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Home-made Mentsuyu

The image shows a glass jar filled with a dark liquid, labeled "Mentsuyu Geconcentreerd 2:1." The jar has a white lid with a red arrow and the word "OPENING" on it. The jar is sitting on a black, textured surface, likely a stovetop. In the background, there's a blurred view of kitchen utensils hanging on a rack and a Miele appliance.

Ingredients:

  • half a cup of sake
  • 1,25 cup mirin
  • 1 cup dark soy sauce. The saly type, not the sweet one.
  • 1 piece kombu 14 x 18 cm
  • 1 cup katsuobushi or bonitoflakes

How to make:

  1. Add everything in a saucepan
  2. SLOWLY bring it to a boil on medium heat
  3. Simmer on low for 5 minutes
  4. Pour through a sieve into another container

Done.

Remember that this is a concentrated brew, so use two parts water and one part Mentsuyu. If you use this for Tonkotsu, use 30-40 ml per bowl of 250-300 ml of broth.

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[Baking] Egg Yolk cake

Foxes like eggs, and sometimes I have a few yolks left from another thing i made. This time it were left overs from a coconut macaroon cookie recipe.

The image shows a freshly baked loaf of cake in a black rectangular baking pan, lined with parchment paper. The bread has a golden-brown crust and is sitting on a black wire cooling rack. The background includes a glossy black surface, possibly a stovetop, and out-of-focus tableware.
This cake is, in fact, not a lie!

So here we go:

  • 6 egg yolks
  • 225 grams sugar
  • 110 grams water
  • 1 capful vanilla extract
  • 5 grams lemon zest
  • pinch of salt
  • 225 grams flour
  • 5 grams baking powder

Instructions

  • Line a 25 cm long cake tin with baking paper.
  • Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celcius.
  • Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together with a whisk.
  • Beat the egg yolks with the lemon zest for about 5 minutes until light, fluffy and thick.
  • Gradually add the sugar to the fluffy egg yolks and mix for another 2 minutes.
  • Add the vanilla extract and water while mixing slowly.
  • Stop mixing as soon as it is blended.
  • Sift the flour mixture into the mixer bowl.
  • Quickly fold the flour into the cake batter.
  • Pour the cake batter into the cake tin.
  • Bake in the centre of the oven for about 45 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.
  • Allow the cake to cool completely before cutting.

 

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A Lebkuchen recipe.

Ingredients for the dough

  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 65 grams of sugar
  • 1 sachet vanilla sugar
  • 5 grams of lebkuchen spices
  • 100 gram flour
  • half a teaspoon of cinnamon
  • 8 grams baking powder, sieved
  • 1 teaspoon cocoa powder

Ingredients for different glazes

* Sugar glaze: 130 g powdered sugar, 2 tbsp rum, 2 tbsp red wine.
* Chocolate glaze: bitter, white or whole milk chocolate.

* Lebkuchen spices mix yourself:
35 gr cinnamon
5 gr cloves
1 gr nutmeg
2 gr coriander
2 gr ginger
2 gr ground mace

Preparation Nurnberger Lebkuchen

Preheat the oven to 180 gr. Stir the sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar with an electric hand mixer until the mixture has doubled in size and the sugar has dissolved.

I am using a disposable piping bag, because the dough has the viscosity of batter.

Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 12 – 15 minutes until lightly browned.
Let the lekbuchen cool on a wire rack.

Preparation of the Lebkuchen topping

Glazing: Make a nice batch, deep enough to dunk the cookies in with a thin fork. Then, dunk the cookies in the glazing, whisk off the excess carefully and let it dry.

Chocolate, ditto with glazing. Please to read up how to properly melt and cure chocolate. Will publish this myself once I have perfected it.

You can also dunk the dried glazed version into the chocolate for an extra layer of yum.

Storage

You can eat them right away but if not, keep them in a box. They get better in flavour after a day or two.

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Perfect Chips

From Heston Blumenthal’s In Search of Perfection, Season 1, Episode 4 named “Fish and Chips”.

  1. Buy floury potatoes with a dry content matter of around 22%. This is very hard to measure, so just see what you can get.
  2. Peel the potatoes and cut them into thick(ish) and equal parts. Perhaps a centimetre thick.
  3. Wash the chips and place them in a pot with lightly salted water.
  4. Cook them on simmering. Simmer to as close as possible to breaking up. If they break up, you will have potato soup. You should be able to scoop them out, and they need to look a bit fluffy. Cooking time is somewhere between 10-15 minutes.
  5. Place the chips carefully on a cake rack and place the rack in the refrigerator for 30-45 minutes. You want the moisture content to be as low as possible, and the dry air in a refrigerator helps greatly with that.
  6. The first fry is at 130C for about 5 minutes. The outside of the chip should get a bit of colour by then.
  7. Take the chips out, place them on the cake rack again and place the rack in the refrigerator for another 30-45 minutes.
  8. The second and last fry is at 190C for about 3-5 minutes. Look at the colour and test while frying the chips.

Enjoy!

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The best almond cookies ever

RECIPE FOR GINGER/ALMOND COOKIES

75 gr – Generic flour
75 gr – Almond flour
1/4 tsp – Baking powder
1/8 tsp – Pinch of salt
50 gr – Dark brown sugar
50 gr – COLD butter
6 balls – Ginger on syrup
2 tbsp – Caramel syrup
2 tbsp – Ginger syrup

Oven 175C

* Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt together
* Shred the ginger into little bits and add to the mix
* Add the syrup
* Shred the COLD butter into little bits and add to the mix

Mix in machine until smooth. Make balls, bake for up to 20 min.

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Simple pizza recipe!

  1. 200 gram of flour
  2. 100 ml of lukewarm water
  3. 2 teaspoons of sugar
  4. bit of salt
  5. half a block of yeast (so 21 gram)
  6. salami
  7. mushrooms
  8. cheese
  9. 1 onion
  10. 2 cloves of garlic
  11. italian herbs
  12. strained tomatoes
  13. wine

Step 1.

Pour yourself a mug of wine. Don’t be silly by taking a fancy glass. Pour it in a mug. Have a sip of wine.

Add the sugar to the lukewarm water and then crumble the fresh yeast into the water as well. Give it a good stir and make sure all the yeast is dissolved. Now let it rest for 5 minutes.

Step 2.

Pour 200 gram of flour in a bowl and add the glass of yeast water. Then, mix it all together and knead it all into a ball. Next sprinkle some flour onto the kitchen counter or table. Knead the ball of dough for another 5 minutes firmly on the table and when it becomes too sticky, add A LITTLE flour.

Ball of dough

Step 3.

Now, let the dough rise for 15 minutes at room temperature. Let it grow! Have a good sip of wine in the meanwhile.

Step 4.

Flatten the dough out a little and then start rolling it into a circle or square. This depends on your tray or dish you will put your pizza on. Make it really thin! Don’t bother about those bready pizzas. Make a proper one or leave.

If you have dough left after making a thin sheet, put it in cellowrap and put it in the fridge for tomorrow.

Make it thin, dammit.

Step 5.

Apply plenty flour to your baking tray or dish. Next, drape the dough over it. Then cut off the excess and add that to the rest you may have already wrapped in the cellowrap.

Thiiiiin!

Step 6.

Have a sip of wine. Add tomato sauce and spread it out with a spoon. Make sure you cover the dough plentifully. Next, add the italian herbs at an amount you feel comfortable with. Add some salt on top of it all.

FOX!

Step 7.

Chop up the onion and garlic to small bits and sprinkle it evenly over the tomato layer.

Size of onion and cloves of garlic
Oh look at that!

Step 8.

Slice the mushrooms in thin-ish slices. If you want thicc slices, go for it, baby. Next spread them evenly over the tomato sauce and don’t show the audience that you have a light form of OCD. OCD OCD OCD OCD.

OCD SHROOMS

Step 9.

Next, add slices of salami to the layer. I have cut it in stripes, because I felt like it.  Also, it creates less of a lava slide later on when you bite into a huge slice.

Slices of salami

Step 10.

ADD CHEESE.

Say cheese!!

Step 11.

Slide the pizza in the oven and set the timer for 20 minutes. When the 20 minutes are over, check on the pizza. It usually can take another 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, drink more wine!

Enjoy!!

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