Saturday 30 August 2014

PANCAKES WITH ALMOND & VEG FILLING

Hello everyone! Me and my crew are so busy with the new project of making my new webpage that I don't have much time to post here, but soon I'll be able to share it with you. Until then let's get cookin' !

This is one of the simple dish that I ate for my lunch.
Let's see the recipe. :)

INGREDIENTS:
¤_¤ 60 grams /0.6 cup/9.66 tablespoon of white wheat soft flour
¤_¤ 60 grams /0.6 cup/9.66 tablespoon of white wheat sharp flour
¤_¤ 300 millilitres (ml) /1.3 cup of cold milk
¤_¤ 2 egg whites
¤_¤ Pinch of salt
¤_¤ 70 grams/0.3 cup/5.2 tablespoon of baking oil
¤_¤ 20 grams/0.2 cup/3.7 tablespoon of roughly ground almonds

PREPARATION of PANCAKE MIXTURE
Sift the flour, pour 150 ml / 0.6 cup / of milk into, add 2 eggs, salt, then stir it all together. Now pour the rest of the milk into and stir it until you get smooth texture, without lumps. At the end add roughly ground almonds in it. If the pancake mixture is to watery add little more flour, if the mixture is too thick add little more milk to it.
Leave the mixture to rest for half an hour.

Meanwhile cook: carrots, kohlrabi (German turnip), few leaves of kale, little cauliflower and peas. Cook all together for no more than 10 minutes (Al Dente) then peel 2 cloves of garlic and put it at the end on the vegetables.

Now you are ready to bake pancakes. Heat the pan, when it’s hot enough pour a spoon table size of drop into, then pour a mixture for pancakes into the pan and spread it equally, to get a nice thin circle. If you want you can make thicker width size of pancakes, as you wish them to be. To maintain them warmth for some time, put them on a plate that is heated with water vapour from another bowl underneath.


After you’re done with baking pancakes you can start filling them with cooked vegetables, in which we add a little minced garlic and roll. At the end you can sprinkle them with some chestnut honey. Serve almond pancakes stuffed with vegetables with green salad.


If you want you can stuff your pancakes with any other stuffing, like cooked vegetables with béchamel sauce (known as white sauce) and put them into oven to bake, at the end put some sour cream on it.

Instead of adding almond into pancake mixture you can replace it with cooked spinach and get spinach pancakes with vegetables.

When you wish to have a tender pancake mixture add some siphon, mineral water or beer to it.

Honey gives velvety taste to a pancake.

BON APETIT!

Friday 2 May 2014

SPONGE CAKE – BACK TO BASICS










NATURAL SUBSTANCES FOR SOFTENING THE DOUGH:

FAT: amount of fat in dough affects the structure of it.
Example: when we’re making short crust pastry, fat splits among the ingredients, heats up while baking and turns into steam which softens the dough.

YEAST: contains fungus, which develops its ferments in the form of fermentation from starch and sugar. 
That’s how alcohol and carbon dioxide are made.
During baking at 80°C/176°F alcohol changes into steam and starts to expand with carbon dioxide, which cause softening of the dough.
At 45°C/113°F the fungi begin to die, operation of boiling and fermentation stops.

EGG WHITES - SNOW
Egg whites are stretching and warming when the air is properly split. Air is good for softening the dough.

ALCOHOL: Rum, Wine, Cognac, Maraschino are alcoholic beverages which we usually put in the dough.
At 75°C/167°F alcohol change into steam and softens the dough.

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTANCES FOR SOFTENING THE DOUGH:

BAKING POWDER: due to heat and moisture it forms gases, which are emitted and in that way it softens the dough.
Baking powder it’s made of baking soda, tartaric acid and starch. So if it comes into contact with acid, it dissolves and stops softening the dough.
The dough which contains baking powder must be baked quickly.

BAKING SODA: it’s powder is of alkaline taste, which dissolves because of warmth, released gases also soften the dough.
If you put too much of baking soda in the dough it will taste bitter also fat in the dough gets bubbly and tastes like soap.

AMMONIUM BICARBONATE – DEER SALT - SALT OF HARTSHORN: it has the smell of ammonia, which give a special taste to the dough. Therefore deer salt has to evaporate in the baking process. We use deer salt for baking gingerbread.

I WISH YOU PLENTY SUCCESS IN BAKING

Wednesday 26 March 2014

DEAR BLOG READER

HELLO! :-D


I know, you must be wondering why I didn't post nothing new this year, well I have some new projects that will change my blog posts & page. As you know I am the leader of my blog but I also have 2 people that are helping me. So for this year I'll still publish some blog posts but only 1 or max. 2 blog posts per month, because of my decision of renovation. I'll have my own bloging - web page, which will be different from this one.

Meanwhile you can still read and share my blog posts. 

I hope that you understand that this change will take some time, so if everything goes well, my new web blogging page will be available for visits in May/June 2014.

Thank you for your time & support.

Megii. §>¤˛¤<§
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