Cool Corn Starch Images

Some cool Corn Starch images:

Escabeche Flavored Corn Starch


Image by moogs
Lesson learned : when putting corn starch on the sweet and sour sauce, USE A SPOON.

(aside from being too thick, it tastes fine though :D)
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Ingredients
Fish - red snapper, either whole or filet or filet of mackerel (actually, any frying fish will do nicely)


Oil
Flour
Salt
Calamansi juice (or lemon or lime juice)


Oil Green and red peppers, cut julienne style
Ginger, cut julienne style
Extra ginger
Onion - sliced
Garlic - sliced or pounded

Pineapple juice
Pineapple chunks
Sugar
Tomato Sauce or tomato catsup
Vinegar
Cornstarch



Instructions

Rub salt on fish (outside and inside after splitting the abdomen and taking the guts out). Roll on flour. Fry in hot oil. Set aside.
Pound extra ginger, add a little bit of water and squeeze the juice out. Collect juice. Set aside.

To make the sweet and sour sauce: In another frying pan, heat oil, then add sliced onions and pounded garlic, stir fry. When the onion has become transparent and the garlic pieces become brown, add the strips of ginger and the green and red peppers. Stir fry. Add pineapple juice and tomato sauce or catsup for coloring. If you desire a sweeter sauce, add sugar; for more sour taste, add vinegar. Add pineapple chunks. And don't forget the ginger juice. This is really the secret of a good sweet sour sauce. The zesty taste of ginger. Thicken with a little bit of cornstarch. Simmer for about 3-4 minutes.

You can now pour this over the fish and serve. However, I prefer the fish to be cooked a little bit in the sauce so it could absorb the flavor. To do this, put the fish into the simmering sauce and simmer for another 3-4 minutes.

Recipe from here.

No GMO Corn Starch


Image by glue&glitter
This is no hippie brand! Rumford has been making corn starch for years. It's pretty cool to see a conventional brand getting on board with the non-GMO movement.

Using Corn Starch to Prevent Air Bubbles


Image by CraftyGoat
If I'm baking a flat sheet of polymer clay, I dust my baking tile with a small amount of corn starch first to help prevent sticking. This appears to help prevent air bubbles too. See blog post here: blog.craftygoat.com/2008/06/quick_tip_using_cornstarch_to...