Archive for September, 2008
Weekend Snapshot
Sep
Weekend is my market day, I brought beans sprouts for the vegetable spring roll I will make this week. This can be cook also as stir fried or can be eaten raw with salad. Mung bean sprouts are germinated by leaving them watered with 4 hours of daytime light and spending the rest of the day in the dark.
Chives
Sep
Chives come from onion family, it is a common household herb and best condiments for soup, fish and potatoes by shedding its straw leaves.
Coleslaw
Sep
For an easy creamy salad shred a cabbage and carrot. Stir together mayonnaise or salad dressing, vinegar, sugar, celery seeds, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Combine cabbage and carrot in bowl; toss gently to coat. Cover and chill before serving.
Light snack
Sep
My snack while ago, a toast bread with herbs butter and the garden cress. Some other low calorie snacks are bell peppers, endives, beetroots, apples, tomatoes, nuts and cereal grains.
Cauliflower gratin
Sep
I trim the I medium cauliflower into florets and cook in the 2 cups milk, and ½ tsp. salt till tender in about 10 t0 15 minutes then drain and reserve 1/3 cup of the milk. I arrange the cooked florets in a buttered baking dish. I beat one egg into the reserve milk and added ½ grated cheese. I poured the mixture over the florets. I baked it about 10 minutes or till the some of the surface was browned.