Bento...fun way to eat :D

Today my friends and I had a factory field trip outside of Bangkok for our Production course. It was in an early morning and the prof said that he would only provide us a meal each. One of my friends was kidding me on making her breakfast... well she didn't think that I would take it seriously. Guess what she knew me a little go... i ended up making these bentos at 5 in the morning.

I named my 1st bento: Ms. Sunflower

such a cute name unlike our age studying in a junior year.

1.Japanese rice

2.Smoked salmon

3.Dashimaki Tamago (ไข่หวานม้วน)

recipe: http://threesspoon.blogspot.com/2012/03/sushi-cake.html

4.Tempura

5.Wakame seaweed

6.Japanese Curry

recipe: http://threesspoon.blogspot.com/2010/10/karei-raisu-curry-rice.html

wrap the cooked Japanese rice with plastic wrap in order to make it round.

1.Japanese rice

2.Smoked salmon
3.Dashimaki Tamago (ไข่หวานม้วน)
4. Boiled egg

5.Wakame seaweed

6.Japanese Curry

1.Japanese rice

2.Smoked salmon

3.Dashimaki Tamago (ไข่หวานม้วน)

4.Tempura

5.Wakame seaweed

6.Fried egg

7.seaweed

8.Unagi

Sushi Cake

It's a cake but it's no bake...It's a cake but it's not sweet...It's a cake but it's so unusual!! Well, well, well it's a SUSHI CAKE! I kinda got this idea after craving for sashimi for a week. At the breaking point of my tolerance, I went straight to Gourmet Supermarket and bought a piece of salmon fillet. Planning to eat it sliced with wasabi and shoyu, I changed my mind and created an image of layers of Japanese this and that in a form of sushi cake.
YOU WILL NEED:
round cake pan with removable bottom
seaweed
Japanese rice
mirin
heavy syrup
Japanese vinegar
a pinch of salt
Dashimaki Tamago (ไข่ม้วน)
Wakame seaweed (ยำสาหร่าย)
Unagi (ปลาไหลญี่ปุ่น)
Ebiko (ไข่กุ้ง)
Salmon
Shrimp

in a round cake pan with removable bottom:
1st layer: cut the seaweed in the circle and place it as the base of the cake
2nd layer: Japanese rice
3rd layer: Dashimaki tamago
4th layer: wakame seaweed

5th: rounded seaweed
6th: Unagi
7th: Japanese rice
8th: Ebiko

9th: sliced salmon
10th: boiled shrimp
then remove the cake from the cake pan


Japanese Rice
cooked Japanese rice (about 2 cups)
1tbsp Japanese Vinegar
1tbsp mirin
1tbsp heavy syrup
a pinch of salt

Dashimaki Tamago
2 large eggs
1 tsp soysauce (shoyu)
1tsp mirin
1tsp heavy syrup
1tbsp water
butter for buttering pan
1. mix everything together (carefully, no bubble)
2.Thinly coat a frying pan with butter. Wipe out the butter paper towel.
3. Pour 1/3 of the mixture into the frying pan, and spread it evenly by jiggling the pan.
4. After the surface of (3) hardens slightly, roll it up to one end of the frying pan.
Move the rolled egg to the opposite side and oil the bottom surface.
5. Add another 1/3 of (2) into the pan, and roll it up after the surface of (3) comes has hardened.
Repeat (5) with the last 1/3 of the mixture.
6. Pick up and let it cool and cut.

you may use the sushi mat to roll the tamago

Wakame seaweed

unagi

salmon fillet

ebigo
HOW TO BOIL THE SHRIMPS

in a very hot pot of hot water add in shrimps wait until they turned orange

remove them from the heat and put them in iced cool water







cut into pieces with sharp knife

I happened to go to Viva's so why not give her some:)

for her family :))


eat them with lemon grass tea

It's all about LOVE 2012- V's day Red Velvet Cupcakes

Happy Valentine's day 2012! This day has come around again; I still think that last year V's day was couple months ago! (link for V'sday 2011 treats:http://three-spoon.blogspot.com/2011/03/sweets-for-valentines-day.html) For my single followers, just because you hate V's day and pink stuff everywhere doesn’t mean you have to stop baking. This year I'm also single but I still enjoy the special V's day by baking the sweetest occasion treats for my lovely family, friends ,and professors.

Cake bites for my phonetics professor. for recipe click on the link below

http://three-spoon.blogspot.com/2011/09/beware-cake-bites.html

My hand made V's day for my very special friend:))

sent Kaew's family my V's day package

some photos of my cupcake and cake bites from my friends' instragrams

RED VELVET CUPCAKES RASPBERRY JAM FILLINGS WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING TOPPED WITH HEARTED BROWNIES

Ingredients
Cupcakes:
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
28ml Red Food Color
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting:
225g cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 teaspoonsPure Vanilla Extract
300g icing sugar

Raspberry jam and cupcake decoration

Hearted Brownies:

http://three-spoon.blogspot.com/2011/09/reeses-browniesurprise.html

RED VELVET CUPCAKE


1.Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Set aside.
2.Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed 5 minutes or until light and fluffy.

3.Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in sour cream, milk, and vanilla.

4. Add in red food color and mix it well.

5.Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until just blended. Do not overbeat.

6.Spoon the batter into 30 paper-lined muffin cups, filling each cup 2/3 full.

7.Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cupcake comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 5 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely.

7. Use the piping tip to punch a half whole in the cupcake.

8. Fill in the whole with teaspoon of raspberry jam.

Frost with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting.

Beat cream cheese, softened, butter, sour cream and vanilla extract in large bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in icing sugar

Top the cupcakes with hearted brownies and sprinkle them with cupcake sugar decoration.

Packed and ready to give out! :))

I actually got a package wrapped and sent from the States! hehe It arrived exactly on V's day... well, it was quite unexpected and it totally made my gloomy V's day filled with my great smile! Thank you so much for the present Takahiro, I just loooooove Godiva.