1. Wash 1 cup cherry tomatoes in water. Cut a cross at the bottom of each tomato.
2. Soak tomatoes in boiling water for a little while to make it easy to peel them.
3. Heat a sauce pan. Add in 2 tsp olive oil. When the oil heated, add in 2 cloves chopped garlic. Sauté till aromatic.
4. Add in all the peeled cherry tomatoes. Stir fry and press with spatula or a spoon. It’s fine to have some tomato lumps. That actually makes pizza taste better.
5. Add in 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp dried herbs, 1 tsp sugar and 1 tablespoon tomato sauce. Mix all the ingredients well and set aside to cool down.
I found a very inspiring video on YouTube. And this enthusiastic Italian cook showed everybody how he made a perfect pizza. I just followed his guide.
For the pizza dough:
1 1/2 cup bread flour
1/2 cup warm water (more or less due to different flour)
3 g instant yeast
1 tsp salt.
Mix flour and salt in a bowl. Dissolve yeast in warm water. Pour yeast water into flour. Knead into a dough. If the flour is too sticky, then add more flour. Fold the dough several times. Then place it in a bowl, cover with plastic and let it rise till 2 times big.
Preheat oven to 220 degree C.
Press the dough into a big thin pizza dough. Brush pizza sauce. Sprinkle a little salt. Drizzle olive oil. Grate Parmesan cheese. Then sprinkle mozzarella cheese (I’m always very generous with mozzarella cheese, that’s why my pizza always looks white on the surface. 🙂 ), and basil leaves. Drizzle a little olive oil again.
Into the oven and bake for 7 mins.
The whole kitchen is full of sweet fragrance . It smells so so good.
So far, this is the best pizza I’ve ever cooked. It tastes so so good.
Very soft, and cheesy. Tomato sauce I made has a special texture and adds more flavor to the pizza. Every ingredient works so well.
1. In a small bowl, add in 2 tsp salt, 2 tsp black pepper, 2 tsp paprika powder, 1 tsp dried thyme, 2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp ground ginger, 1 tsp ground garlic. Mix them well.
2. Sprinkle seasoning over ribs and rub ribs by hands.
3. Wrap ribs with plastic and into the refrigerator for over night.
4. Preheat oven to 150 degree C.
5. Put ribs on aluminum foil. Seal them. On the tray and into the oven. Bake for 2 hrs.
6. While ribs are baking, you can prepare for the brushing sauce. Here is the sauce I used: 1 tablespoon sweet cooking wine, 2 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tsp black pepper and 1 tablespoon honey. Mix them well.
7. Open the foil. Take the ribs out. Save the meat juice for topping sauce.
8. Brush ribs with brushing sauce. Into the oven for 15 mins. Then brush again and bake for another 15 mins.
9. Pour the meat juice in sauce pan. Turn to low heat. Add in 2 tsp tomato sauce and 1 tsp sugar. Slow simmer till condensed.
10. I served the ribs with boiled corns, creamy linguine and potato wedges. Pour topping sauce over ribs and corn.
It just came to me when I was preparing for making burgers at home. Since bacon and pineapple are a good match on pizza, so I wondered how will it go if I put them in burger. It turned out not bad.
Last night, I saw a picture of chocolate cake online. And I really really wanted to have a piece of it. So I decided to make my own chocolate cake by myself. Remember my husband bought a pack of Starbucks cocoa before? There’s still some left. So I’m gonna use it to make my cocoa chocolate cake.
The first time I saw this recipe, I was wondering is it true that boiling water is required in it? I was not so sure about it. But after I tried it, I realized how great this recipe is.
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar ( cocoa powder I used from Starbucks already contained sugar. So I cut off the sugar in original recipe)
1 3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup canola oil (original recipe said vegetable oil)
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup boiling water
1. Preheat oven to 175 degree C.
2. In a big bowl, mix sugar, flour and other 4 dry ingredients.
4. Add in eggs, milk, oil & vanilla.
4. Add in boiling water. Stir well till smooth.
5. Pour batter into greased baking pan. Bake for 30-35 mins.
You can add frosting you like. I like this cake very much. Soft and moist.
1 cup dark brown sugar ( you can also use light brown sugar)
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
2 1/4 cup flour
2 cup white chocolate
1 cup dried cranberries
1. Preheat oven to 190 degree C.
2. Cream butter with brown sugar & white sugar till light and fluffy.
3. Add in vanilla, baking powder, salt, baking powder and egg one after another.
4. Add in flour. Mix till just combine.
5. Fold in white chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
6. Place small dough balls on baking tray and bake for 12 mins.
Cookies are soft and white chocolate melted. Actually, I already reduced sugar. But these cookies are still a little too sweet for me. So if you don’t want them to be very sweet, you can also use less sugar.
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