Duò jiāo 剁椒 is a pickled/fermented chopped chilli popular in Hunan and Sichuan. It does not contain any vinegar but lactic acid is produced during fermentation. This pickle is easy to make at home and ready to eat after few days but if you like it tastes sour best keep it for 2 - 3 weeks before use. This pickled/fermented chilli is a popular ingredient for steamed fish especially fish head. Take
Pickled (fermented) chopped chilli 剁椒
Duò jiāo 剁椒 is a pickled/fermented chopped chilli popular in Hunan and Sichuan. It does not contain any vinegar but lactic acid is produced during fermentation. This pickle is easy to make at home and ready to eat after few days but if you like it tastes sour best keep it for 2 - 3 weeks before use. This pickled/fermented chilli is a popular ingredient for steamed fish especially fish head. Take
Pandan coconut pound cake with frosting
Life have been a bit hectic lately and I had neglected the blog for a while.
To welcome me back I presented you with a sweet treat. It's a pandan and coconut pound cake with butter frosting. This recipe is something I made up with ingredients I thought nice together.
Cake
Ingredients:
50ml pandan juice (extracted from 10 - 12 pandan leaves + 2-3 tbsp water)
4 medium size eggs
200g plain
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To welcome me back I presented you with a sweet treat. It's a pandan and coconut pound cake with butter frosting. This recipe is something I made up with ingredients I thought nice together.
Cake
Ingredients:
50ml pandan juice (extracted from 10 - 12 pandan leaves + 2-3 tbsp water)
4 medium size eggs
200g plain
Vegetable Kurma
Potato,cubed - 1/2cup
Carrot,cubed-1/2cup
Cauliflower florets - 1/2cup
Green peas - 1/2cup
Green beans - 1/4cup
1 big onion ,chopped
1/4tsp cumin seeds
2tsp ginger-garlic paste
3 cloves
2 cardmom
1 big piece of cinnamon.
3 green chillies
1/4tsp turmeric powder
2tsp coriander powder
1/4cup chopped coriander leaves
1tbsp Vegetable oil
For grinding
Grated coconut - 3tbsp
Cashews - 10
Poppy seeds -1tsp
Fennel seeds - 1/2tsp
Method:
Soak cashews and poppy seeds in water for 10minutes.
Heat oil in a pan.Splutter cumin seeds.Add whole spices and curry leaves, saute well.Add onion,ginger-garlic paste and green chillies.Saute it well till onion turns light brown.Add turmeric and coriander powder and mix well.Put all the veggies and saute for 2-3 minutes.Add enough water and salt to this.Cover and cook it.Mean while grind coconut,soaked cashews and poppy seeds and fennel seeds.Add this to the cooked veggies.Add more water if required.Cook it for another 5 minutes.Garnish with coriander leaves.This kurma goes well with chapati , poori ,appam etc.
How to build a cat tree?
Cats are very playful animals, and as you may have noticed they love to climb all kinds of surfaces but rarely find suitable places to play.Cat trees are specially crafted materials made for cats to climb and to play with. Even though you can purchase a cat tree online, it is probably not the best cost effective option as it is not so hard to make one! you only need to have good plans to work with and some spare time.
Good plans are needed because many people have built cat trees in the past and observed how cats interacted with it and then modified the trees to optimize them with the cat behavior so that the cat likes it best. By following a plan, you benefit from the experience of other skillful builders who have already gone through the process of building a cat tree over and over.Until recently good plans where scarce in the internet and one could hardly find anything worth working with. Luckily a cat tree maker has released now a package containing plenty of plans backed with tutorials and construction guideline.
How to stop your cat from peeing outside the litter box?
Okay this is not a recipe but I include it because I feel I absolutely need to share with you this amazing solution to the problem of cats peeing outside the litter box.
Many of you have had annoying and unnecessary trouble with their cat peeing everywhere in the house except their litter box and e-mailed me asking for solutions, now at last, a working solution is available!
This amazing and new method is provided by a friend of mine in the form of a loadable pdf special report, and you can get it Here! (see edit note)
Edit: For some reason I found that including the link to this resources impacts negatively my google rankings. until I fix that, you can subscribe to the mailing list and I will send you the link there very soon! Sorry.
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Many of you have had annoying and unnecessary trouble with their cat peeing everywhere in the house except their litter box and e-mailed me asking for solutions, now at last, a working solution is available!
This amazing and new method is provided by a friend of mine in the form of a loadable pdf special report, and you can get it Here! (see edit note)
Edit: For some reason I found that including the link to this resources impacts negatively my google rankings. until I fix that, you can subscribe to the mailing list and I will send you the link there very soon! Sorry.
Pal Payasam - My 150th post!
Ingredients
Unakkalari /payasam rice - 1/2cup
Whole milk - 1L
Water - 2cups
Sugar - 3/4cup
Cardmom -2
Payasam rice/Unakkalari
Method:Mix together milk and water .Boil it in a thick bottomed vessel on medium heat till the milk reduces to half.Wash the rice and add to the boiling milk .Stir it continuously till rice is done.Add sugar and crushed cardmom to this.Cook for 10 more minutes.Switch off stove.Serve hot or chilled.
Koonthal/Squid Roast
Koonthal/kanava/Squid - 1/2kg
Onion -1,big
Tomato - 1,medium
Ginger,chopped - 1tsp
Garlic,chopped - 1tsp
Green chillies - 2
Kashmiri chilli powder - 1tsp+ 2tsp
Pepper powder - 1/4tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp
Garam masala - 1/4tsp
Curry leaves
Oil
Method:
Wash,clean and cut the squid into rings.
Marinate this with 1tsp kashmiri chilli powder,turmeric powder and salt.Keep aside for 1/2an hour.Cook the squid with enough water ,till its done.
In pan add oil.Add sliced onion,ginger,garlic and green chillies.Saute well till the onion become light brown.Add chopped tomato and cook it till it become soft.Add curry leaves and all masala powders , saute it for 2-3 minutes.Add cooked squid ,mix well and roast it for 7-10 minutes on medium flame.Add more oil if there is a need.Serve hot with rice or roti.