Using Just Jujube To Make Red Date Tea (红枣茶)

Red Dates Tea

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Did you ever know that red dates are also known as jujube or ziziphus jujuba? It kind of reminds me of the gibberish phrase ‘zzi zzi pong‘ from a Korean drama that I watched recently, but that’s something else altogether.

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Crumble Crumble Potato And Leek Filo Pie

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Filo pastry sheets are amazing. You can get them to do almost anything for you – baked to become fanciful and crispy containers for appetisers; piled in layers on a tray to pack in a whole load of stew and stuffing; baked as parcels wrapped up with delightful filling and flavours. With a bit of imagination and the help of your fingers, the aesthetics of baked pies can also be enhanced through the gathering of folds and pleats of the top most layers of filo pastry sheets.

One can’t stop being creative with these sheets. Here’s what I did with mine.

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Unwrapping The Year With Omurice

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Omurice, a combination of the words ‘omelette’ (omu) and ‘rice’, is a relatively common dish found not just in Japan, where it originated from, but also in other parts of East and Southeast Asia such as Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. This dish was supposedly brought over to Korea first during the Japanese occupation in the late 19th century before it began spreading widely to the other parts of the region.

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Kommt Jahr Zwanzig-Vierzehn Bald, Wirklich?

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Kommt wieder das Ende des Jahres. An dieser Zeit habe ich immer volle Gedanken: Was habe ich in der ganzen vergangenen Zeit gemacht? Wie wird es die nächsten dreihundertfünfundsechzig Tage gehen?

‘Im Jahr Zwanzig-Dreizehn habe ich sehr viel gemacht. Im nächsten Jahr würde mehr gemacht sein werden,’ möchte ich gerne glauben.

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Easy Christmas Pudding Ice-Cream For A Yummy Leftover

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Christmas Pudding Ice Cream

This recipe is really really simple – I couldn’t believe it when he said that was it; just freeze it and you’ll get to eat it the next day.

All thanks to the guy for taking the effort to find the recipe and make it. Try it! I bet you will love it too!

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