Thai food: kluy-buad-shee, banana in sweetened coconut milk. Actually, this is a Thai warm dessert and most of Thai dessert made of coconut milk and palm sugar boiled together with some fruit.
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Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake with Strawberries
- 250g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- 250g unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup plain flour
- 750g cream cheese, softened
- 15-20 strawberries, tops trimmed
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 160°C. Grease and line a 20cm round springform pan.
- Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch the water).
- Place butter and 1 1/4 cups sugar in a bowl, beat with electric beater until pale and thick. Add 2 eggs, one at a time, beating well between each. Add melted chocolate and flour. Mix well until combined.
- Spread two thirds of the chocolate mixture in the pan. Set the remaining aside.
- In a separate bowl, combine the cream cheese and remaining 3/4 cup sugar. Beat with electric beater until smooth and creamy. Add the remaining 2 eggs, one at a time, beating between each addition.
- Drop dollops of cream cheese mixture randomly in the pan. Alternate with dollops of chocolate mixture until all the batter is gone. Using a fork, gently swirl and smooth the top layer to create a marble effect.
- Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes until the centre is just set. Cool completely in the pan, then decorate with trimmed strawberries.
- Cover with plastic wrap or place in airtight container and chill for at least 5 hours. Remove from fridge at least 10-15 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
it’s fried rice…
some asked me what i will cook today…here it is…fried rice…easy and delicious! actually, you can change ingredients as you likesometimes i use tofu and some vegetableand always have steamed Jasmin Rice from Thailand. just make sure that you make it a good taste…that’s only a challenge enjoy the meal!
ingredients
cubic cut of onion, tomato and shrimp
chopped garlic
egg(s)
salt, sugar, soy suace, curry powder, pepper powder
steamed Jasmine Thai Rice
let’s do
fry garlic, shrimp, onion and tomato
seasoning with salt, sugar, soy suace, curry powder, pepper powder
beating egg(s) into it until almost done, then add rice
fry until all are mixed well
Served with cucumber and lemon
sometimes we can have Thai chili if we need more spicy
sweet cinnamon stewed pork and eggs(khai pa lo)
what do you always do when have free time? for me…i do cooking.when i was young, i always followed my mom to the market and enjoyed shopping for meal preparation. this stewed eggs is one of very first menu i practiced it might be unusual (for someone who is not used to Thai foods) as slightly spicy of cinnamon and five spices taste…
ingredients:
9 Boiled eggs
500g of streaky pork
18 pieces of Fried Tofu
1-2 bars of Cinnamon
1 tbsp of five spices
2 cloves Garlic
2 tsp whole peppercorn
1 1/2tbsp of salt
8 tbsp thin soy sauce
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
10 tbsp palm sugar
2 tbsp vegetable oil
6-8 cups of water
let’s do:
1. boil eggs on high heat about 10 minutes or until cook, then remove the eggs from shells.
2. wash streaky pork, pat dry, and cut into 2” lenghts
3. well pound garlic with whole peppercorn in a mortar.
4. heat oil in a wok on medium heat, add pounded garlic and peppercorn, fry until fragrant.
5. season with five spices and dark soy sauce. add palm sugar and stir well
6. add streaky pork and salt. fry until the pork is getting cook. then add boiled eggs,tofu and water.
bring to boil, add thin soy sauce, and simmer for 45 minutes. stir until dissolve.
6. serve warm in a bowl with steamed rice.
tips
- it is better to leave this to rest overnight for the cinnamon and five spices fragrance to infuse throughout the eggs.
- able to use chicken or beef instead of pork or just tofu‘BuaLoy’ a Thai dessert, rice ball in sweetened coconut milk
‘Bua Loy’ (rice ball in sweetened coconut milk) is an original Thai dessert.It’s easy to do and use ingredients we normally have in the kitchen and house garden.Almost of Thai original dessert made of flour, coconut and sugar as you can see one of them here… BuaLoy means floating lotus. The rice balls has lotus colour and it also means sweet, soft and tender.
Ingredients Rice Ball
2 cups of glutinious rice flour
1 cup of tapioca flour
1 cup each of flaked pumpkins and taro
3 table spoons of squeezed dark indego
boiled water
Sweetened Coconut Milk
4 cups of squeezed coconut milk
1 cup of sugar cane
1/2 cup of palm sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
pandon leaf
Let’s do
1. mixing two kinds of flour with some boiled water until it becomes a dough
2. devide the big dough into 3 smaller doughs and mix each dough with pumpkins, taro and dark indego
3. roll it into small balls(around 1 cm. diameter) and boil until them ‘floating’. Then leave it ready to the next step
4. boil coconut milk with sugar cane and salt in low-medium heat together with pandon leaf. It will make the coconut milk fragantly. stir regulary to prevent oily.
5. spoon into a dessert bowl, serve warm
i love cooking and enjoy eating moments...i can say that and i am proud to say that. Thanks to my family, we always have precious time cooking, eating and enjoying together.
