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Place tomatoes in a big heatproof bowl, cover with boiling water and leave it to stand for 1 minute. Drain hot water and fill bowl with cold water to cover the tomatoes. Soak tomatoes in cold water for another minute, then drain. You can slip off the skin easily and remove seeds for further use.

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Ingredients
80g black mushrooms (soaked and trimmed)
240g minced pork, 2 tbsp water chestnuts (chopped)
1 tbsp spring onion(diced), handful of kale stalks (boiled)
few slices of carrot, 1 slice of ginger, 1 tbsp of cooking oil
Marinade
2 tsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp of cornstach sloution, dash of sesame oil
sugar, salt and pepper to taste
Seasoning for mushrooms
1 tbsp ginger juice
1 tbsp wine, sugar and salt to taste
Seasoning for gravy
3 tbsp of steamed mushrooms juice
2 tbsp of water, 1 tsp of oyster sauce and light soy sauce
Method
Mix minced pork with water chestnuts, spring onions and marinade. Steamed mushrooms with mushrooms seasoning for 10 minutes then drain dry and reserved juice. Pat little cornstarch on the mushrooms and stuff minced pork on top. Steam for another10 minutes and arrange onto a plate.
Heat cooking oil in wok and saute ginger to fragrant, add water and seasoning for gravy, sprinkle cooking wine and stir in carrots and kale. Bring gravy into a light boil, add cornstarch solution to thicken the gravy then spread over the steamed mushrooms. Serve hot.
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Wanton wrapper or Wanton skin is widely used in Chinese cooking. You can use it to wrap Wanton, Dim Sum, Dumplings, Spring Rolls and many other Chinese delicacies. After all it is not too difficult to make this pastry. Keep this recipe in your cook book just in case you need it one day.
Ingredients
2 cup of plain flour
1 egg
pinch of salt
180ml of water
Method

• sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl and add small amount of water gradually to make a stiff dough.
• Adjust the amount of water or add little extra sifted flour for easy handling.
• Roll dough on a clean flat table top until it become paper thin.
• Cut wrappers into your desire sizes with a sharp knife.
• Dust each wrapper lightly with flour if you are stacking it for future use.

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Having dinner in one Indo-China restaurant. Ordering from the menu, I thought it is the traditional Vietnamese spring roll with lot of veges that wrap in rice paper, but it turn out to be totally different stuff. This crispy deep-fried minced meat and prawns spring roll with lots of finely chopped veges were wrapped in rice noodles instead of rice paper. With the special sweet and spicy dipping sauce, I really have no complaint about it.

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Count down to new year 2010 will begin in just few hours. Enjoy your new year eve with your love one and I wish everyone a peaceful and prosperous 2010.  Cheers!!!

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Lack of sleep has recently been linked to the rise of obesity. Sleep loss drives down the growth hormone which controls the body’s proportions of fat and muscle, as well as the hormone,leptin.
With lower leptin levels your body will crave carbohydrates even though you have had enough to eat. That’s why some people get really hungry and find it difficult to avoid high-fat and carbohydrate food when they have built up about one night’s worth of sleep.

This is a simple Malay snack that made from flour, sugar and water. I am not too concern about how it taste but I like the way they made this snack. The utensils used is so simple and the cooking process is so relax. Just pour the flour mixture into the coconut shell puntured with few small holes that hang over the wok fill with warm oil. Swing the coconut shell gently in circle and the flour mixture will drop into the hot oil and form into piece of thin crispy noodle like wafer.

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Chili oil - Add few pieces of dried chilies to a bottle of cooking oil and leave it to infuse for about 2 weeks. If the flavor is not up to the mark, then leave it for another week. Keep the chilies in the oil as it will enhance the color of the oil and give a decorative effect.

Garlic oil - Add a few cloves of whole garlic in a bottle of cooking oil and leave it to infuse for about 2 weeks before using. Straint the oil into a clean bottle and store in a cool place away from sunlight.

These oils can use for cooking or use as seasoning sauce.

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Ingredients
450 g cauliflower
2 eggs
1 tbsp chopped carrot
Salad dressing
1 tbsp salad oil
2 cloves garlic
2 tbsp vinegar
pinch of pepper and salt
Method
Hard-boil eggs , remove shell and dice egg white and egg yolk separately. Trim and rinse cauliflower, blanch in boil water with little bit of oil and salt for 3 minutes. Drain cauliflower well and place it in a big bowl. Spread diced egg and chopped carrot into the bowl and add salad dressing. Shake to mix well and serve.
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The spices that make Indian cooking so distinctively aromatic lies in the the right combination of many spices. In some dish, one of the spices may be made to stand out. Cumin, aniseed, nutmeg, fennel and cardamom are digestive acids. Chilies are holistic, beneficial to phisical and spiritual weel being.

Do not confuse by the word masala and curry, curry and masala are really one and the same. Curry powder added to any liquid especially water or coconut milk, becomes a wet masala. Dry masala means curry powder without any additives.

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