I love you

The message in the picture was made with gummy candies. I was surprised when I recieved this from a friend (if that friend is a woman or a man, I wont tell hahahhahahahaha). But I appreciate the message and it is very lovely, since it is food, I want to share it to all of you.
Bottom line is .... we can be creative with the foods we eat.

Food decoration 3

Last time, I posted about how to make a flower from a carrot and cucumber ruban slices, now I am going to share how to make a rose from tomato skin. Yes! From tomato skin! It is very easy but unique.
First we need a tomato

Then we need to cut the top part of the tomato but we  leave a little part still attached

From that point , we will start  peeling the tomato, until we reach the bottom part

After we removed the tomato skin, from the bottom part, we will start to roll it like this

Just keep on rolling until we finish forming a flower, like these

big rose

small rose

I hope that you like this food decoration, the next time you serve salad to your loved ones, use this as a decoration and I am sure that they will like it. :-) Have fun!

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Food decoration 1

A little decoration in your food will add attractiveness to the dish, so I will be sharing this simple flowers made from carrot and cucumber. I hope you will like this one. :)

By using a peeler, make a nice ruban slices from carrot and cucumber.

This is a ruban kind of slice

http://melyskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/10/different-cuts-of-meat-and-vegetables.html
To form it into a flower , we need to twist it one by one like this,

Then we need a toothpick to  arrange this together like this,

put a base for the toothpick to stand, then arrange four twisted ruban carrots to form a flower like this

the same process with the cucumber

That's all, have fun :)

My cooking utensils

These are the cooking utensils that I used in my cooking. Just an ordinary ones, I don't have golden ladles!:-) I will post more pictures soon:)

Tablespoon and Teaspoon

Pan

Chopping board

Rectangular Baking bowl

Pasta ladle

soup ladle

Common ladle

Frying ladle

Spatula

Tongs

Garlic crusher

Cheese Grater

Slicer & Shredder

Peeler

Knife

Cups

Different Cuts of meat and vegetables

There are different terms for the slices or cuts of meat and vegetable, here are some that I knew, I will update this post soon, to add more.

Half

Quarter

Wedge

                                                                 Cube

Julienne

Dice

Strip

Shred

Mince

French

Ground

Crush

Batonette

Chiffonade

Ruban

Ingredients Part 1

Some photos of the
ingredients that I use in cooking

Cashew Nut

Yellow lemon

Onion

Cayenne chilli pepper

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Green beans

Celery

Chinese Cabbage

Corn

Cinnamon

Whole black pepper

Chuchu

Cucumber

Garlic

Ginger

Parsley

Mung bean or mongo

Aniseed

Tomatoes

Green onion or Spring onion

Sweet Potato

Calamansi

Green Lemon

Bell Peppers

Olives