- Jun 30 Tue 2009 06:42
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Developmental milestones: Writing
- Jun 29 Mon 2009 23:08
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Your 15-month-old's development
- Jun 29 Mon 2009 23:00
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Your 14-month-old's development
- Jun 29 Mon 2009 22:53
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Your 13-month-old's development
- Jun 29 Mon 2009 22:26
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Fairy Cake
我想這個是英國一般家庭裡, 最常出現的小茶點了吧, 很容易做, 也很好吃, 不過我後來才知道那上面的 " 奶油 " 是如何做出來的, 一邊吃一邊想, 這大概要走上 2 個小時的路才消耗的掉吧
但我不吃, 就太對不起自己了 ( 對!! 就是這麼愛吃才會瘦不下來, 肥死活該 )
- Jun 29 Mon 2009 07:08
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Breakfast Biscotti
參考 Nigella Lawson Feast 2004
第一次試做, 五月七日
這個硬餅乾是我們找很久的食譜, 在外面喝咖啡時, 大部份時候先生會點這個沾咖啡喝, 看他吃的很順口, 我也是偶而才嚐嚐, 不過想到在家喝咖啡時, 沒這塊硬餅乾, 總覺得少了些什麼, 幸好有 Nigella
我現在幾乎把她的食譜當聖經來唸, 喜歡的就拿來做看看, 非常實在, 吃的也很開心
我不知是做的太爽快還是真的吃到忘我, 居然沒將食譜留底就還書去了, 還好現在網路資訊很發達, 有被我找到有人放這道食譜上來, 還寫的很仔細呢
Check Jaynie Kitchen
第一次做時, 我有加巧克力豆, 但我們的感覺是太甜了一些, 所以第二次就取消巧克力豆, 改成多加杏仁的做法, 還真是正點啊
Makes about 20, depending on how big you want to make them
1 egg
100g sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
few drops of almond essence
125g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
50g shelled almonds (unsalted)
75g dark chocolate chips (or chocolate cut up into chunks the size of chips)
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg C.
2. Place the egg and sugar in a bowl and beat with an electric whisk for several minutes on its highest speed. You will see the colour change from deep eggy yellow to a pale lemon, and the mixture will become moussily thick. Beat in the vanilla essence and a few drops of almond essence.
3. Fold in the plain flour, baking powder and salt with a metal spoon. Remember that you will probably need more flour - especially if you are using large eggs. The result should be soft dough that isn't sticky - otherwise it will be hellish to roll out in a few minutes' time...
4. Fold in the almonds and chocolate chunks/chips. Put the dough onto a floured board (this is when you'll realise if it is too sticky or not!) and shape into a long sausage shaped log about 25 x 5 cm
5. Lay the log onto a sheet of greaseproof paper (or I have those non-stick baking sheets that you just wash and re-use). I usually have to lay mine diagonally across the sheet....
6. Cook for 25 minutes. The biscotti log will have risen and spread quite a bit, and it will be a pale brown colour. Leave for 5 minutes to harden slightly. Then, on the diagonal, cut into the familiar biscotti shapes each about 1cm wide.
7. Put these back onto the baking sheet, laying them down flat, and cook for a further 10 minutes. Turn them over and cook for a remaining 5 minutes. By this time they should be golden brown and crunchy. Let them cool and then store in an airtight container (I use a 1-litre icecream container).
也不難做, 就麵糰的那個步驟比較黏手, 其他的都很容易
第二回合,五月十三日
後來有發現, 杏仁露多加一些, 風味更好呢
我一次要做二條的量, 因為先生太會吃了, 可以撐一週喔
這道也變成我們家的家常點心之一了
- Jun 29 Mon 2009 06:19
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尋人啟事
不是真的要找人啦
不久前不是才說找到堂姐的嗎, 然後我就很無聊的在網上找一些以前的同學啦, 暗戀的對象啦等等的
還真的被我找到一位同學吔, 而且沒想到人家是博士了, 她的名字太特殊了, 而且也有照片可以比對, 看到照片時, 當年的回憶又全部回來了
當時大家年紀都小, 她是副班長, 大概是她的作風很有氣概, 惹的幾位同學組成了 " 護花使者 ";有幾天班導師不在座, 群鳳無首的一堆小女生就開始做亂了 ( 女生班 ) 不知為何幾位同學開始有了糾紛, 就有了連鎖反應, 一堆人開始哭了起來, 班長跟她忙著安慰一堆同學,我本來還是看著大家莫名奇妙的哭還覺得在亂什麼的, 不知當時是哪個筋不對, 想到遠在異鄉唸書, 當初的好友都不在, 現在的環境又很複雜, 一時心煩意亂也跟著趴在桌上哭了起來 ( 在三八什麼我也不知道 ) 是 " 她 " 來拍拍我的肩膀, 安慰我別哭的, 沒想到我哭的更傷心..... ( 驚!! 真的三八到底子去了 )
班上亂成一團...... ( 一堆小女生一起哭, 真是有夠吵的 )
道師隔天就把幾位 " 問題學生 " 點名到教室外面訓話, 說真的, 還真的不關我什麼屁事, 真的是哪根筋不對在亂就是了, 導師訓誡的兇, 我腦子裡一直想著... 媽的, 幹嘛沒事趴著哭, 趴下來睡不就沒事了.....
導師也一直要將 " 原兇 " 抓出來, 其他的原兇沒低頭, 反而是我自己覺得委屈, 就哭出來了 ( 又哭 !! ) 導師就放了我一馬, 其他的原兇就繼續在原地訓, 後來我成了那個抓耙子, 被那些原兇恨的牙癢癢的
我一直不是很開心國中時期, 一是要到外地唸書, 二是女生班......女生班吔
總之這位 L 同學就很得幾位同學的芳心.....
我找不到的有國小的阿凱, 阿德, 國中的琪, 婉玉
反正我有找到誰, 就放到這裡來囉
PS, 真的很閒妻涼母吧
- Jun 19 Fri 2009 22:39
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結婚五週年慶
平淡的五週年, wood wedding
一張再平凡不已的週年慶賀卡, 二隻相依偎的熊, 一大一小, 背景是香檳及花, 還有幾顆愛心, 女人不是常要求, 要有愛, 有花, 有香檳, 有布偶熊, 好啦, 一張卡片全包括了, 多省啊, 等一下, 我在省什麼啊, 我應該是享受浪漫的那個人吔, 算了, 我這管家婆已經很認份了
週年慶前夕是這樣的....
小孩長莫名奇妙的疹子, 雖沒發燒拉肚子哭鬧, 但小花猫一隻實在不忍心啊, 沒拍照留念還真是可惜 ( 女兒以後一定會怨你的 )
先生又犯頭痛,躺在床上哀哀叫都不得....連痛三天
我的花粉症正在搖滾著.....
我還想浪漫喔....自找麻煩比較快啦, 那些風花雪月的事, 全部打包到有著蜘蛛網的閣樓吧
不過我還是有本事把先生弄哭了, 女兒生下後, 他真的越來越娘了.....
親愛的,
這麼多個日子以來, 我們一起共渡了不少美好的時光, 很幸運地, 我們仍然持續著我們美滿生活.每天清晨在你的身旁醒來, 我帶著一抺微笑並想著 - 我真是個幸福的人
L-U-C-K-Y 幸運, 有著我的幸運數字 5 的單字, 如此的巧!!
謝謝你為這個家的付出, 因為有你的付出換來這個可愛的小家庭, 真的非常感謝你, 不過也別忘了要好好照顧你自己,不要找任何的藉口來塘塞你生活上的疏失或過錯
PS, 你的小甜心也要送上她的小親親, 她要我告訴你, 我好愛你們
署名, 我是你擁有過最棒的一位太太
現在自己這麼寫下來, 還真不知哪一版比較不噴飯....
網誌實在快變成一季一刊了, 我實在很配服那些家裡有小孩的媽媽們, 還可以有空可以上網寫網誌, 他們是哪裡找來的時間啊, 我的時間規劃實在很糟糕吧
有一肚子的大便要吐, 就先上這篇擋一下吧
- May 13 Wed 2009 23:13
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小餐包 Dinner roll
參考 Nigella Lawson Feast 2004 - Soft white dinner rolls
完成日五月三日
趁大小姐小憩片刻, 趕緊準備了材料, 等麵糰發好, 進烤箱後, 大概又是我服侍的時候了, 真的要算好時間啊, 我們不想吃太多失敗的成品!!
FOR THE DOUGH
500-600g plain flour
3 teaspoons ( 1 sachet ) rapid rise, bread machine or other instant yeast
1/2 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon caster sugar
375ml milk
20~25g butter
FOR THE TOPPINGS
1 egg, beaten 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
1 tablespoon milk 1 teaspoon poppy seeds ( 我用黑芝麻 )
pinch salt
1.Combine 500g of the flour with the instant yeast, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Put the milk and butter nto a saucepan and heat until the milk is warm, and the butter is beginning to melt.
2.Pour into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix with a fork or a wooden spoon to make a rough dough, adding more of the remaining flour if the dough is too wet. Then either using your hands or the dough hook on the electric mixer, knead the dough until it is smooth and silky.
3.Put the ball of dough into a greased bowl and cover the top with clingfilm, then leave in a warm place ( I always sit a bowl of yeasted dough on a pile of newspapers ) to rise for an hour by whick time it should be double the size. Punch the air out of the dough with your fist and then turn it out on to a floured surface.
4.Pull pieces of dough the size of walnuts off the dough and form them into small round rolls, like ping pong balls, placing them as you go on to a greased or lined baking sheet. The balls of dough should be about 5mm apart so that once they have sat to prove they will be just about touching. I get 30 balls of dough, and I arrange them in six lines of five.
5.Cover them with a tea-towl and leave to rise again in a warm place for about half an hour, preheating the oven to gas mark 7 / 220C, while they sit. When the buns have puffed up, beat together the egg, milk and a pinch of salt and paint them with the glaze Scatter altermate lines of buns with sesme and poppy seeds, leaving plain rows in between. ( A teaspoon of seeds should decorate two rows. ) That's to say, a row of poppy-topped, then a row of sesame-topped, then one row of plain and then repeat again.
6.Bake the buns for 15 mins by whick time they should be golden brown and joined together in a little batch. Remove them to a cooling rack or serve immediately. When I make these for adults I put them on the table and let people tear them off as they go. When I'm making them for a roomful of children, I wouldn't be as mad; the feeding frenzy is bad enough as it is, so just tear them off and hand a few round to them on a plate.
這個食譜挺簡單的, 困難的地方就在揉麵糰而已, 我也知道要揉到有光滑面啊, 但.... 如何光滑法,我還是得要有經驗才行, 本來我是想吃台灣的那種西餐小餐包的 ( 爆漿的部份就用想的就好 ), 剛烤好後挺香的, 我跟先生等涼了後,就一人一個試吃了, 他說, 口感不錯喔!!
那這樣我就可以比較有信心做紅豆麵包, 蔥花麵包之類的台式麵包啦!!
不過我還是很肖想有台食物調理機, 揉麵糰的時間我可以做多少家事啊
時間有點趕, 來不及揉成圓形就擺上烤盤了, 反正是自己吃而已, 可以接受啦
看起來不錯吧
加油了, 麵包之路
- May 08 Fri 2009 05:14
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Cottage Pie
From UKTVFood
這是人家大師做的成果, 不是我做的
出自康家廚房 29th April
因為我照出來的效果太糟了, 所以只好出示人家的照片, 不過真的很好吃啦
這位大師是 UKTVFood Tamasin Day-Lewis
看到她的名字會不會有一些連想咧, 對啦, Daniel Day-Lewis 是她的弟弟, 長相也有點像呢, 你覺得嗎
她的廚房也是我的最愛之一, 尤其她有一個漂亮的 AGA 烤箱, 那是我的夢幻系列之一啊, 不過有一點我很受不了的是, 她有一頭自然捲的長髮, 做菜時她是不會犠牲將她的美髮做一番整理的, 所以就邊撥頭髮邊做菜, 怎麼說, 菜是他們要吃的無所謂, 而且人家一身漂亮的在做菜, 要你管啊
Serve: 6 prep: 35min Cook: 1hr 40min
Ingredients:
for the meat
3 tbsp Olive oil ( tbsp = tablespoon )
1 large Onions, chopped
2 sticks Celery, finely chopped
2 Carrots, diced
3 clove Garlic, finely chopped
675g minced beef or lamb
1 tbsp tomato puree
3-4 drops Worcestershire sauce
3-4 drops Tabasco ( 沒加! 因為有幼兒一同食用 )
175ml dry white or Red wine ( 用紹興酒代替, 用了三瓶蓋 )
300ml chicken or beef stock ( 用 beef stock )
black pepper
for the topping
1.4kg potatoes
50ml Milk
2 tbsp mature Cheddar cheese
1 tbsp finely grated Parmesan ( 沒加! 因為有幼兒一同食用 )
Method
1.Pre-heat oven to 180C / Gas mark 4
2.Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the onion, celery and carrot, stirring them over a brisk heat but not allowing them to brown
3.After 5 min or so add the garlic, reduce the heat and soften everything together
4.Invrease the heat again and add the mince, stirring until browned
5.Stir in the tomato puree, Worcestershire sauce, abasco, wine and stock, season and cover. Simmer for 10 min
6.Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy
7.Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato
8.Sprinkle with cheese and bake for 45-55 min until golden and bubbling. Serve with seasonal vegetables.
這個手續稍微有點麻煩些, 但好吃才是重點啊, 我不怕辛苦的!! 現在做菜要考慮到小的, 所以儘量都是找可以全家共用的食譜, 不然當家的挑食, 我又不一定吃他的, 小的要注意調味料, 那不是很搞死我!!
目前都是儘量讓妹妹可以吃無限量種量的食物, 就是怕她會挑食啊, 她前幾週開始吃蛋乃滋, 她可以愛的咧, 所以我就又做了馬鈴薯蛋沙拉讓她當三明治點心, 這小妮子很會吃, 每次都是先吃沙拉的部份, 最後才吃麵包
這六人份被我們二天吃完, 真的是六人份喔
還是放上有朦朧美的成果照吧, 可以看出料多實在吧
- May 08 Fri 2009 03:59
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Apple crumble
First time, 28 April
第一次做這西點,不知口味如何,還熱騰騰的就一人一口試吃
食譜是參考 Nigella Lawson - Feast 2004
Nigella Lawson(按名字連結)
圖片來自 http://img.tesco.com/pi/Books/L/14/9780701175214.jpg
我是在台灣時,就迷上這位大師,做法瀟灑,用料實在,她的廚房又是我愛的方式,所以我很早就愛上她了,之前也說過了,被"暗示"煮太多中餐了,所以廚娘我就到圖書館先借了這本2004年出版的食譜應急,不知為何家裡也是有 Gordon Ramsay, Women weekly, 怎麼突然想到要用她的
我是以 Pumpkin and Apple crumble 改的,一共做了二次,一次是用現成的酥粉,第二次才用她的酥粉配方
400g cooking apples 1 tablespoon lemon juice
30g butter 1 teaspoon ground ginger
50g caster sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
(*30g golden sultanas) vanilla ice cream for serving
FOR THE TOPPING
1. Sainsbury instant mix
2. 100g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 bicarbonate of soda
50g cold butter
40g soft light brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon Demerare sugar
1.Preheat the oven to gas mark 5 / 190'
2.Peel and core the cooking apples, cut them to a similar size and add to the large pan with the butter, sugar, lemon juice, spices ( and sultanas )
3.Cook over a medium beat for about 10-20 minutes, partially covering with a lid, until the apple have softened
4.Tip the apple into a dish approximately 25cm in diameter and 5cm deep
5.Put the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of oda into a bowl and rub in the cold butter to resemble rough oatmeal. Use fingers or a freestanding mixer for this
6.Fork in the light brown sugar, and then tip the crumble topping evenly over the apple in the dish
7.Finally sprinkle overy the Demerarasugar. Cook for 45 minutes, turning the dish once in the oven to colour evenly
8.Let the crumble stand for about 20 minutes before serving, with some good vanilla ice cream preferably
Second, 3rd May還是自己做的crumble好吃!! 而且不難做呢
妹妹也很愛吃, 在幫她吹涼時,她也在一旁學我吹涼,最近她模仿的速度越來越快還有一個原因想到要做這道點心, 幾年前第一次拜訪二伯家時, 二伯母做了好好吃的 berry crumble, 讓我一直對這道唸唸不忘, 先生說了好~久要做給我吃, 做到連小孩生下來了都還沒吃到, 所以"凡事自己來比較快"啦
忘了提, 比較傳統的有加 Sultanas 淡色葡萄乾, 因為我忘了買, 就沒加了!! 不過先生也有提, 沒加葡萄乾喔.....
- May 08 Fri 2009 03:35
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家鄉味
很久沒上亞洲店了,雖然只是小小小小的一家,偶而可以發現的食材,真是大大滿足我的台灣胃
這天不經意發現了這幾款"好蜜"(台語好料,好東西?!) 二話不說,馬上挑了我的經典款,當場真是巴不得有熱開水及筷子,當場給它呼嚕起來
統一真是很棒的企業
我們是不常吃泡麵的,雖然肉躁麵是台灣定時飛來的 ( 陳爸陳媽怕這個半子太想念家鄉味 ),偶而可以在亞洲店發現日式泡麵,乾麵,烏龍麵等等,都是可以簡單就搞定一頓餐點,印象裡最深刻的幾個吃泡麵記憶是,八歲左右自己會煮肉躁麵加蛋,某一年在合歡山上吃一碗五十元的肉躁麵,還沒有加蛋喔,當時一包泡麵在台幣十元以下
我大概有好幾個月了,每週的菜單都是中式,當家的不敢哀,還在爬的只要有得吃就很開心,老娘掌廚誰敢廢話!!
不過有一天,當家的看我心情還不錯,就問我了,你很想家吼....都是一直煮中菜,當時我也沒想什麼,就回他,是呀....三年沒回家了,非常想!!
現在想想,他好像別有用意,應該是暗示著不想再吃中餐了吧
( 你最好有那個虎膽敢抗議啦 )
照片是四月十四日拍的
今晚老爺放風去,早早趕小人上床睡,我才落的輕鬆可以寫網誌