Sunday, May 26, 2019

Spinach Cheese triangles

Spinach cheese triangles


Sautee 
1 onion minced
4-5 strips minced bacon 🥓—-optional


Mix
Sautéed onion and bacon
1 package cream cheese
About 20 oz frozen spinach (thawed and drained really well)
About a cup of shredded mozzarella cheese
One lemon zest and 1/2 lemon juice
Salt /pepper /garlic powder
Some EVOO olive oil to get the consistency you want
2eggs



Wrap
Thaw the philo dough first way ahead of time 
Cut the philo dough into strips
Then place the mixture and wrap to form triangles
1/2 stick of butter (microwaved to melt)
Brush triangles with butter

Bake preheated 350 oven for 30 minutes or until color






Thursday, May 23, 2019

My famous strawberry cake


For the cake 

one box of (Better Crocker) French Vanilla Cake mix
3 eggs
1/2 cup veggie oil
1 cup water
Optional (using a little bit of Rum or Bailey's, moist the cake).

bake 350 for 30 - 40 minutes until done then cool completely on the rack.

The secret to have a flat top cake is 
to use the bottom as a top. (upside down)



For the cream 

1 cup of whipping cream (NO cool whip)
30 g (2 large spoonful) or more Sugar
















For decoration
Fruits (I use strawberry) but , peach, blueberry, whatever works.
walnuts
no flavor gelatin for gloss look and maintain moisture of strawberries (add a little sugar)






 <-- inside,
arrange strawberries


                                         -->
                                         place the top cake
 <--
before put the strawberry around,
I recommend to put the nuts on the side.
(this pic did not do that, and came out much more messy strawberry decoration later)














start decorate with very thin sliced strawberries.




then
 second round








 and at the end, apply gelatin (+ a little sugar melted)  with the brush .