Monday 20 October 2014

The Best Packed Food To Hoard Up

Do you find yourself often too busy to grab a meal? Do you live alone and mostly find your kitchen a mess stockpiled on rotten food? Are you spending extraordinarily to grab snacks from outside to suppress those hunger pangs? An affirmation to these is a clear sign you are struggling to balance out a busy life or you are absolutely hopeless at cooking. Whatever the cause may be your nutritional needs are taking a hit in the course.


 
So to help you out with this, we have put together a list of must have packed or semi ready food items, that can cure you of hunger in no time.
 
Homemade Potato Chips- These are healthier than the average wafer you eat all day long. Refill your 
stock every weekend and prefer buying multiple but smaller packets. That way you will eat in moderation.
 
Coffee Beans and a coffee maker- If you don’t have them already, go get them now. An absolute must for any workaholic; this is the thing that keeps you moving through the day.
 
Dry Milk- How many times do you forget to buy milk or run out of it before you can refill? Just keep a big packet of dry milk handy. They have good shelf life and all you have to do is resist putting in a wet spoon, and they will last forever.
 
Pizza Pasta Sauce- Hungry at odd hours? Just put to boil a bowl of penne pasta in the microwave while you do your stuff. Add diced onions a generous splash of sauce in a skillet with heated oil and mix well with boiled pasta.
 
Oat meal or Muesli- It is the healthiest and quickest breakfast on earth. It is also very filling and keeps hunger away till midday. So, keep it, stick to it, make it a habit.
 
Jams, Marmalades, sandwich spreads- Just put them on a toast or a chappati and a quick and tasty refill is ready.
 
So, with these staples stocked up in your kitchen, your bachelor life should be happy and gay   
  

Thursday 9 October 2014

Homemade Mayonnaise

All your salads, burgers, sandwiches and toasts would be so bland without a perfect mayo. While licking on a fresh batch, I wonder how one thing can be so versatile and delicious at the same time. It is certainly one of my kitchen staples, what about you?

Well, if you are as fond of it as I am you will certainly appreciate the homemade mayonnaise sauce recipe. It’s the smoothest, lightest, fluffiest and tastiest of what you have ever had. Though, the flip side is it has a short shelf life and it’s not always feasible to whip your own mayo every time you want to have a sandwich.
 
Mrs. Bector's Cremica - food service India
I prefer Mrs Bector’s mayonnaise or their Thousand Island dressing India as it is the closest to the homemade version and when I can find the time, I make my own. Here’s how I do it.
Ingredients
1¼ Cups of cooking oil (divided)
2 egg yolks
½ tsp. English mustard powder
Salt
1 tbsp. lemon juice
 
Recipe
 
Well, it does not need a diploma in cooking to make the perfect mayo but yes, you can use up a lot of patience while doing it as you are set to do the impossible. Actually, it is an emulsion (a mixture of two liquids that wouldn’t naturally mix). So, to help it emulsify properly allow all the ingredients to be at room temperature and not cold.  
 
Going on, the humble kitchen ingredients needed for mayonnaise sauce recipe are a big mixing bowl, 

a kitchen towel, and a hand blender. Initially, you can put in the eggs, salt and mustard together and whisk for a while. Now add ¼ cup of oil and mix again. Now start pouring the remaining oil in a thin stream and keep mixing with the blender. The slower you’d be with the oil, the fluffier and lighter your mayonnaise will be. Finally put in the lemon juice and stir. You can use it within a day or two when refrigerated properly.
 
So, enjoy the homemade sauce.