There was something which grasped my attention a few weeks ago. It was modern cooking methods and techniques. The chefs make dishes with a machine that keeps temperature of water, and make fluid gel with fruits and vegetables to add flavour, but also as a garnish. It was really interesting to see what chefs in modern restaurants use, what they've been trying to make dishes look better, and taste better as well.
I've been wanted to try some of these. but the powders they use for making fluid gel is not easy to get. However, I know the powders are basically for making it firm. So I decided to do an experiment. What I tried is using gelatine powder instead of using Kecogel K, Xanthan gum which are even hard to pronounce.
The result turned out brilliant. I sieved the gel twice to make the fluid gel without air or any bubble. Furthermore, I realized it would work really well with lemon semifreddo which is really soft, but refreshing dessert, and I was right! The semifreddo with raspberry fluid gel are good together. Especially when they meet mint leaves which are a little bit bitter, but also have some sweetness.
This is how the dish was made. I'm gonna put the recipes for both, lemon semfreddo and raspberry fluid gel down below. I really hope you guys like the recipes and hope it can refresh your day.
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Recipes
Lemon Semifreddo
ingr. 1 3/4 cups whipping cream, 1 1/4 cups sugar, 7 large egg yolks, 1/2 cup lemon juice, lemon zests, 1/4 tsp salt, garnish(berries, roasted almond)
1. Beat whipping cream with electric blender.
2. Making custard
Whisk 1 1/4 cups sugar, egg yolks, lemon juice, lemon zests, and salt in a bowl.
Set the bowl over sauce pan of simmering water. Keep whisking until it's think and fluffy.
Beat the mixture with the electric blender until it's cool.
3. Fold in whipped cream.
4. Pour it into loaf pan and cover it with plastic wrap.
5. Freeze for least 8 hours.
Raspberry fluid gel
ingr. 200g Raspberries, 100ml water, pinch of salt, 5g of gelatine powder.
1. Blend raspberries with electric mixer.
2. Sieve, separate seeds and juice.
3. Pour the juice and water into a sauce pan, add gelatine powders.
4. Turn the heat on, keep whisking until gelatine powders are dissolved.
5. Chill the mixture on a tray which is over the ice bath.
6. Pass the gel through a sieve least twice.
(if you have vacuum chamber, use blender and remove the air)
One of my hard things of going back to school was eating healthy. Because I took years off after graduating from high school, and totally forgot how busy the routine is.
If you are like me, or find yourself having hard to eat healthy food. Try this out!
Can you believe if I say you can make great pasta sauce in 2-3 minutes? I know it's hard to believe. but you really can!
All you need is 150ml olive oil, large bunch of basil, 2 cloves of garlic, 50g fresh grated-parmesan cheese, 50g of pine nuts, pinch of salt and pepper. This is it! You just need to roast the pine nuts, and then, blend all the ingredients together! Bam!
Literally, you can make it in 2-3 minutes, and store it in the fridge. Then it will last 1-3 weeks! There's so many different ways that you can use the pesto. It's really good with chicken and potato. But simply, you can make great pasta which is full of flavour.
I've seen many studies have shown how important eating breakfast is, and It actually can improve our attainment, and behaviour. How about spending 3 minutes & start your day with pesto tomorrow?
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Recipe
Pesto
ingr. large bunch of basil, olive oil, 50g pine nuts, 50g fresh grated-parmesan cheese, salt, papper, 2 cloves of garlic
1. Roast pine nuts on mid-heated pan.
2. Put all the ingredients together, blend. (change consistency with olive oil)
3. Season if it's needed.
Pizza, one of the most popular Italian cuisines in the world.
But, Frankly, It's hard to find stores where sell "real Italian pizza".
Most of pizza places sell pizzas which are Americanized. They put too much toppings on it, and that makes each ingredient hard to be tasted.
In that respect, the Margherita would be one of pizzas that you can enjoy each ingredient.
Pizza Margherita is a variety of pizzas that originates in Naples. It's basically made with fresh dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, basil, splash of olive oil.
You can sprinkle fresh grated-parmesan cheese to add flavour, and splashing olive oil on top make it different.
Try Margherita and enjoy the freshness.
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Recipe
Dough
ingr. 2 cups flour, 1 cup warm water, 8g(1 package) active dry yeast, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons white sugar, 2 tablespoons olive oil
1. Dissolve yeast in warm water, let stand until creamy.
2. Combine all the ingredients(including the yeast mixture) together. Beat the dough until the surface of dough is smooth and formed.
3. Put the dough into a bowl, cover the bowl with a wet cloth or plastic wrap.
4. Let dough rise until it's doubled.
5. Split the dough into personal size.(I usually split the dough into 3-4)
6. Use dough, and store rest of dough into a freezer.
Pizza
ingr. bunch of basil, water, tomato paste, finely chopped 1 clove garlic, chopped(or slice) tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, olive oil, pinch of salt & pepper.
1. Make tomato sauce with water, tomato paste, finely chopped garlic, pinch of salt & pepper.
2. Press the dough with your hands(you can use roller instead) & make a shape.
3. Drizzle a little bit of olive oil.
4. Spread the tomato sauce.
5. (optional) sprinkle fresh grated-parmesan cheese.
6. Put chopped tomatoes, slice of mozzarella cheese on top.
7. Sprinkle the basil leaves.
5. Drizzle olive oil and cook it on preheated-oven(between 400ºF-415ºF) for 10 to 15 minutes
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Hello! My name is Joonho Jung(just call me Joon).
I'm a student who's been studying abroad in Canada, and I'm a guy who likes to do something with hands, such as playing instruments, squash, drawing, and cooking
I'd like to share some of dishes & recipes that I used(or made) on here.
If you know who is Julia Child, or have read a book about her. you might remember this quote.
“...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” (My life in France)
I really had no idea how to cook at first. But, I watched a show of Jamie oliver by chance, I tried one of his recipes, and surprisingly it turned out pretty good.
Moreover, the thing made me keep trying something new, and now I can say I'm pretty good at cooking.
As you guys know, Eating is one of basic things in our life, I hope this blog can be useful to you, and make you enjoy the cooking.
Lastly,
Bon Appétit
