My KitCHEn Experiments

The culinary gods must have been on my side when I went grocery shopping the other day. All the ingredients that I need to try making a version of Blooming Garlic Bread was on sale. The round crusty bread, mozarella cheese and bacon were all on special sale so I happy filled my basket with all the ingredients for spaghetti night.   Blooming Bacon and Mozarella Bread ingredients: - crusty bread of your choice - mozarella cheese - fried bacon bits - salt, pepper - italian seasonings   how to: - slice the bread a third of the way thru in a criss cross pattern - stuff the bread cracks with cheese, bacon and more cheese - sprinkle salt, pepper and italian seasoning on top - loosely cover in foil and bake for 20 minutes until cheese is melted - remove top foil and broil for a few minutes more lightly toast the top - serve and enjoy!       eating it is fun! pulling it apart with stringy melted cheese! next time I'm going to drizzle it wi

A few weeks ago I was walking under a light snow fall in Vienna. We were only there for a day tour, luckily our tour guide and driver were kind enough to squeeze showing us the main points of interest and for a finale, led us to Figlmueller   for an authentic taste of the iconic and legendary Viennese Schnitzel.   It took almost an hour for 6 orders of schnitzel and potato salad to come to our table - we were thinking how difficult can frying some meat be? well now with this video I now know why, and in all fairness it was the best schnitzel I have ever had to (including the one's Ive had during my first trip to Austria in Tyrol a few years ago)  and the potato salad that we ordered with it is THE perfect accompaniment to it.    

I have just recently visited the lovely city of Prague and with only a few days to spend there what better way to get a taste of Czech culture than to eat. During my travels I make it my top agenda to research traditional must-try dishes and bravely take a spoonful if not a plateful of the stuff. In Prague I tried the pork knee and fruit dumplings.   I am kind of missing Prague at the moment so I decided to reasearch for a recipe for Ovocne Knedliky, good thing the ingredients are not so complicated and the steps simple enough that I was able to recreate (somewhat) those fluffy fruit dumplings! Ovocne Knedliky (Fruit Dumplings) ingredients: - 2 cups flour - 1/4 cup milk - 1 egg - 2 tbsp butter - 1/4 tsp salt - fuit of your choice, traditional Czech's use plums but I only have canned peaches so that's what I used - cinammon sugar - melted butter - dollops of whipped cream how to: - mix flour and salt in a bowl - make a well in the center - mix the milk, bu

When I went for vacation in the Philippines a few months back, there are all sorts of new food trends and one of them is mochi ice cream balls. I decided to try them out one day but was surprised by the crazy expensive price tag so I decided to forego it and bought my self a real ice cream treat instead.   A couple of weeks ago I came across a mochi ice cream ball recipe and could not believe how simple the ingredients are and how easy it seems to make. All I needed was glutinous rice powder, water, sugar, food coloring and ice cream - all of which I have on hand so its experiment time!!! Mochi Ice Cream Balls ingredients: - 1 cup glutinous rice powder - 1/2 cup or more water - 2 tbsp sugar - a few drops of food color you want - ice cream of your choice how to: - scoop the ice cream into small balls and re-freeze until hard - mix the glutinous rice powder, sugar and food color in a bowl - gradually add water until mixture resembles thick batter - microwave for 2 min