Author: buipham

Faster No Knead Bread

On Sunday (03/22/2020), Bà Ngoại/Nội will be making bread, adapting from this recipe on Jenny Can Cook YouTube channel.

You can join Ba Ngoai/Noi online using Zoom.

 

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups (390 gms) all-purpose or bread flour (aerate flour before measuring)
  • 1/4 teaspoon yeast, active dry or instant (1 gm)
  • 1 teaspoon salt (6 gms)
  • 1 1/2 cups hot water, not boiling (354 mL) – I use hot tap water – about 125-130° F
  • (about 2 Tablespoons extra flour for shaping)

Instructions:

  1. Combine flour, yeast and salt in a large bowl. Stir in water until it’s well combined.
  2. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature for 3 hours.
  3. After 3 hours dough will become puffy and dotted with bubbles. Transfer it to a well-floured surface and sprinkle dough with a little flour. Using a scraper fold dough over 10-12 times & shape into a rough ball.
  4. Place in a parchment paper-lined bowl (not wax paper) and cover with a towel. Let stand on counter top for about 35 minutes.
  5. Meantime place Dutch oven with lid in a cold oven and preheat to 450° F. My oven takes 35 minutes to reach 450°.
  6. When oven reaches 450° carefully, using oven gloves, lift the parchment paper and dough from the bowl and place gently into the hot pot. (parchment paper goes in the pot too) Cover and bake for 30 minutes.
  7. After 30 minutes, remove lid and parchment paper. Return, uncovered, to oven and bake 10 – 15 more minutes. Let it cool at least 15 minutes before slicing.

Congee with Ground Pork/Chicken

Ingredients:

  1. Ground pork/chicken
  2. green onions
  3. salt, pepper & red pepper flakes
  4. rice

Instructions:

  1. Ground Pork/Chicken, use any cut as lean/fatty as desired.
  2. Season with chopped white sections of green onions, salt, pepper, a sprinkle of red pepper flakes.
  3. Add one or two teaspoons of olive oil if using lean meat.
  4. Taste the seasonings by cooking a coin-size piece in the microwave for about 10 seconds, then adjust the seasonings.
  5. Boil some water, add meat, bring back to boiling point, then scoop out the meat foam.
  6. Add rice – one part of rinsed UNCOOKED rice to 6 parts of water, or 2 parts of COOKED rice to 6 parts of water. This measurement includes water already in pot used to cook the meat.
  7. When rice reached the desired softness, adjust the thickness of the soup.
  8. When adjusting the seasonings at the end, add fish sauce or chicken bouillon/fish sauce, or both
  9. Scoop into bowl and sprinkle with chopped green onions and cilantro. (If you don’t like the taste of raw onions, add them to pot, stir, and remove pot from heat.)

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banh xeo

Ingredients:

Mix in bowl to form a paste (first 3 ingredients first, once combined, you can add the rest):

  • 2C rice flour,
  • 1/2 C yellow corn meal,
  • 1 can coconut milk,
  • 3Tsp of green onions,
  • 1/2 tsp salt, sugar,
  • 1-2tsp turmeric,
  • Tsp oil,
  • 3C warm water

Ingredients for filling:

Shrimp, side pork belly, onions, jicama, mushroom, bean sprouts

Instructions

Heat oil in nonstick wok or skillet, fry pork belly and shrimp, add mushroom, onions, on high heat pour ~1/2 C flour mixture thinly around skillet rim first then swirl around to fill surface, in 1-2 min adjust heat to medium then place jicama and bean sprouts in center, cover with lid with a minute, uncover & check crust around the edge for crispiness sprinkle bit of oil to lift edge, then carefully dish out with like a calzone!

thịt bò xào chấm muối tiêu chanh

This is an easy, lazy and quickly meal of some hungry ,rush rush people who like to eat as well .

Ingredients

  • Prepare a 5-6 oz of meat, steak , tri tips, sirloin whatever you prefer, slice thinly across the grain,
  • salt and pepper
  • Onions slice vertical not too thin ,
  • garlic chopped or minced
  • a few shakes of Maggi if you have it

Instructions

  • add 1 Tbsp of oil of your desire,better use the cast iron skillet to cook this .  then wait for the skillet really hot
  • pour the meat in stir it two rounds add your onions stir it then turn off stove.
  • That’s it .
  • Salad of any kind will work,and to make it more chảy nước miếng is pickled slice onions in vinegar and sugar to add to salad ( prep salad and onions before the meat).
  • You may eat this with bread, rice or just it with croutons.

Bon appétit.

thịt giò bó

This dish is similar to thịt xá xíu.

Ingredients:

  • a good piece of pork belly,
  • 3-4 gloves of garlic,
  • salt ,sugar or honey ,
  • some bột xá xíu .

Directions:

  • Mix all together in a bowl.
  • First you may slit the top part of the meat then rub in the finely minced garli.  Let this sit and marinade for about an hour or longer.
  • prepare a steam cooker,
  • use the twine to tie the meat with spacing about 1 inch apart
  • use aluminum foil wrap it tight
  • steam it about 30-40 minutes.

Notes: check and add more water in the pot enough until it is done.

Custard for fruit tarts

by Suzy Kupetz

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 C cream
  • 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
  • 1 1/2 C sugar
  • 1 T vanilla extract
  • pinch of nutmeg

Instructions

  • Pour cream into eggs and blend well
  • Add sugar, vanilla extract, nutmeg
  • Each tart shell needs 1 1/2 – 2C of mixture
  • Pour into pre-baked pie crust
  • Bake until set, 350º, bottom rack
  • Let it cool, then refrigerate 2-4 hrs
  • May be frozen once baked
  • Top with fruit slices
  • Glaze with apricot glaze

Apricot Glaze

  • 18 oz ( 1 1/2C) apricot jam, melted, strained
  • Boil again
  • Add 1 envelope of unflavored gelatin, softened in 1/4 C kirsch or water

Instant mì

Today is nấu mì &hủ tiếu ( instant one ) but must have the flavor of the real mì Lacaze that means including salted radish, roasted dry squid, onion and bouillon cubes into 4-5 cups of water. So you will have mì in less than 30 minutes as you have the ingredients on hand.

You also can keep some ground pork as you can buy 1 lb divide in 3 or 4 small parts into a sandwich bag kept in freezer to be used when you want.   To cook for any soup put ground pork in a bowl marinade with 1/4 tsp salt, black pepper , the white part green onion mashed . In the soup until done 3 minutes in low heat.

Boil your noodles then sit down and eat !!!

canh mẳn

Ingredients :

  • fish or shrimp
  • One or two stalk of green onion
  • Tomato and dicon ( optional )
  • Yellow onion
  • Fish sauce

Instructions:

Boil two cups of water in a small pan ,

mash and chop the white part of green onion

add two tablespoons of fish sauce , a little bit of bouillon

add your fish in just about 3-5 minutes

last but not least, add tomatoes in wedges in

let it comes up to a boil again then turn off the stove

add green onion cut up 1/2 in long . That’s it .

For dipping sauce: Have lime or lemon juice and few slices of red pepper in a small saucer.

Oh good cook rice will go well with that , make sure you cook the rice before cooking the dishes.