The Daring Cooks June, 2010 Challenge: Pâtés and Bread

Our hostesses this month, Evelyne of Cheap Ethnic Eatz, and Valerie of a The Chocolate Bunny, chose delicious pate with freshly baked bread as their June Daring Cook’s challenge! They’ve provided us with 4 different pate recipes to choose from and are allowing us to go wild with our homemade bread choice.

I am not posting any recipes this time, you can find them here with various pâtés and bread recipes provided.
This was such a fun experience!!!!!!!!! Mainly because... I got to use my just arrived  Kitchen-aid and Vitamix.
Kitchen-aid is such a great tool to have around! I had no trouble at all with the french baguette except the slashing cuts that sorta deformed my dough. 

BUT... everything went downhill 20min after I started with the chicken pâté :( I cut the pork belly into cubes and tried to grind it by a handful with Vitamix, after 20sec... it died. I was cool with that after reading the user's manual that it does that when it is over heated and it'll start to work again after 45min cool down. It didn't. So... I decided to hand chop everything!!! LOL

Here are the results.

I must say, I love love pate but this was only okay because my "hand-chopped" fat totally disgusted me. Will I do this again, ABSOLUTELY!!! Actually, I have a lamb liver, a trout, some shrimp, more pork belly and all the ingredients in my refrigerator right now :) Just need a food processor asap.

若是無聊....就禱告吧 (If bored, Pray!)

 從小我就過著兩種生活, 一個是基督徒的生活, 另外一個是酷的生活. 雖然我還是我, 但是卻沒有很彰顯"基督徒"那種飯前睡前起床都禱告, 逢人就傳福音的生活.

我想　我是個小信的人, 我每次禱告最常說的也就是跟主說我真的很軟弱 :P

連 我最親近的人, 也就是我老公, 我都沒有跟他傳福音. 我怕講太多了　他會不管什麼事情都拿我是基督徒就因該要怎樣怎樣來堵我　哈哈, 尤其是吵架的時候　因為主說:

弗 5：22-25、28
你們作妻子的，當順服自己的丈夫，如同順服主。因為丈夫是妻子的頭，如同基督是教會的頭；他又是教會全體的救主。教會 怎樣順服基督，妻子也要怎樣凡事順服 丈夫。你們作丈夫的，要愛你們的妻子，正如基督愛教會，為教會捨己。 丈夫也當照樣愛妻子，如同愛自己的身子；愛妻子便是愛自己了。

我最不會的就是順服 阿!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
不過　如果我有一天生了小孩 　我一定要她背起來:

弗 6：1-8
你們作兒女的，要在主裏聽從父母，這是理所當然的。要孝敬父母，使你得福，在世長壽。這是第一條帶應許的誡命。你們作父親的，不要惹兒女的氣，只要照著主 的教訓和警戒養育他們。

說那麼多, 回歸到主題, 今天早上我在逛網路時　竟然讓我看到了一個網站:

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!7a.iaKGBGRlgkK9YbE1ZFw--/article?mid=295&sc=1#299
真 的很有趣　很多科學人都是基督徒, 越聰明的人, 連諾貝爾得獎的也越相信有神

ok, 又扯開了.......

我 要說的就是網頁的最下面有一個人留言:


弟兄姊 妹們！請聽我沈重的呼籲，「有事沒事」就禱告吧！
常有人說，我在發呆、我現在 好無聊、我現在閒得發慌不曉得做啥才好
弟兄姊妹們！禱告！！禱告！！再禱 告！！

哈哈　這個人好像有點怪怪的....不過這幾句話好像是對我說的

因為我就是從小到大每天都喊無聊的那個人阿!!!!!

好無聊喔～～～～～～～～～～～～～

最近真的很多要禱告的事情

1. 婆婆的身體跟心靈

2. 讓我擔心的媽媽

3. 小美的工作

4. 夫妻生活=最新功課

Almond Semifreddo

Ingredient:
100g Almond Flake
150g Sugar
7 Large egg yolks
500ml Pure cream

Caramel:
150g Sugar
50ml Water

1.Put almond flake into a fry pan to fry until fragrance.
2.Prepare caramel
a. Combine water & sugar in a sauce pan with high heat
b. Keep “rotating” the sauce pan when brown colour start to coming out from the side of the sauce pan
c.Keep “rotating until the caramel becoming light yellow colour, then switch off the fire
d.Keep “rotating” until the whole pot becomes golden colour
3.Combine 1 into 2, stir thoroughly
4.Spread 3 thinly onto a baking paper for cool down (approx. 15mins)
5.Break 4 into small sizes (as desire)
6.Beat sugar and egg yolks into thick and light yellow colour mixture. (similar to mayo texture)
7.Beat the pure cream until stand
8.Combine 5 and 6
9.Fold 8 into 7
10.Place mixture into container, put into freezer for over night then serve.

So I found this recipe from CBC Bakery, it's one of the cake's that pure fattening with icecream like texture, something my dh would surely enjoy.

Will try this out asap sometime this week!