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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Panasonic SD-RD250 Automatic Bread Maker with Fruit/Nut Dispenser
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Microprocessor controlled for even baking, special dispenser for addition of nuts or fruits, 5 baking modes basic/bake/French/pizza/pasta, 2 loaf sizes (M or XL), diamond fluorine non-stick coated pan, large LCD readout, 13-hour preset timer, white.
- Microprocessor controlled for even baking
- Special dispenser for addition of Fruit or nuts for even mixing in the baking process
- Diamond fluorine non-stick coated pan for easy clean-up
- 5 Baking modes for 2 different loaf sizes (M, XL)
- Large LCD readout, measures 11 1/8-inch (Width) by 12 13/16-inch (Length) by 14 9/16-inch (Height), 15-pound
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Funky Facts About Honey
Honey is made in one of the world's most efficient factories - the beehive, by some of the most efficient workers - bees. The colour and flavour of honey differs depending on the bees' sources of nectar. There are 22 common floral varieties of honey. Typically, lighter honeys have milder flavours than the darker honeys. Fructose, glucose and water are the primary components of honey, although they also contain other sugars, trace enzymes, minerals, vitamins and amino acids. It is made up of 80% sugars and 20% water.
Did you know that:
1. European bees were successfully introduced into Tasmania in 1831 and Italian bees arrived in 1884.
2. Australia is a large producer of honey because of its climate and vegetation.
3. Australia's eucalypts are an excellent source of honey. The honey produced has a unique flavour and density.
4. Most Australian honey comes from eucalypt box, gum, stringy bark and iron bark tree families.
5.Australia exports half of the honey that it produces, particularly to Germany and the UK.
6. Honey is the only food that contains all the essential substances needed to sustain life.
7. A beehive typically makes more than 180kg of honey per year.
8. Each hive has guards to guard the entrance. Bees have a unique smell that identifies them.
9. A colony of bees can contain 40,000-60,000 bees during the summer months.
10. A single honeybee will only produce 1/12 teaspoons of honey in her entire lifetime.
11. A honey bee travels over 88,000km and visits approximately 2 million flowers to make half a kilogram of honey.
12. A honeybee can fly at approximately 24km/hr.
Honeybees are herbivorous, but will cannibalise their brood if they are stressed.
13. Honeybees only live for approximately 4 weeks in the summer and 6 weeks in the winter.
14. The queen bee mates for 1-2 days with up to 17 drones. She stores the sperm from these matings so that she has a lifetime supply and never has to mate again.
15.The queen bee can lay between 600-1500 eggs per day during her 3-4 year life. This daily egg quota may equal her bodyweight.
16. The queen bee is constantly fed and groomed by the attendant worker bees in her brood.
17. Honey was used to embalm the body of Alexander the Great.
18. Honey never spoils.
Honey has many medicinal properties. Honey speeds up the healing process. It has been used as a topical dressing on wounds for millennia, as microbes cannot live in it. Honey contains nutrients that promote tissue regeneration and stimulate the growth of new capillaries. Honey combats infection by drawing lymph out to the cells and absorbing moisture. Band-aids impregnated with honey can be bought in pharmacies in Australia and New Zealand. It has also been used to treat diseases such as typhoid and pneumonia. However, honey can be dangerous, or even fatal, to a baby below the age of a year as it contains spores that their immune system is not equipped to handle.
Recipe of the Day - Honey Chicken with Cashew
Serving
2 People
Ingredients
1. A piece of Chicken breast
2. 100g of unsalted roasted Cashew Nuts
3. 1 small shallot/onion thinly sliced
4. 2 Tspn of Honey
5. 1 Red Capsicum
6. Some fresh Coriander for garnish
7. Salt & Pepper to taste
8 2 Tspn of Olive oil
Method
1. Wash and dry the chicken breast and cut into small bite size pieces. Marinate this with the honey and pepper, leave to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
2. Deseed the red capsicum and cut into bite size square pieces.
3. Heat up your favourite cooking pan for stir-fried. When it is hot enough, add the olive oil. When this is hot enough add the sliced shallots/onions. Make sure you stir through to make sure they are not burnt.
4. When the shallots/onions are softened to a slight brown colour add the marinated chicken. Continue to stir through to ensure the chicken pieces do not get burnt at any sides. Add salt and further pepper to taste if necessary.
5. Add 1/2 a cup of water or chicken stock and let it simmers to cook through the chicken, add slightly more water if it is needed to cook through your chicken pieces.
6. Once the liquid is almost dried up, add the capsicum and cashew nuts and stir through thoroughly. Continue stirring this for another 5 minutes and dish it up onto a serving plate. Finally garnish this with chopped coriander. Serve it with rice or roti.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Head Cheese
This is the time of year when head cheese seems to be popular. We always have it around the holidays. Most of the stuff found in supermarkets does not compare to the home made kind. Most store bought is too gelatinous for my taste. Probably because the list of ingredients includes gelatin. There is no gelatin in home made head cheese. All that is needed is a hog's head, water and spices.
To make head cheese, clean the hog's head by removing the snout, eyes, ears, brains and all the skin. Trim away all the fat from the head and cut it into four pieces. Place in a crock or enamel container. Cover with a solution of 1/2-cup canning salt to 1-gallon water. Make sure the pieces are completely covered. Let it soak for 5-hours to draw out all the blood.
Next drain the salt solution and rinse several times with clear water. Place in large pot and cover with water. At this time we usually put the heart in the pot too. Bring the water to a boil and cook until the meat falls off the bones. Let cool until it is cool enough to handle and pick all meat from the bones. Strain the broth and measure 2-quarts.
Next chop the meat into small pieces, there should be about six pounds. Put the meat into a clean pot with the 2-quarts of broth. Add 3-tablespoons salt, 4-teaspoons black pepper, 3-teaspoons red pepper, 2-1/2-teaspoons allspice and 3-teaspoons cloves. Mix together well and bring to a boil. Simmer for 1/2-hour. Cool slightly and pour into pans. I use either 9x13-inch pans or loaf pans. Refrigerate overnight before slicing.
I like head cheese sliced thin on a piece of rye bread with yellow mustard and raw onion. Yummy. If there is any left it can be frozen. Now, on to the pig's feet.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Cuisinart CBK-200 Stainless 2-lb Convection Breadmaker Bundle
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Fresh bread doesn't get any fresher - or easier - than this! Cuisinart offers expert engineering in smooth brushed stainless to deliver a sensational-looking Convection Bread Maker that automatically adjusts speed and timing, and circulates air while baking. Exclusive Low Carb, Gluten-Free, and Artisan Dough settings are just 3 of 16 preset menu options available with the touch of a button.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Bread Maker Prepares Dough So You Don't Have to Knead It
Who doesn't like the smell of bread baking? Most people find it a pleasant aroma whether it's in a fine artisan bakery or in their own home.
To make bread the ingredients must be measured out accurately, or in some instances a pre-packaged mix can be relied on. The ingredients must be mixed properly and allowed to set in a warm place. The dough is allowed to rise at least once, the air bubbles squeezed out in between rises. Dough is then shaped into loaves, rolls or a specialty bread, or spooned into a baking vessel, and finally baked in an oven.
There are two ways to make bread in your kitchen. In either case you have to do the measuring of ingredients, but how involved you want to be after that is up to you. If you have a bread machine, all you really have to do is measure the ingredients into the non-stick pan and hit a button or two on the bread maker control panel. In a few short hours you'll be treated to homemade bread.
The other way of making bread is to get right in there and measure and mix the ingredients, and then wait for a while to let the dough rise. After a time the dough will need to be 'punched down' where the air bubbles that have collected are removed and the dough is allowed to set and rise once or twice more, depending on the type of bread. Shaping the dough is up to you and if you don't have much practice, the look of your rolls or loaf may tell that you don't.
Some folks have trouble kneading the dough. Either their dough gets too hard from too much kneading, or their hands hurt from working the dough too much. Arthritis sufferers could use a bread machine to just make the dough. Until you know the look and feel of bread dough that's had enough kneading, it's much easier to just let the machine do the work. Also, the time factor alone might lead one to use a bread maker to make their bread dough. However long it takes, for you to mix the ingredients and knead the dough once or twice, is time saved when your dough is prepared by a bread machine.
To use a bread machine to make the dough and not bake it, look for a bread 'dough' cycle. One popular maker mixes the ingredients for 25 minutes and then lets the dough rise in a warm setting for 73 minutes more. It takes an hour and forty-five minutes to get to the point of removing the dough from the machine, but you don't have to do any kneading.
That's one nice thing about a bread machine. It's pretty much a hands-off operation. Once you fill the pan with the ingredients, you don't have to do anything else but clean up. The buzzer sound or count-down clock will tell you when your bread or bread dough is ready.
