9/16/2012

Cheese cake

One of my favourite pies and  desserts. I like this very lemony, citrus-flavoured!


Ingredients:


  • 500gr. of lean fresh cheese
  • 250ml. of light cream
  • 120gr. non salted butter, melted
  • 6 tbsp. of sugar
  • 2 bags of vanilla sugar
  • 250gr. of speculoos bisquits
  • 12gr. of gelatine sheets
  • Juice of 1½ lemons and ½ green lime
  • 4 apples
Preheat your oven on 180°C.
Break up the speculoos bisquits and put them in the mixer and mix untill you have a fine crumble.







Mix this crumble with the melted butter and stir well. Put a baking sheet in the springform and divide this mixture on the bottom, make sure to press firmly on the edges. put in the oven and bake for 10 minutes.














Cut the apples into parts and bake them in a pan with a small knob of butter and a tbsp. of sugar untill brown caramelized. Cover the baked speculoos bottom with these appleparts.








Whip the cream with the sugar and vanilla sugar firmy untill you get peaks and mix under the fresh cheese. Heat up the lemon/lime juice and dissolve the gelatine(that you have put in cold water for +/- 10 minutes before) in it. Pour this in the cheese mixture and mix.

Now pour all of this into the baking form and let it stiffen for about 8 hours in the fridge.

You can dress this with some fruit or top with some more speculoos crumble or whipped cream.


Enjoy,

Kev

Battered & fried plaice

Another easy dish prepared in little time. My kids managed to make this dish dissapear faster than I could prepare it!

Ingredients:

  • 2 plaice fillets, cleaned
  • 2 eggs
  • flower
  • breadcrumbs
  • pepper & salt
Cut up the plaice in bitesize chunks.
Prepare 3 deep dishes, 1 with flower(mix in some pepper & salt) in it, 1 with the breadcrumbs and 1 with the eggs(beaten). Make sure you've got enough in them.

Cover the plaice first with flower and beat off the excess flower, then with the eggs and finally with the crumbs.
Put in the fryer (Max or 190°) and fry untill golden brown, takes about 1-2 minutes.
Serve with tartare sauce, mayo or aïoli.


Enjoy,

Kev