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my grandmothers special bread. It is one of my sweet memories of her. It's difficult to make, but i will make it ... someday.
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11-14-2009, 01:47 PM #1
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Learning fav family recipe --one day
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Got any favourite dishes/recipes from your family, that you just haven't gotten around to learning how to prepare? But one day, if you'll stop procrastinating, you will?
I do. I have cookbooks but there are certain recipes that benefit from direct demonstration and tips from my mother. Just reading a static recipe is just part of story.
They are:
a) Sticky rice bundles with meat/egg/Chinese sausage/some lentils wrapped in bamboo or lotus leaves. There is a real art of tying up the friggin' rice bundles with the kitchen string so rice bundles don't accidentally burst apart in cooking process. So some siblings actually videofilmed my mother doing this. Dunno where that videoclip is right now.
b) Certain dim sum-- haven't yet made anything from start to finish. Just know how to stuff up the dim sum and do the dough pleating.Last edited by shootingstar; 11-14-2009 at 06:10 PM.
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11-14-2009, 02:25 PM #2
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Last edited by papaver; 11-14-2009 at 02:28 PM.
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11-14-2009, 02:50 PM #3
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I'm curious --what makes the recipe complicated?
Originally Posted by papaver
my grandmothers special bread. It is one of my sweet memories of her. It's difficult to make, but i will make it ... someday.
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11-14-2009, 03:20 PM #4
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well... she wrote the recipe down... but left one key ingredient out.
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11-14-2009, 05:14 PM #5
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I've mostly gotten lefse down but I want to see the video made of my grandma making it before she passed. I also want to learn how to make tamales.
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11-14-2009, 05:52 PM #6
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Had never heard of lefse. Don't know much about Norwegian cuisine. I don't think we have any restaurant locally that specializes in that cuisine. (We have a Swedish bakery.) Thanks to you, I went looking:
http://www.lefsetime.com/all_about_l...se_recipes.php It looks like a recipe that requires excellent timing and perfect "touch" to get it that delicate.
And I love a true authentic tamale! Such fine homey thing. At least it's not as complicated to bundle up like Chinese sticky rice bundles. But it still looks like abit like something to practice.My Personal blog on cycling & other favourite passions.
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11-15-2009, 01:00 PM #7
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My aunt can roll out an even thickness of pie crust in a perfect circle of the correct size after only a glimpse of the pan. If it's her pan, she doesn't even have to look.
She can also fold fitted sheets into an absolutely flat square shape.
Maybe it is the same skill. One that I will never have.
