Wednesday, February 16, 2011

My Hands Are Tingling Why

For me it goes in the city of woe

- So, Mom, tell me ': what will you do today?

- Well, first I have to prepare our Italian class. And then I want to cook the bread and roasted peppers. Vp I do yesterday, but eventually I did.

- Why? What happened?

- Well, you know. One thing led to another and arrived at night.

- Come on, what did you do yesterday?

- In the morning I went to enroll in high school. Just before I had to fill out the application and was required to mark two other school preferences. So I had to find the names of two other high schools.

- And what did you put?

- I scored as a second choice is the one where your friend V. and as the third one where joined A.

- Okay. And after what you did?

- After delivering the application form I wanted to return home immediately, but I heard bleating ...

- Bleat?

- But yes, BÈÈÈÈÈ. It came from the small farm that is next to the school. Then I went to see. There was a Pecorone who continued to complain: BÈÈÈÈÈ - BÈÈÈÈÈ. Another went behind him but what went on. Ah and then I saw two little lambs! They were already on their feet, they were not small. But they were so cute, all blacks and soft!

- And after the sheep, what have you done?

- Well then I went home. I started to search for documents that are used to dad and then I phoned my grandmother. In the meantime I took the laundry and folded the laundry. Then I prepared lunch, only that I burnt and I had to throw everything away and start again. Sara then came back and we started talking about her crochet scarf. When she came out to get you to buy more balls I realized I had left only half an hour before pick you up, then I read a few pages. After school I went with a violin and when we returned home it was time to make dinner. As you can see, there really is was time to bake bread and roast peppers.

Yes. One thing led to another and when evening comes you can not collapse even if it is done virtually nothing.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Broiling Strip Lion Steak

Unagi Kabayaki, or great respect for the eel.

I wonder whether there is in nature a vital force equal to that of the eel. Seriously, I have great respect, almost a kind of reverence for this animal. And 'one of the few fish, for example, that can breathe out of water: it manages to breathe through skin, as is the case for some amphibians.
Not to mention what is in front of the new chef when it comes to killing the animal, clean and fillet. I must admit that it is a hard test, I found myself unprepared to repeat like a mantra: That's a joke? No, seriously, it's a joke fot ####### mo?!
If you are not faint of stomach, or you need a quick lesson on how to deal with the visual challenge take a look at this video .
Another precaution, vital information which fortunately I have found time and my fishmonger coop he had forgotten to give me (no, I know that the Coop is not me ..) is that the eel meat deteriorates quickly, and should be killed and cleaned right before cooking. There I understood why my uncle, who was fishing, he held ready in a Mastellone water. A little bit for it to lose the taste of mud typical of this type of river fish, a little to get them ready and fresh when needed.
One of the most delicious ways in my opinion is to prepare the sauce with roasted Kabayaki and accompanied by the fragrant white rice.

So (because we do not use photos, taken by hunger we have completely forgotten Fotina for the blog) ... it all comes pretty inviting, does not it? Now, think ... feel bite of the crispy skin made from the embers, the underlying fat has decreased with the heat kept soft and tasty meat, and sauce that has 'painted' all ... ^ ^ I only remember watering, absolutely bell!
To prepare for this bonanza?

Ingredients

first fork, you'll need eel. You can get it in two ways: first go to a specialty store in Asia and take frozen fillets ready for use, a move that advice. The second, if you're brave or you do not have Asian food stores nearby, and take home the beautiful fish guizzante.Comunque still serves an eel, a three-pound serves two people.

-white rice (I explain how to prepare here )

Kabayaki-salsa. If you go all'alimentari Asia, ask for it. I used the ready, bought here. The shipping costs are low, the quality is really good, I'm happy with this online store. If you want or need to do it yourself, you'll need

-120 ml soy sauce;
-120 ml mirin (sweet sake is a kind of cooking)
-45 grams sugar.
you do not find mirin, sake can be replaced with the increasing dose of sugar for a while, even if you do not find the Sake .. well, some use sherry, but I do not guarantee the taste!


Ok, when you have all the ingredients to first prepare the sauce: Mix all ingredients in a saucepan, stir over low heat until all sugar is dissolved. Then let it cool, bottle and keep it in the fridge ready for when you need it.
If you have frozen fish, place in refrigerator to thaw slowly at least 5 or 6 hours before. If you have fresh eel, an hour before cooking it clean it and cut threads. If you've ever done, will take away more time and some scream. In the video above you can see the Japanese chefs use a nail, he has two purposes: it kills the animal outright, and hold it steady while you work. If like me you are missing of course, our services are perhaps more comfortable after having killed him in a trance of about 10-15 cm and to work one at a time.

Begin light the coals, and return from your thread. Once you have them in front of you, if they cut them into slices of a long span max, then stop using the skewers as follows:
this measure will ensure that you do not curl during cooking and is more comfortable handling. While the embers to prepare you end up white rice.
Now, with your sauce Kabayaki maybe put into a bowl and move your thread to the grid area. Wet
good for the fillets in the sauce, and place them skin down on the embers. The skin should be crispy, not eye to overcook the meat though. Every now and then take them away from the coals for new bathrooms in the sauce, so that they become well lacquered.
When you are ready, place in individual bowls white rice, the rice over hot fillets removed the skewers, and ultimately paid just over a tablespoon of sauce to flavor the rice.
Phenomenal!

Big hugs to all! Moreno

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Burning Under Skin Near Collar Bone

Little ball of fur

at 16:00

- So, Luke, now I go out with your sister, takes her around the shops. You stay at home with Dad and you know what to do, right?
- Huh?
- You have to finish the book that you promised to finish the day before yesterday evening and yesterday afternoon, and then yesterday evening and this morning ...
- Okay, okay! I understand! But I was missing 20 pages, no I'll never finish before you come back!
- Yes, that will do it. We are staying away for a while '.
- Ugh. And so I already know who the thief is the cook.
- The Cook?
- Yes! All signs point to him and then, you see? Here is drawn to the kitchen and the cook is this. View suspected that air? In addition, the book is titled "Pfefferdieb", or "The Thief of pepper, and cook a character is obviously suspect.
- Okay, it might be the cook. But you'll never know for sure until you finish. We are still two chapters, perhaps there is a nice twist and it turns out that the Pfefferdieb is, I know: the Monaco of the village!
- Tse, the monaco. You cook, I tell you.
- Okay, it does not matter: do not cook or chef, you have to finish the book. Hello.

16:48 hours

- Hello?
- Hello, Mom? It's me. When you come back?
- Well, I do not know, we are still inside the store. Why do you ask?
- Eh, I've only read ten pages, I do not know if I can come back to finish before. I need more time!
- Do not worry, we linger a little longer '. How much do you need?
- Um, I would say at least another hour.
- All right, mice. See you in an hour.
- Okay. Ah, Mom? I was right: it was the cook!
- But you're still missing a chapter, you can not know!
- I tell you that he is, you'll see! Hello!

17:16 hours

- Hello?
- Hello Mom, I am.
- Oh, hello mice. What's happening?
- Well, I really do not think I do it to finish ten pages before he returned. Can I stop and finish later?
- Why do you say that? When you called me half an hour ago you had already read ten pages! How many have you read since then?
- Erm, zero.
- Zero? But how?
- I could not concentrate and then to relax a bit 'I played "Happy Birthday" with my kazoo.
- Okay, but now that you are relaxed you can not return?
- Really, Mom, I can not concentrate!
- Okay, well after you finish! Hello!

at 17:45

- Hello?
- Hello Mom, I am. Can I play with the wii?
- Well, you meet the one-hour limit You definitely.
- So you tell me what's the password? Dad does not want to!
- No, I will not tell you what is the password! Tell Dad I said that you can play and if he still tells you that you can not, wait.
- Ugh.
- You can always get back to reading.
- No, no. Appearance. But when you come back?
- Sarah is trying on a sweater, I do not know. See you later.
- Okay. Hello.

Some afternoons are really hard!