All About SUSHI In Season

Here are another exciting Japanese foods. An all time favorite and now became popular all over the world. It's nicer having sushi on its seasonal preparation. Check out these.

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Have a lovely Sushi time on your table!!

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Shared Food Items by Aunt Brenz

Here I wanna share with you some of mouthwatering foods from Aunt Brenz Homemade style. If you'll ask about the recipe just let me know your email add.

Fried Mee-hon with prime vegestables

Biko (less sweetened stir-fried sticky rice with coconut milk and coconut milk burns ), other known as "Sinukmane"

Good for snacks

Aunt Brenz Fried Chicken, lemon-marinated with fish paste flavor

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About: Chili peppers

Chili Padi (Chopped Chili Pepper)

Why anyone likes chili?

Because it helps to enhance the taste of your favorite menu.

Most people are not happy with their meals without having chilis on their foods. And some people are hates chili.

I came to Malaysia last 2005 and I surprised when I knew that most foods having chili in it. I never take chili. But because of curiosity and the nature of my job I've had to learn eating foods with chili (or chili padi as known as popular in Malaysia), little-by-little. And lately I've known that I am in to it. And my family members and friends have madly surprised with me when I ask chili on my foods. I said, I dunno I'd just learned it from Malaysians. Hot and spicy foods are also popular in my country and most people likes it but moderately spiced.

See? I gained more weight. OMG!

Here are some tips from What's Cooking America.Net.

Be careful when you handle any kind of chile peppers. They contain oils which can burn your skin and especially your eyes. Avoid direct contact as much as possible. Many cooks wear rubber gloves while handling chilies, or or generously grease your fingers with any kind of shortening (even the cooking sprays can help).
In any case, after you have worked with them, be sure to wash your hands and nails thoroughly with soap and water.

If you would like to know more about Chili, Chile peppers, and there are more preparation/cooking tips just click this link below.

Preparing Fresh Chile Peppers - Roasting Fresh Chile Peppers - Preparing Dried Chile Peppers

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How To Serve "SAKE"

Sake or saké (pronounced /ˈsɑːkiː/ or /ˈsɑːkeɪ/ in English and [sake] Listen (help·info) in Japanese) is a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
This beverage is called sake in English, but in Japanese, sake (酒) or o-sake (お酒) refers to alcoholic drinks in general. The Japanese term for this specific beverage is Nihonshu (日本酒), meaning "Japanese sake."
Sake is also referred to in English as rice wine. However, unlike true wine, in which alcohol is produced by fermenting the sugar naturally present in fruit, sake is made through a brewing process more like that of beer. To make beer or sake, the sugar needed to produce alcohol must first be converted from starch. But the brewing process for sake differs from beer brewing as well, notably in that for beer, the conversion of starch to sugar and sugar to alcohol occurs in two discrete steps, but with sake they occur simultaneously. Additionally, alcohol content also differs between sake, wine, and beer. Wine generally contains 9-16% alcohol and most beer is 3-8%, whereas undiluted sake is 18-20% alcohol, although this is often lowered to around 15% by diluting the sake with water prior to bottling.
Definition from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

How To Serve “Sake”

Usually, the Sake is served cold, warm and hot in by the Japanese people. Or it depends on the preference of the person or the quality of the Sake and the seasons.

Sake is regularly consumed hot.
Hot Sake is consumed in Winter, while cold Sake is consumed in Summer.

Normally, the way to serve Sake in Japanese restaurant is to heat it to 50 degrees C .
Over heating may cause the alcohol burned and lost it’s quality.
The common way to serve Sake in some parts of United States is to heat it to body temperature (37 degreesC /98.6degreesF)

For the professional Sake tasters prefer room temperature (20degreesC/68degreesF), while chilled Sake is 10degreesC/50degreesF is growing in popularity.

Sake is served in shallow cups, called choko. Usually, Sake is poured into the choko from ceramic flasks called tokkuri.

Other cups used in some special occasions like weddings, etc. is called ceremonial cups or sakazuki.

Another items that are used by some traditional Sake drinkers is a wooden box, called masu, made of Japanese Cypress.

Aside from being served straight, Sake can also be used as a mixer for cocktails, such as the traditional Japanese Tamagozake or the modern American Sake Bomb.

More about Sake, coming next week...

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