Thursday, 16 June 2011

Herb Roasted Eggplant / Chicken and Tofu Laksa / Cooking Quinces



Blog Post & Recipe: Simple Herb Roasted Aubergine


The flavor comes from the herbed-salt rub and the touch of compound butter when serving!


Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken and Tofu Laksa [via]


To make the laksa paste, chop the shallots, lemongrass, cloves, ginger, galangal and chillis roughly and add to a food processor. Blitz with the turmeric and vegetable oil until you have a smooth paste.


Blog Post & Recipe: Quince science


Cooking quinces is culinary magic. You start out with fruits that are yellow, hard and astringent. Three or four (or five) hours of gentle poaching later, they are fragrant, grainily soft, sweet and – most impressively – deep pink [...] I wanted to test two hypotheses: (a) that low sugar concentration in the poaching liquid reduces quince colour change, and (b) that lack of lemon juice in the poaching liquid reduces quince colour change. I was also curious about whether sugar and lemon interacted somehow



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