Lemon Cheesecake

Finally!! Crave for this for years, Peng finally pass her recipe to me..
yummy! After very exhausting week,i manage to bake this on Sunday to pamper myself..

Crust
125g Flour
40g sugar
60g butter
1 pinch of salt

Cream cheese filling

500g Philadelphia cream cheese (2 blocks) softened at room temp
2 large eggs
200g Condense milk (half can)
60g Sugar
juice 3 lemons zest

Mix flour, salt & sugar in a bowl.

Add butter & rub in till fine crumbs formed.

Then tranfers flour mixture to a cake tin(lined with foil).

Pressed into base of a cake tin.

Bake for golden on the edges. Remove from oven to cool.

Beat cream cheese till smooth.

Then add eggs, beat well after each addition.

Then add sugar & beat till well mixed.

Add condensed milk & beat till well mixed.

Add Juice & zest of lemons.

Mix well.

Pour into crust in cake tin.

Bake at 200 Deg Cels for 10 mins.

Then, bake at 170 Deg Cels for 40mins.

Turn off oven & leave cake to cool in oven.

When cooled, transfer to fridge till cold.

Recipe courtesy from Peng

Pizzas

Sudden craving for Brotzeitflade Vegetarisch..
decided to try making one..but ended up making pizza instead. :p
short of time to make my fav.thin crust bought ready pizza base.



Ingredients:
2 large Pizza base ~ 1 Hawaiian
1/4 cup (1 can) tomatoes sauce / 1 small can thick tomato paste
250g mozarella cheese
2 bratswurt sausages sliced
3 slices of pepper ham

Beef cheesy pizza
300g of minced beef (pepper, cajun seasoning)
2 onions sliced
1/2 yellow pepper sliced
2 tomatoes
3-4 sliced of pineapples diced

Oven bake~325-375 F


Spread tomato paste on both pizza base
(thick pizza paste preferred)



Spread mozarrella cheese on top of paste


Lay ham, sausages and pineapple on top one another
Finish final layer with mozzarella cheese again.

Home made Hawaiian Pizza


Repeat steps for Beef Cheesy pizza
1. Spread tomato paste
2. Spread mozzarella cheese

3. Minced beef (seasoned with cajun and pepper seasoning)
4. Placed fresh tomato slices on top of minced beef
5. Add sliced yellow pepper and mushroom
6. Finish topping with mozzarella cheese



Beef Cheesy pizza


Images taken by Canon Ixus

Aglio Olio

Always curious how this dish was done, simple ingredients never taste so good :)
it taste v.good with seafood especially prawn..
decided to try..doing it..
decided to keep it simple with a side dish (Back Bacon wrapped asparagus)

Ingredients:
350 grams of Spaghetti (thick spaghetti or vermicelli is better)

200 g White button or swiss button mushrooms
10 tablespoons of olive oil
3 garlic cloves peeled and chopped finely
Added colour, you may try red/yellow pepper

Tomato

hot little pepper (if desired)
fresh parsely
salt

1. Brown the garlic, stir fry mushroom and/hot pepper in olive oil, add salt.

2. Cook the spaghetti in hot salted water, drain them and add them to the oil and garlic mixture

Added fresh tomato for colour

saute'3 add the minced parsely, chilli flakes/ chilli paddy (optional) and serve hot!

side dish: Back bacon wrapped asparagus

Sprinkle aparagus with a pinch of ground pepper,

wrapped bacon around 3-4 stalks of asparagus,

Pan fried/oven grilled.

Images taken: canon ixus

Avocado juice

Jezz shared with me my favourite avocado juice from the newspaper.
Coz i get occasional craving from Ayam Penyet's avocado juice..

Ingredients:
2 Avocados (you may placed em with banana to speed up the riping process)
50 ml gula melaka syrup
250 -300ml fresh milk


blend avocados with milk in a blender
add gula melaka to taste.

My fast lasagna recipe

Ransacking my cupboard, realised ive a box of lasagna's noodles.

its time to try makng it.

Due lack of ingredients, i use whatever i can get hold of in my fridge.

600gm of minced beef

2 tablespoon of sun-dried tomatoes paste

5-6 fresh tomatoes (boiled to remove skin,puree)

or 1 can of tomato puree from store

2 onions finely chopped

3-4 cloved of garlics finely chopped

mozzarella cheese

cheddar cheese / parmesan cheese

1 teaspoon of salt

fresh basil or mixed herbs

ground pepper

2-3 tablespoon salsa sauce (optional)

As i prefer fresh ingredient i tried to use everything fresh,

if not ready-made herbs from the store is fine (bottled)

Heat oil and fry garlic and onions

Add in some fresh tomatoes if you like

Add in minced beef, tomato puree, salsa sauce, basils, salt and pepper.

Soak lasagna noodles for around 10-15mins.

Start laying your layers your noodles with your seasoned meat sauce & cheese.

Top with cheese to end the layers..

Remem.2 cover the entire noodles with meat suace and keep the content moist.

Cover with foil and bake.

Oven bake 35-45mins 180 Degree Cel.

Apologise w/o end product, too busy eating. :p

will compensate with a better recipe.

for better recipe : http://mylasagnarecipe.com/category/chef-jamie-oliver/

retrieved on 20 Sept 2009

Banana walnut 'cupcakes'

Tried another version of Betty Crocker's premix,

i added fresh banana (diced) into the mix.

less dense than expected,

maybe banana puree may make the mix richer.