How to Make Pots De Crème

How to Make Pots De Crème

Monday, 18 May 2015 / No Comments

Hello everyone…

I love sweet creamy dessert, just like pudding, cake, and ice cream. That’s why I often posted about many kind of dessert. French is really rich with many kind of creamy dessert. And this time I will tell you about how to make Chocolate Pots de Crème. Its just take 6 minutes to cook. Enjoy cooking…

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Ingredients:

• 9 ounces high-quality semisweet chocolate, chopped

• 1 1/2 cups whole milk

• 1 1/2 cups heavy cream

• 6 large egg yolks

• 5 tablespoons granulated sugar (add an extra tablespoon if using bitter chocolate)

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar

Steps:

1. Place the chocolate in the blender.

2. Cook and stirring milk, 1 cup cream, egg yolks, granulated sugar and salt in a heavy-bottomed medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook it for 5 to 6 minutes.

3. Pour the milk mixture to the chocolate in the blender. Then blend until perfectly combined and smooth.

4. Pour the chocolate mixture into the ramekins and refrigerate it at least for 2 hours.

5. Whip the remaining 1/2 cup cream and the confectioners' sugar with a mixer or in the blender until soft peaks form. Top the chilled pots de creme with whipped cream.

And your pots de crème are ready to serve. You can enjoy this creamy dessert with your friends or your family at the weekend.

Have a great day…

How to Make Poire Belle Helene

How to Make Poire Belle Helene

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Good day guys…

Before I already posted about the steps to make our creamy panna cotta. So this time, we will go out from Italy to French. I just found such a unique dessert from French. This classic French recipe comes from a classic French chef, Alain Benech, which is much appreciated by everyone. I think it is so easy to make a t home. Lets check this out…

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Ingredients:

• 4-6 Pears

• 1 Liter Water

• 200g Sugar

• Lemon or Orange zests

• Optional: Vanilla

• Optional: 1 Star Anis

• 250g Dark bittersweet chocolate

• 30cl Heavy cream

• 50g Butter (room temperature)

• Slivered toasted almonds

• Ice-cream

Steps:

1. Slowly heat up the cream in a heavy bottom pan or even better in a double-boiler (“un bain-marie”) (a container on top of a simmering pot of water).  Once it’s heated (never bring to a boil!), then add the chocolate (chopped up into small even pieces).  Keep mixing until the chocolate completely melts.  Then add the butter and mix gently until it has all melted and incorporated the chocolate mixture.

2. (Note: in the picture that I took, I kind of screwed up my chocolate by trying to go a little too fast.  This is why the texture is more granular and not silky smooth… Still delicious but much less presentable.  You’ll do a lot better than me I’m sure!)

3. In the other place, stir the heavy cream and sugar in a saucepan, cocok in the medium heat.

4. Firstly, you need to prepare your pears. Peel the pears and cut off the lower part to make the pear stand nicely in the plate when its serve. Then, from the bottom, core the pears.

5. In a large saucepan. Add the water and mix it with sugar, the zests and optionally the star anis and the vanilla. Cook it and let it come to very gentle simmer.

6. Add the pear, and simmer the pears inside the syrup liquid until smooth.

7. In the other place, prepare the chocolate sauce. In a heavy bottom pan, heat the cream then add the chopped chocolate. Cook it until the chocolate melts. Then, add the butter mix it gently until the chocolate mixture perfectly melted.

8. In a desert dish, place one of the pears standing up.  Add an ice cream scoop and then drizzle the warm chocolate sauce on top of both the pear and the ice-cream. Pour the almond on the top.

Now you have your own Poire Belle Helene. Hopefully you can enjoy this recipe. Have a great day…

About Crepe

About Crepe

Friday, 8 May 2015 / No Comments

Hi there! Welcome back to Our Foods and Cuisine blog. Today i'm going to write about a French food. It is sweet, sometimes savory. It's thin, crispy and mad from wheat. It's curled and fold so you can eat it on your way to work. Did you guys guess it? Exactly! I'm going to write about Crepe!

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Crepe is basically a pancake. But it's thinner and and curled before served. Crepe comes from the word Crispa in Latin meaning Curled. Crepes are usually made from Wheat Flour or Buckwheat Flour.  Crepe is made by pouring the pancake batter on to a flat surface pan, with slight butter on the pan, and spread it evenly with a special spatula. The consistency of the batter cannot be too thick or too Watery, and the pan cannot be too hot. There are 2 kinds of filling for the crepe, the savory one and the sweet one. The savory ones usually consist of meat, cheese, mushrooms, ham, and eggs. It usually served for dinner and lunch. While the sweet ones usually filled with various kinds of fruit, sugar, honey, jams, chocolate, and many more. It usually eaten for breakfast or dessert.

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Traditionally in France, Crepe was served on February the 2nd known as Virgin Mary's Blessing Day. But now know as the National Crepe day. It is believed that, when you toss and could catch a crepe with a frying pan on your right hand while holding a golden coin in your right hand, in that year you will be rich.

So, that's all from me today guys. Hope you enjoy the article, tell us what to write next on the comment section, until next time! Bye!!

How To Make Basic Crepe

How To Make Basic Crepe

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Hi! How's everyone doing! i hope your fine! So, in the article before this, i wrote about Crepe. And today, i want to show you guys how to make one. So, here's one of the recipe in making Crepe (and this is the basic one, so you can experiment with it ^^) Enjoy!

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Ingredients:

1 Cup of All-Purpose Flour ( or you can change it into Wheat Flour if you want)

2 Eggs

1/2 Cup of Milk

1/2 Cup of Water (or you can just use 1 cup of Milk)

1/4 tsp of Salt

2 tbs of Melted Butter

Methods:

1. Mix the Eggs and Flour into a mixing bowl, then add the water and milk. When it's all mixed well, add the Salt and Butter and beat until smooth.
2. Heat lightly a frying pan (if you have the special pan for making Crepes than you're welcome to use it) over medium heat. Coat it slightly with butter/oil so the batter wont stick. Pour the batter in the pan thinly, then tilt the pan in circular motion so the batter will cover all the pan surface.
3. Cook each side for 2 minutes (or until it's light brown), put it in a plate while hot and fill it with any filling you want. After filling the crepe, fold it to make a triangle. 
4. Your Crepe is ready to serve!!

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If your going to make a Savory one, then it's perfect for lunch. And if your making a Sweet one, then it's perfect for your breakfast with the company of cold Milk or Orange Juice. Enjoy your Crepe, don't forget to share! Tell us what to write next on the comment section. And i'll see next time. BYE!