Saturday, November 20, 2010

STANDARDIZED RECIPE

CHILLI CRAB




Ingredients:

Cooking Oil for deep-frying
Crabs 1.2-1.5 Kg / 2 – 3 pound, halved
2 Tablespoons / 1 oz Corn Flour (Cornstarch), mixed with 60 ml 2 / fl oz ¼ Cup water
1 Egg, beaten
1 Spring Onion (Scallion), chopped
1 Pineapple, grated


Finely Grounded Paste Ingredients:

1 ½ Tablespoons / 8 oz Dried Chili, Powder
6 Red Chilies
6 Cloves Garlic, peeled
100 g / 3 ½ oz Shallots, peeled
1 cm / ½ inch Ginger, peeled

Sauce (Blended)

3 Tablespoons / 1 ½ fl oz Chili Sauce
2 Tablespoons / 1 oz Sugar
2 Tablespoons / 1 oz Vinegar
250 ml / 8 fl oz / 1 Cup Canned Tomato Sauce
Salt to taste


Method:

Lightly coat Crabs with egg mixture and 1 Tablespoon of corn flour.
Heat the oil and deep-fry the Crabs until golden.
Drain and set aside.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil and sauté the Finely Grounded Paste until fragrant.
Stir in the sauce ingredients and bring the mixture into a boil.
Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Gradually add the Corn Flour (Cornstarch) mixture and stir well.
Add the beaten Egg.
Gently stir in the fried Crabs and simmer until the sauce is cooked.

Garnish with finely sliced Spring Onion (Scallion) and serve immediately.
Serve with Rice.






Seared tuna with a traditional Andalusian salad of cucumber, tomato, pepper and onion



Ingredients:
¾ pound of fresh tuna loin
1 medium cucumber, peeled, halved and seeded
3 plum tomatoes, halved and seeded
1 medium onion, peeled
1 green bell pepper, cored and seeded
1 red bell pepper, cored and seeded
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons Spanish extra-virgin olive oil
1/8 cup Spanish sherry vinegar
Sea Salt


Method:

Cut the cucumber, tomato, onion and peppers into 1/2-inch pieces. Combine the vegetables in a large bowl. Toss with 1/2 cup of the olive oil and the vinegar. Season with salt and set aside.

Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Place the tuna in the pan and sear on all four sides, allowing the center to stay rare. Transfer the tuna to a cutting board and slice 1/2-inch thick pieces.

Spread the vegetables on a small plate and lay the slices of tuna on top. Drizzle with remaining tablespoon of olive oil and season to taste with salt.










Thursday, November 18, 2010

PARTS OF SPEECH

PARTS OF SPEECH :-

   * OPEN CLASS :-

  • NOUNS
  • VERBS
  • ADJECTIVES
  • ADVERBS
   * CLOSE CLASS :-
  • PRONOUNS
  • PREPOSITIONS
  • CONJUNCTIONS
  • DETERMINERS
  • INTERJECTION


NOUNS

-is a word used to name a person, place, thing or idea
  example : teacher, Arizona, car. love

 * Common nouns 
       - common names shared by everything of the same kind.
       - example : Sons, bird, villages, horses, country

 * Proper nouns
       - Names of particular people, animals, places or things.
       - example : Anita, Johannesburg, Asian Tourism International College, Chrismas, etc

* Collective nouns
       - Refer to group of things that are regarded as one, collection of persons, places, activities & concepts.
       - example : Congregation, jury, team, staff, audience

 * Abstaract nouns
        - Denote a quality, a feeling, an action or a state of mind (things which are intangible & cannot be counted)
        - example : Efficiency, admiration, beuty, honesty, respect


VERB
  • a word which shows action or state of being
  • every sentence must have a verb
  • Actions verbs (transitive and intransitive)
  • Non-actions verbs (be verbs and linking verbs)

ADJECTIVES
  • An adjective is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun; it answers questions like What kind? How much? or How many? example: red apple, that book, fifty cents, two touchdowns.
  • Articles are adjectives that determine specific or generalnouns. example : a, an, the
  • Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns. example : Italian food, European vacation

ADVERB
  • can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause.
  • An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how", "when", "where", "how much".
  • Unlike an adjective, an adverb can be found in various places within the sentences.

PRONOUNS
  • Pronouns are words used in the place of one or more nouns (called antecedents)
           example : Manual told his aunt that he bought a new computer.
  • Personal pronouns stand for people, places, and things
           example : I, me, yours, himself, she, hers, its, ours, they, theirs

PREPOSITIONS
  • A preposition is a word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.
           example : above, before, during, for, in, near, off, to, with.

CONJUNCTIONS
  • A conjunction is a word that joins words, groups of words, or complete sentences of equal value.
  • EXAMPLE :
  1. Lucy and Ed left the door open.
  2. He is going to school, but I am going to work.
  3. He is going to school; however, I am going to work.

INTERJECTIONS
  • An interjection is a word that expresses strong emotion. Interjections can be followed by a comma or an exclamation point.
  • EXAMPLES :
  1. Wow! I never knew that.
  2. Oh, did I do that?