Tutorial - Paper Craft

I think it is pyramid??
This is the tutorial of the recent post Colour Arrangement It is so so so detail (what a long tutorial), even my friend amazed that she could understand this too detail tutorial. Click to full view.

Food - Korokke コロッケ

コロッケ (Korokke), Japanese croquette, a deep fried dish with vegetables and meat. It is originally related a to French dish, Croquette.

The original recipe of the Korokke can be found at "Korokke recipe".

Someone maybe wondering why I didn't post the recipe of Korokke on the blog, because I want to introduce another type of Korokke which is easier for me to made. I learn it from a Taiwan's TV cooking show. Because of I didn't take down the note of the recipe, so I didn't write the quantity of the ingredient. You have to measure by yourself...... (Sorry for not able giving the details)



Step1, prepare the ingredient:
~ sweet potatoes (I have two)
~ Cheese for filling (those processed cheese, eg. Chesdale)
~ a little salt
~ pepper for season
~ vegetable oil
Coating: ~ Flour, egg and breadcrumb






Step2, Boil the sweet potatoes until soften, peel and mash the sweet potatoes while they are hot. (this will be easier to mash) Add a little salt and pepper for season and let it cool.





Step3, Take a piece of cheese and fold it into half twice(A whole piece of cheese for one korokke), then there should be four small pieces of square cheese(still for one korokke).

* Because of mine korokke is so small, so I break the cheeses into more smaller pieces and half of one piece of cheese can be enough for one korokke filling by fold it into half.



Step4, (rub some vegetable oil over your hands)Divide the sweet potatoes into several parts (depends on the quantities serving and the size of the korokke you desire), roll them into ball shape. Now put the filling (cheese) into the "ball" by made a pit on the ball. Cover the cheese, and roll it again, then flatten the "ball" into a flat and oval shape.


Step5, Here comes the coating, coat each korokke with flour, then dip it in the beaten egg, and coat it with the breadcrumb. (no photo, because I'm forgot......)

Step 6, Heat the vegetable oil over medium high heat. Then fried it! By using low fire / soft fire(?)/small fire. Fried the korokke until golden brown.Remove it from the oil, set on paper towel to drain excess oil.

Finally, it ready to be eat! Serve it with rice with tomato sauce or topping would be tasty!


BON APPETITE! (oops! One is too black....)
(the filling of the korokke I made feel soft...)

* Use 4 and above sweet potatoes can made more korokke in bigger size. Mine korokke is smaller than normal one. You can see it through the link above.

Leave a comment about this article, I would like to know how do you feel about this article. Thanks.

Origami - Colour Arrangement

This a kind of paper craft made from star paper strips......
And I've accidentally added some star into the bottle, hehe.... (the image below)





I had arranged these little things by using some little tricks~

The image above is the bottom of the bottle.

Because of the lack of this type of star paper strips and the space available in the bottle is too big for fulling using these little pyramid-alike things.
So, I put a toilet paper roll with one side had wrap with plastic sheet to prevent these things goes into the hole of the toilet paper roll....

Introduction to Tatting

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Here's the URL of the image above. [link]

Did anyone have heard of tatting before?
I'm only knew the existence of tatting at about............. May 2009.
Yup, it is this year, the year of 2009!

The flower-like things in the image above are made by the technique of tatting.
Commonly, there 2 type of tatting,
a) needle tatting, using tatting needle, a long, blunt needle that does not change thickness at the eye of the needle
b) shuttle tatting, using tatting shuttle, a shuttle with a hook at one end.

Actually tatting is one of the technique for making some of lace which is made by a series of knots and loops....
For information feel free to see more detail information of tatting at Wikipedia.

There are many knowledge with tatting.
I've find many information about the tutorial of needle tatting
and shuttle tatting, and I'm only could figured out its concept. And I made the tatting by using hands with a little help of a normal needle and a crochet hook, because I did not have neither the tatting shutter and the tatting needle.

I'll try make some post about the technique of tatting. For both needle tatting and shuttle tatting. Maybe give some link to those website which have more information about tatting.

If possible, I'll make tutorial about tatting. In my way.....

*Though my ways for tatting maybe more easier for those who did not have the the shuttle and the tatting needle, but my way may harm your hands if make it using too much strength. So be sure becareful if you want to make tatting in my ways.....

Origami : Camphor Cube

Hi! The first art craft tutorial I post is Camphor Cube (image above)! A cube made of 6 square paper, kind of origami art.
Since the materials are easy to obtain, so lets grab 6 pieces of square paper(choose the colour you desire) and get start now!! You can view the steps by using the tutorial below. This tutorial also can be found at Snowny's Deviantart gallery. Feel free to see~



This is my very first tutorial.......