Month: June 2015

Chickenwings: Double flavour, in triple ways!?!

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Chicken-wings a snack-food at various occasions. At the BBQ with grilled meat, or when sharing pizza’s with friends, even when getting fast food like fried chicken.

There was a video on Vice.com about paleo method of cooking and I saw chicken and herbs used. It looked interesting and I like to experiment with cooking.  I also enjoy crunchy fried chicken-wings, thus thats why I tried something new.  So here are my ways of chicken-wings done in three ways.

Spicy crusted Chicken-wings:

Ingredients:
400-500 grams or 8-10 pieces of Chicken-wings
10 ml of Sesame oil (optional)
5 grams of Salt
5 grams of Black pepper
10 grams of Chili powder
12 grams of Paprika powder
20-30 grams of Bread-crumbs

Preparation:
Rinse the chicken-wings with water and put it in a bowl. Add the sesame oil, salt, black pepper and 2-3 grams of chili powder as well as 2-3 grams of paprika powder. Use a spoon or your clean hands to marinate the spices onto the chicken-wings. When done leave it to rest for 30 min in the refrigerator for the flavour to soak in.

Next get a plate or a container and pour the bread-crumbs, 10 grams of paprika powder and 8 grams of chili powder. (Add chili powder with caution, cause the spiciness depends on the amount of chili you add.) Mix the powders and the bread-crumbs together for a red-orange-yellowy crust-mix.

After 30 min of flavouring, get the chicken-wings out of the fridge and dip the wings one for one or a few at a time in the crust-mix. Cover the wings fully and put it aside on a plate.

Green herbed Chicken-wings:

Ingredients:
400-500 grams of 8-10 pieces of Chicken-wings
20 grams of Celery (herb)
20 grams of Leaf parsley
20 grams of Spring onion**
5-10 ml of Olive oil
Handful of nuts (used pine nuts*)

*(Because I had some of it left over. Other kinds of nuts could be: Pistachio, Walnut, Peanuts, Cashew or whatever you like)
(**Only the green parts of the spring onion were used).

Preparation:
Wash the herbs: celery, leaf parsley and spring onion. Also rinse the chicken-wings with water. Get a food-blender and cut the herbs into pieces for blending. Put the herbs into the blender as well as the olive oil and a handful of nuts. Blend the herb-mixture into small pieces in a way that is not to chunky or to pasty looking.

Use a spoon to scrape of the herb-mix into a bowl and add the chicken-wings in it to marinate. Like above use a spoon or your clean hands to marinate the herb-mix onto the chicken-wings and let it soak in the fridge for 30min. Take it out when you are ready to cook it.

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As stated in the title chicken-wings in three ways, I made these chicken-wings in just one way. However after tasting the wings, I have thought up and considered two other ways of making it more tasty. So for each chicken-wing recipe are two ways to cook it.

The baking method: (spicy crusted wings and green herbed wings)
Preheat the oven at 160 degree Celsius. Put the chicken-wings after preparation on a grilled like tray for the oven. When the oven is heated and ready, put the tray with the chicken-wings in the oven and let it bake for 30 min. When it is done, serve it hot. (Make or add some dipping sauce for the wings. For the green herbed wings, I made some honey-lime dip for some bit of sweetness. As for the spicy crusted wings, I would have liked garlic sauce.)

The BBQ or grilling method: (green herbed wings)
Make these green herbed wings for a barbecue and if you want to make it at home use a grill pan. Heat up a grill pan on the stove and put the prepared chicken-wings on the pan when the pan is heated. Grill the green herbed wings on the pan and turn the wings a few times over. I takes about roughly 10-15 minutes or until the wings are golden brown/ yellowy brown. Serve, when done with or without sauce.
(For the BBQ, I would mix a little honey-water and brush it onto the wings when it is nearly done.)

The frying method: (spicy crusted wings)
Caution: While frying food it can be dangerous, the oils are very hot.

Use a fryer or pan with oil. Boil the oil to 170-180 degree Celsius. When the oil is heated, gently add a few chicken-wings into the hot oil. Let the wings fry until the crust becomes firm and golden brown. It takes about 4-6 minutes to cook the wings throughly. After the first batch of wings is done, take them out and let it drip out the oil on a sieve and in a bucket. Gently put the second batch of wings in the hot oil.
When the wings are done dripping out, put it on a kitchen-paper-layered plate and let the chicken-wings rest for further oil absorption. (Only do this if you are health conscious.) Serve when still hot.

I hope you like it, try it out and have fun experimenting!

My journey, my dream…

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This my Story, This is my Journey.

This blog is something I started to change my life, to tell my story up till now and to tell my Journey for the events to come.

Up till now I had led a great life without much hardships, I am blessed with loving family and friends. I am living a carefree life in a peaceful country, a healthy environment and I am fortunate to receive social benefits of health-care, education and many more.

However (I’m already sounding like a bitch), I did not have a purpose in life. I did not know what I wanted. I just followed the road of what was expected of me instead of listening to my heart. Just until recent years I started to search for a meaning in life, a soul search to something what I wanted, to make me happy and to contribute for a better world.

In my soul-searching-time I figured out what I liked. I like helping people in some sort of way, I like being creative and I love food.

  • Food is something consistent in my up-bringing, my father is a cook and had always made us various delicious dishes. Food is something I enjoy and in food I like quality over quantity.
  • I had always a thing for building and making stuff, I liked building with Lego and making drawings when I was little. As I have grown-up, I turned to cooking because it is one of the places where I could release my creativity.
  • Helping people… it can be called like that, the thing is I like to solve problems and in that way if it helps them it makes everyone happy. So a win-win situation is something what I like to strife for.

These three things are what underlines what I want to do with my life. So combining these three resulted in one of my goals to achieve or create/build. That is, creating something like Jamie Oliver’s ‘Fifteen’ or something like this article about coffee.  Which is not building something for just my own, but also something for the community. A win-win, creativity and food.

In the long run, I want to create an Empire or a Giant in the Food world, something similar as in the manga ‘食戟のソーマ Shokugeki no Sōma’ , an organization like Tōtsuki Culinary Academy. As well as various food related businesses.

My journey and my dream has already started, so if it sounds interesting give me a like, share or follow my blog. ^ ^

DIY Chocolate Ice-cream… with out Ice-cream-maker!

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Although it is often easier to buy your Ice-cream in store, I have to try to make my own ice-cream. This is all due to an upcoming dessert I want to make from scratch. (It takes some time to freeze it, so do not expect to have it on the same day)

The only problem I noticed is, that my ice-cream is not that smooth as the ones you buy from store. There are two factors which makes your ice-cream as smooth as silk. The first one is the amount of fat used in making your ice-cream, the higher percentage the smoother it will be. The second factor is crystallization of the liquid, if you put the ice-mix in a container and freezing it, it won’t create the same smooth texture as store-bought-ones but rather more popsicle-ish like.
Smoothness is created through breaking and forming of small ice-crystals, which happens normally in an ice-cream-maker by churning the ice-mixture.

So enough with the technical stuff, on to the recipe.

DIY chocolate ice-cream.

200ml of Chocolate ‘whole’ milk (around 10% fat content)
250ml of Cream (whipping cream 30% fat content)
100gr of Sugar
100gr of Dark Chocolate
1 shot of Espresso (or Ristretto)
2 Egg yolks
Oreo cookies

Break up the dark chocolate bar (or use chocolate chips) and put it into a pan. Add the sugar as well as the Chocolate milk to the pan. Start heating up the pan and dissolve the chocolate and the sugar by stirring. Do not let the mixture boil. Continue to gradually add the cream in the mix and stir it well.
After the cream is added also add the shot of Espresso and stir the pan while heating the mixture. Remove the pan off the heat when the mix is nearly boiling. (when small bubbles starts to appear)

After taken the pan of the heat, whisk the egg yolks lose (so it is not a round blob anymore) and add the egg yolks while stirring it into the mixture. Stir it well to dissolve it like the sugar and chocolate. When done get a small sieve and strain the mixture, to separate the undissolved residue and the liquid ice-cream.

Let the liquid ice-cream cool down a bit before putting it into the freezer. When it cooled down put the ice-cream mix into the freezer for 12 hours.
Top the ice-cream with crumbled Oreo cookies when it is frozen and finally enjoy.

The Bucketlist #1

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So in making a bridge with my last post. ‘Droppin’ in the sky of freedom!’

Here is the first list of things I want to fly to. ^_^

  • My own pup-up restaurant/coffee house
  • Car
  • Motor bike
  • Drivers license
  • Living place (randstad)*
  • Second living place in Asia
  • Own business company
  • Traveling the world
  • Study japanese
  • Study chinese
  • Study korean
  • More muscular physic
  • Body exercise
  • Martial arts study
  • Own bakery
  • Learn to dance
  • Learn to play an instrument
  • Have a tootsuki institution**
  • Having a blog

This is the list from when I turned thirty. It was the moment that I decided and acted to change my self.  After I dropped out of college for third time, I had taken my time into think over what I really wanted to do with my life. The time it took  about what I wanted is a topic for another time….

Back on topic, I have already started with doing some things on the list. I have a blog ^ ^, I’m doing some exercise and getting my driving license. I try to move out of Zwollywood this year if possible. There is still much more to add to the list or to be completed. So a list #2 will follow, I’ll keep you up to date.

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Next up ‘My journey, my dream…’