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Recipe from my family on cooking egg and vegetable noodles.

Chop florets of one broccoli, and slice half a large carrot thinly. You can also slice spinach, cabbage, one zucchini and one celery stalk.

Fill up a cooking pan halfway or a third with cold tap water.

Place pan on stovetop, heat pan at highest heat until you see large moving bubbles.

Add two raw eggs to boiling water, then turn heat to low. Boil eggs in water. If you see the eggs form a round shape, it means they're done.

Add some cooking oil (one teaspoon to half a tablespoon) to the water. You can use vegetable oil, olive oil, peanut oil, sesame oil or coconut oil.

Add a dash of salt, garlic salt (if you don't have garlic salt, garlic flakes are fine), sugar, soy sauce and pepper to the pan.

Add vegetables to pan. These vegetables I mentioned can be eaten raw safely, but they also taste good cooked. Cooking vegetables should take ten minutes.

Now for noodles: for handmade noodles, just boil them for ninety seconds. As they're handmade, they'll cook fast.

For two minute noodles: just add to the boiling water. Leave out msg if you want to be healthy.

For dry noodles (rice noodles, yellow noodles) that aren't two minute noodles: follow packet instructions. You should boil them in water in a separate pan, usually for ten to fifteen minutes for one noodle packet. Bring water to boil. Once you see big, continuous moving bubbles in the water, turn stovetop dial heat to low.

Transfer noodles to bowl once noodles are soft, bending and no longer see through.

And that's it! Feel free to let me know if you tried this recipe, or if you have any more tips for cooking noodles. :)
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Rubbing eggplant with salt allows the salt to remove the excess moisture and bitter taste from eggplant. Wipe off excess salt on the eggplant with a paper towel or rinse the eggplant in water to remove the salt.

Eggplant can be steamed, boiled, char grilled, sautéed lightly in a small amount of oil or baked in the oven.

Eggplant can also be fried lightly by dipping it in whisked egg whites and pan frying it on the stove. See toriavey.com for the recipe. :-)

Consider roasting eggplant until it’s soft and browned, then put it in a blender and use it to make baba ghanoush eggplant dip with olive oil.

Eggplant tastes great roasted with garlic, capsicum, cauliflower, zucchini or potatoes in vegetable oil or olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika and a dash of brown sugar. Slice the vegetables evenly with a knife so that the food cooks more evenly.

Serve and enjoy! Let me know if you’ve cooked eggplant and if you enjoyed eating it. :-)
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Stuffed capsicums recipe.

I actually made this and ate it last Saturday. It was easy to make and delicious! It was also fun eating stuffed vegetables for some reason. It just looks festive.

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Below are my favourite recipes from Emily Hambrick's EmilyCooks.com Retro Recipes e-books. :-)

Tartar sauce recipe:
Yield one cup
1 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon grated onion
2 tablespoons minced pill pickle
1 tablespoon minced parsley
2 tablespoons minced pimento
Mix all ingredients and enjoy! Serve with seafood.


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Cooking time: 1 hour 25 minutes.

Ingredients for lemon cake recipe:
125 grams butter
1 tablespoon finely grated or chopped lemon rind
1 cup (220 grams) caster sugar
2 eggs
1 cup (150 grams) self raising flour
Half a cup of plain flour (75 grams)
Half a cup of milk (125 milliletres)

Topping: 125 ml lemon juice and one quarter cup (55 grams) caster sugar

Method:
Preheat oven to moderate heat (160-180 degrees, fan forced). Grease baking tray/cake pan, and line the base with baking paper.

Beat butter, rind and sugar in a medium sized bowl with an electric mixer until light fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, until combined.

Stir in sifted self raising and plain flours in two batches with the milk.

Spread mixture into pan/baking tray and bake in oven at 180 degrees for 30-45 minutes. Baking time varies depending on your oven. My oven took 25 - 30 minutes.

The cake will rise and the top and edges will be golden brown when it is ready.

For the topping, combine the lemon juice and sugar in a jug or large mug. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Pour topping over cake, allow cake to stand for 15 minutes.

Cake is suitable for freezing and refrigerating. It is unsuitable for heating in the microwave.

Serve and enjoy! :)
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This recipe is based on the one at www.pillsbury.com :)

Preparation time: 25 minutes

Total time: 1 hour and 5 minutes

Ingredients:

- 2 and a half cups of rotisserie / cooked chicken, 1 cup of peas/ carrots, 1 cup of corn, half a cup of milk, one third cup of plain flour

- three quarters cup of chicken stock, one third cup of chopped onion, one third cup of butter, half teaspoon of salt, one quarter teaspoon of pepper

- softened pie crust.

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- Bake in oven for 30 to 40 minutes until the crust is golden brown. Let the pie stand and cool for 5 minutes. Serve and enjoy! :)
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Edited on 5th April, 2014 to add: This review has been cross posted to Amazon.com.au

http://www.amazon.com.au/product-reviews/B00FORXE6G/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Angel in the Attic(book one: Werewolf in the Kitchen) is a lovely, fun queer romance by Rebecca Tregaron. It has lots of wit, humour, some mystery, warmth, and great characters. The romance is sweet and sexy, and I liked the clever world building regarding Angels' food taboos and their own astrology. (I also got excited at the mention of Asian mythological beings - apsaras!) Loved how characters from diverse backgrounds are treated respectfully in a non preachy way.

The cooking scenes were so beautifully described they made me hungry! I loved how Carolyn (the protagonist) is so passionate about cooking. There are some great tips on cooking in the book as well. :)

There are even recipes ( for the dishes mentioned in the novel) at the end of the book. :)

I laughed out loud so much reading this - so many hilarious parts! Highly recommended. :)

You can download it onto your Kindle or Kindle app on your mobile phone. You can also buy and read it online/download it at Smashwords.com .

Edited to fix various typos and add that the author is working on the second book (there will be 2 more books).
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Note to self (and anyone else interested in baking tips):

Honey is not needed for the crust/cake base It makes the crust/base a bit too sweet.

Spread mashed biscuits/butter mixture evenly and thickly across baking tray to form a crust/base that won't crumble while being baked. I put the base / crust in the freezer for 30 minutes prior to adding the cream cheese/flour/egg/sugar mixture to the baking tray. This is to prevent the cheese mixture from seeping into the base and crumbling it.

You need 250 to 300 grams of melted chocolate to create the marbling effect (chocolate swirling pattern). The chocolate needs to be thoroughly melted to swirl properly. Heat 4 small blocks of chocolate (28 grams) in the microwave for 90 seconds. WARNING:If you heat 4 grams of chocolate for 2 minutes, it gets burnt. Repeat this step until you have heated 250 grams of chocolate. I couldn't find cooking chocolate, but I strongly recommend using it for baking cakes / making desserts if you can find it. :)

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