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May 10, 2014

Kitchen Adventure: Homemade Fruit and Vegetable Cleaner

by Allan D

Who can still remember this product ?

Source: ProClean Inc.

Kitchen Adventures: How to Peel Ripe Mangoes

by Allan D

I know that peeling ripe mango to be used in some recipes is messy. Here is a tip on how to remove the peel easily.

How peel ripe mango

Kitchen Tips: Microwave Your Citrus

by Allan D

Calamansi

Cirtus fruits like lemon, lime and calamansi are being paid for their juices. To maximize the amount of juice you can get, microwave your citrus for 10 seconds in medium-high to high setting before squeezing. This will yield twice as much juice.

Kitchen Tips: Natural Meat Tenderizer

by Allan D

Papaya Seeds

Last night, I cooked sinigang na pata. Cooking this part of pork will really take time to make it tender. I remember about Papain – the natural meat tenderizer. So, I added few pieces of papaya seeds and it really worked!

Kitchen Tips: Homemade Confectioner's Sugar

by Allan D

Confectioner’s sugar is known for cake decorations and is the main ingredient in making icing. It is also knows as powdered sugar or icing sugar

Here’s how to make your own confectioner’s sugar.

Kitchen Tips: Blend Oil and Butter

by Allan D

Photo Source

Butter gives strong flavors to your dish but it can be easily burned and blackened at low temperature. This can be prevented by blending with cooking oil to at least 50-50 proportion. Cooking oil will prevent the milk solids in butter from charring.

Kitchen Tips: Pick the Right Ampalaya

by Allan D

Ampalaya or bitter gourd is one of the healthiest veggies. However, this is often avoided due to its bitterness.

How do we choose ampalaya with light bitterness? Simple.

Just pick the one with a larger “wrinkle” gap. The larger the gap, the lesser bitter it is. So, eating ampalaya will not be problem anymore.

Kitchen Tips: Salt Replacements

by Allan D

Just want to share something that you can enjoy flavorful dishes without salt. You just need to have some herbs, pour in blender, mix thoroughly and you will get a saltless seasoning.

For normal mixture:

2 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp basil

1 tsp oregano

1 tsp powdered lemon rind or juice

Kitchen Tips: Rescue Your Wilted Veggies

by Allan D

Aside from using ice bath in the process of blanching, it can be also used in freshening up limp veggies. Plants losses water content which causes them to wilt while ice water breaks inside plant cells to restore crispiness. Speaking of blanching, as I promise, I took photo of veggies - ampalaya, that undergoes blanching using the technique I learned from a famous chef.

Kitchen Tips: Prevent Your Chopping Knife from Getting Dull

by Allan D

Source

Knives are made of metal. Metals can be easily damaged by acids. Therefore, knife can be easily damaged by acidic food making them dull. One way to prevent your chopping knife from making dull, use knife bread in chopping or slicing acidic veggies or fruits like tomatoes, lemons or calamansi.

Kitchen Tips: Save Your Teflon

by Allan D

Teflonn-coated are expensive compared to iron-cast pans. Extra care must be done to make its life longer or else you may result something like this

Kitchen Tips: Blanching Veggies

by Allan D

"Blanching is a cooking process wherein the food substance, usually a vegetable or fruit, is plunged into boiling water, removed after a brief, timed interval, and finally plunged into iced water or placed under cold running water (shocked) to halt the cooking process." (Wikipedia)