吃的。

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  1. Skin

Potato 650 g

Tapioca Starch 200 g

Sticky rice powder 10 g

Peanut oil 1 tablespoon

  1. Meat dough

Ground pork 350 g

Dark Soy sauce 4 tablespoons

Green Onion 4 tablespoons

Sugar-2 tbsp

Cooking wine 2 tea spoon

Sesame oil 1 teaspoon

Potato starch 2 tbsp

Mix Sticky rice flour and 1 tbsp water then cook in a small pot of boil water.

Mix all the ingredients in #2.

Potatoes cut in halves then cook in water, remove and Peel the skin when ready. Pour all peeled potatoes back into a large pot mash them, add potato starch, peanut oil, sticky rice ball we just cooked and a tea spoon of salt keep kneading and mixing until they become very smooth. You can add a little bit of potato starch if you feel they are sticky during the processor.

Evenly divide potato skin dough into 30-40 pieces depends on how big you want the potato balls to be, cover with a wet towel. Also divide the ground pork into 30-40 little balls.

Take a potato dough and roll between your thumb and index fingers and make a hole in the center of the potato dough then put a meatball in it, and then wrap it up. Boil them in the boiling water for about 10 minutes. Steam the potato balls over the boiling water for 10 minutes if you’re like me who is not very confident in wrapping balls ( so they won’t break during the cooking process).

After you steam them pour into broth then seasoned with salt and chicken powder, seaweed and dried baby shrimps.

This is my “N” times making potato balls, I was never too satisfied until today. This ground pork recipe is provided by 田园时光 which is really delicious. Thanks to her. Adding sticky rice dough is to make the potato ball’s skin more resilient also easier to wrap, but do not add too much otherwise it is going to be very sticky. Add peanut oil so if you freeze potato meatballs (if you can’t finish everything) the skin will not crack later. Add seaweed in the meat is also very good.

大理石纹芝士蛋糕/Marble Cheese Cake

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最近瘋於製作芝士蛋糕了。我找到一个君之的乳酪蛋糕食譜 ; 這個食譜相對容易也美味。

大理石纹芝士蛋糕】(参考分量:6寸圆模一个)
配料:奶油芝士(cream cheese)200克,细砂糖20克(加入芝士)+40克(加入蛋清),动物性鲜奶油100克,鸡蛋2个,低筋面粉25克
装饰材料:黑巧克力10克,动物性鲜奶油5克
烘焙:水浴法,烤箱中层,上下火160℃,1个小时

制作过程
1、鸡蛋的蛋黄与蛋清分开(盛蛋清的盆要干净,无油无水)。奶油芝士室温软化(冬天请隔水加热软化或用微波炉软化)后,加入20克细砂糖、蛋黄,用打蛋器搅打至顺滑无颗粒。
2、加入过筛后的低筋面粉,用打蛋器搅打均匀。
3、加入100克动物性鲜奶油,用打蛋器搅打均匀。鲜奶油不要一次全部加入,一点一点的加,边加边搅打,才能充分和芝士混合。
4、蛋清分三次加入细砂糖,打发成可以拉出弯弯尖角的湿性发泡状态(打蛋头要洗净并擦干后再打)。

5、将打发好的蛋清倒入芝士糊里。
6、用橡皮刮刀从底部往上快速翻拌,使蛋清和芝士糊混合均匀。不要画圈搅拌以免蛋清消泡。
7、将拌好的芝士蛋糕糊倒入蛋糕模具中。(蛋糕模内壁涂上薄薄一层黄油防粘)
8、将10克黑巧克力和5克动物性鲜奶油装入裱花袋,放在热水里泡一泡并用手捏一捏,使黑巧克力受热熔化成液态。熔化后,擦干净裱花袋上的水,在裱花袋前段剪一个小孔,在芝士蛋糕表面挤出横条纹。
9、用牙签在横条纹上一来一回的划过,产生大理石花纹。
10、如果是活底模,在蛋糕模周围包一到两层锡纸(防止底部进水)。烤盘里加入热水,将蛋糕模放在水里(水的高度最好能超过蛋糕糊高度的一半)。将烤盘放 入预热好上下火160℃的烤箱中层,烤1个小时左右,直到表面为金黄色即可出炉。出炉后的蛋糕,冷却后,放入冰箱冷藏4个小时再脱模切块。

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I am recently crazy about making Cheese cakes. I got this recipe from one of junzhi’s cheese cake recipes; it is relatively easy and delicious.

“Marble cheese cake” (6 inch round springform pan)

Ingredients: cream cheese 200 g sugar 20 g (add to cream cheese), +40 g (Add to egg white), and heavy cream 100 g, 2 eggs, cake flour 25 g

10 g of dark chocolate and heavy cream 5 g

Baking: the water bath method, 160 ℃ (320F) 1 hour

  1. 1 Separate egg yolks and whites (container must be clean, oil-free and water free). Cream cheese, softened at room temperature (winter time you can demineralize it with heated water or softened in the microwave), add 20 g sugar, egg yolks, use electronic mixer whisk to a smooth condition.
  2. Add the sifted cake flour, whisk evenly.
  3. Add 100 grams of heavy cream, whisk evenly. Don’t add cream all at once, add little by little
  4. Add in granulated sugar in 3 separated times, until egg white form a curved horn shape when you pull out the electronic mixer. Make sure you clean the head of mixer and dry them really well for egg whites.
  5. Pour egg whites into the cheese paste.
  1. Fast fold up the mixture from the bottom with a rubber spatula. Don’t mix them in a circle.
  2. Gently fold in the cheesecake batter into a spring form cake pan. (spray a little bit of oil spray inside the spring form pan )
  3. Combine10 grams of dark chocolate and 5 grams of heavy cream into a decorating bag, put in hot water to soak and hand knead to make dark chocolate melt into a liquid form by heat. Wipe off water on the decorating bag, and then cut a small hole on one side of the bag, squeeze horizontal stripes to the surface of the cheesecake.
  4. With the help of a toothpick cut through the horizontal stripes back and forth lightly in vertical lines to form marble lines.
  5. Wrap a layer of aluminum foil around the cake Pan (to prevent the water inlet at the bottom). Pour some very hot water into the pan, place the cake pan in the water (water should reach at least half the height of the cake pan). Put the baking tray into a preheated 320 F oven in the middle rack and bake about 1 hour or until the surface is golden brown. After the cake cools, refrigerate for 4 hours before serving.

Basil Chicken/三杯鸡

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材料:
• 鸡肉2.5 磅
• 大葱 (1根)
• 蒜 (3粒)
• 干辣椒 (3个)
• 生姜 (1小块)
• 芝麻油 (2汤匙)
• 植物油 (2汤匙)
• 绍兴花雕酒 (6汤匙)
• 生抽 (4汤匙)
• 老抽 (4汤匙)
• 冰糖 (15克)
• 九层塔 15 片叶子
鸡肉切块后,放入烧开的水中焯一下,捞出洗净沥干备用
锅中先下2汤匙的植物油,待其5成热时,再加 2汤匙的芝麻油。
待油温6成热时,放入葱、姜、蒜和辣椒。
待炒出香味来后,加入鸡块,翻炒片刻。
加入九层塔。
加入6汤匙的花雕酒。
加入4汤匙的老抽。
再加入4汤匙的生抽。
加入15克的冰糖,翻炒均匀。
盖上锅盖,用小火焖煮至汤汁快收干时即可关火盛出.
小窍门:
1.这道菜所需的主要调味品就是酒、酱油和油,所以全程不要加水和盐。

2.这道菜的麻油很关键,可以提香。

3.麻油不能油温过高,所以要比植物油晚放入锅中。

4.焖煮过程中,尽量少开锅盖,避免香气流失。

5.做这道菜须用小火焖,这样鸡肉能够很好的入味。火太大的话,汤汁马上收干,鸡肉不能入味。
Ingredients:
• Chicken 2.5 lb
• Scallions (1 )
• The garlic (3 cloves )
• Dried chilies (3 pieces)
• The Ginger (3 slices)
• The sesame oil (2 tbsp)
• The vegetable oil (2 tbsp)
• Shaoxing cooking wine (6 tablespoons)
• Light soy sauce (4 tablespoons)
• dark soy sauce (4 tablespoons)
• Rock sugar (15 g)
• Basil leaves 15 pieces

Chicken cut into chunks, precook in boiling water for a few minutes, rinse and drain
Starting with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in the Pan to medium high heat, then add 2 tablespoons of sesame oil, then add scallion, ginger, garlic and chilli.
Sauté until aromatic, add chicken and stir fry for a few minutes.
Add basil leaves.
Add 6 tablespoons of cooking wine.
Add 4 tablespoons of dark soy sauce.
Add 4 tablespoons of light soy sauce.
15 grams of rock sugar, stir.
Cover the pot, bring to a simmer and cook until the sauce is thickening up.

Tips:
1. We only use cooking wine, soy sauces, oil, don’t add water and salt.

2. Sesame oil is the key ingredient in this dish.

3. Don’t heat up sesame oil to a very high temperature.

4. Make sure you simmer this dish; open the lid as little as possible, avoiding the loss of aroma.