2013年1月10日星期四

Meetfresh Linh Tran

Meetfresh is a restaurant for traditional Taiwan desserts. Their dedication in preparing desserts  freshly made, cooked and served has made them one of Taiwan’s most popular dessert shops with more than 100 stores and expanding. It is now a franchise with 10 store all around Australia. Traditional Tofu Pudding will melt in your mouth and Herbal Jelly is a healthy alternative, made from natural plant extracts, packed with wholesome goodness.

The dessert can be served hot or cold

                                                              signature herbal jelly

The signature herbal jelly is a mixture of herbal jelly, taro balls, Honey beans and pearls. This is low fat and low in sugar due to the fact that it is freshly made, with natural ingredients and no added preservatives.

Apart from traditional desserts they also have a wide range of drinks to choose from!!

 
                                                              Traditional Milk Tea



                                                              Watermelon Latte

Heres a video bloggers tasting MEET FRESH!


2013年1月7日星期一

MACAROON Linh Tran

Macaron is a sweet confectionery, the macaron is normally filled with jam or cream which is Sandwiched between two cookies. Although predominately its a french confection there are many variation from different countries. The main ingredient to making Macaron are ground almonds, Powered sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and granulated sugar

Many people get confuse from the different between Macaron and Macaroon here is the different.

                                                               Pistacchio Macaron


                                                                         Macaroons
The macaroons is describe as a small cake where as the macaron is a biscuit.

Here are the different type of macaron from different countries.

                                                                 Green tea Macaron (Asian)

                                                               Paris Macaron
There are many store that sell macaron, you can also easily make your own now with macaron kits selling in supermarket.



Natural Frozen Yogurt Dessert!!! Linh Tran



Frozen yogurt is a dessert and its a booming business in Sydney. Most teenager would socialize over a frozen yogurt instead of having coffee. There are many type of different favor and toppings that stores around sydney offer. With the popularity of the frozen yogurt there are around 50 different type of Frozen Yogurt store around Sydney.



Moochi is a franchise that first open their first frozen yogurt store in Sydney.


As it is a open market more competition would enter into the market as competition

Every store Frozen Yogurt would have the exact same product and topping 

Instead of going out and buying your own Frozen Yogurt here is a video teaching you how to make your own so you can have it anytime!!!


2013年1月6日星期日

Pasta----------------Jing Wu

Pasta

 
Pasta is a type of noodle, and is a staple food of traditional intalian cuisine, it is also commonly used to refer to a variety of pasta dishes, typically pasta is made from an unleavened dough of a durum hweat flour mixed with water and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked and served in any number of dishes, it can be made with flour from other cereals, or grains, and eggs may be used instead of water. Pastas may be devided into two broad categories , dried and fresh, chicken eggs frequently dominate as the source of the liquid component in fresh pasta.

Different types and shapes of pasta

 
 
Indian style pasta
Butter Garlic Pasta
Famil Style Pasta
Rotini with tuna
 
Pasta alla Gricia-Ate style
 
Mexican -Style Skillet Pasta

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fresh egg pasta(italian receipe)
four cheese pasta( intalian receipe)
 
 
nutrition 
  there are seceral health benefits to consuming pasta, especially whole wheat pasta, whole wheat is low in calories, and contains considerble amounts of minerals, including iron.calcium, zinc, selenium,and manganese, minerals are important for the body becasue they help with the structure of bones, regulate heart beat, maintain muscle, and take part in regulating cell growth, in addition, an equivalent amount of whole, and white grains are recommneded for a complete and healthy diet  with essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients, pasta is normallu an intake combined with other foods rich n nutrients, fiber for example can be found in vegetables beans, fish, tomato sauce, cheese, and meats such as poultry and lean ground beef.pasta contains complex carbohydrates which release energy slowly compared to sugar, providing enenrgy for a longer time, pasta also contains a small amount of sodium and has no cholesterol, furthermore, assorted pastas are rich in essential nutrients, such as iron and vitamin B, another benefits to eating pasta is that is provide niacin for the body, this vitamin is essential for bodily functions, such as converting carbohydrates into glucose, whcih produces energy for the body, enriched pasta also contains folic acid that is benefit for child-bearing women,.
ingredients:
pasta is normallu made of flour, eggs, salt, and water.most pasta is made with semolina or durum, a type of wheat flour, but other grains such as corn, rice, quinoa, spelt,and kamut can also be used, these alternative grains yield a softer and often more sticky pasta, but they are a welcome alternative for people with wheat allergies.other pasta types are made with whole grain wheat ,whcih makes the pasta darker and more nutritious, or wheat with other flours , including no-grain flours such as soy-bean flour,eggs are used in order to improve the technological quality of the pasta, not only does the egg enrich pasta from a nutritional viewpoint, but it has an important technological function as well , since the eggs make the dough elastic,soft and resistent,the water is often used to prepare the dough and make it possible to shape,. during the drying step most water is  removed, salt is also added for the flour. 

Vietnamese PHO Linh Tran



Vietnamese Pho is a soup noodle consisting of noodles made from rice, broth and meat. The stock of is a combination of marrow bones, oxtail, brisket, chicken ribs along with dry cinnamon, star anise and cardamon pads. Many people secret ingredient is dried sandworm which can only be found in Vietnam.

There are several variants due to the fact of that Vietnam is divided into two part, the south and the north. The Vietnamese Pho can either be Chicken or Beef.



                                                       Pho Saigon, South Side




                                             Pho Ha Noi, which is from the North side


Pho Gai, Chicken Pho


Garnishes and Condiments put into the Pho is important to make it a tasting meal. Here is what i normally put into my Pho.



                                              Lime, bean sprouts, Onion, Chilli, Mint



                                                                                                        Sriracha Chilli Sauce



Roasted meat by Mengdan Xie

Roasted meat
by Mengdan Xie



          The roast meat is a kind of dishes, including roast goose, pigeon, suckling pig, pork, and some brine dishes. The roast is in fact divided into two, "burning" and "December" But now people are always "roast" together called not care about the type. Roast general the secret sauce marinated for some time and then put in the oven, roast goose, suckling pig with crispy skin, plump, sweet tastes slightly Cantonese favorite.







          The roast is in fact divided into two, "burn" and "December" But now people are always "roast" together called not care about the type.
The above said is "burned" add December.

       Preserved meat varieties: sausage, bacon, dried meat, Maggi phoenix cake, egg yolk Phoenix light sauce seal meat, dry meat, piece of money, December pig heart, December swine Li, Soy Duck, December pigeon December drumsticks, December suckling pig, wax big fish Liu.


    Drying technology, advanced solar (non-polluting) sausages produced with raw natural drying clothes crisp tender, sharp color, sweet and delicious, unique taste characteristics.


    Preserved meat usually includes sausage, bacon, wax chicken, preserved duck, etc., each of the appropriate amount, then boil a pot add the cooked claypot, adding a spoonful of soy sauce and serve, eating was really easy and delicious . To eat preserved meat a good season, a pot of pot Wangwang fragrant claypot most arouses the appetite


   Preserved meat varieties: sausage, bacon, dried meat, Maggi phoenix cake, egg yolk Phoenix light sauce seal meat, dry meat, piece of money, December pig heart, December swine Li, Soy Duck, December pigeon December drumsticks, December suckling pig, wax big fish Liu.


   Drying technology, advanced solar (non-polluting) sausages produced with raw natural drying clothes crisp tender, sharp color, sweet and delicious, unique taste characteristics.


   Preserved meat usually includes sausage, bacon, wax chicken, preserved duck, etc., each of the appropriate amount, then boil a pot add the cooked claypot, adding a spoonful of soy sauce and serve, eating was really easy and delicious .
To eat preserved meat a good season, a pot of pot Wangwang fragrant claypot most arouses the appetite.

   Many of us are familiar with the claypot varieties, but most have preserved meat meal favorite, because too fat white sausages eat to how mouthful Yixiang ah!


    Roast divided into siu mei and preserved meat: siu mei including roast suckling pig, pork, roast pork, roast duck, roast goose, lo (pig stomach, sausage, etc.) siu mei things for Cantonese ordinary, but always make Tim point brightly colored food on the table. I remember the hours, home to the guests, and without food to eat, they will go straight to the siu mei shop "chopped material. Cantonese word "material" meaningful, an already contains a full and reliable attributive noun.

    Preserved meat, including wax duck eggs, Bacon, sausage, wax, chicken, duck meat. December, dry meat "(" Ci Yuan "), all been preserved, and to December Last spring head out to eat, be considered bacon. Bacon produced in Hunan and 


   Guangdong provinces. , Xiang December salty, smoked, pickled process Unyielding taste, and sense of complicated smoked (including rice, sugar cane, leather, orange peel and wood chips). The preserved meat protagonist masterpiece preserved meat steamed together. Participation steamed together, in addition to a flaky bacon, strip the Layu, cooking wine, lard and chicken soup seasoning into the steamer and steam for 20 minutes, golden color, Salted Sauvignon, is a natural fit.


    Cantonese preserved meat manufacturing is a smokeless industry, so the lighter taste, the Hunan people eat together may feel it "half-baked". For this reason, the Cantonese the preserved meat should not be alone food. City in autumn and winter the claypot, they most embodies the charm of the Cantonese preserved meat. Spoke slowly burning fire in the bottom of the pot in the cooker, rice is the main bacon is a foil covering the surface of bacon, preserved duck, sausage gravy full penetration of a full pot of rice, exposing pot lid open, doused with soy sauce, rice cakes meaty blowing, and then accompanied by the dank cold wind Guangdong unique, the end is intended to seize God startle Chike moved to tears. Cantonese is not quite say "bacon", but replace the word "preserved meat".



by Mengdan Xie

Spicy Sichuan food (yue shan)

Spicy Sichuan

Sichuan food is a very important and popular and famous food in China. Special hot spicy is Sichuan food's characteristics.If you like spicy food, Sichuan food is a good choice.

let's show you some classic Sichuan food.


 This is made by beef and ox tripe.

This cayenne pepper tufu.


Steamed chicken with chili oil sauce.
 

It contains a lot of food material. The special material is the blood of pig. 


This is beef in hot chili soup.


This is steamed pork with skin. It's tasty very soft.




This is fried chicken. very crispy.


This is head of fish with a very special and hot chili.



This is a desert. It's transparent jelly with preserved haw in red sugar water.



2013年1月5日星期六

Dessert-------------------Jing Wu

Dessert----Jing Wu
Taco
                                          
Dessert is usually sweet course that concludes a meal.The food that composes the dessert course includes but is not limited to sweet foods, there is a wide varity of desserts in western cultures now including cakes, cookies, biscuits, gelatins,pastries,ice creams,pies,pudding,and candies,fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its natural sweetness, many different cultures have their own variations of similar desserts around the world
ice cream

cookies

pastries

pudding

cakes

candies

gelatins

pies

fruit
Nutrition:desserts are by definition a sweet course.This usually means high content of sugar or fats. Desserts have historically been known as a smaller course to end a meal but in modern times they have become a more major part of people's diets, although desserts are sweet a small a mount of sugar is recommended in a daily diet.certain desserts such as dark chocolate, that have a lower sugar contain,have been determined healthy because of their other nutrients, one example of a healthier desserts is fresh fruit cooked without sugar or extra fats.
Cheat's Tiramisu Cake
How to make cheat's tiramisu cake
Ingredients:500g fresh ricotta,1/4 cup caster sugar,1/4 cup coffee-flavoured liqueur,80g dark chocolate,finely chopped,1/2x460g packaged double unfilled sponge,1/2 expresso coffee, cooled, 2/3 icing sugar mixture, 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, sifted, 1 teaspoon butter,softened,1/2 tablespoon milk, shaved dark chocolate,to serve.
coffee flavoured liqueur

cocoa powder

milk

expresso coffee

icing sugar 

dark chocolate

caster sugar

butter

shaved dark chocolate
double unfilled sponge


ricotta
step 1: using an electric mixer,beat ricotta,sugar and liqueur for 2 minutes or until smooth,stir in chocolate.
step 2: using a serrated knif cut cake horizontally into thirds, place base on a plate, brush with 1/3 of the coffee. spread with 1/2 ricotta, place middle layer of cake   on ricotta,brush with 1/2 of the remaining espresso, spread with remaining ricotta mixture. brush cut side of sponge top with remaining coffee,place over ricotta mixture, cut-side down.
step 3:combine icing sugar and cocoa in a samll bowl, make a well in centre,add butter and milk, stir until combined,spreasd over cake, refrigerate for 1 hour,sprinkle with shaved chocolate, serve.