Lara's Gluten Free Maple Glazed Doughnuts

If we follow this blog, we know we adore doughnuts in a house. Pumpkin hazelnut, cherry freshness as well as coconut have been only a small of a doughnuts which we have documented here as well as there have been many some-more which have not made it to these pages.

So we can imagine how anxiously we have been waiting for my crony Lara's new doughnut book. I'm not exaggerating if we contend it sat in my pre-order Amazon shopping transport for roughly a year. Yes, which excited.



Lara needs small key as she is one of a veterans in a food blogging community. Cook & Eat, Still Life With, Spare Room... All blogs which have really influenced me since a beginning. we met Lara last year in Boston as well as we have stayed in hold all these months. we visited her amazing college of music in Seattle over a summer as well as only held up with her in San Francisco once again.

I can never soap-box sufficient about her as she is, not only one of my a one preferred photographers, though also a pool of unconstrained information, ready to share as well as help out anytime we have a question.



This is a fun book filled with beautiful photographs (of course!), a ton of recipes for all kinds of doughnuts, glazes as well as fillings. Chocolate peanut butter, strawberry shortcake, red velvet, chai, cocoa nib... Is your mouth watering yet? There have been even vegan as well as gluten free recipes, which is what we baked for this post. Gluten-free raised doughnuts with maple as well as toasted hazelnut glaze. Amazing.

I had J's best crony over fo! r a fool around date yesterday as well as this is what she suspicion of a doughnuts. Happy face. Just similar to Lara's video.



Please revisit other fellow bloggers in this doughnut blog tour to see their creations. We have been carrying fun for sure!

Oct 12CakeSpy
Oct 13Wasabi Prime
Oct 17The Sophisticated Gourmet
Oct 22Use Real Butter
Oct 25Cream Puffs in Venice

Thanks Lara for letting us share these recipes!

Gluten Free Raised Doughnuts

from Lara Ferroni's "Doughnuts" cookbook

reprinted with accede from Lara Ferroni

makes 8 to 14 doughnuts
1/3 crater (50 grams) chia flour or brown rice flour
1 1/2 to 2 cups (215 to 290 grams) Gluten Free baking Mix for Doughnuts
1/4 tsp xanthan gum
1/4 tsp guar gum
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 Tbs (11 grams) active dry yeast, divided
1/4 crater total milk, exhilarated to 110F
1/4 crater half hearted water
3 Tbs (45 grams) superfine sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 vast eggs
1 vast egg white
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
2 Tbs ( 1 oz) unsalted butter or unfeeling shortening
vegetable oil for frying

1. Whisk together a flour, gluten free baking mix, xanthan gum, guar gum as well as baking powder as well as set aside.

2. In a middle bowl, dissolve 1 Tbs of yeast with a milk. Add 1/4 crater of a flour reduction as well as stir to emanate a paste. Cover as well as let it rest for fifteen minutes.

3. In a play of a mount mixer propitious with a paddle attachment, stir together a superfluous yeast as well as a water. Add a flour pulp with sugarine as well as salt. Mix until smooth. Beat in a eggs, egg white, vanilla as well as vinegar. Turn off a mixer as well as supplement 1/2 crater of a flour mixture. Mix completely ! as well as stimulate upon middle for 30 seconds. Add a butter as well as brew to combine. Switch to a dough hook as well as supplement a superfluous flour mixture, 1/4 crater during a time, until dough starts to lift divided from a side of a bowl. It will be soothing as well as moist, though not so sticky which we can't roll it out. You may have flour left over.

4. Cover a play as well as let it rest in warm mark for twenty minutes. Roll out a dough upon a floured aspect to 1/2 in. thick. With a doughnut or cookie cutter, cut out 3 in. hole rounds with a 1 in. hole hole.

5. Line a baking piece with a lightly floured non-terry plate towel. Place a doughnuts during slightest 1 in. apart as well as cover with cosmetic wrap. let it lay in a warm mark for twenty to 30 mins until easily dull upon top.

6. While doughnuts have been proofing, heat a heavy-bottomed pot with during slightest 2 inches of oil until a deep-fat thermometer registers 340F. With a steel spatula, carefully place th doughnuts in a oil. Don't overfill a pot. Fry for about 1-2 mins upon each side. Remove with a slotted spoon. Place upon a wire shelve as well as let cool somewhat before glazing.

Gluten Free Baking Mix for Doughnuts

1 crater (175 grams) potato starch
1/4 crater (100 grams) potato flour or honeyed sorghum
1/2 crater (60 grams) tapioca flour
1/2 crater (60 grams) honeyed rice flour

Maple Glaze

1 1/2 cups (150 grams) confectioner's sugar, sifted
2 Tbs maple syrup
2 Tbs divert or water

Mix all ingredients to make a pourable glaze.

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40% of Kids Calories are from Junk Food

Wondering because childhood plumpness is using rampant?

Now you know.

Theyre eating crap. This, according to census data compiled by a National Health as good as Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) as good as reported by ABC News.

Half of a fattening calories come from just 6 foods:

Soda

Sugary ripened offspring drinks

Grain desserts, such as cake, cookies as good as donuts

Dairy desserts such as ice cream

Pizza

Whole milk, that is far fattier than skim.

Were astounded french fries are not upon a list.

Why is this happening to us as good as how can you stop it?

What you need to know:

There are mixed reasons for childhood obesity:

• nutritionally insufficient school lunches (based upon subsidized crops)
• cheap fast food (based upon subsidized crops)
• commercials for kids featuring junk food (made from subsidized crops)
• parents that dont have sufficient time to cook as good as can hope for a x-ray dish in 5 mins from frozen entrees (based upon cheap subsidized crops)

So how do you get kids to eat healthier food?

Perhaps a USDA should start subsidizing fruits as good as vegetables alternative than corn as good as soy. But a agro-lobbies are as good powerful for anyone to battle. Our Congress as good as Senate wont tackle them, nor will a president.

Oh well, during least Mrs. Obama is spearheading Lets Move, a good intended but guaranteed-to-fail module to end childhood plumpness inside of a single generation.

Sorry for a rant, but you unequivocally needed to vent after saying these stats.

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Soda
Sugary ripened offspring drinks
Grain desserts, such as cake, cookies as good as donuts
Dairy desserts such as ice cream
Pizza
Whole milk, that is far fattier than skim.
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Pan Heong Restaurant, Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur

by Baby Sumo

Not sure about you, but one of the things I missed most when I was living abroad was the food in Malaysia.

So it was only natural that The Unc had a whole list of food that he wanted to eat during his short break in KL. Amongst them was sang har mein (freshwater prawn noodles), which he had been craving for months.

Delicious Sang Har Hor Fun from Pan Heong

Being new to KL and all, we didn't quite know where to go. But nothing a little research on the internet won't solve.

So, one weekend, armed with a GPS and hungry stomachs, we started our journey to Batu Caves and 45 minutes later, we were standing outside Pan Heong Restaurant. It was barely 9 in the morning, but the place was packed to the brim. However, we managed to secure a small table in the corner. Service is brisk here, place your orders and you will get served within 10-15 minutes.

Pan Heong's Wall of Fame; cookies are sold here

There are many types of porridge here, from frog legs to abalone to pork ribs. However, we settled for the sang yu with century egg porridge (RM7.30). The consistency of the porridge was lovely, thick and smooth. Thesang yu (snakehead fish) here was very fresh and chunky with a nice bouncy firm texture, while the century egg had a nice creamy centre. We only ordered a portion for 1 person but it was definitely enough for 2-3 persons to share (if you're ordering other dishes besides this).

Sang yue porridge topped with century eggs, spring onions and fried shallots

Nice firm fish slices

Next to arrive was our order of Stir Fried Kangkung with Belacan (RM7). Belacan is a spicy shrimp paste, which some may find pungent, however it just goes so well with the kangkung (water spinach).

This is what we came here for, the Freshwater Prawn Noodles (sang har hor fun). It was darn good, I tell ya. Eating sang har hor fun is akin to eating a luxe version of wat tan hor, with the addition of big, juicy freshwater prawns. Instead of the usual sang meen (egg noodles) used, Pan Heong uses hor fun (flat rice noodles) which I feel soaks up the rich eggy sauce better. A dish which shouts WOK HEI, the sauce was delicious, lusciously rich from the eggs and prawn roe. The freshwater prawns were fresh, meaty with a firm and sweet flesh. There is a minimum order of 2 prawns, and we only ordered 2 this time as we weren't sure how much they would cost us here since they usually cost a bomb in the city.

So, when it came to paying the bill, we couldn't believe the price of the sang har hor fun here.. an absolute steal at RM33! The same would probably have cost double the price, if not more at a certain restaurant in SS2. So, next time I wouldn't hesitate ordering a few more prawns with my noodles.

Simply divine sang har hor fun


Wonderfully rich and flavoursome eggy sauce

Another famous dish here is the Nam Yue Fah Yuk (deep fried pork belly marinated in red fermented beancurd). The skin is a beautiful golden brown. While the skin is crisp, the meat was still tender and extremely flavoursome. The pork belly used here is also not too fat, with just a thin layer of fat complimenting the lean meat. It's so good, it's addictive.

The right proportion of fats to lean meat

Verdict: Good food at a reasonable price. The only downside is the location; it is quite a long drive for us from Cheras to KL.


Opening times: 8.00am to 3.30pm (Do call before you go as they close on random days every month)


Location: Pan Heong Restoran, No.2, Jalan Medan Batu Caves 2, Batu Caves, 68100 Selangor, Malaysia. (parallel SRJK Kheow Bin)

Tel: 03-6187 7430

GPS Coordinates: 3.233434, 101.674165

Cilantro KL in The Miele Guide 2010/2011

If you was asked to name my favourite excellent dining grill in KL, my answer would be Cilantro in MiCasa All Suite Hotel. From past experience, both a use as well as food here has been exceptional.

So when you read The Malaysian Insider currently as well as saw Cilantro Restaurant & Wine Bar placed during No. 8 of The Miele Guide 2010/2011, you was pleased. (I was very surprised Cilantro didn't have it in to a "Best Fine Dining" category in Time Out KL Food Award nominations, though hey during least Sage done it!)


The Miele Guide was combined in 2008 to recognise Asia's best chef as well as restaurants, identical to a Michelin Guide you foodies are more informed with. Cilantro is a first Malaysian grill to have it in to a Top 10 of a Miele Guide. Bravo, a well-deserved inventory indeed.

I demeanour forward to most more great dishes during Cilantro. Hopefully a next won't be too distant away :)

Executive Friday Luncheon during Cilantro KL

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Whole Wheat Sunflower Seed Bread

I realize which we havent been a most in accord with chairman lately.

Ive been tempting we with Doughnut Muffins surfaced with silken chocolate glaze.

Those Pumpkin Pie Pop Tarts were pretty absurd, right?

And Buttermilk Onion Rings? Come on its only as well much.

Maybe Im perplexing to make up for something. Maybe what we dont wish to discuss it we about it a array of stoooopid cinema in my Netflixqueue. Maybe we wish to confuse we from a silly volume of income we paid for a sweater during The Gap, of all places. Geez Gap like its a 90s again. (I obviously used to shop during The Gap a lot in a 90s whatever.)

The indicate is, we destitute out a total wheat flour today as a arrange of apology.

Moreover if we can equate a series of sunflower seeds in this design Ill give we dual thousand dollars.

Not true. But we did only contend moreover. which was mildly entertaining to me during least.

Im fond of this quick bread recipe.

Sunflower seeds have been roasted as well as salted as well as folded in to a elementary total wheat as well as buttermilk batter.

The bread is pretty dense, but not dry. Lets call it hearty. Its not as well honeyed as well as has only a touch of salt as well as crunch.

I like it most appropriate served slightly warm with a bit of butter as well as honey. Yes we only added some-more fat as well as sugar to my full of health bread. we cant unequivocally assistance myself.

Ps. Kittens like it too.

Whole Wheat Sunflower Seed Bread

adapted from Tates Bake Shop Cookbook

makes dual 94x3-inch loaves

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2 cups total wheat flour

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 crater sugar

1 teaspoon salt

4 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 crater honey

2 vast eggs

1 1/2 cups buttermilk

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

1 crater roasted as well as salted sunflower seeds

*If we have raw sunflower seeds, toss them with 1 teaspoon olive oil as well as a single meagre teaspoon salt as well as bake on a cookie sheet for twelve mins (or until slightly browned) in a 350 degree F oven. Let cool prior to incorporating in to a bread batter.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray dual 94x3-inch bread pans with non-stick in progress spray as well as set aside.

In a vast bowl, whisk together flours, sugar, salt, baking powder as well as baking soda.

In a medium bowl, whisk together honey, eggs, buttermilk as well as melted butter.

Add a wet mixture all during once to a dry ingredients. Fold to incorporate. Try not to overmix a batter. Once a flour has almost disappeared fold in a 3/4 crater of a sunflower seeds (reserving a little seeds to garnish a top). Fold until no flour pieces remain.

Divide beat in between a dual pans. This will create smaller loaves not huge loaves only so we know. Bake for 35-40 minutes, being sure not to over-bake as well as dry out a bread.

Remove from oven as well as let rest in a pans for 10 minutes. Invert onto cooling racks. Serve warm or wrap tightly as well as freeze. Awesome.

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