Oreo Cheesecake

I totally forgot to post this recipe yesterday due to something which I can't quite remember. Anyway, let me tell you that this recipe is not as hard as it sounds. As the matter of fact, it's pretty darn easy but the most annoying part about this recipe is you have to wait for awhile before you can taste one of the most delicious cheesecakes. Okay stop babbling yattering..here is how the recipe

Ingredients: (serving 6 people)

OREO Creme Chocolate Sandwich cookies: 16
Philadelphia Cream Cheese, light: 2 pkg (250g each)
Sugar: 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract: 1/2 tsp
Baking Chocolate, melted: 4 square
Eggs: 2

Preparation:

Quarter 10 of thecookies; set aside. Finely crush remaining 6 cookies. Press firmly onto bottom of greased springform pan. Bake at 160 degree celsius for 10 minutes.

Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add chocolate, mix well. Add eggs one at a time, mixing on low speed after each addition just until blended. Chuck in the quatered cookies then pour over crust.

Bake at 160 degree celsius for 50 minutes or until center is almost set. Run knife or metal spatula around rim of pan to loosen cake, cool before removing rim of pan. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight (the most annoying part).

Talking about cooking is not fun but when you put your hands on it, that's when the fun begins. I haven't been cooking for a wee while probably because of the tight schedule in a past few weeks or maybe just too lazy. My boyfriend came over for dinner so I was planning to cook something nice for him since he's been such a nice boyfriend to me lately. However, I usually give myself at least 30 minutes for the preparation when I cook but today I only had 10 minutes maximum because I was too busy doing my fine art work at university. I could cook him an instant noodle and add some pieces of meat and eggs in it but then he probably tell me that he could do that at home. So I used left over steak from last night, cream and again left over rice from last night. So here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
Rump steak 2 pieces cooked
Peppercorns cracked 1 tablespoon
Cream 2 ounce
Italian herbs 1 tsp
White wine 2 ounce (*optional)
Beef stock 4 ounce

Heat the saucepan on medium heat, add beef stock, white wine and cream stir. Add peppercorn and salt then stir. Finally add in rump steak and Italian herbs, serve with nice, hot jasmine rice.

See it's simple and easy and most importantly it's YUMMY.


*P.S. The sauce in this recipe is pretty similar to the pepper sauce from 'Seeze beef' recipe except this one doesn't have onion in it.

Sneeze beef

I haven't had a steak for a long long time, the reason for that is I try to avoid eating beef. However, last night I had in mind that I want to cook steak for today's dinner. I actually made a right choice to cook steak as the taste of fillet steak with pepper sauce didn't disappoint me at all. Here is what you need:

3 pieces of steak
Olive oil for brushing
2 teapoons salt
1 tablespoon cracked black pepper


Pepper sauce
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 brown onion, chopped
2 tablespoons peppercorns, cracked
1 cup beef stock
1/4 cup white wine
1 1/4 cups cream
Serving: 2-3

To make the pepper sauce, heat a saucepan over medium heat. Add the oil, onion and peppercorns and cook for 2 minutes. Add the stock and wine and cook for 3-4 minutes. Add the cream and cook for 2 minutes or until thickened. Drained out the onion and set aside and keep warm.
Pat the steaks dry with absorben paper towels. Brush with the oil and sprinkle evenly with the salt and pepper. Heat a non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add the steaks and cook for 3 minutes on each side for medium-rare or until cooked to your liking. (Thanks Donna Hay for this recipe)

Hmm..This one is a bit rare :P

Sweet like chocolate...or maybe caramel

Last night, I printed out Caramel Peacan Choc Brownies recipe by accidently. So I decided to try this recipe while I was cleaning up my kitchen. hehehe. Okay here is what you need:

150 g butter, melted
1/2 cup Baking Cocoa
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 cup pecan nuts, chopped
3/4 cup Caramel
Serving: 8

Really simple and darn easy to bake. First of all preheat your oven 180 degree celsius. Grease and line a lamington pan (in this case, I used cake tray because I don't have lamington pan). Combine butter and Baking Cocoa, add eggs, sugar, vanilla and sifted flour, mix well, stir in pecan nuts. Pour mixture into pan. Spoon Caramel onto brownie mixture, swirl through. Bake for 35 minutes until cooked when tested, turn out to cool on wire rack. Cut into squares to serve. (Thanks to Nestle Baking website)

Melted caremel...yum :)