Tag: basic
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Easy Pizza Dough
This Easy Pizza Dough yields 2 large pizza rounds that you could make at home in less than 30 minutes, with only 5 ingredients to begin. It does require kneading but does not need rising. So, skip the pizza delivery today because it is really simple and easy to make. Best of all, you can…
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Basic Meringue
There are only three ingredients in making Basic Meringue; egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar or acid. They came out really good, just like the meringue my Mom bought for me in the Philippines when I was little. You know those colourful meringues in a plastic bag? Yep, those ones. I have leftover egg…
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Homemade Keto Condensed Milk
Life is sweeter with sugar but Life is better with condensed milk! Imagine the endless possibilities you can make with it; flan, custard, dulce de leche! Oh my, I’m literally drooling while I’m writing that sentence. But what about the sugar content? Yes, it has heaps of sugar! So, today we’re going to replace that…
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Pandesal without Bread Maker
In the Philippines, we always have pandesal or Filipino bread for breakfast. It’s yummy with margarine or butter, peanut butter, liver spread, nutella, even pansit bihon or by itself. Recipe for pandesal is up on my blog now. Here in New Zealand, our favourite spread for pandesal is Nuttelex. It’s a healthy alternative to butter.…
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Pan de Sal (Filipino Bread Roll)
I have been experimenting how to make the perfect pan de sal (pandesal) in the kitchen for the last 7 years, and to my excitement, this is the only recipe I have made that really caught my heart and taste buds. It’s easy to make as you just need to put all the ingredients together…
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Yellow Butter Cake
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 1/2 cups cake flour (see cake flour substitute, if not available) 1 tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 3/4 cups sugar 4 large eggs 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 1/4 cups milk Procedure: 1. Preheat oven to 350F or…
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Homemade Strawberry Jam
What do you do when you have 2 big bowls of fresh strawberries? Oh well, aside from eating them fresh, I made my own strawberry jam. This recipe yields 5 strawberry jam jars. I used empty strawberry jars that I have accumulated from last year. Here’s the recipe I used. Ingredients: 1 kg. fresh strawberries,…
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Jalapeno Rice
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups chicken stock1 jalapeno, seeded and sliced1 cup white rice1 cup cheddar cheese Procedure:1. In a medium pot, pour in chicken stock and jalapeno over medium-high heat, and bring up to a bubble.2. Add rice to pan and reduce heat to low.3. Cover pot and simmer liquid has absorbed and rice is…
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Pandesal
Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour 2 cups bread flour ½ cup white sugar 5 tbsp butter, melted 1 tsp baking powder 1¼ cup fresh milk, warm 1 pouch rapid rise yeast 1 tsp salt 1 cup bread crumbs 1 piece raw egg 1 tbsp cooking oil Procedure: 1. Combine the yeast, sugar, and warm…
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