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antoine style potato blinis recipe

i love blinis - and my favorites are from a french restaurant called antoine's. it moved recently, but they've always had the best caviar and potato blinis combo. You've probably heard of the normal blinis (the pancake type), but today i've got a little twist on the potato blini to get that more luxurious, rich, french blini taste.  I originally worked off this recipe: https://scratchinit.halversen.com/2016/01/yukon-gold-potato-blini/ which is iconic, and super helpful, with a few amendments that worked well for me. credit where it's due.  Few notes - you can pretty much use any potato for this that's like, relatively good for mashed potato.  Ingredients:  3-4 medium potatoes, around 450-500 grams.  25-30 g unbleached flour. All purpose or self raising works.  70 g crème fraîche (anywhere between 70-80g is the golden zone, but if you use too much it'll be a bit deflated)  3 eggs (60 gram eggs, or 180g in total)  Half teaspoon of salt.  ...

thai black sticky rice and coconut cream recipe

im just sharing my own recipes here because i forget them sometimes, just stuff thats worked for me that i took from a site that hasn't quite worked as well, whatev hacks. just a side note, i always feel like little personal run blogs always have the best recipes because its tried and true, the official ones are always garbage.  disclaimer: not a professional chef and catered entirely to my personal preferences so you might hate this.  i first tried the black sticky rice with mango at my old work place, and it was genuinely so tasty. I love that chewy rice (a huge fan of sticky rice just in general tbh), with that sweetness of the coconut cream - tho I admit, i'm not crazy about the mango. I'd rather have it on its own. Most places have seemed to just gotten rid of black sticky rice off their menus, which is a real pain for me, and one of them made it with a thai custard as well. I personally just love the simple, rice + sauce combo, so here we go.  ingredients  whit...