food and drink

Housebar

2011-08-08T20:15:00.000-07:00

Cocktail and mocktail are both a kind of mixed drinks with the only difference that cocktail is intoxicating in nature as it contains alcohol and mocktail is non-intoxicating in nature as it doesn't contains alcohol.Only a few people has an idea for preparing these kind of mix drinks. We basically have to go to the bar if we want to have it. So for all the mix drink lovers here is presented some easy recipes to prepare cocktail and mocktail and get the taste and pleasure of the bar at your own home.
Strawberry Margarita
Ingredients
1/2 oz strawberry schnapps
1 oz tequila
1/2 oz triple sec
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz strawberry
salt
Directions
Rub the rim of the cocktail glass with lemon juice and dip rim in salt. Shake schnapps, tequila, triple sec, lemon juice, and strawberries with ice, strain into the salt-rimmed glass, and serve.
Serve in: Cocktail glass

Amazon Street Lemonade
Ingredients
Ice
2 oz vodka
lemonade
Directions
Fill the glass with ice.
Add 2 oz vodka and fill the glass with lemonade.
Serve in: Highball glass

Between The Sheets
Ingredients
30ml brandy
30ml bacardi(white rum)
30ml cointreau
15ml lime juice
few ice cubes
Directions
Mix all the ingerdients and shake well. Garnish with half lemon slice and olive and serve it in a martini or champagne glass.

Cuba Libre
Ingredients
45ml white rum
15ml lime juice
3 drops angostura bitter
Coke to top
Few cubes of ice
Lime peel for garnish
Directions
Mix all the ingredients except coke, stir, top it with coke and garnish it with lime peel. This cocktail is best served in a hi-ball glass.

Fruit Beer
Ingredient
2-3 cubes ice
120ml apple juice
2 drops egg white
2 drops angostura bitter or
2 drops lime skin juice
10ml lemon juice
salt to taste
soda to top
Directions
Put ice cubes, apple juice, egg white, angostura bitter, lemon juice, salt into a cocktail shaker and shake well. Pour it into a champagne tulip and top it with soda. Garnish it with red cherry, lime slice and apple slice. Serve it chilled

Hi! my girlfriend
Ingredients
120ml apple juice
2 drops of tobassco sauce
15ml lime juice
1 tea spn. black salt
2 tea spn. coconut powder
1 tea spn. fresh cream
2-3 crushed ice cubes
2 drops of grenadine syrup
Apple slice & cherry for garnish

Direction
Mix the apple juice, lemon juice, tobassco sauce, salt with the crushed ice. Then pour it in a Parfait glass and top it with coconut powder, a scoop of cream, grenadine syrup and garnish it with a slice of apple and cherry.

Margarita

Ingredients
45ml Tequila
15ml Triple sec
10ml Fresh lemon Juice
3-4 nos Ice cubes
Rim the margarita glass with salt

Direction
Pour the Tequila, Triple sec and lemon juice and ice cube in the cocktail shaker and shake well. Pour the shake drink into the margarita glass. Garnish with wedge lemon and serve.

Hot Rum Punch

Ingredients
60ml Dark Rum
1 tbl. spn. Honey
10ml Lemon Juice
10ml Orange Squash

Direction
Pour all the ingredients into High-ball glass. Pour some powder of cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. Pour hot water, stir well and serve.

Metal Craze

Ingredients
20ml tequila
20ml Rum
15ml Kahlua
15ml Gin
15ml Cola
Dash of Lime juice

Direction
Take a standard High-Ball glass. Add 3 cubes of ice. Top with Tequila, Rum, Kahlua and Gin. Then add Cola. Finish off with lime juice. Garnish with lemon, cherry, mint.

Introduction to spices

2011-07-03T20:46:00.001-07:00

Every spices has its own distinct flavor and fragrance. Some are used for coloring the food, some for flavor and some for the pleasant aroma. Spices enliven the palate, activate the taste buds and add the enjoyment of pleasures. So, it is very important to know which spice is ideally suited to a particular dish. Mustard in fish, allium(jimbu)in black lentil, cardamom and cloves in rice pudding elevate the flavor and aroma of these dishes.

The spices not only contain flavor and aroma but they have medicinal values too. Ayurveda stresses importance of the uses of spices in curing many ailments. Cloves are recommended for curing somach disorder and toothache, similarly peppercorns for digestion problems, ginger for sore throat, cardamom for nausea and turmeric for skin problems. The spices are even used for preserving other foods like rye and turmeric in pickles.

Unique spices like Zanthoxylum(timmur) and Allium(jimbu) have always given any cuisine a distinct place in gastronomy. The spices must be judiciously mixed and should be subtly introduced, not over spiced, but cooked carefully so that no traces of raw spices taste is found in the dish. Spices can be used fresh or dry, whole or in grounded form depending on the availability and the type of particular dish to be prepared.

Here are some comonly used spices and their Nepali name:

English name Nepali name

Ajwain Jwano

Allium Jimbu

Asafotedia Hing

Black salt Bire Noon

Cardamom Green Sukumel

Cardamom black Alainchi

Chilly Green Hariyo Khusani

Cinnamom Dalchini

Clove Lwang

Chive Chhyapi

Concentrated Citrus Juice Chuk Amilo

Coriander Leaves Dhaniyako Patta

Coriander Seeds Dhaniyako Geda

Cumin Jeera

Fennel Saunf

Fenugreek Methi

Mixed Spices Garam Masala

Garlic Lasun

Ginger Fresh Aduwa

Ginger Dried Sutho

Lemon Kagati

Mace Javitri

Mint Babari

Mustard Dark Tori

Mustard Yellow Sarsyun

Nutmeg Jaiphal

Onion Pyaz

Peppercorn Marich

Poppy Seed Khush khush

Saffron Keshar

Sesame Til

Star Anise Chakra Phool

Turmeric Fresh Root Haledo

Turmeric Dried Powder Besar

Zanthoxylum Timmur

food and drink

2011-06-27T20:21:00.000-07:00

We are humans and FOOD is one of our basic needs. Food is something that is not only consumed for the taste of our tounge but also to gain energy needed to survive, food makes us live.Besides of gaining energy foods are also consumed for taste they are judged more on basis of the procedure of cooking. Everyone wants delicious mouth watering taste in their diet.So it is also important to keep the taste in mind while preparing any food. In todays world many hotels and restaurants are found which provides us the food and drink of our choices and foods from the different part of the world.............So lets visit those restaurants and taste every food from every part of the world. Eat and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!