Quick and Tasty Meat. Best Gift for Father

My little son asked what I want for my birthday.
 Hmm...I want you to make me a nice meal.
 I love meat. 
Here is how I want you to cook it for me. 

Fish food grinder dispenser

Once in a while, my lovely wife buys seasoning in a jar with a grinder. 

It takes no imagination to use it for what it's designed - dispensing ground herbs. 

How to make honey cake

We are going to make one of the yummiest cakes!

Ingredients:

Honey - about 1 1/2 cup;

Baking soda - 1 full teaspoon;

Eggs - 3;

Sugar - about 1 cup;

Butter - 120g;

Flour - about 6 - 7 cups;

Canola oil - about 1 cup;

I use a disposable plastic cup (130 ml) for all measurements. 

How to make cream

I make this cream for honey cake and even serve it as a dessert.

Seaweed fish food

I've been feeding my fish all the time with commercially available fish food. My fish deserve some home made fish food! What ingredients are good to make fish food? There is an abundance of seaweed in oceans, lakes and rivers. I will give it a try!

Collect fresh seaweed from the water.

Rinse seaweed under running water.

Spread thin layer of seaweed on a clean flat surface.

Let it dry while you are having fun on the beach.

The dry seaweed is still too tough for my guppies. 

At home I cut the dry seaweed into small even sized pieces.

Preheat oven for about 5 - 10 minutes to 200 F (about 95 C).
Cover a baking sheet with tin foil.
Spread thin layer of seaweed on the baking sheet.
Bake the seaweed for about 3-5 minutes.
Remove the seaweed from the oven to test if it's done.
You should be able to easily grind baked seaweed between your fingers into powder.
Otherwise, bake it longer. And then test it again.
Grind the baked seaweed into powder. I do it with my hands.
Place ground seaweed in a container to keep it dry and away from light.
At the regular feeding time give some of the seaweed to your fish instead of regular food. Some of the seaweed powder will stay on the surface of the water and some may sink to the bottom of the tank. It takes about 10 minutes for my fish to consume the seaweed. Nothing left even on the bottom of the tank. Looks like my fish likes the seaweed!
I am going to feed my fish with seaweed every other feeding time or so.
Have fun and happy fish :)

Banana popsicles. How to make banana popsicles

The words "Bananiest" and "Bananier" were not in the English dictionary until my 6 years old son Eric use them to describe which banana popsicles come out better. Below you will find my recipe of the bananiest banana popsicles. You can use less or more bananas, more lemon juice and more simple syrup or even add different ingredients for your test and to make banana popsicles even bananier!

Ingredients: 5 bananas, 1/2 lemon, simple syrup (1/3 cup of sugar, 1/3 cup of water).

Let's first make the simple syrup (one part of sugar dissolved in one part of boiled water). Put 1/3 cup (about 60 grams) of sugar in a pot. Add 1/3 (about 60 ml) cup of boiled water. Place the pot on slow heating. Stir until all sugar dissolves. Remove the pot from the heating. You have made the simple syrup. Pour simple syrup in the blender. 

Squeeze juice out of half of a lemon. Remove all seeds from the juice. Add the lemon juice to the simple syrup.

Peel one banana. Cut the banana on small pieces. Add the banana to the mixture. Blend all together on slow speed until smooth.

Peel two more bananas. Cut them on small pieces. Add the bananas to the mixture. Blend all together on slow speed until smooth.

Peel two more bananas. Cut them on small pieces. Add the bananas to the mixture. Blend all together on slow speed until smooth. Blend all together on high speed for couple more minutes.

The mixture is ready! Pour the mixture in the molds and place it in a freezer for over night. It could take about 8 hours to freeze this size molds.

Or let's cool the mixture in the blender for about 30 minutes. Then blend the mixture for 1 - 2 minutes to break the ice.

Place the blender with the mixture in the freezer for about 30 more minutes. Then blend the mixture for 1 - 2 minutes to break the ice.

You can repeat couple times the steps of freezing for 20 -30 minutes and then breaking the ice. As a result, the frozen mixture will have better (finer) texture. I blend the cooled mixture on the slow and then on high speed.

Pour the cooled mixture in the molds. I also use plastic cups as molds. It takes about 3 - 4 hours to freeze mixture in half filled plastic cup of this size. Remember to put sticks in the molds!

Place all molds in the freezer. The small molds should be ready in about 3- 4 hours. The large size molds will be ready in about 8 hours.

Run hot water over the frozen mold or dip the frozen mold in the hot water to remove the popsicle from the mold.

Have fun and bananiest banana popsicles :)

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Heart-shaped rolls. How to make heart shaped rolls. Heart shaped rolls recipe. Valentine's Day pastries

It's about time to get ready for Valentine's day! There is no better gift than the one you made with your hands. Today I am going to make heart shaped sweet rolls. Of course one can bake heart shaped rolls and eat them all year around - really there is no reason to make it just for a special holiday.