Vegetarian Mayo Prawns / Broccoli with Mushroom

Some vegetarian dishes after all the hearty meals over the weekends. Broccoli is one of SY's favourite vegetable. There are 3 varieties of mushroom at the centre stir fried with oysters sauce.

The other dish is called Vegetarian Mayo Prawns. Notice the yellow little sunny side up eggs at the side of the plate? I fried little sunny side up quail's eggs.

The vegetarian prawns can be bought from NTUC chilled section. It is actually made of konnyaku which is suppose to be high in fibre and good for health.

Recipe:

1 packet large vegetarian prawn

Batter(Mix together):

4 tbsp flour

1 tbsp rice flour

1 egg

1 tbsp water

Mayonnaise Dressing (Mix together):

4 tbsp mayonnaise

1/2 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp lime juice

Method:

1. Coat vegetarian prawns with batter.

2. Deep fry till golden brown at 185 degrees.

3. Mix fried vegetarian prawns with mayonnaise dressing.

4. Sprinkle some sesame seed.

5. Serve.

Mini Cheese Cups

What do you think of these? I made these using some left over cheesecake batter from the Oreo Cheesecake. These little cups of oreo are very pretty to look and eat as well. More work to decorate but is worth the effort.

So instead of baking a big cake, the cheesecakes can be made into little cups like these for ease of consumption and no hassle to cut it. The baking time is also reduced since it is so small.

I managed to purchase some Philadelphia cream cheese at $5 for 2 blocks from Carrefour last weekend. This is really a good buy as the blocks are usually sold at $5 each.

Oreo Cheesecake II

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SY!!

Is SY Birthday and he asked for the Oreo Cheesecake after eating an oreo cheesecake which my BIL brought over some weeks back. Now you know why Oreo Cheesecake kept appearing in my blog. Those were the various tests on the different types of Oreo Cheesecake. By now, I am sure my family members are quite bored with cheesecake. I decided to use the egg white beaten seperately method for SY cheesecake.

Notice the strawberry hearts round the cake? I cut those using a cookie cutter. I thought they looked nice. I wanted to do more decoration but with my limited skill, I figured out that it would be better just to leave it like this in case I ruin the whole cake in theh process of trying to be creative.

This cake managed to feed 15 people and there were some leftovers for some folks to bring home. My brother mentioned that he would setup a bakery shop for me if he had the money. Well, I too hope he will one day have the money to setup a shop for me. hahaha...

Mint Oreo Cheesecake

I was at Meidi-ya when hub caught eyes on a pack of Newman's O which was Oreo look alike biscuits with a minty filling. He suggested making a Mint Oreo Cheesecake. I was game for it as I wanted to try out another cheesecake making method where egg whites are beaten seperately and folded into the cheesecake mixture before baking instead of dumping whole eggs into the cheese batter to beat.

This method gives the cheesecake a volume and is lighter and fluffier. I baked a high 7" round cake that needed only 250g of cream cheese. For making cheesecake, it is still best to use quality Philadelphia Brand® despite the cost of it. Quality of ingredients results in a quality end product.

I gave some slices of cakes away for testing and the rest was for hub's consumption since he said he liked it well.

Verdict: Most testers thought the combination of mint and cheese was kind of strange and I thought it was like eating cheesecake with toothpaste. YL's friend liked it as well as she is a fan of mint stuff. So I guess if you are a mint lover, you might like it else it may not appeal at all.

Oreo Cheesecake

In a frenzy of seperating the frozen Oreo Cheesecake slices up, I forgot to take a picture of the whole cake. The biscuit crumbs at the topping made a big mess on the table. This is the only slice of cake that I found decent and snapped a picture of it.

My son asked for Oreo Cheesecake for his birthday. I found a recipe on the internet and decided to do a trial run. The outcome was pretty good. Well my son liked it and YL reserved 3 slices.

I wonder if the cake would be lighter if I were to whip the egg whites seperately before mixing it into the cheese mixture. Should I risk a failed birthday cake by attempting to whip the egg whites before mixing into the cheese or should just follow the instructions of the original recipe.