Asian Cuisine

As part of my 30 recipes before 21 challenge I wanted to learn how to make sushi! I love Asian food - especially tofu! So I asked a Korean friend if she could show me the secrets of the Asian cuisine :D My friend Charlotte joined in as well. The food was sooo delicious! Yumm.

Hyunji showed us how to roll sushi. Not as easy as it looks.

This was rather a sort of dessert. So we didn't put many ingredients in. But it was really tasty!

Hyunji also taught tried to teach us how to eat with chop sticks. We had a lot of fun but I wouldn't call myself a cho-pstick-master yet ;)

Afterwards we went outside to enjoy the sun. And of course I had to snap a couple of pictures...

30 recipes // German Cheesecake

#2: Cheesecake!

I love to eat cheesecake. And I love to make it as it is very easy and quick. The main difference between American and German cheesecake is that we use something called quark instead of cream cheese. I found a quark recipe online in case anyone wants to try it.

I like to add fruits (cherries, mandarines, in this case red currants) to the dough to make it more summery :)

30 recipes // Oatmeal Cookies

Today I'm introducing a new feature: 30 recipes before 21

I'm one of those persons who can't resist a book full of tasty-looking cupcakes, delicious meals and cool decorated tables. Also, I've been hoarding recipe books of all kinds just because I liked the photographs. Some of the books are still new but I think that has to change. So I wanna try 30 new recipes before I turn 21 on April 6, 2012 (21 sounds scary. and so much older than 20). This feature will (hopefully) increase my cooking skills. I love baking but cooking? Uhm... let's say I'm fine with eating cereals, toast and bread all day lol.

So here's #1: OATMEAL COOKIES:

I mixed three different recipes together.
Ingredients(approx.): 175g butter, 200g sugar, 1 egg, some water, vanilla extract, 400g oatmeal, 120g flour, some salt, some cinnamon

I mixed all the ingredients together until the dough looked just about right. It turned out to be waaaaaaaaaay too much dough. We probably had about 60 cookies. I suggest using 1/2 the recipe. or even less. I added some cinnamon to make it taste more interesting. One could also add raisins but certain people in my family (I) don't like raisins too much so I made 'plain oatmeal cookies'.

They tasted great and we like to eat oatmeal cookies especially in summer, as there's no chocolate that will melt and stick to the fingers and they are still tasty after a week or so. But as I said, half the recipe would've been enough.

Any cool cooking/baking blogs you wanna share? My favorite one is Emma's Food Coma blog. I'll try some of her delicious-looking recipes in the near future. And her blog reminds me that I gotta work on my 'taking pictures of food' skills.