READING LOG (PROCEDURE)



Day 1
Thursday
Date :23 April 2020
Time
16.02 – 16.26
Title
1. Japanese Curry Rice
2. Takoyaki Easy Home Recipe
3. Gyudon Japanese Beef Bowls
Sources
Materials/Ingredients
  1. 3 cups uncooked rice Follow the instructions on your rice cooker. *1
  2. 1 packet 100g Japanese curry sauce mix Use any brand you like.
  3. 250 g your preferred meat I used Beef for the post *2
  4. 1 brown onion
  5. 300 g potato
  6. 100 g carrot
  7. 1 tbsp olive oil
  8. 2 cloves of garlic
  9. ¼ cup grated apple
  10. 1 tbsp honey
  11. Pinch of salt and pepper to taste
  12. 2 cups water approximately 500 ml
  13. Fukushinduke and/or Rakkyo to accompany condiments
  14. Worcestershire sauce 
·         2. 1cup/100g flour *1
·         1 egg
·         1.25cup/300ml dashi stock *1
·         1.8oz/50g cooked octopus
·         1/4 cup of finely chopped scallions
·         1/4 cup Tenkasu
·         2 tbsp red pickled ginger
·         2 tbsp takoyaki sauce
·         1 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
·         1 tbsp seaweed flake to top
·         2 tbsp bonito flake to top
·         3. 150 g thinly sliced beef
·         1/2 onion
·         1 tbsp red pickled ginger for topping
·         1 tbsp diagonally and thinly sliced scallion for topping
·         3 cups cooked Japanese rice *1
·         1/2 tbsp olive oil
·         200 ml water
·         1 tsp dashi powder
·         2 tsp sugar
·         1 tbsp sake
·         1 tbsp mirin
·         1 tsp ginger juice
·         2 tbsp soy sauce
How to make it
Cut the meat into bite size pieces and set aside Peel and cut the potatoes, carrot, and onion into large bite size pieces and set aside. Heat olive oil in a pot over medium heat and add garlic. When the garlic is fragrant, add the beef and cook until browned. Add the potato, carrot, and onion and stir with a wooden spatula. When the oil has coated evenly on all the ingredients and the outer-edge of the potatoes have become transparent, add the water, honey, and grated apple. Bring it to boil and then turn the heat down to low to simmer until the potatoes become soft and all the other ingredients are cooked. Turn the heat off, break the curry sauce blocks apart and add to the pot.
Combine water, egg and dashi stock together in a bowl and mix well until frothy. Sift the plain flour into a large bowl and add the liquid mixture over the flour. Whisk them together well until all the dry flour is completely mixed in. Heat the takoyaki pan and oil the holes with the oil brush. Pour the batter into the pan holes so they are approximately 80% full and then add the octopus, green onion, tempura crisps and pickled ginger .Then add more of the batter until it's just overflowing. Cook for approximately 1 & 1/2 minutes, then trim off the excess batter and flip them over by inserting the Takoyaki pick from 4 o'clock direction, turn your wrist 90°. Keep flipping them around until the takoyaki are a golden-brown color. When all balls outside are crispy golden brown, turn the heat off. Serve them on a plate and coat with the Takoyaki sauce and Japanese mayonnaise then sprinkle with aonori and bonito flakes to serve.
Slice the onion into wedges. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat and cook the onion. Once the onion becomes translucent, add all the sauce ingredients. Bring it to simmer and add thinly sliced beef and cook about 5 minutes over medium heat. Once the beef has cooked and the sauce has reduced a bit, remove from the heat. Serve over a bowl of rice and garnish with scallions and red ginger pickles.
New Vocabularies found
scheme ,  roux, tangy , scrunched, peasy, acidity 
Comments
All of those procedure text is Japanese food that I want to eat. Now I’m craving.


Day 2
Friday
Date :24 April 2020
Time
5.38 – 6.04
Title
1. Galbitang (Beef Short Rib Soup)
2. Korean Purple Rice Recipe
3. Easy Kimbap (Korean Sushi Roll)
Sources
Materials/Ingredients
  • 1.2 kg – 1.4 kg / 2.6 pounds – 3 pounds beef short ribs, membranes removed
  • 1 onion (200g / 7 ounces), cut into large chunks
  • 250g / 9 ounces Korean radish (or daikon radish), peeled
  • 60g / 2 ounces green onions, white part
  • 30g / 1 ounce garlic, peeled
  • 10 whole black peppers
  • 10 cups water
  • 25g / 1 ounce green onions, thinly sliced
  • (optional) 70g / 2.5 ounces Korean glass noodles (dangmyeon)
  • 1.5 Tbsp Korean soup soy sauce or regular kikkoman soy sauce
  • 1 Tbsp minced garlic
  • 2 tsp fine sea salt, or more to taste
  • ground black peppers, to taste
  • 2. 2 cups short grain white rice
  • 1 Tbsp black glutinous rice
  • 2 cups & 1 Tbsp water (1:1 ratio for IH rice cooker or instant pot)
  • 3. dried seaweed sheets (gim / sushi nori)
  • 120g / 4.2 ounces spinach (regular or baby spinach)
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 carrot (120g / 4.2 ounces), julienned
  • 2 to 4 imitation crab sticks (depending on the length), cut in half length ways
  • 4 sticks of BBQ Kimbap ham, cut into long strips if you didn’t buy the pre-cut version (available at a Korean grocery store)
  • yellow radish pickle (danmuji), cut into long strips if you didn’t buy the pre-cut version (available at a Korean / Japanese grocery store)
  • (optional) 12 strips seasoned edible burdock root (available at a Korean grocery store. You can buy the one that’s packaged together with yellow radish pickle like this picture. It’s also sold individually.)
  • 2 1/2 cups cooked short grain rice
  • 2 Tbsp sesame oil, divided
  • 3/8 tsp fine sea salt (or more to taste), divided
How to make it
Soak the beef ribs in cold water for 20 mins. Change the water a few times during this time. This is to draw out the red liquid (which looks like blood) from the meat and also to rinse out any bone fragments.  In a large pot of rolling boiling water (enough to fully cover the ribs), boil the ribs for 6 to 8 minutes over medium high heat. Drain the water and rinse the ribs in cold water. Cut off any obvious excess fat from the ribs. Place them in a large clean pot. Add onions, radish, green onions, garlic, black peppers, and water (10 cups) into the pot and bring them to boil over medium high heat, covered. Once rolling boiling, reduce the heat to medium low heat and simmer for 1.5 hours. If adding, soak the glass noodles in a large bowl of cold water (fully immersed). Gently take out the beef ribs and radish from the broth and set them aside. Strain the remaining ingredients over a large clean pot. Discard all the strained vegetables while keeping the broth. Remove the fat. (Refer to the tips mentioned above.) Thinly slice the radish and place them into the pot. Season the beef ribs with the seasoning ingredients and gently place them into the pot. Bring the pot to boil over medium high heat for about 8 mins. Add the glass noodles and green onions and boil for a further 2 mins. 
Put the rice into the rice cooker inner pot and rinse the rice until the water is clear. (You will need to do 3 to 4 rounds of rinsing.) Drain the water well. Cover the rice with the water (1:1 ratio) and close the lid. Set the rice cooker to “백미 (baekmi)” setting. If your Cuckoo has an English mode, it may say “glutinous rice”. Wait until the rice cooks and switch to the keep warm setting. It takes 23-26 mins to complete. Fluff the rice with the rice paddle. Serve or store it for later. (Refer below for storage guide)
Rinse the spinach and parboil it in rapidly boiling water (30 seconds to 1 minute). Drain the water away and run some cold water over the spinach. Gently squeeze the spinach to remove any excess water. Put the spinach into a bowl. Add 1/8 tsp salt and 1/2 Tbsp sesame oil then mix them well. Pre-heat a pan/skillet. Add a small dash of cooking oil and spread it around the pan. Add the beaten egg and cook both sides well over medium heat. Place the egg omelette on a cutting board and cut it into long strips. In a heated pan, lightly cook the carrots, crab sticks and kimbap ham (about 1 min per ingredients), separately, and over medium heat. (Some people use these raw, but I prefer cooking them first for my kimbap.) Place the cooked rice into a mixing bowl then add 1/2 Tbsp sesame oil and 1/4 tsp fine sea salt (or more to taste). Mix them well with a rice spatula. Gather all the kimbap ingredients at the ‘kimbap rolling station’. This makes it easy to assemble. Place one dried seaweed sheet on the bamboo mat (shiny side down). Put the rice on the seaweed sheet then spread it evenly and thinly to cover about 2/3 of the seaweed. (Leave about 5cm / 2 inches gap at the top of the seaweed).  Now fill the seaweed with the filing ingredients. Make sure you evenly use the ingredients so that you’re not short of them later. Place one yellow radish pickle at about 1/3 point of the seaweed then add three burdock strips, one ham strip, one crab stick around it. Then pile up a few eggs strips, carrot sticks, and some spinach. Then roll the seaweed. If the seaweed doesn’t stick, paste some water on the gap you left in step 6. You can also use a few grains of cooked rice in this gap. Set the rolled kimbap aside. Repeat the step 6 and 7 with the remaining ingredients. Line up all kimbap on a cutting board and paste some sesame oil (1 Tbsp) around the seaweed surface. Slice kimbap into bite size pieces.
New Vocabularies found
Solidify, excess, diminish, inconvenience, surface, pile
Comments
Those Korean food look so good and yummy.


Day 3
Saturday
Date :25 April 2020
Time
11.53 -12.21
Title
1. Tom Yum Soup Recipe – Authentic Thai Style
2. Khao Man Gai Recipe – Thai Street Food Style
3. Thai Iced Tea Recipe
Sources
Materials/Ingredients
  • 2 liters of water
  • 4 stalks of lemongrass
  • 1 inch chunk of galangal
  • 10 kaffir lime leaves
  • 10 Thai chilies
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • ½ kilo shrimp
  • 300 grams of oyster mushrooms
  • 2 roma tomatoes
  • 2 white onions (medium sized)
  • 2 teaspoons of sugar
  • 8 - 12 tablespoons of fish sauce (depending on your taste)
  • 8 - 12 tablespoons of lime juice (10 - 15 limes)
  • Handful of cilantro
·         whole chicken
  • ½ tbsp. salt
  • Water to cover chicken
  • ½ kg. uncooked rice (I used high quality Thai jasmine rice, nice and fragrant)
  • About ½ liter of chicken stock broth (this was an estimate, really you should use about 1 cup of rice to 1.8 cups of chicken broth, or whatever ratio you normally use)
  • ⅛ tbsp. salt
  • 50 g. Thai garlic (regular garlic will work too)
  • Chicken oil for frying (or vegetable oil will work well too)
  • All the rest of the chicken broth
  • ½ winter melon (about ½ kg or so) - you can also use daikon radish, or even nothing
  • Sprigs of cilantro
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste
  • 50 g. ginger (old and strong ginger is best)
  • 50 g. garlic (peel the garlic)
  • 5 - 10 Thai bird chilies (depending on how spicy you want it)
  • 1 stalk of cilantro roots
  • About 3 tbsp. of fermented soy bean sauce (you can add more later if not salty enough, but it can be quite salty), if you can find the Thai version, that will be best)
  • 2 tbsp. white vinegar (normal distilled white vinegar, NOT apple cider or rice)
  • 1 tbsp. sugar
  • ½ tbsp. dark soy sauce
  • About ¼ - ½ cup of chicken broth, but more if it's too salty or too thick
  • Cucumbers to garnish
  • Cilantro to garnish
·         tablespoon Thai black tea
  • 1 cup of hot boiling water
  • 2 teaspoons sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 teaspoons evaporated milk (plus some more to sprinkle on top)
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 cup of crushed ice
How to make it
  • First thing to do is put about 2 liters of water in a pot to boil.
  • Then I like to start by squeezing my limes. This is not the first step of the recipe, but it’s best to have your limes squeezed so when you need them later, you don’t need to rush to squeeze them all. Slice about 10 limes and juice them all into a small bowl, and set them aside for later.
  • Take your stalks of lemongrass, and first tear off the outermost leaf and throw it out. Then, I like to use a mallet to lightly pound the lemongrass to release the flavors. Then just slice it diagonally into 1 inch strips or so.
  • Take about 1 thumb sized chunk of the root part of galangal, and chop it into slices.
  • Coarsely break about 10 kaffir lime leaves - no need to cut them, just tear them - which is going to help release their flavor.
  • Peel about 5 cloves of garlic.
  • I used about 10 Thai bird chilies (prik kee noo) for this recipe, but you can use however many you’d like. First, take off the stem, and then you can either just slice them in two pieces, or give them a little pound on your cutting board like I did (just be careful of flying seeds). You can also remove the seeds if you’d still like the chili flavor but not as much heat.
  • Throw the lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, garlic and chilies into the water. You can put on the lid just so it starts to boil and release all the herb flavors quicker.
  • Now prepare your shrimp (or whatever meat of choice you’re making tom yum with). Since I used goong mae nam (กุ้งแม่น้ำ), freshwater shrimp, I first chopped off all the tentacles.
  • Boil your soup with all the herbs in it for about 10 minutes, and you can go ahead and toss in the shrimp and turn the fire to low.
  • Then add your mushrooms, which you should pre rinse beforehand.
  • Take two roma tomatoes and two small white onions and slice them into wedges - you want them to be big and chunky. Then go ahead and add them to the tom yum.
  • If you’re using shrimp for this tom yum recipe, you might get some foam build up on top of your soup, in which case you can just lightly skim it off the top and toss it out.
  • Boil the tom yum for about 2 - 3 minutes.
  • Next, add about 6 tablespoons of fish sauce first, and 2 teaspoons of sugar. You may need more of each, but start with that.
  • Boil your tom yum for another minute or so and then turn off the heat. You don’t want your tom yum to be overcooked. The mushrooms and onions should be soft, and then it’s ready.
  • Once your heat is off, go back to your lime juice and add about 8 tablespoons of lime juice (depending on how sour you like it, I like it really sour).
  • Make sure you taste test until your tom yum is perfectly sour and salty. You might need to add more fish sauce, sugar, or lime juice.
  • Finally chop up a handful of fresh cilantro, throw it in the soup, and give your tom yum a final stir. The lime juice and cilantro taste fresher and more vibrant when not boiled, so that’s why I turn off the heat before adding them.
  • You now have Tom yum goong nam sai (ต้มยำกุ้งน้ำใส), the clear version of tom yum.
1.      2. bought full chickens, which come with head and all insides in-tact. If your chicken hasn’t been de-gutted, you’ll need to first carefully remove the entire organ system. You have to cut a slit in the back of the chicken, about 6 cm in length, and then reach in with your hand to remove all the organs. Be careful not to break the intestines or innards as it can cause the chicken to get bitter.
2.      Once your chicken is de-gutted, stuff the feet of the chicken into the body cavity, and then twist the wings to the top of the chicken - this is just going to keep its limbs from flapping while being boiled.
3.      Put enough water into a pot to cover your chicken, and then bring it to a boil (chickens not in yet). Once your water is boiling, reduce the heat to low.
4.      Add the salt into the water and dissolve it.
5.      Add the chickens to the boiling water and boil them for about 35 - 45 minutes, if you’re only doing one chicken it might only take 30 - 40 minutes - so just keep an eye on it. If you have a meat thermometer, that could come in handy.
6.      Once the chicken is firm and bouncy, you can remove the chicken from the pot, and lay it in a pan to cool.
7.      That’s it for the boiled chicken.
Part 2: Rice (วิธีหุงข้าวมัน)
1.      For a proper Thai street food version of khao man gai (ข้าวมันไก่), you need to have some chicken oil. I made some by taking extra chicken skin, putting it into a hot wok for about 10 minutes and sizzling all the oil out of it - we probably had about 1.5 cups of chicken oil. However, if you don’t want to use chicken oil, you can also just use any kind of vegetable oil.
2.      Take the garlic, and blend it up, or use a food processor. Alternatively, you can just mince it up as well. In Thailand they just use the full cloves of garlic, without even taking off the skin.
3.      Then take the minced garlic and deep fry it in either the chicken oil or vegetable oil. You want to fry it on a medium low heat, and stir it continually in the oil so the garlic doesn’t stick. You want the garlic to become nice and golden brown, without burning or getting too dark. It should take about 5 - 8 minutes.
4.      Once your garlic has been fried, strain and drain it.
5.      Add your uncooked rice to a rice cooker pot, and first give it a good rinse and drain.
6.      Add the fried garlic to the uncooked rice, along with the chicken broth (from cooking the chicken), and a bit of salt to taste.
7.      Stir the uncooked rice and broth all around, even it out in the pot, and finally press cook on your rice cooker. Let the rice cooker work its magic.
8.      When the rice finishes cooking, let it sit for a few minutes, and then open the cover and just fluff it up.
Part 3: Soup (วิธีทำซุป)
1.      Cut up your winter melon or daikon radish into about 5 cm pieces. For the winter melon, I first sliced off the skin, then cut it into quarters, removed the seeds, and sliced it into pieces.
2.      Go over to your chicken broth, and try to skim off the top layer of oil, and discard.
3.      Now bring your chicken broth to a boil, and then add in the pieces of winter melon or radish.
4.      While your soup is boiling, you can go ahead and add in as much salt and pepper to your tasting. It shouldn’t be too salty or too peppery, you’re looking for just a soothing broth.
5.      Boil your soup for about 15 minutes or so, until the winter melon or daikon radish is soft.
6.      Final step for the soup is to turn off the heat, take a handful of cilantro, chop it up, and toss it in. Give that a quick stir, and it's ready.
Part 4: Sauce (วิธีทำน้ำจิ้มข้าวมันไก่)
1.      For the sauce, just chop up the ginger, and then just throw it, with all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor.
2.      You don’t need to blend it up completely, it can be a little chunky (depending on your preference).
3.      Transfer your blended sauce over to a pot or wok, and you want to just bring it to a boil for a few seconds - this is not really for any reason other than to kill any bacteria and make your sauce last longer (this sauce should last in the fridge for about 3 - 4 days, but of course it probably tastes the best when it’s freshest).
4.      Pour the sauce into a bowl and it’s ready to be eaten.
1.      3. First step is to boil water, I’m just using a pot, but you could use a water boiler or microwave
2.      Take your tea sock and add about 1 tablespoon of black Thai tea. It’s then easiest to put your tea sock into a bowl or big cup in order to steep the tea.
3.      Pour 1 cup of boiling water into the tea sock, and push it in and out to steep the tea and extract all that flavor. Steep the tea for a few minutes until it turns nice and dark in color.
4.      Taking a new cup, pour in 1 glass of hot tea
5.      Add 2 teaspoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of sweetened condensed milk, and give it a nice stir
6.      Then add 2 teaspoons of evaporated milk, and continue to stir the tea until everything is fully mixed in
7.      Optional - A good Thai iced tea should have a little froth or some bubbles on top, so take 2 pitchers, and pour the tea from one to the other, with a bit of elevation. You could do this in a different way too, but it’s pretty fun!
8.      Take a cup and fill it all the way to the top with crushed ice
9.      Gentry pour your hot tea mixture over the cup of ice
10.  To give your Thai iced tea a final creamy touch, drizzle on some more evaporated milk onto the top of your cup
11.  Add a straw, and you’re ready to start slurping it down!
New Vocabularies found
Buds, distinct, rupture, doused, Gentry, elevation
Comments
I feel that Thailand foods is similar to Indonesian foods.


Day 4
Sunday
Date :26 March 2020
Time
10.12 – 10.43
Title
1. Spaghetti Squash Alfredo
2. How To Make a Classic Bolognese Sauce
3. Balsamic Herb Pork Tenderloin
Sources
Materials/Ingredients
  • 1 (2 1/2-pound) spaghetti squash (halved lengthwise and seeds removed)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1/2 pound broccoli crowns (cut into bite-sized florets)
  • 6 tablespoons butter (cut into pieces)
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic (about 1 large clove, finely grated)
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup whole milk
  • 2 1/2 cups Pecorino cheese (or Parmesan, finely grated)
  • Salt and pepper (to taste)
  • Flat-leaf parsley (chopped, for garnish)
  • 2. 6 to 8 ounces ground beef (it shouldn't be too lean, or the sugo will be dry)
  • Optional: 2 ounces pancetta (minced; if you omit it increase the beef)
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/4 medium onion (minced)
  • 1/2 carrot (minced)
  • 1 stalk celery (minced)
  • 1/2 cup red wine (dry)
  • 3/4 cup tomatoes (crushed or 2 tablespoons tomato paste dissolved in 1/2 cup water)
  • 8 ounces beef broth (If you don't have any, dissolve half a bouillon cube in a cup of boiling water)
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pound pasta
  • Garnish: freshly grated Parmigiano
How to make it
Gather the ingredients. Preheat the oven to 425 F. Place the squash, cut-side down, on a parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet. Roast until the squash is very tender and easily pulls apart into strands when the cut side is scraped with a fork, about 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and let sit on the pan until cool enough to handle, about 15 minutes. Drag a fork through the squash to separate it into spaghetti-like strands. While the squash cools, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high. Add the broccoli and 2 tablespoons of water, cover, and cook until the broccoli is tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a plate. Wipe out the skillet. Melt the butter in the same skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the cream and milk, and cook until mixture is heated through and little bubbles appear near edges of the pan (do not let it come to a rolling boil). Remove the skillet from the heat and whisk in cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Add the squash to the skillet toss to combine with the alfredo sauce. Serve in deep bowls topped with the broccoli and parsley.
 Mince the pancetta and the vegetables, and sauté them in a casserole or Dutch oven with the oil. When the onion is golden, add the ground meat and continue cooking till it's browned. Stir in the wine and let the sauce simmer till the wine has evaporated, then add the tomatoes, a ladle of broth, and check the seasoning. Continue simmering over a very low flame for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally, and adding more broth if the sugo looks like it's drying out. The sugo will improve steadily as it cooks, and if you have the time simmer it longer - some suggest it be simmered for 6 hours, adding boiling water or broth as necessary. When it is done it should be rich and thick.
Cut pork tenderloin into 6 to 8 1-inch round pieces. Place pork into a resealable plastic bag. Add sprigs of thyme and rosemary. Combine remaining ingredients in a small bowl. Pour mixture over pork, seal bag, and allow to marinate in the refrigerator for 4 to 12 hours. Preheat the grill for medium heat. Remove pork from bag and place onto grill. Reserve marinade. Brush with marinade and cook for 7 minutes. Turn pork and cook for additional 7 minutes. When the meat reaches 140 degrees F/60 degrees C, remove from grill and serve. Discard any remaining marinade. 
New Vocabularies found
Strands, rimmed, ubiquitous, ounces, tenderizing.
Comments
I hope someday I can try to those yummy food, halal food only.

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