I haven't been cooking a lot lately, but recently I had a burst of energy and enthusiasm, and decided to dive into making some homemade hamburger buns for hamburgers. My mom has been doing a lot of the cooking lately, but upon wondering what we should have for dinner and discovering ground beef in the freezer, I decided making homemade hamburger buns was a good idea since we didn't have any store bought buns.
I decided to try the hamburger and hotdog bun recipe on allrecipes. It's probably one of the fastest bread recipes I've tried, and it was incredibly easy. I decided to brush the buns with a bit of egg wash and sprinkled them with sesame seeds before baking them in the oven.
These buns are incredibly soft and perfect for a hamburger. I'd definitely make them again.
In addition to the hamburgers and hamburger buns, I also decided to make molten lava cakes. I've never made them before, so it was definitely an interesting process, although easier than I thought. I used the recipe at the following URL: http://mehanskitchen.blogspot.ca/2012/02/molten-chocolate-cake.html. I just didn't use the liquor, espresso powder, or orange zest in it, although I'm sure either of these things would have been lovely. I just didn't have any of these ingredients on hand.
My main issue with the cake was that I probably over baked it a bit, as it wasn't very runny in the middle. It was still delicious though.
With the cakes, I also had scoops of coconut ice cream. My grandmother recently bought my sister and I an ice cream maker, so I've been trying out quite a few ice cream recipes with it. I just did the basic ice cream recipe at the following URL, only once I had everything mixed together I put it in the ice cream maker, and I also didn't bother whipping the cream, since the ice cream maker does the job:
http://thaifood.about.com/od/thaidesserts/ss/coconuticecream.htm. I mixed about a 1/4 cup of dried coconut into the ice cream to give it that extra coconut flavour, and it was a big hit.
No comments:
Post a Comment