What could be better than campfires and s’mores and hobo pies? Well, summer camping season may be over but now is the time to use the home fire pit in the crisp, fall air. So don’t put those pie irons away yet. Invite some friends over, kindle the fire and try out this hobo corn bread recipe.
1 cup corn meal
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/4 cup oil
To make these fried Japanese tofu recipes you will need:
1 – 2 blocks of extra firm tofu
Potato starch
Oil (I used olive oil)
Sweet rice wine
Soy Sauce
Other ingredients you may use are scallions, mushrooms, ginger, dashi, daikon radish, Nori
My Happy and Delicious Accident Continue reading “Fried Japanese Tofu Recipes”
Starting to eat healthy is no easy task especially if you’re not fond of eating fruits and vegetables, which will be the bulk of your new diet. But who says that you can’t turn these nutritional powerhouses into extremely delicious dishes? The key is to experiment in the kitchen and find what suits your taste. Eating healthy is easier than what most people think!
Here are 3 delicious all-veggie recipes you’ll love:
Cheddar Vegetable Bites
What you need:
Continue reading “Healthy Eating: 3 Delicious All-Veggie Dishes to Try”
So you’ve recently become vegan, and you don’t know what to have for breakfast. Cereal is out of the question because of milk, and you don’t feel like having toast. How about some delicious, easy to make, vegan pancakes! Yes it is possible to make delicious pancakes without the need for milk or eggs. This recipe makes use of soy milk in their place, and it makes for the perfect pancake batter.
Prep Time: Approx 5 minutes.
Cook Time: 10 minutes (Depending on how large your pancakes are!)
Total Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon of sugar
2 tablespoons of baking powder
1 cup of soy milk
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 cup of white flour
A pinch of salt
How To Cook: Continue reading “Simple Vegan Pancakes Recipe”
Walk into any bar, restaurant, or liquor store and the offering of spirits are staggering. There are literally thousands of vodkas, gins, whiskeys and liqueurs available for the consumer. While wine and beer tastings have been popular for a number of years, whiskey tastings are only just beginning to find an audience. The reason? The idea of drinking spirits straight can be extremely difficult for an individual to grasp. Many might find the idea of slowly sipping a single malt scotch or a bourbon to be overwhelming. Enjoying spirits straight, meaning without any mixers, has always been thought of as an “acquired taste”. However, while your taste buds might not be acclimated to a single malt scotch if you have never had one, there are some basic practices that you can employ to make the experience an enjoyable one and open up your palate to the wonderful flavors the spirits world has to offer.
If you are tired of ordering the same old vodka tonic or cosmopolitan and want to try something new, then the following tips might make the experience of tasting whiskey more rewarding.
Why the apprehension? Continue reading “The Finer Points of Tasting Whiskey”
The word ‘Beverage’ has been derived from the Latin word ‘bever’ meaning rest from work. Beverages are potable drinks which have thirst-quenching, refreshing, stimulating & nourishing qualities. By refreshing one means the replenishment of fluid loss from body due to perspiration. Nourishment is provided by the nutrients in the beverages.
Alcoholic beverages affect the central nervous system & tranquilize it, thus reducing tension & worries.
Alcohol being a concentrated source of energy, it is absorbed directly by the bloodstream from the stomach & therefore provides instant energy to the body & increases the blood pressure for a short while.
Definitions:
1. Alcoholic beverage: any beverage containing ½% of alcohol by volume to 76% alcohol by volume is considered to be an alcoholic beverage. Those with higher than 76% alcohol are known as medicines, such as anesthetics.
Irish whiskey has always been a favorite drink among people since time immemorial. We always seemed to have an occasion to serve it with. But has there ever come a time that you were unsure of which is the best Irish whiskey to serve? Let me help you. Let us take time to check out the top picks among whiskey lovers.
Here is a list of the top ten favorite Irish whiskeys to try before you die.
Bushmills Black Bush. This drink is one of the highly recommended items among others. Reviews describe Bushmills Black Bush as clean tasting while having a superb taste and smoothness. It has a good color and tastes like some floral notes blended with citrus and sweet vanilla. Has a little bit of a small spicy finish which eventually leads to a medium sour finish.
Jameson 18 Year Blended Irish Whiskey. Together with Bushmills Black Bush, this is also a highly recommended item. Its aroma is that of overripe autumn fruit and honey blended perfectly with citrus and fudge while being mildly spicy. Tastes very smooth. Continue reading “Top 10 Irish Whiskeys You Simply Must Try”
Alto Douro Wine Region globally recognized by UNESCO as world heritage.
Alto Douro wine region is a representative area that characterizes the vast Douro Demarcated Region, the oldest regulated wine-growing region in the world and where some of the best wines in the world are produced, Douro wine and Port wine.
With the recent distinction and international recognition of excellence of the Alto Douro wine Region, one of the region’s main achievements since its classification by UNESCO 15 years ago, Portugal is once again in the mouths of the world.
Nature, history, culture, gastronomy and handcrafts. In this land of the brave, everything is found and nobody is indifferent to it.
The cultural landscape of the Alto Douro combines the monumental nature of the Douro River valley, made up of steep slopes and poor, rugged soils, with the ancestral and continuous action of men, adapting the space to the Mediterranean-type agricultural needs that the region supports. This intimate relationship between human activity and nature allowed the creation of a unique value ecosystem, where the terrain features are taken advantage of an exemplary way, with the modeling of terraced landscape, preserving it from erosion and allowing the cultivation of the vineyard. Continue reading “Douro Wine Region – World Heritage”
Imagine. You are hanging out with some friends. In the cupboard you have those bottles of wine you are “saving” for a special occasion. Suddenly you a an epiphany. If I don’t drink those bottles of wine now I never will! So you say, “Hey guys anyone interested in a bottle of gold medal winning wine I picked up last year in Sonoma?” Everyone says, “yes!” and is suddenly impressed by your class and taste. You get the wine from the cupboard and start your search for the wine opener….
Guess what? You can’t find it. In this situation, one in which I don’t have a tool handy that I absolutely need, I reach for my Leatherman Wave Multi Tool. But, the Wave doesn’t actually have a corkscrew on it. So what do you do? Well here is how you open a wine bottle using the Leatherman Wave:
1. Slide out the knife tool
2. Place position the knife in the center of the cork
3. Work the knife in to the cork with a back and forth motion. Continue reading “How to Open a Wine Bottle With A Leatherman Wave”
Whether you are already making your own wine or just pondering jumping into the rapidly growing hobby, one thing that you will want to experiment with is adding or changing the flavor of your wine.
Sometimes, just fermenting the fruit or grape juice doesn’t produce a taste that seems “full”. There seems to be something missing.
What can you do? How can you round out the taste?
Here’s 3 different things you can do that will improve the fullness of the taste of your homemade wines.
Oaking
You can give your wine an aok flavor very easily. There are two ways to do this. You can add oak chips before the fermentation or after the fermentation. There are even 3 different flavors of oak chips. Continue reading “How to Make Wine – Adding Flavor to Your Homemade Wine”
