Cake House

Eid Mubarak my friends!!!! W e visited our friend's house for the weekend and they celebrate bakrid one day before us, so we got to celebrate Eid with them. We enjoyed spending time with our friends. Kids had lots of fun time playing, all nighter, watching movies and so on.  Usually we make some easy breakfast and then start the biryani process but at my friend's house they prepare the biryani in the morning and will have it for breakfast. We thoroughly enjoyed the biryani for breakfast. It was a new experience. As my friend Shirin, made this in her version,  I gave this biryani her name. My friend, marinated the meat with spices and yogurt, cooked the rice separately and deep fried the onions. She then assembled it by layering and adding lemon juice and saffron milk in between. For breakfast, a delicious, scrumptious, finger licking and mouth watering biryani was ready. We relished the biryani the rest of the day. I noticed a thing that this biryani doesn't req

Boil 100g rice in advance and cool. Halve a ripe pineapple and remove the flesh, discard the tough part in the middle. Cube the rest. Finely hack 2 cloves of garlic. Slice a red chili in rings. Mix 1 tbsp shrimp paste  with2 tbsp fish sauce and 2 tbsp soy sauce. Slice a  spring onion in rings. Warm 2 tbsp oil in the wok and fry 12  gambas. Reserve Add the garlic to the wok and softly fry, turn up the heat and add the cold rice. After 5 mins add the gambas, the chili and the pineapple. Stir fry for a couple of minutes Add the sauce and stir. Finally add 3 tbsp cashew nuts and the spring onion and stir fry a few minutes more. Serve in the hollowed out pineapple halves and finish with coriander leaves and lime juice (Recipe by culy.nl) from simple food, looking good Gamba's, fried rice, pineapple, cashew Recipe from Sweet Cake Gamba's, fried rice, pineapple, cashew Recipe https://sweetteabiscuits.blogspot.com/2021/07/gambas-fried-rice-pi

Use the stick blender to liquidise 4  hearts of artichoke (from a pot) with 30ml chicken stock . Continue with 20 ml olive oil and 2 tbsp cream to make a smooth puree. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a piping bag. Cut two ⌀15 cm slices from a sour dough bread and fry crispy in olive oil  Grate a tomato and mix with 3 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp chardonnay vinegar, 1/2 minced clove of  garlic, some black pepper and sea salt. Use the stick blender to make basil mayo from 100g mayo and 10g basil. Transfer to a second piping bag. Finely slice 2 more hearts of artichoke. Divide the artichoke creme over the bread,  then cover with the tomato mix Then add 8  salted anchovies  and 8  sweat&sour anchovies, the sliced artichokes and half moons of 1/2 sliced  sweet onion on each slice of bread. Season with sea salt, black pepper and drops of olive oil. Finally add dots of basil mayo and the green of fennel. Recipe by Sergio Herman from simple f

Season 8 extra small, cleaned, squid with sea salt and white pepper. Rub with a clove of garlic . Slice 15g basil very fine, mix with 10g toasted and hacked pine nuts , 1 tbsp grated parmesan,  1/2 tbsp finely sliced shallot , 10g tasted and hacked  almonds, 1/2 minced clove of garlic and 1/2 tsp chili flakes to make a pesto. Add 3 tbsp olive oil and season with salt and pepper,  1 tsp lime zest and  1 tsp lime juice. Reserve. Mince 2 cloves of garlic and mix with the yolk of an egg and 2 tbsp grapeseed oil, then slowly whisk in more oil, bit by bit, to make a nice thick aioli. Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.   Then add 20g of basil and use the blender to make a smooth green aioli. Cover the squid in flour and deep fry in 180°  oil during 60 sec. Serve on a plate and spoon some pesto over them, with the aioli on the side Recipe by Sergio Herman from simple food, looking good Baby squid, basil aioli Recipe from Sweet Cake Baby squid, basil aiol

Boil 80g fregola in salted water for 8 to 10 mins. Rinse under cold water and drain. Rinse and drain 500g clams. Warm 15 ml olive oil, add the clams and 3 finely hacked cloves of garlic . Season with pepper and salt. When (after 2 mins) the shells open, add 80 ml white wine and reduce  till 25% is left. Then add 2 finely diced shallots , 2 peeled and cubed tomatoes , 2 tbsp hacked olives, 2 tbsp salted butter, 8 tbsp cooked fregola and 1 tsp chili flakes. Shake the clams. Taste and add salt and black pepper if needed. Add 10g hacked parsley , 10g finely cut chives and 3 tbsp hacked pistachio nuts. 15ml olive oil over it as well as the juice and zest of a lime Recipe by Sergio Herman from simple food, looking good Fregola, clams, olives and pistachios Recipe from Sweet Cake Fregola, clams, olives and pistachios Recipe https://sweetteabiscuits.blogspot.com/2021/07/fregola-clams-olives-and-pistachios.html

B uttery short bread cookies filled with jam is a a perfect dessert for any occasion. It's a hit among friends and family. These are perfect holiday treats which can be gifted to friends. I baked these cookies along with my kids and my 6 yr old was very excited to fill the cookies with jam. As most of my friends know that, we have moved to our own space, to meet and greet our neighbors,  I baked these cookies. These cookies are so easy to make and just needs a handful of ingredients which is easily available in your pantry. These cookies can be baked within 30 minutes and because of jam, this becomes a super hit among kids. I filled these cookies with strawberry and blueberry jam, you can use any jam of your choice and it won't go wrong. Make sure that while shaping the balls, it should be smooth and firm, or else the cookie dough can crack (like mine). Some recipes call for adding the jam after baking the cookies, but adding the jam pre baked will be nice and warm and