Cookie Baking

Baking cookies always reminds me of my ma back in the day, every clip I acquire a pennant of that sweet smell, it always conveys me back and sets a smiling on my face.

Below are formulas and methods for a couple of different cooky varieites:

You will need:

Cassic or Spiced Cookies

Large mixing bowl

Cups and spoons for measurement

Pitchfork for stirring

Flour

Baking pulverization and sodium carbonate

Salt

Cocoa pulverization

Spices(optional)

Butter Melt Cookies

Another big mixing bowl or wash and reuse the other 1

A 2nd set of measurement cups and spoons

Food processer

Wooden spoon

Rubber spatula

Butter, oleo and pick cheese

White Person and brownish refined sugar

Egg

Vanilla infusions

Raisins, nuts and cocoa bits

Rolled oats

Any other ingredients that are added to the butter and eggs in your formulas

For the novitiate baker among you, to best avoid transferring spirits from one formula to another, you necessitate to begin with basic formulas that have got no spices, chocolate, or other over powering ingredients.

Starting with your first recipe, measurement your flour and baking hot sodium carbonate into 1 bowl. Then, compound the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla in another bowl as directed. Gradually premix flour and bking sodium carbonate into the butter mixture and add any extras.

Next, scraping down the borders of the mixing bowl with the spatula to unclutter up any excess, form the dough into a ball and wrapper it in cleave film. Identify the different formulas by authorship the name on the plastic with a felt-tip marker and set it in the fridge.

Easy Recipe - Strawberry Pie

Since spring is finally here, sort of (it snowed here in Denver on Easter day, sigh), I thought I would share one of my favorite strawberry recipes with you. It is a pretty easy recipe that does not even require any baking. Start to finish, it takes about 20 minutes. As I do at my baking site, I am going to share with you here the story behind the recipe.

Cream Cheese Strawberry Pie

Strawberries are my favorite fruit. I always have them around when they come into season in the spring. It always brings back memories of going to pick berries with my family in the summer. We would all pile in the car with buckets and ice cream pails, eager to taste fresh summer berries. We would go to one of the nearby berry farms that had acres and acres of berries. I remember it seemed so huge to me as a kid and I could not believe how many rows upon rows upon rows there were. All of us kids of course ended up eating just as many berries as we picked. There is nothing that has quite as much flavor as a strawberry fresh from the field, warm with sunshine. Makes me want to go hunt down a local berry farm so I can share that memory with my daughter!

1 package (8 ounces) strawberry flavored cream cheese

1 package (3.4 ounces) vanilla flavored pudding

2 cups cold milk

1 (6 ounce) ready-to-use graham cracker pie crust

1 pint of strawberries

Prepare the vanilla pudding according to the package directions. (Put the pudding mix and the milk into a bowl and whisk together for 2 minutes.) Allow it to set for 5 minutes. I usually use this time to start washing and cutting the strawberries. I typically just cut them in half for this recipe. Once the pudding has set, place the cream cheese in a medium sized bowl and mix with an electric mixer for 30 seconds at low speed. Add the pudding to the cream cheese and mix for about one minute on low speed. Put the mixture into the pie crust and put it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes. Continue washing and cutting the strawberries while the pie is in the refrigerator. Place the strawberries on top of the pie. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.

Enjoy your spring (and your berry picking adventures)!

Happy Baking!

Chicken Masala

The country of Suriname is located in the north of the continent. Suriname also lies in the western hemisphere. This tiny country is encased by one water body the Atlantic Ocean in the north, French Guiana to the east, Brazil to the south and Guyana to the west.

Surinam has a very mixed population. The original people of the country were the Arawaks and the Caribs(Amerindians). When the Dutch colonized the country, other Europeans filtered in. with slavery being a rampant practice, the colonizers imported African slaves. Later bonded laborers from India, Indonesia and China were also brought in.

Mixing the different varieties of vegetables which grow in Suriname with the traditional cuisine of the different ethnic groups, Surinam offers a spicy, good and colourful variety of dishes including American, Chinese, Creole, European, Indian and Indonesian.

Chicken Masala

Masala is an exotic blend of spices- cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, cardamom- that adds flavor and aroma. (Hindustany curry powder)

Ingredients:

For the marinade:

4 cloves of finely chopped garlic


3 to 4 tablespoons of masala powder


1 to 2 tablespoons of corn oil


salt and pepper to taste

For the main meal:

1 kilogramme chicken fillet cut into cubes


2 big chopped onion


2 cloves of finely chopped garlic


1 tablespoon thinly sliced celery


2 whole dry red chilli (optional)


5 hard boiled eggs


2 tablespoons of corn oil and a little bit of water


1 cup tomato puree


salt and pepper to taste


a stock cube if required

vegetables :

Half a kilogramme of string beans or, if not available, green beans


6 to 7 medium size potatoes


some salt and pepper


2 to 3 tablespoons masala (Hindustany curry powder)

Directions

Make a mix of 3 tablespoons of oil, salt, pepper and masala. Add the cut meat and marinade it for at least 2 hours.


Fry the onion, garlic, tomato puree and the celery in the oil , add the meat and cook all until brown. Add some water until the meat is covered and lower the heat.

Immerse the diffuser with the 2 whole dry red chilli in it and let all simmer for about 40 minutes. If needed, season it with extra masala and a stock cube to your taste if necessary.

Cut the potatoes into quarters and cook them just like your meat and than for 10-15 minutes in water with 1-2 teaspoons of masala and some salt and pepper.


Clean the String beans, cut them into 1-2 inch-pieces and cook them as well for 10 minutes until bite-ready.

Boil the eggs until hard(8-10min.) and shell them.


Remove the diffuser with the chili pepper from the meat and season the sauce with some salt and pepper if required. Add the eggs and heat all thoroughly.

Serve the potatoes, the vegetables with white rice, naan bread or roti


(Roti is a kind of a double pancake with ground yellow split peas in it ).

Good Luck - Enjoy your meal