Thursday, December 18, 2014

Braided Cinnamon Bread - Holidays recipe



Braided Cinnamon Bread Recipe - A Delicious  and Pretty Wreath Bread for the Holidays! This would be delicious with nutella and make it into a nutella braided bread instead.


Karen Grete and Heidi
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Christmas with the Meringue Girls - Chocolate Orange Teacakes



The Meringue Girls show you how to make their retro chocolate orange teacakes.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Triple Dark Chocolate Mocha Brownies Recipe




Triple Dark Chocolate Mocha Brownies Recipe Make your own chocolate coffee mocha at home and enjoy this sweet creamy drink with dark and white chocolate laced with vanilla and cardamom spice for an all.

Triple Dark Chocolate Mocha Brownies Recipe 3 different types of chocolate highlight these moist and chewy brownies ! A really fun recipe, full of chocolate .

For Alyssa and anyone else who wants to know! This is where I found the recipe: 

Mocha Café Chocolate e Caramelo Moccha Coffee Latte Dark Chocolate Caramel.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Coconut Pumpkin Spice Granola - La Cooquette




I always Fall for pumpkin: in pies, as side-dish, lunch, dinner, and for breakfast! Try my version of tasty autumny granola with this Coconut Pumpkin Spice Granola recipe. Eat in, eat out, I got you covered too with Pumpkin Spice Granola Bars ;)!

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Ingredients

-2 ½ cups rolled oats
-1 cup sweetened Coconut Flakes
-¼ cup flax seeds
-½ cup of dried cranberries
-½ cup of pumpkin seeds, pepitas
-¼ cup of sunflower seeds, pipas
-2 tbsps coconut oil, melted
-2 eggs
-2 tsps vanilla
-3 tbsps maple syrup or honey
-1 tsp of poppy seeds

*The only variation between the granola bars or just the granola is in the amount of pumpkin puree you add (because I like mine chewy):

-for the GRANOLA CHUNKS: ½ cup of pumpkin puree
-for the soft and chewy GRANOLA BARS: 1 cup of pumpkin puree (+ a bit of milk if you want)

Pumpkin spice:

-½ tsp of cardamom
-½ tsp of ground cloves
-1 tsp of cinnamon
-½ tsp of ginger
-½ tsp of salt

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Thanks for watching and see you on the next La Cooquette episode! ;)

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

4 Reasons Queen Royal Cardamom Is The Best Cardamom You Will Ever Taste

There is a lot of cardamom out there in the North American market, from different origins and qualities, most common origins are from Guatemala (biggest producer in the world) and India (Almost all Cardamom is consumed within the country). apart from those two countries, Cardamom comes from Nepal, Honduras, Costa Rica, Ethiopia and many other countries, Colombia is among those countries.

So, what makes our Queen Royal Cardamom the best green cardamom of them all?

1. Highest Content of Essential Oils

Queen Royal Cardamom has the highest content of essential oils per pod, this means that when you cook with it, or make CHAI with it, the release of essential oils will be stronger, thus making your meals or drinks taste the aromatics of cardamom better.

2. Bigger pod size

A bigger pod size means that the pod is packed with more essential oils and flavor than other cardamom grades. Queen Royal Cardamom has a median pod size of 20mm.

3. Organically Grown

All of our cardamom is grown organic non certified, we pride ourselves to follow with strict discipline the best practices possible to attain the best product that we can provide to the consumer. We are taking all the necessary steps to get certified in the upcoming future. and we are currently working with  SWISSAID since 2011.

4. Taste

Queen Royal Cardamom has a unique taste that no other cardamom currently in the market can match. its sweet, pungent, aromatic lemony flavor will make your dishes taste exceptional.

Order today before its too late, we only have a few cases left and they are going fast. Offer ends 31/14




How to make Phở-shizzle



Here are the ingredients :

1.5 kg Beef Ribs & Chuck on bone - or any meat on bone
1L Beef stock
80g Palm sugar
10 Star Anise - Whole
12 Cardamom - Whole
2 Cinnamon - Sticks
12 Cloves - Whole
120ml Fish sauce
4inch Ginger - Slices
4 Onion - Whole
2L Water
Rice noodles

Garnish -

Thinly sliced beef
Beansprouts
Coriander
Red onion - sliced
Spring onion - chopped
Red chillies - chopped


This recipe serves 6-8. Best eaten with Hoisin & Sriracha sauce. Good luck and enjoy!
xx

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

CHRISTMAS COOKIE CAKE Recipe




Small but mighty. This fresh and yummy christmas cake needs no baking. It is also the first recipe of my small christmas cake series »Four times advent, four times a cake«. In this series I want to sweeten each advent sunday with a small christmas cake recipe. All recipes are calculated for a 7 inch pan (18 cm). If you use a 10 inch pan you just have to double the quantitites.

I hope you like my new video and follow the series. Thanks for watching!

You can find the printable recipe on my Facebook page.

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Musik from Audionetwork:
"Jubilance" (David Tobin/Jeff Meegan)
"Stargazer" (Teerry Devine-King)

Recipe:
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Cookie crust:
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- 3/4 cup (130 g) christmas cookies
- 1/5 cup (40 g) butter
- 1/5 cup (25 g) dark chocolate

Cream cheese frosting:
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- 1 1/2 cup (300 g) cream cheese
- 1/5 cup (40 g) sugar
- 1/5 cup (50 ml) milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla flavored sugar
- 1/2 cup (100 g) whipping cream
- 3 leaves gelatin
- 1 cup (200 g) applesauce
- 3/4 cup (100 g) dark chocolate
- each 1 pinch cardamom, cloves, cinnamon

Tipps for preparation:
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- For the cake edge you need about 10 additional cookies.
- Cut cookies (fit into cake ring).
- Be careful when cutting (notch cookies, so that they don‘t break)
- For the decoration melt 1/2 cup (50 g) white chocolate with 1 tsp cooking oil, use a cookie cutter.
- Double the quantity of ingredients when using a 10 inch pan.
- Buy some more cookies so that you have material for optical corrections (e.g. if cookies break)

Thursday, December 4, 2014

CHRISTMAS STOLLEN Recipe




Today I show a traditional christmas recipe from my home country Germany. It is called »Christstollen«. It's a yeast dough with prickled fruits, almonds and candied peel. The preparation is easy. You can also use dried yeast. With dried yeast you don't need a yeast sponge. Just put all ingredients into the pot at once. Anyhow you should store the stollen for at least 2 weeks in a cool and dry place before you serve it. It pays! ;)

I hope you like my new video. Thanks for watching!

You can find the printable recipe on my Facebook page.

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Musik from Audionetwork
Title 1: "Ditty" (Duncan Pittock/Mark Johns)
Title 2: "Lilly Lane" (Philip Guyler)
Title 3: "It's all the same to me" (Paul Mottram)

Recipe:
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Pickled dried fruits:
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- 4/3 cup (200 g) raisins
- 1/3 cup (50 g) currant
- 3 tbsp rum

Yeast dough:
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- 4 cups (500 g) cake flour
- 40 g fresh yeast or 12 g dry yeast
- 4/5 cup (200 g) butter, melted
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup (75 g) sugar
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) milk
- lemon peel
- 3/4 cup (50 g) candied lemon peel
- 3/4 cup (50 g) candied orange peel
- 1 cup (100 g) flaked almonds
- 5 drops bitter almond oil
- 1 pinch: nutmeg, cardamom, cloves
- 1 tsp cinnamon

Baking:
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- 356°F (180°C) about 60 minutes

Finishing:
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- 1/2 cup (100 g) melted butter
- powdered sugar

Tips for preparation:
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- knead yeast dough for about 15 min.
- after kneading let dough rest until his size has doubled
- So that the stollen doesn‘t become too wide you can use a special stollen pan or own construction.
- brush with butter directly after stollen has baked and then spread
powdered sugar
- wrap stollen into aluminium foil and store for at least two weaks in a cool an dry place.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Taste the world best Cardamom - Queen Royal Cardamom

For a limited time offer, Merit Trade will be offering Queen Royal Cardamom. our highest quality cardamom through our online store. 


It is a rare thing for us to sell Queen Royal Cardamom in our online store as this grade is so heavily demanded by our middle eastern customers, but we've decided this year to save a small quantity for our wonderful online audience to taste our top of the line cardamom.

Queen Royal Cardamom is the best cardamom in the market for its taste; a pungent, sweet and lemony aroma that will fill your mouth instantly, also, it has the highest amount of essential oils per pod than any other cardamom, that is mainly due because of its size,  considerable bigger than the regular cardamom pod.



Order it today at www.merit-trade.com , this offer will not last long.



How to make Palak Anardaane Ki Tikki | By Chef Ajay Chopra




Tikki is one of the most popular street food which everyone loves to relish especially during winter. Chef Ajay Chopra is here with a very special and classic tikki recipe with a Chop Chop twist - Palak Anardaane Ki Tikki. Watch the video to learn the recipe of this crisp and spicy tikki which can be served hot with tangy Imli Ki Chutney to have a stomach filled evening.

Ingredients for Palak Anardaane Ki Tikki:
Spinach Leaves,

Ghee 1 tbsp,

Semolina 2 tbsp,

Pomegranate Seeds 2 tbsp,

Chopped Green Chilly and Ginger 1 tbsp,

Salt,

Cardamom Powder,

Hung Yoghurt 1 heap spoon,

Roasted Chana Powder 2 tbsp,

Tamarind Sauce

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Jule brød - Danish Christmas Bread Wreath Recipe




Do you love Christmas bread? This is a delicious Christmas bread recipe! For recipe and instruction see our blog http://scandinavtoday.blogspot.com/20...

God Jul!
xoxo,
Karen Grete and Heidi
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*Braided Cinnamon Bread Recipe - A Delicious & Pretty Wreath Bread for the Holidays!
*Braided Nutella Bread - Nutella Stjerne Brød - BlumenBrot
^Pebernødder - Danish Peppernut Cookies - A Delicious Danish Christmas Cookie
*Jødekager opskrift - A Classic Danish Holiday Cookie Recipe
*How to make Norske / Danske Klejner cookies.
*how to make Danish aeblskiver (æbleskiver)
*how to make Danish Christmas rice pudding with cherry sauce dessert recipe (Risalamande med kirsebærsauce)
*how to make our easy Danish cucumber salad (Agurkesalat) recipe
*how to make Swedish Glogg for Christmas & cold evenings! (glögg or mulled wine recipe)
*how to make Danish sugar browned potatoes (brunede kartofler)
*how to make Danish red cabbage (rødkaal)
*How to Make Custard for Scandinavian Dessert Recipes - Creme budding opskrift
*Sima (mead) A Finnish fermented sweet sparkling lemonade drink for May Day celebrations
These recipes are perfect for the holiday season. Please let us know what you think! Glædelig Jul and Merry Christmas♥ !

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