Arroz Con Leche Receta (Rice Pudding)

Hi everyone. Once again, I've been very busy. I'm so sorry. I've finally gotten around to making arroz con leche, like I said I would. I'm sorry it's late. I've been very busy, getting things ready for the cinco de mayo assembly, as I have said before. I need to practice (singing and choregraphy), and outfits. It's so exciting, and yet, I'm still nervous. I've also been busy because I took the ACT a week or two ago. I was so nervous about that too. That's enough about my life right now. I'm guessing you guys want the recipe for the arroz con leche. Here it is. :)


Ingredients

• 1 cup rice
• 3-4 cups of water  (more water means more pudding like)
• 1 cinnamon stick (or 1 or 2 tsp ground cinnamon)
• 1 can evaporated milk
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup sugar (or as much as you like, I like sweet)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Put the rice, water, and cinnamon together in a pot. Bring it to a boil, and cook the rice for about 20 to 30 minutes, until it's all cooked and a bit mushy.
2. Then, remove the cinnamon stick, if you are using them. Add the evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, sugar and vanilla extract. Mix them, and then bring it to a boil for about 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Make sure to watch it while cooking, because the milk can make it boil over. 
4. Now, serve and enjoy. You can sprinkle some ground cinnamon if you want. You can also refrigerate it too, if you like it cold. Enjoy. :)

Red Bean Mochi 糯米糍 Recipe

您们好！ It's been a while since I lasted posted. Once again, I'm very sorry. There is so much school work, and a lot of things have been going on. I had tons of projects I had to work on and I'm getting ready for my AP tests, and it's really stressful. The ACT is also this weekend. So much. >_< On top of that, I also have to manage 2 clubs which I am president of (which you guys should know). I am also participating in my school's cinco de mayo assembly. I am singing with a few other people, and practicing for it has occupied my free time. Man, life is so busy and stressful now a days. I bet that in the past, life was so much easier. Oh well. Life is life and it changes...whether we like it or not.  so where was I? Oh yeah. I made mochi. But, why? well..

  The past weekend, I went over to my friends house, and she loves asian things, even though she is not asian. She especially loves Japanese and Korean things. We talked about all of that stuff, and we talked about food today (and we practiced for the cinco de mayo assembly). xD She especially loves asian food. So, after, when I got home, I started craving mochi, because it's an asian food and we were just talking about it. All asian countries have different variations to it. Well, what is mochi? Well, it's a rice cake. The basic ingredients are glutinous rice flour, sugar, water, coconut milk and red bean. I'm assuming the coconut milk and red bean are optional, but the people in Japan, Korean, and China usually add the red bean and coconut milk. So, here's my own recipe for mochi. I hope you enjoy. :) mochi = 很好吃。 

Ingredients: 

• 1 bag of Glutinous rice flour 糯米粉
• 1  1/2 cup sugar
• 1 can of coconut milk (400 mL or 13.5 oz)
• 1  1/2 cup water
• red bean paste (or any type of filling, peanut butter, peanuts, etc...)
• coconut splices/ shredded coconut  

Directions: 

• Mix and whisk/sift together the rice flour and sugar.
• Add in the water and the coconut milk, and mix until you get a creamy, somewhat liquidity mixture. 
• Pour into two bowls/plates/pans and steam for 30 minutes. Don't pour it too full, or else it will poof up and out of the pan.
• Once it is steamed, take it out and let it cool for 5 to 10 minutes so that it will be easier to handle. 

• Wear plastic gloves and use a spoon to take a piece of the dough. Flatten it into a ball, and stretch it, add the filling, and then wrap the skin (dough) around the filling to cover it to make a ball. Roll it in coconut.  

receta de alfajores!!! galletas con Dulce de Leche!

¡Hola! Bienvenidos a mi blog. He estado ocupada. Lo siento. El fin de semana pasado, tuve que tocar un chelo en la orquesta de la escuela en un festival de música. Después de tocar, fui a la casa de mis amigas. Nosotras hicimos alfajores para la clase de español. Fue ricos, pero, nosotras rompimos las galletas. :( que mal. Tenemos que hacerlos otra vez, pero nos divertimos. :) 
Voy a darles la receta. No sé si yo voy a cargar las fotos de los alfajores que nosotras hicimos. xD . muy terrible.

 Ingredientes

• 1 1/4 tazas de maicena
• 1 taza de harina (para uso general) común
• 1 cucharadita de polvo para hornear
• 1/2 taza (1 barra) de mantequilla sin sal
• 1 taza de azúcar granulada
• 2 yemas de huevos grandes
• 1 cucharadita de extracto de vainilla
• 2 cucharadas de brandy(opcional)
• Coco finamente triturado o cacao en polvo (opcional)
• 1 lata de dulce de leche 

que bueno. xD parecen sabrosos :P

o_O

que mal. xD

Instrucciones

Cierne juntos la maicena, la harina y el polvo para hornear en un tazón mediano.
Bate la mantequilla y el azúcar en un tazón a velocidad media hasta obtener una consistencia cremosa.
Agrega las yemas y extracto de vainilla en la mezcla de mantequilla hasta obtener una masa suave.

En caso de que la masa quede demasiado suave (no debe estar líquida), agrega más harina.
Enharínate las manos y forma una bola con la masa. Cúbrela con envoltorio plástico; refrigérala por 30 minutos.
Precalienta el horno a 180º C (ciento ochenta grados centígrados). Enmanteca dos asaderas para hornear.

Estira la masa sobre una superficie ligeramente enharinada hasta que tenga medio milimetro de espesor.

Córtala por lo menos en 34 círculos de 2 pulgadas.

Coloca los círculos en las asaderas que preparaste.

Hornea los círculos por 10 minutos o hasta que estén listos.
No los dejes dorar.
Retíralos del horno y ponlos en rejillas metálicas a fin de dejarlos enfriar por completo.
Unta aproximadamente 2 cucharaditas de dulce de leche en la parte plana de la mitad de las galletas. Completa los sándwiches con las galletas restantes.

Pasa los sándwiches por el coco o el cacao. Buen provecho. Son muy ricos. 

Mushroom Bread, 豆沙包, 菠蘿包, recipe

Hey Hey Hey, everyone. I am so sorry that I haven't been posting for a while. I have been really busy with school, and preparing for the SATs. The SAT is this weekend and I'm really nervous. I"ve been studying really hard for this test. I really hope it pays off. Well, enough about that. I'm here to post recipes for all of you people to make to eat.
Well..these breads look pretty delicious, don't they?   我做豆沙包, 菠蘿包, 很好吃。：）用 了五个小时。I know. 5 hours to make bread is a very long time. That's because I made it all by hand. I did not use a bread machine, well, because I don't have one. My family is very old fashioned. It gave me a good arm workout though. They taste pretty good, but they don't look as pretty as the ones from the Chinese bakery. I'm still working on it, but it has come a long way since I first baked this kind of bread. I'm too embarrassed to post the picture of my first attempt at making bread. So, here's the recipe.

Ingredients: 

• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup warm water
• 1 cup warm milk
• 2 tablespoon active dry yeast
• 2/3 cup salted butter, melted
• 2 eggs, whisked
• 7-8 cups bread flour

Directions: 

1. In a huge bowl, combine the warm milk, warm water and sugar. Add the yeast, and let it poof for 10 minutes. Make sure the water and milk aren't too hot, or else it may kill the yeast.  
2. Next, add the eggs and the butter. Mix it all together. 
3. While mixing, add the flour one cup at a time. Once it has come together, start kneading the dough until it has become elastic, but still a bit sticky. Cover, and let it rise for one hour. 
4. If you want to, just add all the ingredients into a bread machine according to the manufacture's instructions. 
5. After an hour, divide the dough into 36 pieces, and cover, and let it rise for an hour. Do the same thing when the dough is done in the bread machine. 
6. After, you can use any filling you want. You can use red bean paste, BBQ pork, lotus seed paste, mung paste, custard, sausage or hot dog and basically anything you want. First, you take the dough, and then flatten it on your palm. Put a spoonful of filling inside and then take the edges and squeeze them together to cover the filling. If you are making hot dog buns (pig blankets), take the dough, and roll it into a long string. Then, you wrap it around the hot dog. Cover and let it rise for an half hour or so. 
7. Preheat the oven to 350 F. If you are making the 菠蘿包 (pineapple buns), you add the topping right before you bake the bread (the recipe for the topping are under the pictures). The 菠蘿包 takes longer to bake than the rest of the bread. The red bean, BBQ pork bread takes about 13-15 minutes to bake. If the hot dog is raw, then it will take about 15 minutes to bake. The 菠蘿包 will take about 20 minutes. Just use your eye and judgment.

 The Pineapple Bun Topping recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup sugar (or a little bit more)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder

Directions: 

1. Beat the egg and sugar too. Add the egg yolk, baking soda, and the milk. Combine the flour and baking powder and then add it to the rest of the ingredients. Refrigerate for an hour before use.  

Mushroom Bread

So before I tell you guys how to make mushroom bread, I warn you guys to make small mushroom bread, not a huge one. I learned my lesson. A couple days ago, I wanted to make a huge mushroom bread for my history class, because we are learning about the Cold War. The bread was suppose to look like a mushroom cloud formed by an explosion. The bread did grow, but I when I tried taking the bread out after baking it, the inside was under baked while the outside was all the way cooked. It was a very sad attempt. The huge mushroom bread did not look like a mushroom either. I still got points, but I think it was out of pity. -_-. At least I received some credit.
I'm happy that I used the leftover dough to make small mushroom bread. Those turned out perfectly. The only difference is that you let the dough rise in a muffin pan instead. The baking time is 15 min. When you take them out, use a plastic knife first to go around the edges. Then, you can take them out. It makes it easier. Here are some pictures: 

My failed attempt at making a huge mushroom bread. -_-

The mini ones that just came out of the oven.

How they look when you take them out.

Enjoy this bread. :)

Sushi Recipe. Yummy!!!

Hey hey, everyone. How are you guys doing? I know, I haven't posted much this week. I have been very busy. I am very sorry about that. I'm even scrunching time in to make this post. A lot of things have happened the past week, with family get togethers, club activities (which are after school) and of course, homework. I've been staying up and waking up early to keep up with all of this (well, more things too). I'm pretty tired right now. I hope I don't fall asleep making this post.
My family hosted a family gathering last night, and it was quite fun. Many people came, and there were delicious food. I made some sushi and everyone loved it. However, I didn't get a chance to take a picture of the finished product. Everyone ate it all before I could even take a picture. :(  But, I do have pictures of the steps of how to make them. I made spam rolls and California rolls. The California roll picture looks similar to the one I made. I hope you guys enjoy this recipe. And, if you guys are wondering, sushi is Japanese food. Not Chinese, but both are still Asian. This sushi I make is made by a Chinese person, me. So, it technically is CHINESE food. Enjoy. :)

Ingredients

• 6 cups white rice, Nishiki brand
• water (amount will be in the directions)
• 1 cup rice vinegar (Nakano brand, natural kind)
•  4 tsp salt
• 9 tablespoon sugar (more, if rice is a bit salty)
• seaweed 
• avocado
• fake crab meat
• spam

Directions

1. Put the 6 cups of rice into the rice cooker pot. Rinse the rice. Then, fill the pot up to the 5 and a half mark on the rice pot. The most should be up to the 6. There are usually numbers for measuring on the pot. Then, cook the rice.
2. While the rice is cooking, make the rice vinegar sauce. Pour the 1 cup rice vinegar into a bowl. Add the salt and sugar. Mix and stir.
3. When the rice is cooked all the way, scoop out the rice into a huge mixing bowl (or any type of bowl large enough to fit all the rice). Add 1/3 the rice vinegar sauce, mixing it into the rice. Make sure it is mixed all the way through. Then, add the rest little by little. If you think the rice may be a bit salty, then sprinkle some sugar into the rice and mix. 
4. Place a seaweed sheet onto a bamboo seaweed roller thing ( I don't know what it's called). Spread sushi rice onto it. Then, add the crab meat and avocado along one edge. Roll it over once so that the filling is covered. Then, continue rolling until the whole roll is rolled up. Cut into small pieces. The spam is for spam sushi, if you guys want to make it. You can basically put any type of filling you want in the sushi. Enjoy. :) It should make around 12 rolls.

Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies recipe!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I hope you guys enjoyed your day. :) So, today has been quite a boring day, unfortunately for me. Nothing exciting happened today, even though it's a special day. Also, it's expected to rain all this week here. That's such a bummer. I hope it doesn't rain too much. I really want to go outside, and enjoy being in the sun...not being stuck inside and having it cloudy and rainy. I can't exercise outside in the rain anyways, which sucks. I guess I'll have to find some other form of exercise during these rainy days.
So, tomorrow, Make-A-Wish Club, which I am president of, is having a "Napkin" Sale. For the sale, I decided to bake sugar cookies, because it's right after Valentine's Day. They're in the shape of hearts, and I made a glaze for them. Don't they look delicious? They taste pretty good too. Well, they should, because it took me at least 4 hours to make them. The only reason is that I made the dough by hand. I didn't use an electric mixer or anything. My hand and arm got a good workout though. ;) I also baked a few cookies, just for my special friend.
Here's the recipe to these awesome sugar cookies.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened ( I usually use less, but since it's for a sale, I used the full amount)
• 3 cups white sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 5 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt

 Directions 

1. In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. In a different bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
3. Add the flour mixture into the butter mixture and combine. Refrigerate for at least one hour, or overnight. 
4. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
5. Roll out the dough on wax or parchment paper, covered with powdered sugar to prevent sticking. Put some powdered sugar on the rolling pin too, to prevent the dough from sticking to it. 
6. Cut the dough with cookie cutters, and place on a baking pan. 
7. Bake for 10-11 minutes, until the edges are just starting to brown. Let it cool.

 

 

Ingredients for the Glaze: 

• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2-3 tablespoon water
• 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
• a few drops of food coloring

 

1. Measure out the sugar. Pour into a bowl, then add the water and mix. Then, add the vanilla extract and then the food coloring. 

• After making the glaze and the cookies have cooled, spread the glaze onto the cookies. Then, sprinkle red sugar on them.

for my special friend. ♥

also for my special friend. ♥

 I hope you guys enjoy these cookies! Happy Valentine's Day!!!