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cooked this last night 🙂 v basic 1-dish meal, easy to prepare and pack for BH’s lunch

Here’s the ingredients*:

*Left out: soy sauce (to taste), oil ( to fry) , garlic ( to fry) 

I don’t usually take pics of my ingredients BUT I can’t resist taking them last night.. haha.. they are soooooo colourful and I love colourful food!

P.S: Hope I’m not boring you with food I cook :X BH bought a domain last year and it’s kinda food related.. so I am thinking of moving all my food entries over when the site is up? heh.. so this blog  is like a temp. holding place for these entries. Pls bear with me!

I love laksa and we had this last night.. wah.. sooooooooo shuang!

To YM: For your drooling pleasure! 😀

Not that I’m BHB but I seriously haven’t found a place here that cooks better laksa ( Singapore style) than me!

What’s in my Laksa?

1) Hard boiled eggs ( I don’t usually put this BUT I was afraid that BH will not gain weight so I cook MORE just for him)

2) Laksa noodles ( known as Rice Vermicelli here, comes in packet. It’s asian spaghetti. haha.. taste like the real thing)

3) Tau pau

4) Bean sprouts

5) Shredded chicken

6) Prawns

>> Lacks Laksa leaves… we don’t have this here 🙁

A few dinners back, I cooked this spicy dish… haha.. Not in a very good mood so I have “the spicier the better” mentality. BH was like ” sooooooooo spicy!!!” I’m like ” Don’t eat throw la.. waste my effort” In the end, he ate it all up with lots of water.. wahaha… how mean can I get!

Anyway, it’s my 1st time cooking this dish ( with the help of Rendang sauce which my mum brought over last yr) .. it taste great!!! BUT the beef isn’t as tender as I expected .. sobz.. think I shld cook Rendang Chicken with the remaining sauce I have 🙂

Pls remember my cheesecake as on the pic above – delete all other pics you are gonna see later in this post. ok? haha..

So BH encouraged me to try the cheesecake again.. and we followed a different recipe. We used this recipe instead. This recipe is super easy to follow and it DOES NOT need flour or butter!! I was shocked but decided to try it out. If you are wondering whether corn starch = corn flour, I think it’s the same as I used corn starch. ( Can’t find corn flour here)

Everything went on smoothly this time round as we learnt from our previous experience.

I only have 1 mixing bowl for my mixer.. so we modified the recipe abit – like I sequence the beating of egg whites 1st then beat the cream cheese. ( Keeping my fingers crossed that it will not affect the end product)

Things to note, I did not add lemon juice as indicated in the recipe as we don’t like the ‘sour’ taste in our cake ( and i forgot to buy lemon!!!).

with the help of ………..

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once egg whites becomes foamy and soft peaks, we washed the bowl and began

I was very anxious to know the outcome. I knew it was gonna be a sucess when I saw the end result (1st pic) yay!! Happy! 

Story: We wee rushing out so I switch off the oven and left the cake in the oven, thinking that It shld be alright in there… HOWEVER……..

 

yeah right… high five for we did a “failed” cheesecake again? 🙁 geeez… though it taste great!

Cheesecake is soooooooo sensitive.. Upon reflection and some research, I believe these are some of the reasons my cheesecake sank ( after rising):

1) Folding egg hwite technique was not good – we could have folded too much, or not gently enough. Some of the air escaped.

2) Not folding into the batter right after the egg whites reached soft peaks as I needed to mix the batter. ( some air could have escaped) I need TO GET ANOTHER BOWL FOR MY MIXER

3) The temperature in the oven is toooo high. Will reduce to 300F instead of 350F

4) Need to bake longer – top of my cake is not completely brown

5) I need to use boiling water for the water bake. I used hot water ( not boiling hot)

Will sure try this again! Wish us luck!