Palette's fall treats diary;November 20th,2011
Last month was eventful month for me to say the least.
We always have Halloween coming every year and no change about it, but in addition to that event, me and my husband got to meet down to earth TV celebrity chef "Paula Deen" at her book signing event.
The book is titled "Southern cooking bible" and it was written with NY times food writer Melissa Clark.
For me, southern cooking is not much familiar area, even though I can cook chicken and dumplings or biscuits etc..
Just recently, I have made fried green tomato burger and it is my first experience with green tomato
I was not sure what flavor I would expect with green tomato, but it turned out to be yummy food.
I am sure there will be a lot of southern style dishes that I have never tried yet.
Personally, I would like to learn wide variety of dishes and, I thought it was good addition to my cook book collection,plus it was exciting to get to see her in person even for a short moment.
Some years ago, I got to be in part of audience at Rachael Ray's pilot TV show in NY as well,and I remember my husband has whispered to me that her food smells real good.
It is always nice to get to see the person that inspired you to do something. When I did not know much about wide variety of produce,herb,cheese etc after coming over to the states, food network TV programs helped me to widen my repertoire for the cooking and enlarge my knowledge about food.
Therefore, meeting someone that I watched on TV and inspired you to cook the new kind of food/dishes was very exciting and nice.
I have started reading the book and, I like the fact that each recipe comes with a little tips and, that is the part I like most.
The book signing day was rainy day, but many people has showed up to see her.
According to the local newspaper, 600 tickets were distributed,and line was already started forming at about 1 pm while her signing event was scheduled to start at 4 pm.
We had a ticket already so, we went to the location about 4 pm and, I was overwhelmed to see how many people were in the store. By the time I get to get my book signed, it was already about 7pm.
It was long wait but it was worth it.
Also, last month was the month Palette and us got to try out new kind of fruits. We got to try Passion fruits this time.
Passion fruits...
Have you tried passion fruits? Right when you cut the fruits, you will smell very fragrant sweet flower-like smell and, it made very refreshing fruit juice and we both liked them.
Our stumpy Corgi "Palette" also liked the fruits so, I have made the frozen passion fruit yogurt treats and share the recipe of passion fruit juice and frozen passion fruit yogurt treats with you.
Passion fruits juice...
<Passion fruit juice recipe>
Ingredients;
3 passion fruits 4 tsp white table sugar
1. cut 3 passion fruits (3.5 oz wt) in half. Dots you see are the seeds.
2. Scoop out the seed and fruit into blender
When scoop out everything,you will be left with skin like this..
3. Add 9 oz water to the blender
4. Set the blender to "Stir" button and pulse about 25 times to separate seed from fruit
** Do Not puree the mixture.Use the button "Stir" and pulse to separate the seed from the fruits...
5. Set a small bowl and place a kitchen sieve over and pour the passion fruit,water mixture to remove the seed from the juice
What is left is the passion fruit seed..
6. Add 4 tsp white table sugar and stir
7. Enjoy!
Yield; 1.5 C fresh passion fruits juice
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I give Palette the Corgi cool down treats after walkie, after she being bathed etc and,it is one thing she really be looking forward to going back home from walkie. She runs to the kitchen and be in the imaginary line for the cool down treats in front of the freezer and enjoy every bite of it.
I am having fun making it with whatever I found, and taste it feeling Palette's eyes of envy beside me. Believe it or not, some of the random mix I make for her actually tastes good. Some of the mix are not my liking though.
If you do have interactive chew toys such as "Kong", you could fill it with these, although you may want to give your dogs designated area to chew on.
Now, I will pass a pen to Palette to write her diary here.
Nov 20th,2011
Dear diary,
Last month was strange month of the year. Big orange things starts to appear at neighbor's house along with scary witch and ghost and, some of them likes to smiles at me and some of them talks!
Pumpkin Smize...
I do not like when something that should not move/talk start moving/talking and, I am ready to run for life!
The other day, when mom and I started passing by one of the houses in our neighborhood, the witch and ghost starts laughing with creepy tone of voice.
I looked back at them but they just kept laughing and, I did not like it at all and I took mom for a walk with very brisk walk to our house.
I know mom takes me for a walk but,sometimes, me taking her for a walk might be good for a change
Do you take your mom and dad for a walkie?
Halloween day, as mom and dad calls it, is very busy day for me as well. Strange looking people ding dong our door and take candies away... I have to *woof* at them to protect mom and dad.
I am devoted guard and, with so many strange people coming and going, I got tired of woofing.. and I do not know how long I have slept on the day... I was just so tired from the security guard job.
Anyway, after leaving all the creepy laughing behind us, mom and I got to our house and I got to taste the yummy frozen yogurt treats.
This time, mom made frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats. It was so good!!
Frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats..
I wish there were a smell-vision because it was very fragrant treats.
Wen you cut the passion fruit, the sweet fragrance just start dancing in the air and, it was unbelievably nice smell..
Here is how you make the frozen passion fruits roasted red pepper yogurt treats.
1. Cut the 1 passion fruit (1.2 oz with seed in ) in half.
2. Scoop out the seed and fruit into blender
3. Add 3 oz water to the blender
4. Set the blender to "Stir" button and pulse about 10-15 times to separate seed from fruit
** Do Not puree the mixture.Use the button "Stir" and pulse to separate the seed from the fruits...
5. Set a small bowl and place a kitchen sieve over and pour the passion fruit,water mixture to remove the seed from the juice
6. Set the passion fruits juice aside.
7. Set the oven at broil "Hi"
8. Cut the red pepper into half,scoop out the seed and nub and place the 1/2 red pepper (2 oz) onto foil lined baking sheet and broil them till skin gets blister all around
9. Take roasted red pepper out from the baking sheet and put them into another bowl and seal it with plastic wrap and set it aside to cool down
10. when roasted red pepper got cool enough to handle, peel off the skin from the roasted red pepper and chop roughly and put it into a blender
11. To the blender, add mixture of passion fruit and water (this juice should be without seed) and puree
12. To the blender add 4 oz of Stoneyfield organic plain yogurt and puree them to mix everything evenly.
13. Pour those onto ice cube tray and freeze them
yield; 8 blocks of frozen treats
** Frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats whole amount is roughly about 117 kcal (you can see more detail at nutritiondata.com website here ).So, each ice cube given is about 15 kcal.
**Mom wanted rough kcal to be as close to real one, and she used Nutrition fact food label on the back of yogurt she used. She typed in the information provided in the nutrition label on the yogurt.
** Mom could not find broiled or roasted red pepper nutrition fact so she used "red sweet pepper, cooked,boiled,without salt nutrition fact".
Let me see,let me see..
Oh........ *Sniff,sniff*
Yup,this is definitely one of my fav!
Drool worthy cool down treats!
You should ask your mom to make one for you too!
This time,since I was really,really,really like this frozen passion fruits roasted red pepper yogurt treats, mom has decided to videotape my cool down treats time.
Palette and Frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats..
If you were a blog reader or reading this entry from Facebook, please click here to watch the video clip.
The cool down treats was yummy as always,and I wonder what treats she would make next. I love all the surprise
We always have Halloween coming every year and no change about it, but in addition to that event, me and my husband got to meet down to earth TV celebrity chef "Paula Deen" at her book signing event.
The book is titled "Southern cooking bible" and it was written with NY times food writer Melissa Clark.
For me, southern cooking is not much familiar area, even though I can cook chicken and dumplings or biscuits etc..
Just recently, I have made fried green tomato burger and it is my first experience with green tomato
I was not sure what flavor I would expect with green tomato, but it turned out to be yummy food.I am sure there will be a lot of southern style dishes that I have never tried yet.
Personally, I would like to learn wide variety of dishes and, I thought it was good addition to my cook book collection,plus it was exciting to get to see her in person even for a short moment.
Some years ago, I got to be in part of audience at Rachael Ray's pilot TV show in NY as well,and I remember my husband has whispered to me that her food smells real good.
It is always nice to get to see the person that inspired you to do something. When I did not know much about wide variety of produce,herb,cheese etc after coming over to the states, food network TV programs helped me to widen my repertoire for the cooking and enlarge my knowledge about food.
Therefore, meeting someone that I watched on TV and inspired you to cook the new kind of food/dishes was very exciting and nice.
I have started reading the book and, I like the fact that each recipe comes with a little tips and, that is the part I like most.
The book signing day was rainy day, but many people has showed up to see her.
According to the local newspaper, 600 tickets were distributed,and line was already started forming at about 1 pm while her signing event was scheduled to start at 4 pm.
We had a ticket already so, we went to the location about 4 pm and, I was overwhelmed to see how many people were in the store. By the time I get to get my book signed, it was already about 7pm.
It was long wait but it was worth it.
Also, last month was the month Palette and us got to try out new kind of fruits. We got to try Passion fruits this time.
Passion fruits...
Have you tried passion fruits? Right when you cut the fruits, you will smell very fragrant sweet flower-like smell and, it made very refreshing fruit juice and we both liked them.
Our stumpy Corgi "Palette" also liked the fruits so, I have made the frozen passion fruit yogurt treats and share the recipe of passion fruit juice and frozen passion fruit yogurt treats with you.
Passion fruits juice...
<Passion fruit juice recipe>
Ingredients;
3 passion fruits 4 tsp white table sugar
1. cut 3 passion fruits (3.5 oz wt) in half. Dots you see are the seeds.
2. Scoop out the seed and fruit into blender
When scoop out everything,you will be left with skin like this..
3. Add 9 oz water to the blender
4. Set the blender to "Stir" button and pulse about 25 times to separate seed from fruit
** Do Not puree the mixture.Use the button "Stir" and pulse to separate the seed from the fruits...
5. Set a small bowl and place a kitchen sieve over and pour the passion fruit,water mixture to remove the seed from the juice
What is left is the passion fruit seed..
6. Add 4 tsp white table sugar and stir
7. Enjoy!
Yield; 1.5 C fresh passion fruits juice
**************************************
I give Palette the Corgi cool down treats after walkie, after she being bathed etc and,it is one thing she really be looking forward to going back home from walkie. She runs to the kitchen and be in the imaginary line for the cool down treats in front of the freezer and enjoy every bite of it.
I am having fun making it with whatever I found, and taste it feeling Palette's eyes of envy beside me. Believe it or not, some of the random mix I make for her actually tastes good. Some of the mix are not my liking though.
If you do have interactive chew toys such as "Kong", you could fill it with these, although you may want to give your dogs designated area to chew on.
Now, I will pass a pen to Palette to write her diary here.
Nov 20th,2011
Dear diary,
Last month was strange month of the year. Big orange things starts to appear at neighbor's house along with scary witch and ghost and, some of them likes to smiles at me and some of them talks!
Pumpkin Smize...
I do not like when something that should not move/talk start moving/talking and, I am ready to run for life!
The other day, when mom and I started passing by one of the houses in our neighborhood, the witch and ghost starts laughing with creepy tone of voice.
I looked back at them but they just kept laughing and, I did not like it at all and I took mom for a walk with very brisk walk to our house.
I know mom takes me for a walk but,sometimes, me taking her for a walk might be good for a change
Do you take your mom and dad for a walkie?
Halloween day, as mom and dad calls it, is very busy day for me as well. Strange looking people ding dong our door and take candies away... I have to *woof* at them to protect mom and dad.
I am devoted guard and, with so many strange people coming and going, I got tired of woofing.. and I do not know how long I have slept on the day... I was just so tired from the security guard job.
Anyway, after leaving all the creepy laughing behind us, mom and I got to our house and I got to taste the yummy frozen yogurt treats.
This time, mom made frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats. It was so good!!
Frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats..
I wish there were a smell-vision because it was very fragrant treats.
Wen you cut the passion fruit, the sweet fragrance just start dancing in the air and, it was unbelievably nice smell..
Here is how you make the frozen passion fruits roasted red pepper yogurt treats.
1. Cut the 1 passion fruit (1.2 oz with seed in ) in half.
2. Scoop out the seed and fruit into blender
3. Add 3 oz water to the blender
4. Set the blender to "Stir" button and pulse about 10-15 times to separate seed from fruit
** Do Not puree the mixture.Use the button "Stir" and pulse to separate the seed from the fruits...
5. Set a small bowl and place a kitchen sieve over and pour the passion fruit,water mixture to remove the seed from the juice
6. Set the passion fruits juice aside.
7. Set the oven at broil "Hi"
8. Cut the red pepper into half,scoop out the seed and nub and place the 1/2 red pepper (2 oz) onto foil lined baking sheet and broil them till skin gets blister all around
9. Take roasted red pepper out from the baking sheet and put them into another bowl and seal it with plastic wrap and set it aside to cool down
10. when roasted red pepper got cool enough to handle, peel off the skin from the roasted red pepper and chop roughly and put it into a blender
11. To the blender, add mixture of passion fruit and water (this juice should be without seed) and puree
12. To the blender add 4 oz of Stoneyfield organic plain yogurt and puree them to mix everything evenly.
13. Pour those onto ice cube tray and freeze them
yield; 8 blocks of frozen treats
** Frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats whole amount is roughly about 117 kcal (you can see more detail at nutritiondata.com website here ).So, each ice cube given is about 15 kcal.
**Mom wanted rough kcal to be as close to real one, and she used Nutrition fact food label on the back of yogurt she used. She typed in the information provided in the nutrition label on the yogurt.
** Mom could not find broiled or roasted red pepper nutrition fact so she used "red sweet pepper, cooked,boiled,without salt nutrition fact".
Let me see,let me see..
Oh........ *Sniff,sniff*
Yup,this is definitely one of my fav!
Drool worthy cool down treats!
You should ask your mom to make one for you too!
This time,since I was really,really,really like this frozen passion fruits roasted red pepper yogurt treats, mom has decided to videotape my cool down treats time.
Palette and Frozen passion fruit roasted red pepper yogurt treats..
If you were a blog reader or reading this entry from Facebook, please click here to watch the video clip.
The cool down treats was yummy as always,and I wonder what treats she would make next. I love all the surprise
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