Homemade Apple Beef Burger

Whats better than homemade burger for this Summer?
Try making this fresh and easy recipe.

Ingredients:
1.5 lb Ground beef
1/2 Large Onion (or 1 small)
1/2 Apple
1/3 Milk
1/2 Day-old Bread
1 Tsp Butter
1 Tsp Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper

How to:
1. Soak bread pieces in milk, after soften up, squeeze out and discard the milk
2. Chop onion into fine strips and saute with butter, until golden brown
3. Peel and chop the apple
4. Add all the ingredients into a bow
6. Mix the burger with hand but not to over mix it
7. Divide into 8, make them into a burger shape
8. Grill burger on the BBQ, server with cheese and salsa

Salsa Recipe:
1 Roman Tomato, chopped
10-20 Cherry Tomato, halved
3 Cloves of garlic, minced
1 Tsp Olive Oil
1/2 Lime juice
4 Leaves Basil, chopped
Salt & Pepper

1. Mix all ingredient together except salt.
2. Leave it in the fridge and add salt before serving.

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Carolicious Falls Dinner

5 Guests were invited to my Falls Dinner!
Except warm garlic toast and cured ham,
I served Crab cake filo pocket as my appertizer.
Followed by white wine rose sauce mussles.
Main course we had Grilled Steak with portabello mushroom cream sauce!
At the end of the dinner, we all recieved an individual blueberry cheesecake to treat our taste buds!
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Gyudon Japanese beef rice

Gyudon means beef and rice in Japanese,
it is made with a sweet onion sauce,
such a easy comfort food to make in winter
Click the txt below to read more about this recipe =)

Ingredients:
(a)
Rice 1.5 cup
Water 3 cup
(b)
Soy sauce 3 Tsp
Memmi sauce 3 Tsp (Japanese noodles base sauce)
Sugar 1 Tsp
White pepper a pinch
Water 3 Tsp
(c)
Onion 1 large, sliced
Oil 1 Tsp
egg 1, beaten (optional)
Beef tenderloin 10-15 slices, thinly sliced
sesame seed and red pickled ginger (optional)

1- Cook the rice (a) in a rice cooker (if you don't have a rice cooker at home, you can use a non stick pot to cook it on mid heat first, turn to low after it boiled)
2- Mix everything (b) in a small bowl or cup, set aside
3- Satee the onion with the oil, use high heat, stir often
4- Add beef and the (b) sauce into the onion mixture, turn off after 1 min(the beef doesn't need to cook through)
5- When the rice is ready, pour the egg, the beef and everything on the rice in the rice cooker, press cook again (put it on low heat for 5min if you cook the rice with a pot)
6- Garnish your beef and rice dish with sesame seed and red pickled ginger

Enjoy!

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Steak 101

A steak on a square plate!

How to pan fry a steak 101??
1) you never want to salt your steak before it gets on the pan
Why?
Because the salt will dehydrate the juice from the meat! And we want to keep them in every bite!
2) season it with black pepper only for a original flavour
Why?
When your steak is fresh, you really want to keep it simple for its best taste..
3) massage your steak with olive oil
Why?
The oil help create a crust when you pan fry it on a very hot pan,
it also give a great texture to your steak while keeping all the moisture.

OK, to start,
heat the pan to sizzling hot
add a tea spoon or so olive oil
pan fry each side for about 3 min to get a medium rare taste (4-5 for medium)
let your steak to rest for 3 min before serving

Don't waste the goodness!
What I like to do after is to add red wine and salt to the oil in the pan,
deglaze all the fat and juice to make a thin sauce for the steak!

I hope you will enjoy a budget friendly fine meal too!
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Carolicious's kind of Holiday

I am so sorry for not updating this blog,
my holiday was all about cooking, inviting friends and getting fat!
I want to share with you all for some of the recipes I used during Christmas
They are easy to prepare and taste good too!

First to start with some appetizers,
prosciutto wrapped melon,,
simple and elegant!
the saltiness balance out the sweetness very well.
cut the prosciutto in long piece,
wrap the melon and add some fresh grounded pepper,
you have just got an amazing dish for everyone!

Next, we have scallop carpaccio!
Sound fancy doesn't it?
I bought a ready-to-eat scallop carpaccio package at Food and Wine festival
It is also available in Sobey freezer aisle.
Run the package in cool water before opening it.
I basically just garnish with some chives and pepper,
there is nothing better to make on a busy day

Dessert?
By the way Thank you to my friend Momo for demonstrating how to cut a cake..
She is very sweet!
I made a quick chestnut cake from starch.
Sure, it didn't cost me too much time!
So I baked sponge cake on the night before,
when it was cool, I wrapped it with plastic wrap to prevent it from drying.
The next day, I whipped some cream,
added half a can of chestnut puree (about 250g)
and 1 shot glass of rum to the mixture,
brush each layer of the cake with a 30sec microwave syrup
layer the cake with the chestnut goodness,
let it set in the refrigerator!
Just like another version of your basic whip topping cake

Last be not lease!
I want to show you what I did from the time I saved up from the traditional messy cooking,
A good meal doesn't have to be complicated.
I actually got time to shower, dress up and do my make up + hair before the guests arrived!
Try the simple recipes to make your holiday even more fun!

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