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Indulgence
Time to get back to some photography.
One of my goals this year is to master small flash photography, so until it drives me insane, that is the lighting I’ll be using.
This shot is tighter and a fair bit lighter. On my laptop the image above is quite dark, but on my desktop it’s lovely.
Time for a monitor calibration!
Posted January 19th, 2010. 3 comments
Athena’s Monkey Bread
Dough:
4 cups of white flour
2 tablespoons of butter
1/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of dry yeast
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 egg
1 and 1/8 cups of milk
Add all of the above ingredients in the order
recommended by your bread machine and run it on the basic setting.
Coatings
While the machine is mixing the dough, prepare the coatings.
Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a small bowl and set it aside.
In a second small bowl mix the following:
1/2 cup of packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup of white sugar
2 tablespoons of white flour
2 of ground cinnamon
After the dough is finished mixing, remove it, turn the machine off and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (or 180 C). Roll 1 inch balls of dough through the melted butter first and then through the dry mixture. Place the coated balls in a greased pan (I use either one large bundt pan or six little ones) and then cover lightly with a tea towel for about an hour. The dough will rise to roughly double it’s size. Finally place the pans in the preheated oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Glaze
If you want your monkey bread to be really naughty/lovely, make this white glaze for it.
1 cup of icing (powdered) sugar
2 teaspoons of melted butter
1 to 2 tablespoons of milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Combine all ingredients to make a thin glaze and drizzle it over warm monkey bread.
Posted December 21st, 2009. Add a comment
Tuk Tuk Thai Takeaway
Our family lived for three years in Thailand. In that time, we ate large quantities of Thai food – a minimum of twice a week – one night a week our Thai helper cooked for us and one night I’d bring home take away from a little restaurant near the kids’ school. We like Thai food. A lot.
But aside from the fact that I didn’t learn to cook it, you need special ingredients to make it well. So we are always looking for a good Thai restaurant. But sadly we rarely find them. Until now.
Last weekend we stopped at the Tuk Tuk takeaway in Versiox and were very very pleased with our meal: Satays with peanut sauce, Green Chicken Curry, Pad gai gap mamuang. Yum! Definitely a do over. Next time – Pad Grapow Moo or Cow Neo or Kow Soy Gai.
Tuk Tuk Takeaway
route de Suisse 32
1290 Versoix
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What are your favorite Thai dishes and where do you get them?
