Oreo cheesecake

Who can resist Oreo ? Though I'm not in the position to represent the product, but it's true. Kids will love Oreo smoothies, chocolate covered Oreo cookies or simply dip them in a glass of milk. Be creative and let your imagination free to create new recipe using Oreos.

I made this Oreo cream cheese cake from half package of leftover cream cheese and leftover whipped cream. The rest of the ingredients are always available in my fridge. I don't have the skill to make beautiful cake, especially when it takes long time to prepare and bake the cake layer by layer. Even making beautiful shape of swirls for cupcakes has always been my biggest challenge.

This cake is about fun and simple, of course kids will love it because it tastes like ice cream. I have made this cake several times with some modification. Mixed the cream cheese with Oreo crumbs, made pie crust from Oreo and when my hand mixer stopped working, I added egg then put the cake into the oven. But all off them turned out good and never failed me. 

Hence, I've waited so long to post about it, I tried to make it look beautiful and special. Hope you like it and feel free to try the recipe.

I've been nominated as one of Sekar magazine blog contest finalist. If you like my blog and you think I'm suitable enough to get your vote, please click here and vote for me. Thank you very much more than I can say to you :) 

Enjoy...

Guest Post : Pindang bandeng Betawi on Love and other spices

After a delay of several months (yes, months !!), I am finally able to fulfill Farwin's request to be a guest writer on her blog. Something came up between the line due to our busy schedules. She had written a post few months back with Coconut Jaggery Crepes with Kithul Treacle. The post is beautifully written together with lovely photos.

My interest in Indonesian culinary is getting bigger as I learn how to cook, then I started to like and enjoy cooking. I've mentioned once that I love doing a guest post for my friends especially when they want me to cook traditional foods from Indonesia. I love to try new recipes and explore Indonesian cuisine. This is the reason I cooked a traditional dish from Betawi/Jakarta, Pindang bandeng Betawi (Betawinese style milk fish stew in soy sauce). It was my first to cook pindang bandeng Betawi from scratch.

For the story and the recipe, please head over to Farwin Simaak  from Love and Other Spices. See you there !

Simple takoyaki balls

When first time I tried takoyaki was in a mall near my office building. It was a small Japanese snack booth that stolen my attention because of the snack they offer. First time and hit my taste buds. Then I kept coming back to order takoyaki if I want to eat something light that digest easily.

I modified the recipe according to what I have on hand. To tell you the truth, it's not easy to find takoyaki ingredients in Jakarta. I couldn't find the tempura scraps (tenkasu), octopus and pickled ginger. I even discovered the takoyaki sauce last week ! So this is my version of takoyaki so far. Simple and easy.

Enjoy....

Fried flaky pastries stuffed with tuna

Although it was more than 2 weeks late, I want to greet all Muslims "Ramadhan Mubarak". May Allah accept our deeds and forgive our sins. Aamiin. Ramadhan is like home and it's good to be home again. I'm sure all Muslims feel the same way as I do.

I've been busy recently and has left me with limited time for updating my blog, Facebook and twitter but I checked my mail couple of times everyday. But due to the hectic schedule, guess my tiring days, weeks or probably months are not over yet at least until the end of this year ! Yes, my life is like a roller coaster at the moment.

Do you remember my posts of Chinese flaky pastry ? The first is Green tea flaky pastry and second is Chocolate flaky pastry. This time I made fried flaky pastry, no bake ! This kind of snack is something we usually call pastel in Indonesia. The filling can be varied from vegetables, fish, chicken, egg or beef.

The original pastel (fried pastry) skin is made from thin pastry with half-moon shape and crimped edges. I remember when I was a kid I learned to make pastel crimp with play-dough and look, it helped me a lot when I make the real ones.:D

Enjoy....

The winners of DMBLGiT July 2012 are....

Big thank to all who participated in DMBLGiT July 2012. I had so much time going through each and every photo in the gallery. We had 33 entries come in from all around the world. Yes, I was mesmerized by all of them and made me want to jump in and lick my computer screen. Another huge thank to the judges (Ira, Thorsten, Kulsum, Xiaolu) who helped me scoring photos. You all have done an incredible job ! My sincerest thank to Andrew for the opportunity to host again and to Shari for making the badges and sent them to me early last month ! :)


Now, let's get to the winners !

OVERALL WINNER

(the highest scoring photos)

First Place Winner
Pamela Rodriguez from Uno de dos with Pancakes

Second Place Winner

Kankana Saxena from Sunshine and Smile with Mango sweetened yogurt

Third Place Winner 
 So happy we have a tie here

Yelena Strokin from Cooking Melangery with Minty sweet pea and zucchini soup

Lisa H from From my Lemony kitchen with Mushroom and barley soup

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES WINNER

(the highest scoring photos for each category, after excluding the overall winners.)

Edibility Winner
Karolina from Dine & Dash with Lemon strawberry cake

Originality Winner
Bean Panda from Beanpanda cooking diary with Steamed coconut with egg white

Aesthetics Winner

Soma Rathore from eCurry with Red Lentils with Pearl Onion

Congratulation to all winners !

Please check out DMBLGiT August announcement on A Wandering Ladle. If you're interested to be the host, there are still plenty of vacant place ! All you have to do is  send your mail to Andrew with "DMBLGiT Host" as subject.

See you....