Tart-a delight one-of-a-kind

Pie is a baked dish with dough and filling a on the base of pastry. This filling would be done with the use of sweet or salty. Today, the fruits are also commonly used for filling. Forms of miniature tarts called the Tartlets. Here are some of the delicious recipes to tarts.

Pineapple tart

Materials needed:

For 1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup all-purpose flour

10 tablespoons butter

Beaten egg 2

2 tablespoons cold water

Salt 1 pinch

Fresh pineapple 2 cups

(peeled, chopped and shredded)

1 ½ cups white sugar

4 cloves

Method of manufacture

Keep a large bowl ready and mix in all-purpose flour, flour for self-growth and salt. Insert the butter when the mixture to get the shape of coarse crumbs. Leave some space in the middle of the mixture. After this is done, add the beaten egg and water. Make sure the ingredients are blended nicely with the other. See to it that the dough is not kneaded too. Roll the dough into balls and beautiful shape, wrap it in plastic sheet. Allow to cool for 4 hours or overnight. Take a saucepan and mix pineapple and sugar. Their heat below the average temperature. Then slowly to reduce the level of heat and stir regularly for 30 minutes until you get a thick mixture. Take off the heat and let it cool. Then, Preheat the oven to 400 degrees f. roll the balls of dough on a floured surface. Using cutters cut into round pieces, with 24. Place them on the cookie sheet. Fill in the empty middle part of dough with one tablespoon pineapple jam. Arrange the dough over the jam. Make sure the dough is extended until the dough shell.

Again, cut 24 more round pieces and cut the center portion in a way that will get a doughnut shape. Wet the edges of the dough and decorate the top of the shells with the ring-shaped Center sections. Lightly rub the top of the dough with the beaten egg. Put it in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. Then put it in a pan and let it cool for 5 minutes. Then, put them on a wire rack and let it cool until it is set correctly. Once set, you can serve it fresh.

Down beneath the Lemon tart

Ingredients needed:

All-purpose flour 2 1/2 cup

Butter cups 7-8

Powdered sugar 3/4 cup

1 egg yolk

Cold water 1 ½ tablespoons

Very high sugar 3/4 cup

Lemon zest 2 tablespoons minced

Fresh lemon juice 3/4 cup

Cream 1/2 cup

Instructions

In a food processor, process the combination of ingredients, such as flour, butter and icing sugar. Continue the process until you get a crumb-like mixture. Introduce the egg yolk and 1-2 teaspoons of cold water. Again, to elaborate until the mixture to get the shape of the dough. Does the yeast mixture in a flat form and cover it with a plastic wrap. Let it cool for 20 minutes.

Beautiful to roll the dough up into a tart pan. Check if there are any sorts of cracks in the rolled pastry. If you find one, fill it with the leftover dough. Refrigerate inside the freezer for 20 minutes. Then preheat the oven to 350 degrees f. line pastry with foil and fill it with raw rice. Keep it in a preheated oven and let bake for 15 minutes. Get rid of the foil and raw rice. Then bake again until the dough requires a light golden color. Take a bowl and mix up gradually like Superfine sugar, eggs, lemon zest, lime juice and cream. Take extra care not to overbeat the mixture. Filter the mixture using a colander. Then, place the pan on a baking sheet. Slowly insert the lemon mixture over the pastry crust baked. Bake until it is set correctly. Firstly, the filling would be extremely fluid but will set when it is cooled. Stay away from Cook since overcooking can result in cracks. When cooled and set, to serve.

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Simple Tomato Salad

There are so many fabulous pairs in the world (Moules+Frites,  Movies+Popcorn,  Thanksgiving+Turkey, Bananas+Peanut Butter, Bacon+Well just about anything..., Chocolate+Valentine's Day, Michael Symon+Pork, New Orleans+Jazz,  Ben Affleck+Matt Damon ect...). Basil and tomatoes are on of those inseparable combos. Tomatoes are great with most herbs, but they truly sing when they are with basil. 

This side dish is perfect to throw together on a busy summer night.

Ingredients:
1 pint mixed colored cherry tomatoes
1 tbs. olive oil
1/4 cup chiffonade fresh basil
pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
salt
freshly ground black pepper

1. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half (if you want to catch all of the tomato's juices that extrude when you cut them, then cut the tomatoes in the bowl/dish that you are serving them in).
2. Season the tomatoes generously with salt. Let the tomatoes sit with the salt for about 2-5 minutes or until some of the tomato's juices have released. 
3. Add the olive oil and basil to the tomatoes. Season with red pepper flakes, black pepper and salt to taste. Enjoy! 

Happy Eatings! 

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Why the red chili powder is the secret ingredient?

Ave ever wondered, why red chilli is a favorite in your mother's recipe or Grandma? I'll explain things you might not know chilli powder.

Chili powder, a spice widely used, is a secret and essential ingredient every grandmother's recipe. Despite the fact that the tart, why it continues to be used in our foods? The answer is simple. The benefits are manifold. Let's discuss some of the benefits of chili powder.

Vitamin a: a tablespoon of chili contains 2,224 IU of vitamin a. This equates to 44.5% of the total amount needed by the body. Vitamin A is used by the body to maintain the vision and checking on the health of teeth, skin and bones by supplying sufficient vitamins to become powerful.

Vitamin C: a spoonful of chili powder accounts to about 3.0 mg, which is 8% of the total intake of vitamin C that your body needs. Your body uses antioxidants to combat internal injury from free essentials, which are unbalanced molecules formed during the formation of energy method that can enhance your risk of harmful health conditions like cancer and heart disease.

Did you know that:-why is chili tart? Chillis is tart due to the alkaloid compounds: Capsanthin, capsaicin, and capsorubin.

Below is the measure of the vitamins and minerals per 100 g of chillies.

230% of vitamin-C
37% of vitamin b-6
30% of vitamin a,
12% of iron,
11% of copper,
6% of potassium

Red chilli powder is a mixture of dried chilies, cumin, garlic and oregano. In some cases, use of coriander, clove or pepper can even be included. In dried chillies red are nutrition and medicinal benefits that have scientific data. Some of the benefits are as follows:

Benefits of cooking: only a pinch of red chili can leave the rapturous flavor in your food. Some of the Indian recipes are incomplete without red chilies. Is slowly and deliciously takes her place in the USA barbecue sauces, chili and Mexican moles make use of red chili these days.

Geographic data: it is a known fact that whole red chilies are the most commonly used spice in India. Ancient India boasts red chili, as a remedy for upset stomach, cramps, malaria, and nausea.

Nutrition rich: contain vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin-C, vitamin-b, vitamin a, iron, potassium, copper and etc. Beta-carotene, a form of vitamin-a, has the same amount of nutritional value, as well as various vegetables and fruits.

Medical benefits: a Union of alkaloids, capsaicin, found in red chilli is known to diminish the intensity of the pain. This should be applied directly to the skin.

Sterling grocers Pvt Limited is a company that manufactures spices and located in New Delhi. The superiority of spices that manufacture have got a position with WAL-MART, Carrefour, Metro, SPAR, and dependency, in recognized as well as parts of water.

PRS is a leading supplier of spices spice & herbs offers a variety of good quality spices, condiments, chili powder, ground cumin, curry powder, spices, red chilli powder etc. We offer valuable spices to cover all cooking needs globally.

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Dining with a Difference for Fairtrade

In the dim and distant past, somewhere before I was cooking for scouts and being eaten alive by midges in darkest Derbyshire, I had some girlfriends round for dinner.

Normally, 'entertaining' chez Recipe Junkie involves easy crowd pleasers, many children milling around and slightly too much wine on a weekend lunchtime, or an evening dinner party, adults only, still too much wine. If I'm getting together with girlfriends, we usually take any opportunity to escape the shackles of domesticity and go to the pub.

When the lovely Fairtrade press office contacted me and suggested that I 'Dine with a Difference' and hold a dinner party in aid of the Fairtrade Foundation, well, it seemed like a great opportunity to do just that.

The idea is to host a dinner party and cook with as much Fairtrade produce as possible. 

 
I was sent some coffee produced by a women's co-operative. This is massively significant. In the coffee growing regions of Kenya, men own both the land and crops. This carries with it status and decision-making powers, and means the earnings from the whole family’s work goes to the man.


That is, until now. In one area, Fairtrade convinced men to give their wives legal ownership of some of the family's coffee bushes, to cultivate and sell the coffee beans in their own name.

The result? The women's bushes are yielding more coffee beans, there's more money in the household purse for school fees and to put food on the table, and there's more say for women in the household.



In the spirit of these women, I decided immediately that my dinner would be a girls only affair - and in the interests of keeping the garden under control, I designed a menu that would encompass Fairtrade produce and also the abundant veg that the garden was producing. It also had to be easy and relatively quick to prepare.

Fortunately the weather held, so we could dine al fresco .

Just because it was summer, we started off with a lovely apple, elderflower and gin cocktail that I'd spotted in a Good Food mag. Not much Fairtrade I'm afraid, but very delicious, all the same.

To start, we had a Middle Eastern red pepper dip known as Muhammara created by Kate Hayter of Moro. Very delicious, with lots of Fairtrade nuts, sugar and olive oil. I served it with pitta bread crisps, which are basically pittta breads sliced up, drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with sea salt and baked till crisp. 

For a main course, we had a tomato & goats cheese tart (a sheet of puff pastry smeared with sundried tomato paste, sliced tomatoes and topped off with some lovely goat's cheese, baked for 20 minutes or so. I also did a couple of salads from Veg Everyday which gave me the opportunity to incorporate lots of Fairtrade goodies: a tahini dressed courgette and green bean salad,

and a rocket, fennel and puy lentil salad. 

While most of the veg did come from the garden, I found Fairtrade green beans in a supermarket and Fairtrade tahini in the Ethical Superstore.

For pud, well, I made a cake that I'd seen on twitter (who'd have thought it) - created by the rather enigmatic Gentleman Baker, this Hazelnut Cappucino cake was the perfect medium for both the coffee, and the oodles of Fairtrade baking ingredients in my cupboard - vanilla, sugar, chocolate... It was lovely with a dollop of creme fraiche, although controversially, if I made it again, I might (gasp) leave out the chocolate chunks. Or may be not.

Needless to say, after the gin cocktails, we hit the Fairtrade wine...
 

A great evening, and £40 raised for the Fairtrade Foundation. Marvellous.

If you'd like to hold your own Dine with a Difference dinner, you can find loads to help you on the Fairtrade website including great recipes. Cook up a storm, then ask your friends to donate to the Fairtrade Foundation to help people like these women in Kenya who produced the delicious coffee I was sent to earn a far price for their produce and improve their communities, and standard of living accordingly.

Just in case you missed it, I was sent a pack of Fairtrade Coffee by the Fairtrade Foundation in preparation for my Dine with a Difference Diner party, but have received no other payment in respect of this post. Just saying.

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The Best Stir Fry Sauce Recipe

In every stir fry recipe, the flavor enhancement is usually the sauce that is carefully blended to suit ones desired taste buds. Stir fry recipe are frequently derived from home made cooking out of family tradition and acquired taste. It is a mixture of herbs and spices, and sprinkle with Oriental such as soy, oyster, fish sauce, sweet and sour, sesame oil, hoisin sauce and even the sweet chili that can be bought was in Asian stores near you. The perfect combination of these ready-made Oriental sauces can totally create an overwhelming aroma and flavorful dish on your fry. However, use the sauces at right amounts to avoid too much saltiness or too sweet for your preferred taste.

In Asian cuisines, you will find these notably in their kitchens to bring out that desired Asian taste in their fried dishes. Home cooking is therefore the secret to wonderful and fantastic fry sauces that provide distinctive flavor to the fries. In this article, we will share with you a recipe for a fry just for you to learn and start making your own stir fry at your kitchens. These ingredients are standard and are mixed together to fashion that combination of flavors enough to provide that perfect fry for you. Learning from this, you can create your own stir fry in your kitchen. But before we begin, here is a quick review. When we make a fry, we add the sauce at the end of the cooking, after the food is cooked. This is because fry can burn or over-reduce quickly. So cook the food first then add the sauce and let it boil and then serve the dish immediately while hot.

INGEREDIENTS:

2 tablespoons soy
2 tablespoons dry sherry
½ teaspoon cornstarch
½ teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons chile-garlic
1 teaspoon sesame oil

The key ingredients are with recommended brands:

Kikkoman soy Sugar Cornstarch Dry sherry Huy Fong Chile-garlic Toasted Kadoya sesame oil Chicken or vegetable stock (this is optional, but often useful for vegetables)

Sugar and cornstarch are also optional. If you use them, especially in large quantities (more than 1 teaspoon cornstarch and 1 tablespoons sugar for four servings) you will produce something similar to a lunch special at a Chinese-American restaurant. Sometimes, this is exactly what we want.

The Thai and Vietnamese stir fries however frequently contains fish and sometimes mixed with soy flavor, but is usually fish flavor alone. The Thai stir fry with basil for example is only flavored with nothing more than soy flavor and fish added with water and sugar, plus the basil.

The Korean fried squid on the other hand is a favorite fried dish. It usually contains a riot of vegetables and is bright red from Gochu-Chang Chile Paste or the Korean Chile Powder or even both. Other versions already include soy flavored, sugar and sesame oil and ginger aside from the chile paste and powder.

Creating your own concoctions for a stir fry sauce recipe is not a dream. Nothing can actually go wrong in your creativity. The sauce you will produce can be improved as you continue cooking.

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Recipe Junkie in tinned potato shocker!!!

If someone had told me beforehand all the things that I'd do as I moved from my 20s into my 30s and on into my 40s (where I now find myself - but only just) you know, well some of them, I'd have had no problem anticipating. Some I'd have raised an eyebrow and got on with it, and some, well, the mind boggles.

A husband, two kids, a dog and some chickens? No problem. Being part of a team of adults taking 32 scouts (plus assorted small children) to Derbyshire for a week of abseiling, climbing, watersports, eggy bread, corned beef hash - hmm. Probably would have merited an eye brow raise. 

Using tinned potatoes? TINNED POTATOES??? Reader, the mind would have boggled hard. However, combine scout camp, and the challenge of producing a curry feast, and tinned potatoes it was. You'll be pleased to know, though, that we did make the sauce from scratch, and we had fresh coriander...

I always like to be of service, so in case you too ever find yourself in a field, tasked with producing a curry feast for 44, may I suggest the following menu which accomodates vegetarians, nut allergy suffers, a non-pork eater and, it turns out, most of the fussy eaters we took with us...

How is anyone expected to cook on these conditions???

Chicken Curry, Cauliflower and Pea Curry, Bombay Potatoes and Dahl

Serves 44 pretty much bang on. Amounts in brackets are for 4 if you're not mass catering - just don't even think about using tinned potatoes...

Ingredients

vegetable oil
18 (3) onions
16 (2) cloves of garlic (or as many as you can be bothered to peel & crush)
2 jars (2 grated tbsp) lazy ginger
1.5kg (250g) red lentils
3.6kg (drained weight) tinned potatoes (500g potatoes, peeled and cubed - you're not going to get away with tinned if you're only feeding 4)
4.2 kg (400g) chopped tomatoes
3 (1 small) cauliflowers
2 refill sachets (2 tsp) turmeric
1 refill sachet (1 tsp) each of paprika, cumin, garam masala and mild chilli powder
fine sea salt
42 (8) chicken thigh fillets

1 kg (200g) frozen peas
7 (1) tsp cumin seeds
fresh coriander 

To serve: Rice if you have enough pans left - about 1.5 kg, 50 poppadums, 3 jars of mango chutney,1 jar of lime pickle (for leaders only), Tabasco (it is scout camp, and the chilli powder is only mild)

You will also have to manage this on a 3 burner petrol camping stove and a large gas fired paella pan, unless your Husband and scout leader manages to get the 2 burner petrol stove you also have available working again. I'll leave you to weigh up the benefits of the extra stove as a against the silent cursing that will accompany the attempts to fix the stove...

Method

Chop 16 of the onions as finely as you can, bearing in mind you have no liquidizer handy. Crush the garlic - ditto

Heat the paella pan up and add enough oil to generously coat the pan, then tip in the onions and garlic and the lazy ginger, and start to cook as gently as the heat settings will allow.

Put the red lentils into as large a pan as you can find, and add 2 litres of water. Bring to the boil. This may take ages. Try not to panic.

Open the tins of potatoes and tomatoes. Try not to cut yourself on the visciously sharp edge the rubbish tin opener will have left. If you don't cut yourself, make sure you don't strain your thumbs on said rubbish tin opener. Get someone to halve or may be quarter the potatoes, then put them into a pan big enough to take them.

Stir the onions every now and again, and trim the cauliflowers and break into florets. Cover the florets with water in a smaller pan, bring to the boil and cook till tender. This could also take ages. 

Don't panic.

At this point, the onions may have softened enough to stir in 1 sachet of the turmeric, plus the sachets of paprika, cumin, garam masala and mild chilli powder, plus 6-7 tsps of salt. Stir and cook for a minute - OK a couple of minutes while you relocate the opened tins of tomatoes, and frantically try and repressurise the petrol stove that should be cooking your lentils and the cauliflower.

Add the tomatoes to the onions, then fill the empty tins with water and add to the pan aswell, then simmer gently for as long as you can get away with, stirring occasionally.

Check the lentils - if they are now boiling, skim off any scum that has accumulated, add the other sachet of turmeric and about 5 tsp salt, and continue to cook for 20 minutes or so, giving it a vigorous stir every now and again. This breaks down the lentils and allows you to vent any mounting irritation you might feel if any scouts appear asking when dinner is going to be.Once it's looking thick, put a lid on and remove from the heat.

Panic that the cauliflower still isn't cooking, then realise it is nearly on the way to being mush. Drain and return to the pan. Pour in the frozen peas and set aside.

Get someone to slice up the chicken into halves or quarters depending on what you think is a reasonable size. Do a quick (ha!) wash up because you have now run out of knives, chopping boards and pans (did I tell you not to panic ???)

Stir enough of the sauce through the potatoes to coat them and set aside with a lid on.

Stir about 1/3 of what's left into the cauliflower & peas before you add the chicken to the pan - remember you are catering for vegetarians... Put the lid on and set aside.

Bring what's left of the sauce up to a simmer and add the chicken. Yes, I know it would be nice to brown it off first, but you will have run out of pans, if not burners.

Remember the finish for the dahl - find a pan - any pan - and heat some oil in it. Beg the senior scout wife to finely slice the remaining 2 onions. Add the cumin seed to the hot oil first, and then chuck in the onions once they are sliced, and cook till they look tasty - just don't worry about it - the scouts are starting to queue... Stir the onion and cumin seed through the dahl.

Now, as the chicken is cooking, rotate your pans of Bombay potatoes, cauliflower and pea curry and dahl over the remaining burners so they are good and hot. The frozen peas should have cooked when the hot sauce was added, but do make sure.

CHOP THE CORIANDER!!!

Double check that the chicken is cooked, then you're ready to go. Chuck the coriander about as you see fit.

Acquire a ladle and serve.

No scouts were harmed in the production of this curry

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Blistered Hungarian Wax Peppers with Feta Cheese

"Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor."

-William Cowper

I love spicy foods. I mean who couldn't use a little spice in their life? I am a big fan of blistered shishito and padron peppers, so when I saw these beautiful hungarian yellow wax peppers at the farmers market I knew exactly how I wanted to prepare them. This little dish was prepared very simply. I blistered the peppers and then topped them with some feta cheese. The feta cheese added an entirely different dimension to this dish. I really enjoyed the cheese's salty richness that cut through the heat from the pepper.

Hungarian wax peppers have a medium low heat. I have built up a good tolerance to heat; therefore, in my opinion these peppers weren't spicy but did bring a little pleasant heat. I understand that some people have different heat preferences so try experimenting with different peppers (hot or sweet). Grab a scoville scale!

Ingredients:
olive oil as needed
5 hungarian wax peppers
2 tbs. crumbled feta cheese
1/4 tsp. lemon zest (optional)
sea salt

1. Heat a cast iron pan over high heat. Once the pan is heated, add enough olive oil to coat the pan. 
2. Using tongs, carefully add the peppers to the pan. Let them get charred/browned, blistered and softened on all sides . All together this will take about 4 minutes. This process will happen quickly so keep an eye on the peppers and turn them occasionally if needed. 
3. Using tongs, remove the peppers from the pan and place them on a dish. 
4. Season the peppers with salt. Drizzle the peppers with a little extra virgin olive oil and top with feta cheese and lemon zest. 

Happy Eatings!

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