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WHB #100: Sakzli Muhallebi – Mastic Pudding


The 100th edition of Weekend Herb Blogging, is hosted by Katerina from Daily Unadventures in Cooking. Only four more weeks to the big ‚2nd Anniversary Celebration‘.
This week I used mastic gum to flavour a pudding

Sakzli Muhallebi – Mastic Pudding

Sakzli Muhallebi - Mastic Pudding

Mastic gum or resin with the exquisite aroma is exuded from the bark of the mastic tree. Mastic is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 3–4 m tall, it is native throughout the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea coast.

The aromatic flavoured resin, used commercially, come from mastic trees grow in the south of the Greek island of Chios and the neighboring town of Çeşme in Turkey. I came across mastic, when I read the blog entries from my fellow bloggers Mine at and Dilek, both have Turkish roots.

I couldn’t find the spice in our Turkish stores, but with Dilek’s and Nicky’s help, I got some from Turkey and Greece.

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Mastic resin looks like little gems and is a key ingredient in Turkish ice cream, and Turkish puddings or cookies, which I tried first. For the taste of mastic there are only two possibilities: Love it or leave it! The taste is special of course like resin, but pleasant and fresh.

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Title: Sakzli Muhallebi – Mastic Pudding
Categories: Dessert
Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients

H STEWED CHERRIES
1     Jar cherries
1 tablesp.   Rosewater
      Sugar to taste
1 tablesp.   Corn starch
H PUDDING
1 liter   Milk
120 grams   Sugar
1/2 teasp.   Mastic
3 tablesp.   Rice flour
4 tablesp.   Corn starch

Source

  Dilek
  Edited *RK* 09/15/2007 by
  Ulrike Westphal

Directions

Drain cherries. Dissolve corn starch in a little cherry juice. Bring the remaining juice to a boil, add rose water and sugar to taste and pour in constantly stirring the starch mixture. Cook until the liquid thickens, remove from heat, stir in the drained cherries and divide into 6 indiviual bowls.

Place milk, except one cup and sugar in a sauce pan. Melt the sugar over medium heat and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Dissolve the corn starch and rice flour in the remaining milk and stir into the hot milk. Then add the powdered mastic. Reheat constantly for about 10 minutes until the pudding thickens. Cool down and pour over the stewed cherries.

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Return to Katerina on Monday for the round-up.

WHB #99: Homemade Ravioli with Thyme Pumpkin Sauce

Thyme-LogoThe 99 th edition of Weekend Herb Blogging is hosted by Katie from Thyme For Cooking. So guess what I used to flavour my pumpkin sauce?

I grow two types of thyme in my garden and both survive the slug attacks. Thyme has not only a culinary use, but also a medical use. So thyme honey could be spread on a buttered slice of bread to enjoy, it is also helpful against cough.

I am a fan of the ‚cook once, eat twice‘ technique. Yesterday I ‚ve flavoured my ravioli filling with thyme and had some purée left. So I decided to serve the leftover ravioli in a thyme flavoured pumpkin sauce.

Homemade Ravioli with Thyme Pumpkin Sauce

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Delicious!

For the sauce I sauteed one chopped onion and one garlic clove in a little white wine until tender. I added the pumpkin purée, some single cream and seasoned to taste with thyme, nutmeg, salt and pepper. In that sauce I warmed the ravioli for lunch. Quick, easy and tasty…

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WHB #98: Homemade Tagliatelle with Salmon in Pea Mint Sauce


 
Kalyn from Kalyn’s Kitchen, the great mind behind WHB is hosting the 98th round of Weekend Herb Blogging.
After a summer break I am back with mint, the herb which came through our absence at best. I have already written about mint for WHB, I used it for Strawberry Jam, Cucumber-mint ayran and Broad bean & mint mash. This time I flavoured my pasta sauce with mint and served

Homemade Tagliatelle with Salmon in Pea Mint Sauce

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Title: Homemade Tagliatelle with Salmon in Pea Mint Sauce
Categories: Pasta
Yield: 4 Servings

Ingredients

1 medium   Onion, peeled and chopped
5-6 stalks   Mint, leaves corsely chopped
300 grams   Salmon filet, skinned
1 portion   Tagliatelle, precooked
200 grams   Peas, fresh or frozen
1     Lemon, the juice
1/8 liter   White wine
      Salt
      Pepper
      Sugar

Source

  LECKER, Kochen & Genießen, September 2007
  Edited *RK* 08/31/2007 by
  Ulrike Westphal

Directions

1. Rinse and dry salmon filets, remove bones if necessary and cut into cubes.

2. Heat oil in a saucepan and fry onion until soft and transparent. Add salmon and fry for 2 – 3 minutes, carefully turning. Stew mint for a short moment.

3. Add peas to the salmon. Pour in lemon juice and wine. Bring to the boil season with salt, pepper and sugar.

4. Add 6 to 8 tablespoons hot water or stock to the sauce and add the precooked pasta, mix carefully and cook for further 2 minutes.

5. Serve on warm plates.

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WHB #93: Tonka bean mousse

Anna from Anna’s Cool Finds is hosting the 93rd round of Weekend Herb Blogging. Don’t miss the recap!

My fellow blogger Véronique from Wie Gott in Deutschland sent me some tonka beans. I’ve never tried tonka beans. They are a cheap substitute for vanilla and are also called „mexican vanilla. It smells sweet, like vanilla and a little like hay. The tonka bean contains cumarin and is/was used to flavour alcoholic drinks in Western Europe and the US. I prepared a

Tonka bean mousse

Tonka bean mousse

The taste reminds of vanilla, but somewhat more bitter, very interesting.

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Title: Tonka bean mousse
Categories: Dessert
Yield: 1 Recipe

Ingredients

500 grams   Milk
100 grams   Sugar
1 1/2 pieces   Tonka beans, grated
120 grams   Egg yolk
6 leaves   Gelatin
500 grams   Cream, whipped

Source

  www.condicreativclub.de/
  Edited *RK* 07/07/2007 by
  Ulrike Westphal

Directions

In a small saucepan soak the sheets of gelatine in cold water for about 10 min.

Bring milk and tonka beans just to a boil in saucepan over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, then remove pan from heat. Let steep, covered, 30 minutes.

Whisk together eggs and sugar in a large bowl, then add 1 cup hot cream mixture in a slow stream, whisking. Pour into remaining hot cream mixture in saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until thick enough to coat back of spoon about 5 minutes (do not let boil).

Squeeze the gelatine sheets out and warm over medium heat until completely dissolved and add to the egg mixture. Fold the cooled mixture into the whipped cream.

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WHB #92: Honey Lavender Ice Cream


The Chocolate Lady from In Mol Araan is hosting the 92nd round of Weekend Herb Blogging. This week I used lavender to flavour ice cream. I agree with Kalyn, that too much lavender tastes like perfume, but the amount of lavender in this

Honey Lavender Ice Cream

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was just right.

-========= REZKONV-Recipe – RezkonvSuite v1.4 Button German
Title: Honey Lavender Ice Cream
Categories: Dessert, Ice Cream
Yield: 1 Qt

Ingredients

2 cups   Heavy cream
1 cup   Half-and-half
2/3 cup   Mild honey
2 tablesp.   Dried edible lavender flowers*
2 large   Eggs
1/8 teasp.   Salt
      Special equipment: a candy or instant-read
      — thermometer; an ice cream maker

Source

  Gourmet, September 2003
  Edited *RK* 07/15/2007 by
  Ulrike Westphal

Directions

Bring cream, half-and-half, honey, and lavender just to a boil in a 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, then remove pan from heat. Let steep, covered, 30 minutes.

Pour cream mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl and discard lavender. Return mixture to cleaned saucepan and heat over moderate heat until hot.

Whisk together eggs and salt in a large bowl, then add 1 cup hot cream mixture in a slow stream, whisking. Pour into remaining hot cream mixture in saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until thick enough to coat back of spoon and registers 170 to 175°F on thermometer, about 5 minutes (do not let boil).

Pour custard through sieve into cleaned bowl and cool completely, stirring occasionally. Chill, covered, until cold, at least 3 hours.

Freeze custard in ice cream maker. Transfer ice cream to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden.

Cooks‘ notes:

· To cool custard quickly after straining, set bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and stir until chilled.
· Custard can chill up to 1 day before freezing.
· Ice cream keeps 1 week.

*Available at Penzeys (800-741-7787) and Kalustyan’s (800-352-3451).

Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 8 hr (includes steeping, chilling, and freezing)

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