Food also has sense of humor...

★ "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

★ "If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat? " -Jo Brand

★ "I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." -Steven Wright

★ "McDonalds announced it’s considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn’t it?"  -Jay Leno 

★ "When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper." -Andy Rooney

★ "It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks." -Pierre Auguste Renoir

★ "I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead." -Woody Allen.

★ "We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons." -Alfred E. Newman

★ "Vegetarian: an old Indian word for bad hunter" -Author unknown

★ "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." -Jeff Mander

★ "Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is." -P. J. O’Rourke

★ "In Mexico, we have a word for sushi: bait." -José Simons

Useful Kitchen & Cooking Tips

• Use tongs for turning food, if you use a fork the food is pierced, and valuable juices escapes
• If pan catches fire, do not pour water on it ! Turn off heat, and smother flames with pan lid, or towel wrung out in cold water.
• If sauce go lumpy, whisk the sauce briskly in the pan, or sieve to remove lumps or put in blender.
• If you only need a small amount of lemon juice, make a hole in a lemon with a skewer, and squeeze out amount you need.
• Meat is easier to slice while partially frozen.
• To thicken a casserole or stew, mix tablespoon of flour with water to make smooth but runny paste, and add to the stew a little at a time, and bring to the boil stirring well.
• Before grating lemons, dip grater into cold water so that the peel slips off easily.
• Dry and frozen herbs can be crumbled between finger and thumb into dish - no need to chop.
• Always cover sandwiches with foil until ready to serve, otherwise they quickly dry out.
• Always make sure that woodware is well dried before putting away.
• Baking sheet should be solid and flat to avoid buckling when heated.
• Do not put very hot pan straight into cold water.
• Make sure that the vegetables you buy are fresh - not only their flavour, but their food value will be better.

Taken from here.

Butter Croissants

Description:

A croissant  is a buttery flaky bread or pastry, named for its distinctive crescent shape. It is also sometimes called a crescent or crescent roll. Croissants are made of a leavened variant of puff pastry. The yeast dough is layered with butter, rolled and folded several times in succession, then rolled into a sheet, a technique called laminating.

My first try of french "La brioche" bread

                                         

"Brioche" is a highly enriched French bread, whose high egg and butter content give it a rich and tender crumb. It has a dark, golden, and flaky crust from an egg wash applied after proofing. Since i prefer food to be light and not too heavy and fat, i add oil instead of butter.

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Here we are at the very begining. I'll be honest with you: at the moment I have plenty of different ideas about this blog and i am very nervous (in a good way) and very excited about it, hence i can't organize all of them at the same time. Therefore, you will be seeing different sort of posts by me starting from baking (i LOVE it) and ending with insects (hehe, well not exactly insects, i'm afraid of them) :) (if God wills).


Your comments, tips, ideas, suggestions are more than welcome! I respect you all, and i appreciate you visiting my blog. Am looking forward to hear from you as well!


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-Zaira M.