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Oct
08
2014

How to make a Japanese heart-shaped hard-boiled egg

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Ingredients. You will need:
– Egg
– Milk carton or any juice carton (cut open, washed well and dried)
– Chopstick (round one is ideal)
– Rubber bands

Step 1: Cut milk carton and fold it in half lengthwise.

How make a heart shaped egg <3This is all you need. (besides an egg) The milk carton is about 3″ X 8″.

Step 2: Make a hard boiled egg.

Step 3: While the egg is still warm, peel the egg and put the egg on the milk carton, place a chopstick on the center of the egg, and put rubber bands on the both ends.

How make a heart shaped egg <3If you don’t have a round chopstick maybe you can put a skewer inside a straw and use it.

How make a heart shaped egg <3Make sure the egg is freshly boiled and warm. Otherwise the egg might break from the pressure.

How make a heart shaped egg <3You want the chopstick to dig into the egg.

Step 4: Leave it for about 10 minutes. (Keep the egg in the fridge)

Step 5: Take the chopstick off and cut the egg in half.

How make a heart shaped egg <3Hard boiled eggs are so soft, smooth and easily modified.

How make a heart shaped egg <3It’s cute as is.

How make a heart shaped egg <3But the heart shaped yolk makes it even more adorable! Also every pair is very unique, so no other pair is like it! Kind of romantic, isn’t it?

Jun
16
2014

Pastitsio recipe: baked pasta with meat and bechamel

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▶ Pastitsio Recipe – Baked Pasta with Meat and Bechamel Topping – YouTube.

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb) macaroni
6 tbsp olive oil
50 g (2 oz) kefalotiri cheese, finely grated
(you can replace this cheese with any ordinary grated cheese)

For the meat sauce

500 g (1 lb) minced beef or lamb
4 tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and chopped
2 large onions, finely chopped
125 ml (4 fl oz) water
6 tbsp olive oil
1 bay leaf
Salt
Pepper

For the Bechamel sauce

750 ml (24 fl oz) milk
100 g (3½ oz) kefalotiri cheese, finely grated
3 eggs
60 g (2 oz) butter
60 g (2 oz) plain flour
¼ tsp nutmeg

Jun
10
2013

Fruity Corn Salad by Tarla Dalal

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Fruity Corn Salad (Vitamin A and C) by Tarla Dalal – YouTube.

Ingredients
For The Mint Dressing :
1/2 cup chopped mint leaves (phudina)
1 tsp grated ginger (adrak)
1/2 tsp finely chopped green chillies
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp honey
salt to taste

For the salad :
1 cup watermelon (tarbuj) cubes
1 cup pineapple cubes
1 cup cooked sweet corn kernels (makai ke dane)
1 cup cucumber cubes
1/2 cup lettuce , torn into pieces
salt to taste

Method
For the tangy mint dressing :
1.Combine the watermelon, pineapple, sweet corn kernels and cucumber along with 1 tbsp of water to a coarse paste.
2.Add the honey and salt and mix well. Keep aside.

To make the salad :
1.Put the lettuce leaves in a bowl full of ice-cold water for half an hour. This will make them crisp. Drain the water and keep aside.
2.Combine all the ingredients in a deep bowl.
3.Pour the mint dressing and toss well.
4.Serve chilled.