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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…’

The BLT Pasta Salad

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Who ever thought that Salads are just for people losing weight are surely mistaken.

Every once in a while I like to make a meal-time salad. When I want something not that heavy on the stomach, but also delicious and easy to make. This recipe is something I consider as a balanced meal, almost everything what you need is in it.

Ingredients: (for 1-2 person)
100-150gr of Pasta (Penne)
75-150gr of Greens (Lettuce, Arugula or any lettuce types)
200gr of Tomato (Cherry)
200gr or 20 pieces of Mini Mozzarella
250gr or 1 pack of Bacon bits
5-10gr of Pine nut
1 pinch of Salt
2tbls or 30ml of Honey
1 whole Lime
1 clove of Ginger

Take a pan large enough to cook the pasta in it. Fill the pan with enough water for cooking the penne. Average 1L per 100gr pasta. When the pan with water is boiling add the pasta and a pinch of salt. Cook for 20 min until it is ready. When ready drain the water from the pasta and set it aside.

While the pasta is cooking, take a frying-pan and heat it up. Once warm put the fire on low-heat and roast the pine nuts until golden. This takes just a few minutes. Set the roasted nuts aside and bake the bacon bits. I like my bacon to be a bit crunchy, so it take at least 5 minutes to have a crunchy outside and soft inside. When the bacon is ready drain the oil from the bacon and set it aside on a plate with a paper towel to absorb some of the fat still on it.

Wash the Greens and Tomatoes, fling of the water on the greens. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half. When done add everything in a bowl, the pasta, the greens, the tomatoes, the mini mozzarella, the bacon bits and the pine nuts. It is almost done, only the sauce or dressing left before tossing it. The salad or better shake the salad up.

The sauce is easy to make. Only the juice of the ginger is needed to give it a nice zing to the flavour, it’s optional.

Peel the ginger clove, grate the ginger in to pulp and sieve the juices out of the pulp. Take a sauce pan warm it up, add 2 tablespoons of Honey (add more if you like it sweeter or stickier), squeeze out the lime juice into the honey. Optional add ginger juice to the pan and stir the mix till it becomes fluid.

Now add the dressing to the Salad mix and mix it up so everything is drenched with the sweet, fresh and spunky sauce.

Serve immediately.

Home made Pork / Beef Jerky (Asian style)

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One of my favorite snacks and most of the time it’s only obtainable in Asia. The freshly made meat jerky in Asia are just juicy, smoky and certainly delicious. They have it in variants of Chicken, Beef and Pork and in different flavours.

However it is hard to come by when you are living on the other side of the world. If you don’t know it yet. When flying to Asia back and forth, meat products are prohibited as souvenir to take back with. On some occasions it is possible for me to enjoy the meat jerkies from Asia, when relatives or friends with gifts pass through the customs.

In recent weeks I saw a FB videopost about a DIY homemade meat jerk and today I thought why not do it myself. So I watch the video of a youtuber and noted down the recipe, gathered the ingredients and made it myself.

I followed her recipe and changed bits of the ingredients.

ingredients: (Pork)
450-500 gram grounded meat (Pork)
100 gram sugar
2tbls or 30ml Fish sauce
1.25tbls or 20ml Soy sauce
1.25tbls or 20ml Dark Soy sauce
1.5tbls or 25ml Cooking wine
5 gram Five spice powder
2 gram Ginger powder

Honey

Preheat the oven at 150 degree Celsius.
Add the sugar, the sauces, the wine and the powders all in a bowl and mix it all together. When done, add the grounded pork in pieces to the sauce mix. Yet, again mix the meat and sauce mix until it becomes a paste-like-substance.

Lay out a baking sheet on a tray, put some meat-paste on the sheet, cover the paste and the tray with some transparent foil. Take a rolling pin and roll out the meat paste on the tray. Roll the paste evenly in 3mm thickness. remove the foil and put the plate in the preheated oven of 150 degree Celsius. Bake it 15min

After the first 15min get it out and pour out the excessive liquids and flip it over for an other 15min oven time. In the mean time whip up some honey water. Put a tablespoon of honey in a bowl and add some water. Mix it up until the honey is dissolved.

After the second 15min get the jerky out. Polish the jerky with some honey water and put it back into the oven for 4-5min at 180 degree Celsius. Do this again but by flipping it over and honey-water the jerky on the other side. After the second 4-5min, Get it out and enjoy your Homemade Pork/Beef Jerky.

ps. For Beef see below.

ingredients: (Beef)
450-500 gram grounded meat (Beef)
100 gram sugar
2tbls or 30ml Fish sauce
1tbls or 15ml Soy sauce
1tbls or 15ml Oyster sauce
2tbls or 30ml Cooking wine
0.5tbls or 7ml Sesame oil
7 gram black pepper powder
Honey