Dipping and Dressing Sauce

Do you know what’s the differences between  Dipping Sauce and Dressing Sauce? Well, today we’re gonna talk about the definition of sauce, type of sauce, the differences, etc. Here we start...

Sauce is a thicked liquid that is combined with spices. It’s to increase the value of nutrient, increase flavor, increase humidity and to make the food more beautiful.  There are 5 things to thinken your sauce: roux, Beuree Mennie, Cream and Flour, Flour, Blood and Bread Crumbs. Roux is made from cooked butter/margarine/vegetable oil/lard combined with flour. Beuree Mennie is similar to roux, but there’s no heat in the method of cooking. 

There are 3 groups of sauce from it’s: color, temperature, and ingredients. There are 2 types of sauces devided from its color: white sauce and brown sauce. Devided from its temperature: cold sauce and hot sauce. Devided from its ingredients: meat, oil and butter.

Brown Sauce 

or known as demiglace is made from the fried meat to get the brown color. It used to be cooked about 8-10hours with a low heat to make it glace. But now people make it more simple, it only takes about an hour to make the sauce. Here's the recipe: Quick Brown Sauce
Brown Sauce can be devided into Bordelaise Sauce, Robert Sauce, Mushroom Sauce and Diable Sauce.

Tomato Sauce 

is made from tomato puree, tomato paste and spices. It can be devided into Portugiese Sauce (tomato sauce + garlic), Spanish Sauce and Creole Sauce (tomato sauce + green pepper + thyme+ garlic +onion + celery). Recipe: tomato sauce recipe

French Dressing 

can be devided into English mustard Dressing (French Dressing + english mustard), French mustard Dressing(French Dressing + french mustard) and Miller Dressing. Recipe: dressing recipe

The main differences between dipping sauce and dressing sauce  is the consistency. Dipping Sauce is thicker, for example cheese sauce. Dressing Sauce is emulsion of oil and vinegar, it’s thinner. 

From the business point of view, i may make a shop that sells snacks and chips like potato chips, tortilla chips, etc. We also provides many sauces about 10-20 sauces. I may sell them as platter (for 2-3people/platter). One platter containing 2 types of snacks/chips and 5 types of sauce. The contain depends on what people chose.

Sources:

http://img4-2.myrecipes.timeinc.net/i/recipes/ck/98/10/garden-sauce-ck-222758-l.jpg 
http://www.ufseeds.com/Homemade-Tomato-Sauce-Recipe.html

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Tortila Land

This time i’m gonna share you about Tortila. Tortila is a flat bread without yeast that usually is made from corn or wheat. There are 2 types of Tortila, Corn Tortila and Flour Tortila. 

Corn Tortila is made from nextamalized corn (Nextamalized= a corn is placed in the lemon water for some times to separated the corn from its skin. Tortila Corn is believed came from North America and there’s a fact that the tortila does exist before Spanish came and gave the ‘Tortila’ name because it looks like their traditional Omelet. People in Mexico usually make the Corn Chips from the Corn Tortila, that is known as Nachos. The texture of corn tortila is harder than wheat’s. 

Tortila Wheat is an inovation after flour are introduced by Spanish. Tortila Wheat is known as a bread without yeast that is flatten and cooked just like Tortila Corn. Tortila is normaly about 6-30cms depends on the region. 

There are some food made from tortila. 

Chilaqoles 

is tortila corn that is cut into triangle shape and then fried. People usually eat them with Green/Red salsa sauce and served with beans.

Enchilada 

is tortila corn that is rolled. People usually eat them with chili pepper sauce and served with beans and spinach rice.

Sincronizada 

is tortila sandwich that is filled with cheese then grilled it to melt the cheese inside. 

From Business point of view, we can make a place that is real Mexico that sells many foods with tortila as the star. Or we can make it to be street food which is cheaper but still delicious.

Sources:

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/chilaquiles.jpg  

http://foodimentaryguy.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/enchilada.jpg

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Cheese

Cheese are made from milk that is fermented. It's fermented by enzyme called Rennet. 

Cheese are invented in 800BC. Since the Nomeden time, people kept the milk in a container. But people forgot about the milk, then the milk transformed to clump. That clump is cheese. 

There are 5 steps to make a cheese: 
1. Take the milk
2. Keep in the container 
3. Heat them
4. Add rennet enzyme
5. Heat again, stir and mold

The variations of cheese are influenced by it's milk, cutting method and the other factors.
The variations of cheese are classified by the texture, cooking process, skin, country, etc.  

There are some benefits about cheese, good for muscle and metabolism, rich of vitamin A, good for bone and etc.But don't eat too much cheese, because you might in trouble. Too much cheese will increase your cholesterol, impotent and etc.

The best way to keep you cheese is by keep it in refrigerator (soft cheese), wrapped it then leave it in the room temperature (hard cheese) or you can just remain in the salty water. 

There are 9 unique facts about cheese: 
1. The biggest population that ate cheese is in Yunani. It's about 27kg/person in a year.
2. People in USA made the biggest selling of cheese. 
3. For the best taste, you should make cheese in the room temperature. 
4. You need 10 liter of milk to make 1kg of cheese. That's why cheese is expensive. 
5. There is a kitchen for cheese only, in Rome. 
6. There are 700 different types of cheese in the world. 
7. The most expensive cheese is in Swedia. 
8. Long time ago, there's a cheese made from human's milk.
9. Pizza hut around the world used 140millions of cheese/year.

From the business point of view there are some opportunity. You can sell the cheese or you can sell a food with the cheese sauce as its topping. 

Here's the end of this post. I hope this might be useful and thanks for reading!

Sausages

Sausages are invented in Sumaria (300BC). The ingredients to make sausages are all kind of meet, lard, flour, ice water, salt and spices. 

I think there's only shape of sausage, like a pipe. But in fact, there are so many shapes of sausage in the world. There are Scandinavia (red), Merguez (North Africa), Boerewors (South Africa), Lap Cheong (China), Sujuk (Turkey), Chalua (Vietnam), from Switzerland (Cervelat, Landjeger and Schublg), from Germany (Knackwurst, Backwurst, Thuringer and Braunschweiger), from France (Andouille, Chipolata, Morteau and Rosette de Lyon), from Italy (Salsiccia, Wine and Cheese and Italian Potato), from Austria (Kantwurst, Vienna and Kasekreinor), from England (New Market and Oxford). 

Chalua Sausages are made from pig and potato starch. Rosette de Lyon Sausages are made from pig's foot. Atheria Sausages are made from rabbit.

From the business point of view, there is an opportunity. We can make a Sausage House, that sells many kind of sausages around the world. People can choose if they want to their sausages to be grilled or steamed or serve it as sausage steak. 

That' all about sausage, I hope this may helpful for you. Thanks for reading!

Potato

Do you know that potato first found in AS? There's a man named Colombo, he is the one who invented it.

I think there is only one potato, yellow potato.

 And i was surprised with the fact that there are so many types of potato. The big 5 of them are red potato, yellow potato, white potato, black potato and green potato.
Yellow potato is the most common potato in town. And the rest are good potatoes except the green one, because green potato can make you sick so do not ever eat the green one!

There are two benefits of potato:
1. Health: energy sources, vitamin C, increase your PH, the red potato is good for your heart, suitable for those who is in diet.
2. Beauty: remove your spots, remove your black around the eye, neutralize your oily skin face.

Here are some food that are made from potato: Kartoffelknodel (barbarian), french fries, bacon wrapped yukon gold, wedges potato, potato bolognese, baked jacket potato, potato casserole, etc.
French fries are named from French (from table manner french) and fries (it is fried).


If we see from the business point of view, i can see the opportunity, We can make a Potato House. It is a place where we can see many kind of potato. We can sell many kind of food that is made from potato. It is homy and comfort place to stay.

i hope this post is useful for you, thanks for reading!

sources:
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/photos/green-potato-3.jpg
http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/potatoes-yukongold.jpg

Noodle and Pasta

Today i’d like to share you about noodle and pasta. Noodle is a thin and long dough that is rolled and cooked with the boiled water. Noodle is invented by Chinese people about 4000years ago. From China, then people spread to the South East of Asia. For Chinese people, noodle is the symbolize of long life. Original shape of noodle is like a sheet, then first noodle machine invented in around years 700th.

There are three shapes of noodle, dry noodle, wet noodle and instant noodle. Many food that are made from noodle: kwetiau (made from rice flour), Ramen (from Japan), Pundong noodle, Wai Wai, Dangmyeon (people known it as  Soun noodle) , Soba, La Mien, Udon(from Japan), Mee pok, Mie pho (from Vietnam), etc.

This is how people made La mien. The more you strecth, the more delicious it was.

Garam Masala

Do you ever heard about Garam Masala before? Here's some explanation about Garam Masala.

Garam Masala (Garam= hot; Masala= mixture) is came from India. Garam Masala is spices for cooking. People in India usually add Garam Masala in the middle of cooking as their seasoning ingredients to create a rich flavour, tempting smell and beautiful color.
India has 2 climates. People in the North India are prefer to eat spicy food. Opposite with South India, people are prefer to eat non spicy food because it's hot there.

There are many variants and compositions of Garamasala: white pepper, cloves, bay, java chili, cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, fuli, lawang flower and pekak flower.

 source: http://www.finecooking.com/assets/uploads/posts/5347/ING-garam-masala-2_sql.jpg

There's some benefit of Garam Masala:
1. Good for health. This can increase your appetite and prevent colds.
2. Improve your brain fuction.
3. Warm your body.
4. Decrease cholesterol.

Every house in India have their own Garam Masala Recipe. Garam Masala is a very flexible spices, you can add or remove some of the spices that you like or don't like. It's totally up to you, all it needs to be called as Garam Masala is containing at least 6 spices.
The Classic Garam Masala: peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, cumin, seeds and cardamom pods.

 Here is a recipe that using garam masala.

Spicy Chicken Masala Curry

You can check out the recipe here: Spicy Chicken Masala Curry

I think that's all i can share to you about Garam Masala. Hope this post can be useful. See you and thanks for reading!

Onigiri

Do you ever imagine why does onigiri must be wrapped with nori? What's the real purpose? Find out the answer here in thisisculinary.blogspot.com!

Onigiri is the rice that is wrapped by nori. Why they use nori? To make a beautiful onigiri, you'll need a sticky rice such as Japanese rice. And so people wrap it with Nori so it won't be sticky in their hands when they eat onigiri. That is the real purpose they wrapped Onigiri with nori.

This food is came from Japan. There are 5 types of Onigiri, but unfortunately i miss 1 name. There are O-musubi, Rice ball, Nasi kapal Rijstbal and the last is the one i forgot. Onigiri can stand only for a night in the chiller and maximum 2 days in the freezer. But back in time, the soldiers usually bring Onigiri as their food during war. In that time Onigiri are filled with Ume (plum), so Onigiri can stand little bit longer.

History of Onigiri is believed came from the diary of Lady Murasaki. She is an important woman in Japan and wrote about a handful rice. The diary is found before people know about chopsticks, so it means the diary found very very long time ago. The origin name is Tanjiki, but as the time goes by it transforms to Onigiri.

There are 4 common shapes of Onigiri, Triangle, Tawara, Round and ball.
But today people people make many shapes of onigiri.

source: http://www.hawaiikawaii.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011_02_11panda_3782.jpg

source: http://urbanenglishschool.blog53.fc2.com/?no=1108 

But not just the shape, today people made onigiri with variant of ingredients.  

Some people make onigiri from red rice and they named it Black Onigiri.

source:http://duniafitnes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Black-Onigiri.jpg

And some people are make grilled Onigiri.

source:http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/assets_c/2011/06/20110630-158892-yaki-onigiri-thumb-518xauto-170100.jpg

The common filling of Onigiri are Okaka (tuna), Tuna Mayonnaise, Grilled Salmon, Umebosi, Konbu (seaweed) and Mentako.
There are 5 basic steps to make Onigiri:
1. Give your hand a pinch of salt then wet your hands.
2. Place some rice on your hand.
3. Fill with any filling you like.
4. Form it into a ball.
5. Wrap  it with nori.

Here's the detail methods below 

And so the Onigiri become the famous food in Japan, many buyers ask for Onigiri so they invented an Onigiri Machine. It can make 1 onigiri in 3 seconds only!

source: http://acravan.blogspot.com/2011/04/nothing-to-fear-onigiri.html

Well, i think that's all i can share to you about onigiri. I hope it will be usefull for you guys. See you and thanks for reading!

Unique tools and Presentation

This time, I'll tell you about Unique Tools and Presentation. This is a topic that I heard today in class, so enjoy!


First of all, I was surprised by this tools, Tramonto Caviar Stair. It seems like a stairs, and every stairs has a kaviar on it, they are colorful and looks fantastic there! 

Tramonto Caviar Staircase

source: http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/R7Tuehbv3oRa067y0SwRew/l.jpg

Then we have Malayio, this is from India and kind of fla but you eating them with a ice cream stick like you were eating ice cream but in fact you are not! What an experience haha. Then we have Latte Print. It's not an ordinary latte. This latte presentation is totally awesome, the old style is they are made the picture by the foam but now they can print your picture on the top of the latte by a machine! Then we have coffee cup, it's a cup and glazed by sugar inside so when you fill it with coffee it won't melt. After you drink your coffee, you eat your cup. The Real Cookbook, it's made from the real pasta. This cookbook is edible. 


There are some things that I think isn't relevant about this topic. They are daikon, Poppin Coskin, Glowing Cotton, Milk Beer (Japan, Hokaido), Ice Ramen (Japan), Camel Turdukkan (Arab), Simit Bread (Turki), D.S. Resto (the waitress are dressed up like a nurse and feeding people by 'injection'), Chalpi Kebab (Afganistan and Pakistan), Ice Cream Roll (pour the liquid on the the -30degree sheet of steel, wait and see it transform to ice cream, then they roll out it)


I think there's all I can share you about Unique Tools and Presentation. Thanks for reading and stay tune! 

Cuisine Worldwide

 Hello guys, this is my first post and today i'd like to share you about Cuisine Worldwide.


My first choice is America.
America famous cuisine are Hotdog, Clam Chowder, Smoke meet sandwich, Ribs, Egg benedict and Buffalo wing.

Clam Chowder is a street food, they use a bun for the bowl of the chowder.
Buffalo Wing is one of the famous food. When a sport competition begun, thay eat lots of. Buffalo Wing, so they named it Buffalo Wing Day (July, 29).

Then we have Jerk Chicken(Caribbean). Jerk Chicken cooked by almost 30 types of spices. They used to use pork, but this day they use chicken for some reason.

In central America we have burrito (made from tortila wheat), taco (made from corn tortila) and Ceviche (one night marinated fish with lemon to make it set). Arado and Emvada are from South America. Arado is a meat grilled with salt and pepper.

Now we move to europe. There are two most famous grain, wheat and rye. 3 most famous fat, lard, olive oil and butter. They also use a cow's blood to make black pudding.  Spannish churros also named as a spanish donut. Walk to Italian, sweets are tiramizu and nuttela. So for you who loves Nuttela say thanks to Italy hahaha..

Move again to Africa. Central of Africa has the most famous cuisine, Ndae (bitter vege) and Fufu (from a plant that contain flour. East of Africa has Kacumbari (from tomato and onion) and Mandazi (fried bread). Horn of Africa has Wat (Lamb or beef curry). North of Africa has Cocous (wheat), Sacoa (tomato soup) and Full Mades (from Egypt). South of Africa has rainbow cuisine because they are visited by many regions.

Then we go to Australia.
They have Pavlova (inspired by a beautiful balerina), kangaroo meat (authentic), vegemita (extract of yeast beer), meat pie and lamington (spongecake double layer).

Last but not list is Asia.
East of Asia has Chinese cuisine that is unique because of the speed during cooking is so fast. Central of Asia has Kazkhastan (most are made from horse's meat and lamb) and Garamasala (from India). West of Asia has Lebanon (milk).

That's all i can tell you about Cuisine Worldwide. I hope this can help you people, see you next on next post.