My Mother's Day breakfast-in-bed. Normally prepared by you darling Jaja but this year my sweetie Syirah took over pulak. Scrambled eggs, mushrooms, kacang phool, lovely warm bread rolls , some fruit and my favourite cup of coffee. What bliss!
Lately ni the weather has been very warm. Reportedly too warm for spring. Kan ke sekarang ni all the 4 seasons will register out of the ordinary temperatures. Kalau winter dulu we had the highest snowfall and lowest temperature in so many years, last summer registered the highest temparature in so many years, so sama la jugak spring ni we've been having very warm days, at one point it went to as high as 30 degrees which is normally a summer temperature.
Practice tak habis2 tapi bila suruh buat for real, hampeh.... asik jatuh je. (Ni Syira yang tulis....detect the ever so sharp sarcasm kalau anything relating to Hakeem)
Tengok la Mama...terketor-ketor. Stiff jer kaki tangan. Risau jugak takut kena langgar dik everybody else yang went swishing by at the speed of lightning.
So bila dah panas2x macam ni there will surely be a big crowd dekat the big lake in town. We also didn't want to miss the boat so we went there to lepak2x. Abah relax makan kuaci while Mama and Hakeem attempted to improve our roller blading skills, what little skill that we have la that is. So dengan terketor-ketornya we tried. Nampak Mat Saleh2x tu senang jer, very smooth pulak tu. So Mama pun mula2x macam confident la sebab dulu2x masa Standard Six I skated quite well and masa A-Level pun Mama ice-skated. Too bad....not as easy as I would have liked it to be. Abah who sat watching us laughed his head off sebab when compared to the accomplished skater, I was not smooth at all. I was hobbling away...terketor-ketor...at one point nearly landed on my bump! Nasib baik sempat peluk pokok kat tepi walkway tu. Abah had his field day mocking me and said tengok la badan...dah double from anak dara days....mana nak sama! Hishhhhhh.....tak per...tak per....kita practice lagi! Hakeem lagi la....dia nak berpaut kat Mama but I said no. Kang 2-2 jatuh terbongkang. So he practiced in between the steel bars. He is very diligent in practicing though. Kat rumah he'll use the skates to move around.
This boy is always eating.... Look at his tummy! (This is another one of Syirah's "loving" anecdote on her darling brother!)
Abah with his secret stash of kuachi... he can't get enough of these. They're his second addiction now after reading.
Talking about Abah makan kuaci tepi lake....well kat sini yang suka makan kuaci ni is Turkish and this one Malaysian guy la. When we were at the lake, ada 2 Turkish ladies pun dok engrossed makan kuaci sambil bersembang. Kuachi also act as Abah's means to keep awake while driving. Sebelah pegang steering, sebelah tangan makan kuachi. So very dangerous actually but if he does this he would slow down and not drive so fast. Automatic mata dia hilang mengantuk!
This cake was delicious. Even Abah who normally doesn't like cheese cake ate several slices. Hakeem gobbled up almost a third of it. Ignore the red celoreng on the cake, fail! I didn't have strawberry filling so opted for jam which was too stiff to be pulled along the lines to form pretty lines.
On the cooking/ baking front, Mama tried buat this cheese cake that uses normal sliced cheddar cheese yang kita eat with burger tu. I must say that it's quite good, resulting in a light cheese cake, not so cheesy. Good for those yang tak berapa suka the cloying cheesy taste in normal Philly cheese cakes. Rasa macam Japanese cotton cheesecake pun ada jugak. Here's the recipe :-
LIGHT STRAWBERRY CHEESE CAKE
Sumber : Cik Mat Gebu of www.tiffinbiru.com
BAHAN-BAHAN:
300 ml susu segar
6 keping keju kraf cheesedale
3 biji telur gred A, asing kuning dan putih
90 g gula halus
110 g tepung gandum
110 g mentega
1 camca teh esen vanilla
Strawberry filling secukupnya, isi dalam piping beg
300 ml susu segar
6 keping keju kraf cheesedale
3 biji telur gred A, asing kuning dan putih
90 g gula halus
110 g tepung gandum
110 g mentega
1 camca teh esen vanilla
Strawberry filling secukupnya, isi dalam piping beg
CARA:
- Satukan susu, keju dan mentega dalam periuk. Panaskan dengan api kecil dan kacau hingga semua larut. Sejukkan. Sementara itu, lenser spring form pan berukuran 8 inci dengan mentega, alas dasarnya dengan aluminium foil. Panaskan oven pada suhu 160C.
- Dalam bekas lain, kacau kuning telur hingga berkrim, masukkan tepung, esen vanilla dan kacau hingga rata. Tuang bancuhan no. 1 sedikit demi sedikit sambil dikacau hingga semua rata dan halus. Ketepikan.
- Dalam mixer bowl yang kering dan bersih putar putih telur hingga berbuih, masukkan gula halus dan terus memutar hingga menjadi meringue yang kental dan bila dicuit menghasilkan puncak yang tajam.
- Masukkan 1/2 bahagian meringue dalam no. 2, kaup hingga rata dan tuang kembali adunan tadi ke dalam baki meringue dan gaul semula dengan kaedah kaup balik hingga rata. Tuang 1/4 bahagian ke dalam tin kek, ratakan, picit strawberry tadi atas adunan kek dengan cara lingkaran. Tuang 1/4 lagi dan buat kaedah sama hingga bahagian adunan terakhir, buat lingkaran yang sama dan lorekkan dengan hujung pisau sehingga mendapat corak yang cantik.
- Letak tin berisi adunan kek tadi dalam loyang, tuang sedikit air panas dan bakar 55 minit atau hingga kuning keemasan. Bila masak, biar suam dan keluarkan dari tin. Biar betul2 sejuk baru dipotong.
