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Food Travel with Expo 2010 Shanghai - Greece Pavilion

Jun 4, 2010     |    Comments:2    |    Browse:

Food Travel with Expo 2010 Shanghai - Greece Pavilion

Souvlaki (Greek: Σουβλάκι) or souvlakia is a popular Greek fast food consisting of small pieces of meat and sometimes vegetables grilled on a skewer. It may be served on the skewer for eating out of hand, in a pita sandwich with garnishes and sauces, or on a dinner plate, often with fried potatoes or pilaf. The meat is traditionally lamb in Greece and Cyprus, or in modern times increasingly pork due to the lower cost. In other countries and for tourists, souvlaki may be made with other meats such as beef, chicken and sometimes fish (especially swordfish).

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Red Velvet Cake Balls

May 20, 2010     |    Comments:0    |    Browse:

Red Velvet Cake Balls

One year ago, I tasted such a special wedding cake on the wedding of my friend. Everyone can choose the food on the table at random.  It is called "Cookie table". A cookie table is a wedding tradition said to originate in Youngstown, Ohio where in place of or in addition to a wedding cake, a large table with different cookies is presented to guests at the wedding reception.  Cookies are generally prepared by family members in advance of the reception.

Red Velvet Cake Balls are based on a mix, but I imagine you can follow the same directions substituting from scratch cake and frosting (I’ll try that one day). You can also try it with other cake combinations.

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Baking materials in bilingual form

May 18, 2010     |    Comments:0    |    Browse:

Baking materials in bilingual form

I received a message from http://t.sina.com.cn/yzdiy today.  She said she is a baking enthusiast in Australia. But she did not know some names of  the material I mentioned in English. So it can not be found locally.

In order to reply this message, I  search the information from web for a bit. So, I  order a number of blog-related materials may be used in English here.

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2010 Bakery China in Shanghai - Bread

May 14, 2010     |    Comments:0    |    Browse:

2010上海国际烘焙展面包篇

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2010 Bakery China in Shanghai - Cakes

May 13, 2010     |    Comments:0    |    Browse:

2010上海国际烘焙展蛋糕篇

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How to make Pizza Dough

May 11, 2010     |    Comments:2    |    Browse:

How to make Pizza Dough

The above picture looks like fresh homemade Mozzarella cheese, doesn’t it? Yummy though it sounds (Love that stuff!), its sadly not. But what I have is something which when baked with assorted topping can make everyone’s taste buds go into excited frenzy! Yup – Its Pizza dough. Easy, homemade, Italian Yeast Pizza dough. Crafted and molded right by your hands. Its not only satisfactory but something about making stuff on your own for your family adds a special touch to the pizza – and guess what? Its tastes additionally delicious. If you said – Yeah! Right, trust me – make it and tell me  There are zillion versions of making pizza dough, but for today lets go into making this easy to follow recipe for "Pizza Dough" taken from Peter Reinhart's famous cookbook "The Bread Baker’s Apprentice" . It yields a beautifully tasty, thin, crispy, delicate yet chewy pizza crust matching the ones which your local pizzaioli makes and rotates so flamboyantly in the air. Will post the more easier ones later. Lets go into this recipe now shall we?

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