Today’s Lunch – Spaghetti Bolognese by Hubbie
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 🙂
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”
Pandan Bread Loaf with Nutella Filling
My latest homemade bread after a long break of bread baking 🙂
I used the tangzhong method again, as mention in my previous post. Only this time, I make them in a loaf pan and for each bread bit, I flattened them, spread generous amount of Nutella before roll them into balls again to put in the pan.
It is autumn in here and temperature has been dropping, so I found it took much longer in proofing process, this time it took me 2.5 hours for proofing alone. I initially put the dough inside the microwave but it is not warm enough (or it cools down too quickly), so later on I put it in my kitchen sink filled halfway through with warm water and this really help with the proofing process.
