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Chinese Menus

Agape Goon — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:30:46 +0000

The Menus we have suggested here are those we would choose in our favourite Chinese Restaurant, Fu Tong. The dishes “go together” as it were. But anyone can make just as suitable selections.

As in any other menu planning, one would avoid having two similar important dishes at the one meal. Further, one would be unlikely to serve two pork dishes at the one meal though, strangely enough, two chicken dishes can appear.

With a few exceptions, such as fried sea bass and Cantonese duck, most of the dishes in this website: www.agape-cookingthechineseway.com

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Chicken Stock

Agape Goon — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:30:39 +0000

White stock made with boiling fowl and knuckle of veal for maximum flavour. Cheaper versions use carcass, skin and giblets plus poultry scarps; or giblets only. Always include celery, a few root vegetables and herbs.

Uses: Good poultry flavor, pale color. An excellent general purpose stock for all types of soups, sauces for vegetables and white meat dishes, moistening white meat casseroles and pies and boiling rice for savory dishes or for risottos.

** Chicken Soups Recipes ** and ** Healthy Soups Recipes **

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How to know Kitchen

Agape Goon — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:45:29 +0000

Refer here is packed with pratical information and money saving tips to make life in the kitchen easier. For example : what you rally need (and what you can do without) in the way of equipment; how to make the most of a liquidizer and a pressure cooker; organizing your store cupboard and producing an emergency meal from it; how to avoid wastage by proper menu planning; how to save fuel by batch cooking; and “one pot” meals to minimise the washing -up.

** Low Cholesterol Diets **

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CURRANT SHORTIES

Agape Goon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:30:39 +0000

Ingredients
6 level tbsps currants, chopped into smaller pieces
1 egg, beaten
Vanilla
1/2 metric cups plain flour
Pinch of salt and bicarbonate of soda
1/2 metric cup shortening (available in tins from supermarkets)
1 tbsp cold water
1/2 metric cup sugar
Method
Combine all ingredients and mix Keep dough in the refrigerator for hours. Take dough out of the fridge roll dough out onto a floured board 1 1/2 cm thickness. Cut dough into with fancy biscuit cutters. Bake on a lightly greased and lined tray at 1 till golden brown. Cool cookies wed’ a wire rack before storing in air jars.

** Oriental Cuisine** and ** Miracle Diets**

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Chinese New Years Cookies Recipes

Agape Goon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:00:01 +0000

Coconut Cookies

Ingredients

150g butter or margarine
1 tsp liquid sweetening (equal to 5 tbsp sugar)
1 1/4 metric cups wheat flour
5 tbsp dessiccated coconut

Topping
egg
desiccated coconut

Method
Cream the fat. Add liquid sweetening, coconut and wheat flour. Stir until well mixed. Roll into two bars about 4 cm in diameter. Chill. Cut the bars into 3/4 cm thick slices, brush with egg and dip into the desiccated coconut. Bake at 175 degrees C for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.

More ** Cookies Recipes** and ** Reunion Dinner**

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Chinese New Year Cookies

Agape Goon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:00:05 +0000

Dannish Cookies

Ingredients
300 g plain sifted flour Pinch of salt
Vanilla
1 1/2 level tsp baking powder
300 g sugar
300g butter
4 eggs
20 chopped cherries

Method
Sift salt with baking powder into flour. Cream butter and sugar till
light. Add egg. Gently fold in flour using metal spoon. Pipe out dough through a star-shaped nozzle through an icing pump onto a greased and lined tray. Decorate with cherry pieces and bake in oven of 165° for 22-25 minutes or till brown.

More ** Cookies Recipes** and ** Chinese New Years Menus**

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Blessing Dish

Agape Goon — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:00:51 +0000

Steamed Cod Steak (4 American servings /8 Chinese servings)
6 dried Chinese mushrooms
2 pounds cod steaks, 1 1/2 to 2
inches thick (or other firm
whitefish)
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 slices fresh ginger root, minced
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon oil

Method
Soak the mushrooms in warm water for 20 minutes. Squeeze dry, remove stalks and leave caps whole. Place fish and mushroom caps in a shallow heatproof dish and sprinkle with salt. Combine ginger root with soy sauce and oil. Sprinkle over fish. Place fish in a steamer and steam for about 15 minutes. Remove from steamer and serve immediately.

** Reunion Dinner ** and ** Healthy Diets**

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Vegetarian Foodstuffs to Described

Agape Goon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:00:36 +0000

Alpine Strawberry- The sweet, red fruit of the alpine strawberry plant. Compared to more common varieties, alpine strawberries are very small and have a pointed shape. Although sweet and aromatic, they are not very juicy and they are not usually grown commercially.

Preparation: alpine strawberries are relatively unusual and so are best enjoyed whole and fresh.

Uses: small ones may be used as decoration or served in individual pastry tartlets.

Amaranth- The large, nutritious seed of a decorative, ornamental plant of the pigweed family. Amaranth is available as a seed, flour (see amaranth flour) or as puffed seeds from specialist outlet. It is gluten free and high in protein.

Preparation: the seeds may be cooked in boiling water as you would a grain.

Uses: puffed amaranth may be used as a breakfast cereal.

Amaranth Flour-A gluten free flour derived from ground amarant seeds. It is richer in protein, iron and calcium than wheat flour, and is available from some health food shops or from specialist mail order outlets.

Uses: it can be used on its own, or mixed with other flours to make breads, baked goods and pastry.

** Vegetarian Cookery** and ** Low Cholesterol Recipes**

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Aubergines Freeze

Agape Goon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:30:54 +0000

The aubergines, or egg plant, needs warmth for fruiting and is little cultivated in Great Britain. Good supplies are now available in many greengrocers, and aubergines are worth freezing to serve as a vegetable or to add to recipes. The aubergines should be medium-sized and mature, with tender seeds or the results may be rubbery in texture. The auberigines should be peeled and cut into 1 inch slices, blanched 4 minutes, then chilled and dried on absorbent paper. The slices should be packed in cartons, with the layers separated by Cellphane. To cook plunge into boiling water 5 minutes. Storage time: 1 year.

For short term storage, aubergines may be cooked before freezing. The peeled slices should be coate in thin batter, or egg and breadcrumbs, then fried in deep fat, well drained and cooled and packed in cartons in layers separated by Cellphane. For serving, they can be heated in a slow oven, or part thawed and deep fried. Do not store longer than 1 month.

** Asian Cuisine** and ** Slimming Recipes**

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Apples for Baking

Agape Goon — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:00:13 +0000

Baked apples can be successfully frozen. They should be large and firm and carefully washed. Remove core, leaving 1/4 in at bottom to hold filling. Fill with brown sugar, preferred spice and a squeeze of lemon juice and bake at 400 F (Gas Mark 6) until tender. Cool and pack into individual waxed tubs or foil dishes. A number of apples may be packed into one foil tray, separated by Cellphane. Cover and freeze. These apples may be eaten hot or cold.

More ** Asian Recipes** and ** Healthy Baking Recipes**

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