cooking
Biking on the kinkerstraat ( in Amsterdam where I live),
A colourfull book got my attention from the window book store. Ijslollly’s from Sunil Vijayakar Here the english version
is now warm in Amsterdam and a fresh home made lolly pop will be perfect for the 4 o clock. In France, where I grew up, you eat something sweet after school and I kept this habit…
I bought some simple ice lolly tray at the xenos and went right ayway to buy my ingrediant for some melon/ watermelon ice cream.
If you’re reading my blog, you must certainly like nature, you may have heard about Jamie Oliver and you may have seen the ‘Jamie Oliver food revolution’ TV serie about precess food and food in the American schools. You know that process food is bad for you. Have a look there to this video about process ice cream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrSdPWV5Tjo
You now want to make your own ice cream or only eat the ones made by from the Ben & jerry’s . I choose to Start my ice cream making with seasonal fruits of course melon/ watermelon.
To make those you need:
● a puree of melon/ wartermelon ( my icelolly tray can contain 500 ml of puree )
● 100 ml of sugar sirop: in my book they says:
☞ for 200 ml of water use 90 g of fine witesugar but I also like to make cocktails so I obviously do have liquid sugar cane in my cupboard that I used instead.
If you don’t have it then mix the 90 g of sugar in the 200 ml of water, bring it to soft boil until it is disolve.
pour the mix into your tray and put it into your frizer for the night. you can keep it for 3 months, (if suddently the nice weather is gone )
Hi guys ! the other day I discoverd this blog:
and oh surprise one receipe of a chocolate custard, I wanted to find for a few year now. When I was a child we called it an ‘entremets’ and it was one of my favorite dessert at the school cantine, souvenirs souvenirs …
So I quickly went to buy the ingrediets, I’ve never tried Agar-agar before so I was curious. My first attenpt to purchase those was at the bakery shop in the Jan Pieter Heijestraat, sugarlicious in Amsterdam where I live.
When I asked for Agar agar, she looked at me with rond eyes and told me she never heard about it. I look at her even more astonish because she’s running a cake shop, it was impossible she didn’t know about it. ( I must have prononce it wrong ! )
Annyway I continue my shearch at the ‘natuurwinkel’ ( bio shop ) and it was there on the shelves, little box with 6 little bags of 2 g each which was exactly what I needed 🙂
I folowed the receipe that you find here on the la super superette.
if you don’t speak french, I’ll translate.
you need :
● 40g of bitter cacao powder
● 80g of brown sugar
● 2 g of Agar-agar
● 850 ml of milk
then you need to follow the receipe ( that I translate from
● In a bowl mix the cacao, sugar, agar-agar and pour a little of cold milk.
● whisk it
● In a sauspan warm the rest of the milk
● when warm, pour the mix into it and keep whisking it
● bring to boil for 2/3 min
● pour it into your ramekins ( 6 of them) and leave it to cool down before
● placing then in the fridge for at least 2 hours.