Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Goat Cheese Biscuits

Soup is my a a single preferred thing to make.

If I could have been a veteran soup builder instead of a veteran baker this blog would have been called something.. well, we know.

I adore creation soup.

I only stand in front of a stove as well as stir. And stir. And stir. And utterly space out. Stir again. Think some thoughts. Stir. Taste. Stir.

Its a best. Its similar to receiving as well prolonged a shower as well as accidentally washing we hair 3 as well as a half times.

Soup is most appropriate with biscuits. Really.. Ill find any forgive to put a biscuit in my face.

These biscuits are made with both butter as well as goat cheese. Goat cheese!! In a dang biscuit!

The result is a tender, somewhat tangy, mental condition boat biscuit situation.

These are a most appropriate dump biscuits to ever happen, anywhere ever.

Theyre so easy. Make them. Youll understand.

Let me discuss it we about this soup.

Its called Curried Sweet Potato Soup, though its not unequivocally curry-y. Its packaged with some unequivocally lovely flavors: coriander, cumin as well as ginger as well as of march loads of honeyed potato. Goat cheese crumbles upon tip unequ! ivocally balance out a total bowl.

This soup as well as biscuit combination is absolutely a single of my a a single preferred tumble discoveries. Its so warm, dainty as well as delicious. Please have it happen in your kitchen.

Curried Sweet Potato Soup

from The Essential New York Times Cookbook

serves 6 to 8

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1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil

1 crater coarsely chopped onions

1 vast clove garlic, coarsely chopped

1 tablespoon chopped ginger

1 teaspoon belligerent cumin

1/2 teaspoon belligerent coriander

1/4 teaspoon belligerent cardamom

1/4 teaspoon turmeric

1/8 teaspoon crushed red peppers flakes

2 1/2 pounds honeyed potatoes, peeled as well as sliced 1/4-inch thick

6 cups duck broth, or somewhat some-more as needed.

salt as well as peppers to taste

6 to 8 teaspoons goat cheese

Heat a oil in a vast pot over middle heat. Add a onions as well as saute until a onions proceed to brown, about 10 minutes. Add a garlic as well as saute, stirring for 30 seconds. Add a ginger, cumin, coriander, turmeric as well as red peppers flakes. Add a honeyed potatoes as well as gas as well as move to a boil.

Reduce a feverishness as well as simmer until a honeyed potatoes are soft, about twenty minutes.

Puree a soup, in batches in a blender or food processor. Season to taste. The soup can be made a day ahead as well as kept in a fridge. Reheat over a low flame. If a soup is as well thick, supplement a small some-more stock.

Ladle in to bowls as well as pulp goat cheese upon top.

Goat Cheese Drop Biscuits

makes about 9 biscuits

adapted somewhat from Art Smiths Table Fifty-Two

2 cups all-purpose flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

4 tablespoons (2 ounces) cold unsalted butter, cut in to cubes

1 tablespoon unsalted butter, for a pan

2 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted to tip a biscui! ts

4 tablespoons (2 ounces) goat cheese, crumbled

1 crater buttermilk

Place a shelve in a upper third of a oven as well as preheat to 425 degrees F. Place a 10-inch expel iron skillet in a oven to preheat as well.

In a middle bowl, drive together flour, baking powder as well as salt. With your fingers incorporate a butter as well as goat cheese until a flour resembles a coarse, pebbly mixture. Make a good in a center of a flour reduction as well as pour in a buttermilk. With a fork, mix together a buttermilk as well as flour until all of a dry flour disappears.

Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a small salsa vessel or in a microwave. Set aside.

Remove a expel iron from a oven as well as place a single tablespoon of butter in it. Work a pat of butter around, greasing a entire pan, together with a sides.

Spoon a batter, by a 1/4-cup in to a hot skillet. I used a big scooper to do a job. The biscuits will touch when baked thats ok.

Brush with melted butter.

Bake for 14-16 minutes, until somewhat golden in color. Remove from a oven. Let rest for 5 minutes. Serve warm.

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Korean Food @ Hwangsil Garden, Neo Damansara, Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya

manduguk or dumplings


Life ain't always about excellent dining as well as when it comes to a idealisation comfort food, you often reach out for a little Korean food with loads of kimchi. Strangely enough, kimchi was additionally what you turned to for a quick gratifying meal upon Sunday. To celebrate Formula One's first incursion in South Korea upon Sunday (even thoughthe racewas behind since of a rain), you whipped up kimchi boiled quinoa - a mix of minced lamb, Korean eryingi mushrooms, kimchi with fluffyblack quinoa.



1Msia/1Korea, pig swell time, fans, barbecuing takes patience


Strangely enough, which all familiar tack Korean itemis now wanting in Koreadue to soaring cabbage prices following a bad harvest. Hopefully an effort by a government to bring in Chinese cabbage will save a day. Luckily for us, cabbage is in abundance as a result there's no possibility we'll suffer from a kimchi shortage.


pork swell slices

I was introduced to this place by my friend S who works turn a dilemma from this small eatery. Located during a obstruction of shophouses called Neo Damansara,there's a demand for Korean food as a Korean village is growing aroundthis neighbourhood.

grilled beef ribs

I favourite how this place seems to serve not a common run-of-the-mill Korean items. There was manduguk(RM22)or dumplings upon a menu, as a result you ordered it being keen to try a dumplings. you w! as not d issapointed as you desired a robust beef stuffed dumplings coupled with a garlicky soup. After consulting a waitress, you ordered her highly endorsed pig swell (daepae samgyob for RM25) which resembled pieces of bacon. It's not cooking as a result any piece is easily dipped in soy salsa prior to being grilled upon a hot plate. While it was crispy, it did miss much ambience since it was not marinated. Instead, you fell in adore with a beef ribs (L.A. Yangnyom galbi for RM40) - cooking with a flavorful salsa with a fork-tender texture. Simply beautiful especially when eaten with a crisp lettuce leaves.





banchan selection: open onion pancake, radish, jellied pig as well as kimchi

I additionally favourite a side dishes - a banchan since it was unusual compared to what is customarily served in Korean restaurants. Pink phony radish cools down a palate, while kimchi cabbage adds spice as well as a cuttlefish adds a lurch of sweetness. They additionally serve little open onion pancakes, crispy edged flat cakes with lots of chopped open onions. Also upon a table was an unusual cold pig plate you drop in a salsa which kinda reminds me of a fermented ambience of cincalok. Service was quick as well as efficient. This place definitely warrants a second as well as even third visit to try further their menu. Lunch sets have been additionally accessible as well as per my friend, priced pretty to not burn a hole in your pocket.


Hwangsil Garden
Block F (F-1-1)
Neo Damansara
No.1, Jalan PJU 8/1
Damansara Perdana
Petaling Jaya
Tel: 03-7724 2892

(Non Halal. Place is during a new shoplots opposite Metropolitan Condominums where Citibank is located. For more pictures, see my Flickr set)

Disclai mer: The opinions expressed here is wholly based upon my personal tastebuds as well as may vary for others. This review is time sensitive; changes may start to a place later upon which can start this opinion. The reviewer additionally declares which she has not received any financial or non-monetary remuneration from this place for writing a review.
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Pumpkin, Quinoa and Hazelnut Gnocchi and Some Chocolate Pot de Creme

Our farmers marketplace eventually proposed again. we cannot hold it has been 6 months already since we enjoyed a last farmers' marketplace tomatoes, berries as well as more. Even after all these years, we still find it erotically appealing how when a rest of a country is going in to almost hibernation, we have been now enjoying being outside as well as a growing season starts once again.



It was about 6:30 upon Sunday sunrise when J. came rushing in a room. "Can we go to a farmers' marketplace play ground as well as get a tiny doughnuts with a sprinkles upon them?" It is one of a things we look brazen to a most. Walk around, get uninformed furnish as well as eggs for a week, something to eat as well as afterwards conduct across a street to a park.

We played tough indeed.



C. took a kids to a friend's residence to give me a tiny time to work as well as unwind. Sometimes, there is nothing better than an dull residence as well as silence.

I put all my farmers' marketplace something good to eat away, sat down as well as afterwards felt a sudden urge to have gnocchi. It had been a prolonged time.



I remembered my y! ears in a fritter kitchen when a conduct chef would arrive early in a morning, prior to any of his cooks did, so he could have pasta in assent as well as quiet. Kneading, rolling, filling, folding... Not a word, only song as well as his pasta.

Perhaps a overpower we found during home was really what inspired me to have these gnocchi. Little dumplings of roasted red kuri squish from a marketplace with Robert as well as Paula's eggs, quinoa flour as well as hazelnuts. They were delicious as well as abounding tossed in brownish-red butter, uninformed virtuoso as well as toasted hazelnuts.



For dessert, these tiny pots of chocolate as well as hazelnut butter custard done with coconut divert as well as vanilla bean.

The perfect ending.

Red Kuri Squash, Quinoa as well as Hazelnut Gnocchi with Brown Butter, Sage as well as Toasted Hazelnuts

makes sufficient for 2 vast or 4 tiny servings

1 lb (454 grams) roasted red kuri squish puree (1 middle red kuri squash)
olive oil as well as salt to roast a squash
1 egg yolk
1/2 crater (60 grams) quinoa flour
1/4 crater (30 grams) hazelnut flour
2 Tbs (20 grams) tapioca starch
1/2 tsp salt
pinch of creatively grated nutmeg
Dusting gluten giveaway flour mix
3 Tbs butter, browned
2 Tbs frsh sage, finely chopped
2 Tbs toasted hazelnuts, chopped
Parmesan cheese, optional

Cut a squish in half as well as mislay a seeds. Cut any half in to strips as well as place them upon a baking sheet. Toss them with a tiny olive oil as well as salt. Roast them during 400F for about 30 mins or until tender. Let them cold for a couple of mins until cold sufficient to handle.

Puree a squish in to a vast bowl with a food mill or a potato ricer. This allows a puree to be light as well as feathery as well as a dry mixture have been inco! rporated quickly but carrying to overwork a dough. Weigh 1 lb of puree.

Add a egg yolk, quinoa flour, hazelnut meal, tapioca starch, salt as well as nutmeg. Mix with a fork. It will be a sticky dough.

Dust a wooden board or your work aspect with flour. Coat your hands with flour. Take a middle round as well as hurl it in to a prolonged record which is about 1/2" thick in diameter. Cut this record in to 1- 1 1/2" pieces. Roll any piece upon your fork to emanate indentations as well as dump it upon a baking piece lined with easily floured parchment. Repeat until you have cut all a dough.

You can cook them upon solidify them during this point. To solidify them, stick a baking piece in a freezer as well as when a gnocchi have been hard, put them in a freezer bag. If you confirm to solidify them, do not unfreeze them out prior to cooking.

To cook them bring a vast pot of pickled H2O to a boil. Drop a gnocchi in it. They have been done when they boyant to a surface.

In a meantime, heat a butter in a vast saute pan. Let a butter brown. Add a virtuoso as well as toss a baked gnocchi in it. Serve with toasted hazelnuts as well as parmesan.

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Trick or (tiny) Treat

With Halloween entrance up this weekend, youre probably celebration of a mass as well as observation lots of advice per chocolate choices as well as snack strategies. While some might go out of their approach to hope for as well as receive usually healthy snacks, were of a mass market camp, permitting a kids to suffer whatever is handed to them. This is, after all, a once in a year event.

One of a things manufacturers have finished to make hold up easier upon us (and a pocketbooks) is a mini-size candies as well as chocolates, which lend towards to become more prevalent in a months leading up to All Saints Day.

Financially, handing out mini-candies can assistance stretch your budget. On a reception end, your kids get reduction junk food to munch down.

We picked up a mix bag of Kit-Kat minis as well as checked it out.

What you need to know:

A bag contains 35 pieces (fingers). A serving is considered FIVE (5!!!) fingers. It has 210 calories, roughly half from jam-packed fat, a rest from sugarine (about 5 teaspoons worth).

But if you divide this by 5, as well as devour usually a single chocolate finger were paying usually 42 calories, reduction than 2 grams of fat, as well as usually a single teaspoon of sugar.

If a kids (and we, for which matter) learn not to cackle down candy, this mini-sized trend might be a good approach to suffer treats but going overboard.

What to do at a supermarket:

Look for punch sized snack bags.

Check ingredient lists for chocolate candies but to some extent hydrogenated oils (trans-fats).

Choose candies but synthetic colors (Yellow #5, Red #40, etc)

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World chefs: Bringing southern food to the masses

NEW YORK, Oct 12 — Scott Jones is on a mission to popularize the down-home cooking enjoyed by millions of Americans living in the southern United States. The former Hollywood development executive for Paramount and Disney, who is now the food editor for Southern Living magazine, said his love of food led him to quit his job on the West Coast and return to the South. “The pull of food was stronger than that of the motion picture business,” he explained. “Now I want to show what real people are cooking in real kitchens and speak to the food of the region.” “1001 Ways to Cook Southern”, which was compiled by the magazine, includes breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes, as well as desserts and side dishes. Jones spoke to Reuters about the new book and what makes southern cooking so appealing.

Q: What is it about southern cooking that has made it so popular in the United States?

A: “There are a number of things that have influenced southern cooking and its popularity. It has a lot to do with the ingredients, with the land, the history and the culture. There are a lot of cool things going on in food right now, and I think people are taking notice. Southern food also is local food and it shows sustainability, which people like.” Q: Could you explain how Southern food shows sustainability? A: “In the South, there are a lot of small farmers who have a culture of selling produce by the roadside, for example. Many farmers have been farming organically forever. Although most are too small to be certified as organic, they are as organic and natural as any big farm. They are good stewards of the land in the South.” Q: What are some ingredients typical of Southern food? A: “I would say there are some heavy hitters — butter milk, pecans, corn-based products such as grits, pork products, rice and, of course, bourbon. It’s hard to pinpoint as things are developing with time. If you look at the overall statistics, there is amazing diversity in the South. It’s the big gumbo pot. Different ethnic communities are bringing their own culture and ingredients and mixing it up with the classics. For example, you may have catfish from an area with an Asian community, which reflects different flavor profiles and diversity.”

Q: Does one need to be a skilled chef to prepare these recipes?

A: “No, absolutely not. Our magazine reaches 16 million people and has become a trusted source, a hallmark for those looking for southern recipes. Many of the recipes come from readers, many of them in home kitchens in regular towns. The recipes reflect that. Anyone can have success.” Grilled Chicken with White Barbecue Sauce 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon onion powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 10 chicken thighs White Barbecue sauce 1. Combine first seven ingredients. Rinse chicken and pat dry. Rub mixture evenly over chicken. Place chicken in a zip-top plastic freezer bag. Seal and chill 4 hours. Remove chicken from bag. Discard bag. 2. Preheat grill to 350-400 degrees. Grill chicken covered with grill lid, 8 to 10 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion registers 170 degrees. Serve with White Barbecue Sauce. — Reuters

Like a Ball and Chain.

Sittin down by my window,
Honey, lookin out during the rain.
Oh, Lord, Lord, sittin down by my window,
Baby, lookin out during the rain.
Somethin came along, grabbed the reason of me, honey,
And it felt only similar to the round as well as chain.
Honey, thats only what it felt like,
Honey, only dragging me down.

And we say, oh, whoa, whoa, right away hon, discuss it me why,
Why does each single little tiny
thing we reason upon to go wrong ?
Yeah it goes wrong, yeah.
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Does each thing, each thing.
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I only longed for to reason you, we said, for so long,
Yeah! Alright! Hey!

Loves got the reason upon me, baby,
Feels similar to the round as well as chain.
Now, loves only draggin me down, baby,
Feels similar to the round as well as chain.
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tell me, discuss it me why, yeah.
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I longed for to adore we as well as reason you
Till the day we die.
I pronounced whoa, whoa, whoa!!

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It aint fair, dad it aint satisfactory what we do,
I see what youre doin to me and
you know it aint fair.
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It aint fair, now, now, now, what we do
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it aint satisfactory what we do.
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Was to adore you
Honey we can still listen to me stone as well as hurl the best,
! Only it aint roll, no, no, no, no, no.

Sittin down by my window,
Lookin out during the rain.
Lord, Lord, Lord, sittin down by my window,
Lookin out during the rain, see the rain.
Somethin came along, grabbed the reason of me,
And it felt similar to the round as well as chain.
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And we contend no no no no no no no no, whoa,
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Hey, goal there is someone which could discuss it me
Hon, discuss it me because adore is like
Just similar to the ball
Just similar to the ball
Baaaaaaalllll
Oh daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy,
daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy
And the chain.
Yeah.





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