
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II | |
Presiden Amerika Serikat ke-44 | |
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Sedang Menjabat | |
Mulai menjabat 20 Januari 2009 | |
Wakil Presiden | Joe Biden |
Pendahulu | George Walker Bush |
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Masa jabatan 4 Januari 2005 – 20 Januari 2009 | |
Pendahulu | Peter Fitzgerald |
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Lahir | 4 Agustus 1961 (umur 47) Honolulu, Hawaii |
Kebangsaan | Amerika Serikat |
Partai politik | Demokrat |
Suami/Istri | Michelle Obama |
Anak | Malia Ann, Natasha |
Almamater | Universitas Harvard, 1992 |
Agama | Kristen Protestan |
Tanda tangan |
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Son White Is The Master Chef
Almond-Crumb Scones
Like scones? Then you’ll love these almond-crumb delights! They bake with a sweet, buttery almond streusel topping.
Yield: 8 scones
Almond Streusel:
2 tablespoons butter or margarine (firm)
3 tablespoons Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons finely chopped almonds, toasted
Dough:
1/2 cup butter or margarine (firm)
2 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped almonds, toasted
1 egg
1/2 cup half-and-half
Heat oven to 400 F.
Make Almond Streusel:
Cut butter into remaining ingredients until crumbly. Set aside.
Make Dough:
Cut butter into flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in large bowl, using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives, until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Stir in almonds. Stir in egg and just enough half-and-half so dough leaves side of bowl and forms a ball.
Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; gently roll in flour to coat. Knead lightly 10 times. Pat or roll into 9-inch circle on ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with streusel; press lightly into dough. Cut into 8 wedges, but do not separate.
Bake about 15 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet; carefully separate wedges. Serve warm.
Success Hint: Count to 10! Overkneading the dough will make your scones tough.
Tip: To toast almonds or other nuts, heat oven to 350 F and bake in an ungreased baking pan about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden brown.
Banana Bread
Bananas are a main cash crop for Cameroon, along with cocoa, coffee, palm oil and sugar.
1-3/4 cups flour a cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda 2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon baking powder 3 medium ripe bananas mashed
2 tablespoons margarine salt
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour one loaf pan.
Sift the flour together with baking soda and baking powder and a little salt into a bowl.
In a larger bowl, cream the margarine and sugar, then add the beaten eggs a little at a time. Add flour alternately with mashed bananas; stir well to mix ingredients but do not overstir.
Put mixture into prepared loaf pan. Bake for approximately one hour, or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool in pan for 15 minutes. Turn out on wire rack to finish cooling.
Reuben Burgers
Ingredients:
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 pound lean ground beef or ground chuck
- 4 slices rye bread
- 8 to 16 ounces sauerkraut, drained and rinsed
- 4 slices Swiss cheese
- Thousand Island Dressing, optional
- dill pickle slices, optional
Preparation:
Sauté the onion slices in butter; set aside. Shape ground beef into four patties; fry in skillet or broil to desired doneness, turning to evenly brown. Place hamburger patties on the rye bread slices on a broiler rack. Top burgers with sauerkraut, onion, and cheese. Broil until cheese is melted. Serve with Thousand Island dressing or pickle slices if desired.Makes 4 Reuben Burgers.
Arabic Coffee
Arabic Coffee
two servings- 2 demitasse-sized cups water
- 2 tsp. sugar
- 1/8 tsp. crushed cardamom
- 2 tsp. Arabic coffee, with cardamom
Boil the water with the sugar and the cardamom. Cardamom is ground from peeled whole seeds if possible, or use commercially ground cardamom. Remove from heat. Stir in the coffee. Then place over heat, while holding the pot. Let it foam up, remove from heat, and allow to heat to foaming again. Serve immediately.
Note sugar and coffee are approximately equal. Adjust to your taste. Cardamom is not necessary if taste prefers.