Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Monday, August 29, 2022
Quilted Throw for Living Room
I wanted to sew a living room size quilted throw, but it took me a few days to decide on what design to use. I already had many triangle shaped cutouts left over from one of my previous projects. So, I used those as a starting point for the design. I took those pieces and thought to myself what colors and shapes would look together?
Although I had a deadline for this project, since it was a gift for a friend, I still had plenty of fun and lots of enjoyment in putting this quilt together. One good thing is that it saved me time because I already had many of the pieces that I used ready to go.
If I had any regrets or second thoughts, I would have chosen to use more whites or cream colors instead of the gray I had available. The pattern would have shown better with slightly lighter colors, but I am still satisfied with how it all turned out. I will use this same pattern again with a different color scheme next time. I will also be updating this blog with pictures when I complete the next one with this pattern.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Ricottta Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
4 cups flour
15 oz ricotta cheese
2 sticks butter (1 cup)
1 cup sugar (additional for coating)
1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
Direction:
1. Mix butter and sugar, add egg and vanilla extract
2. Mix in ricotta cheese
3.Measure flour and baking powder together (dry ingredients)
4.Add dry ingredients to butter mixture.
5. Stir in chocolate chips (or just stick chocolate chips to each cookie dough during shaping)
6. Place dough in fridge for 30mins to an hour.
7. Set a bowl of sugar, Set another bowl of chocolate sprinkles.
8. Shape individual cookie ball, press top of cookie with sprinkles and roll all sides without the sprinkles with sugar in the sugar bowl.
9. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 mins with cookies edges are slightly brown.
10. Cool and serve.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Japanese Cheesecake
200g / 8 oz cream cheese 5 eggs - separated 100g/ 1/2 cup cream 130g / 1/2 cup plain yoghurt 50g / 3/8 cup cake flour 80g 3/8 cup sugar 20g / 1 1/2 Tbs lemon juice
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Strawberry Filled Sour Cream Cake
I am making 1 1/2 the recipe because it will be a big 3 layer cake.
To bake this cake you'll these ingredients:
2 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 stick butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup sour cream
Preheat the ovens
Begin by preheating the oven to 350ยบ Fahrenheit.
Prepare cake pans
Prepare 2 10-inch round cake pans, lined the bottom of each pan with parchment paper.
Instruction:
In a bowl, measure flour and baking powder together, set aside.
In a bowl of your stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Next add eggs one at a time, making sure to fully incorporate each egg before adding another. Add sour cream to mixture and mix well. Next, mix in milk slowly while continuously mixing.
Next, mix in flour mixture to the mixer running mixer in low to medium speed until incorporated, do not over mix on this step. Then, stop the mixer and scrape down sides and bottom of bowl, to make sure all ingredients are mixed.
Batter into Pans:
Now its time to pour batter between the cake pans, using 1-cup measuring cup to even scoop to each pan. Place pans into oven. Bake for 35 minutes, test cake by poking a toothpick and should comes out clean.
Decorate the Cake
Once is cool, evenly cut the cake into 2 layers. Ice between each layer, secure the parameter by piping 1/2 inch icing border, fill strawberry preserve and place pieces of cut strawberries all over the cake on each of the layer. (see picture) I saw this decorating idea from Pinterest, will add the link here. (shortly).
Here are pictures of the cake.
Friday, November 27, 2020
Green Bean Casserole
I believe this is my first time making the traditional Green Bean casserole. Again, I was tasked with bringing a vegetable dish, preferably the infamous Green Bean casserole and honestly, I am not a fan of this particular vegetable dish. Based on my experience, there are many veggie dishes that are much better. But tradition is tradition, so I will participate will a smiley face and love in my heart.
I did some online research for a variety of ideas and recipes that might be more appealing to me. Not a huge difference in ingredients, but maybe an improvement over what I have eaten, This was a good idea and I was really pleased with how the new recipe twists I learned about made a real difference,
For the most part, I decided to stick with the same main ingredients, but with a few minor changes. I am still using the store bought French Fried Onion as well as using a can of cream of celery (that is what I have in my pantry, I would use cream of mushroom if I have that but either is fine).
So, here it is.
Green Bean Casserole dish ready, enjoy!
Recipe:
1 pound green bean (snipped both ends of green beans)
1 8oz white mushroom
1 medium size onion, finely sliced
2 Tbsp oil
2 tsp ground basil
1 10oz can of cream of mushroom/celery
3/4 cup of milk
salt, pepper, 2 Tbsp soya sauce, 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar, 2 Tbsp bacon bits
1 can French Fried Onions
Instructions:
In a 4 quart pot, bring water to a boil. Add green bean and let boil for 6-7 mins.
Remove green beans and run tap water over green beans, set aside.
In another sauce pan, heat oil on pan. Add onions, saute for 2 minutes.
Add mushrooms, basil and soya sauce and saute for another 2 minutes.
Add green beans, bacon bits and balsamic vinegar, saute another 3 minutes.
Scoop to a casserole dish.
In a bowl, stir together cream of mushroom/celery and milk.
Pour cream of mushroom mixture over the casserole dish and spread evenly to cover dish.
Bake at 350 degree for 30 minutes.
Sprinkle with French Fried Onions over dish and serve immediately.
Enjoy!
Apple Cream Cheese Bar
We have been invited to our brother and sister-in-laws home for Thanksgiving dinner and we are tasked with bringing a second dessert, since pumpkin pie will be the star of the show, I decided to make this Apple Cream Cheese Bar. The idea is that this dessert will compliment the pumpkin pie.
This recipe requires multiple steps to prepare it as there are 4 layers in total to makeup this dish.