Tiramisu

TIRAMISU

Tiramisu means "pick me up" in Italian and was first served in brothels. I dreamed about making tiramisu for years and years and finally did it after watching a bunch of Youtube clips. Finally, I bought myself a Waring hand mixer to beat all the ingredients. I used Bacardi rum, brown sugar, honey, cacao powder, vanilla extract, eggs, mascarpone cheese and expresso coffee. It is not so far fetched after all making this "pick me up" stuff.

INGREDIENTS
6 egg yolks
1/2 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons of rum
2 cups mascarpone cheese
24 ladyfingers
2 cups brewed coffee
1 tablespoon cocoa powder


DIRECTIONS

1.  In a medium bowl, beat yolks with sugar, rum and vanilla until smooth and light yellow and very fluffy.

2.  Fold mascarpone into yolk mixture. Set aside.
3.  Dip ladyfingers briefly in coffee and arrange 12 of them in the bottom of an 10×10 inch dish.
4.  Spread half the mascarpone mixture over the ladyfingers. Repeat with remaining cookies and mascarpone.
5.  Cover and chill 1 hour. Sprinkle with cocoa just before serving.

Bake Norwegian Mackerels

Bake Mackerels


If you love Norwegian mackerels, this is a great way to bake it in the oven.  Here are two marinades that you might like.

Cumin Marinade
Cumin
Sea Salt
Lemon


Ginger Marinade (Classic Cantonese Chinese)
Rice Wine
Ginger Juice (mash gingers with a mortar and pestle and squeeze the juice)
Soy sauce


Put some water in a roasting pan, put the rack in the pan.  If possible please use stainless steel pan and rack (grade 18/10).  Put a piece of parchment paper on top of the rack and lay the fish on top.  The fish will turn out crispy on top and most on the inside.  The parchment paper helps to retain all the juice.  Set the ovenin "broil" setting to get browning on the skin.  This is a great way to bake for those of us without an outdoor grill.