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Baked Churros

The ordinary churros is deep fried and has that crispy skin, then lightly coated with cinnamon sugar and dunk into melted chococate or dulce de leche. Who can resist such yummy treat, right? Seriously…. To have this when eating out is nice, because you need not worry about cooking, oil splatter, cleaning up, etc and not to mention the amount of oil needed . This is why I have never even tried to look for any churros recipes knowing I will not give them a go anyway. Not until few weeks ago I stumbled on this recipe, couldn’t remember how I got there though. The recipe looks simple with not much mess and the churros seems to have that crisp, there are tips to help you achieve that crisp.

I followed the recipe to the dots and it sure didn’t disappoint! Except that my baking time is a little longer compared to the recipe, which is normal as every oven is different. What can I say about this recipe, it certainly is a keeper. You can whip out a tasty amazing treats in no time, without much fuss, taste great and on top of that, cause less harm to your waist line than the original version yayyy   ~(˘▾˘~)   (~˘▾˘)~

Fresh from oven...
Fresh from oven…

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Thai BBQ Chicken aka Gai Yang

We first tasted this dish years ago from a Thai take away across our old apartment and won our hearts since. It’s one of the reason we had Thai take away fairly often back then, well apart from being lazy to cook 😛 they actually cooked very nice Thai Fried Rice and Lard Na as well. We shall go back again to take some photos and I can share them in here (ok noted, that’s another to do list!).

We don’t get much Thai take away these days, haven’t found a good one near our new place here. There are a few Thai restaurants around but nothing as good as what we got before. Consequently I look up gai yang recipes to satisfy our cravings 🙂

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Hydroponic Project – Update 6 [FAILED]

As the title suggests, my hydroponic project failed! ༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ

The roots has rotten and the plants themselves just withered away. I still don’t know why, still a lot of readings to do to find out! Could it be winter and there had been plenty of rain? Or did I cut the wick too wide, maybe should have used smaller sized? Or maybe I should have put some tiny holes in the container where I laid the perlite for breathing? I did a bit of research and found few bloggers mention that growing chilli is indeed very challenging, so maybe I should have started with other vegetables like lettuce or pak choy first.

But anyway, will wait until winter passes and the weather is warmer before I attempt on this again

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Restaurant Review – Izakaya Masuya, Sydney

Boy, hasn’t it been too long since my last post. I have been quite occupied with other tasks lately and haven’t found much inspiration to type here, but I am back now! (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

A while ago we had a ladies lunch with colleagues in this lovely Japanese restaurant. It was initially for the International Women’s Day celebration,  after so many postpones to meet everyone’s schedules we finally had it booked for early May 🙂

This lovely little restaurant, which from the outside looks a bit shady (I must admit), but once you stepped inside it has that fancy and cozy atmosphere. We went there at around 12 and it hasn’t hit the busy lunch service yet, there were only 4 tables taken. Soon after we ordered, we can see diners started to filled in and not long before all tables are taken.

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Baked Cheesecake with Mocha Marble

Ever since I tried baked cheesecake, I have grown to love it. Among all varieties that I have tried, my favorite is baked cheesecake, especially new york cheesecake. I have gathered varieties of cheesecake recipes but have never had the courage to try them out, mainly because of the amount of cream cheese needed and to think that what if people don’t like it then those ingredients will just go to waste On top of that, I used to live just with my younger brother who are not a big fan of cheesecake, so there are more restrains to try out those recipes. Now that my dear hubby is in the picture, I tend to cook/bake things to suit his liking. This is one of the case. I started with basic original baked cheesecake and add some mocha paste to small amount of the batter hoping to create the marble effect then some Nutella swirl on top, also chocolate cookies crumbles for the base. I must admit we love this! It is smooth, creamy, rich, but not too sweet, the chocolate cookies crumble works really well with the mocha flavour. This recipe is definitely a keeper! Hope you give it a try and let me know how it turns out 🙂 Continue reading “Baked Cheesecake with Mocha Marble”