Matcha cheesecake

Hello sweeties!

I know, I know, it's a while of my last post. I'm very sorry about it. Yesterday I made matcha cheesecake. I wanna share the recipe with you. It's my own recipe so that's why I added a lot of matcha powder so if you aren't familiar with the taste of matcha don't add it as much as I did. You might not like the result. Now matcha cheesecake is my favorite cheesecake. I definitely gonna do it again. I think it's prefect dessert for hanami festival picnic.

Matcha cheesecake:

1 package graham crackers, crushed
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted                                                                    

3-4 tablespoons green tea powder (matcha)

2 tablespoons hot water

200g white chocolate

3 leafs of gelatin                                                   

2 packages (400g) of cream cheese

2dl whipping cream

1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar

1 teaspoon of stevia ( you can also use white sugar)

 

 

 

Put the graham cracker crumbs in a mixing bowl. Drizzle in the melted butter and mix until evenly moistened. Press into the bottom of( a 20cm ) springform pan. Put the pan in a fridge until the topping is ready.

Put leafs of gelatin in the cold water. Whip the cream. Combine cream cheese with matcha powder and vanilla sugar. Melt the white chocolate and it with cream cheese-matcha-vanilla mixture. Add cream on the mixture.

Boil the water. Press the water off from the leafs of gelatin and add them 2 tablespoons of boiling water. Add the mixture to the cream cheese mixture and mix.

Take the springform pan off the fridge and add the cream cheese mixture on it. Put the pan back to the fridge and keep there 2-3 hours or over the night.

 

 

                                               Matcha cheesecake served with matcha latte.

 

 

You can serve the cake with coffee or tea or with matcha latte, like I did. If you are curious to know how to make matcha latte let me know. I will post the recipe ;) It's also super easy to make.

 

Enjoy!

 

Till next time!~~

 

 

 

 

Sauerkraut & bratwurst casserole

Hello sweeties! Lately I've ate a lot sauerkraut so when I saw sauerkraut & bratwurst casserole recipe on Facebook I wanted to try it. The recipe that I gonna share with you guys isn't the same one as I saw. It's my own variation of it. This dish is perfect when you're having guests. It's easy and fast to make. What is most important it's very tasty! Next time when I host board game evening I definitely gonna make this dish.
So here is the recipe, I hope you'll like it as much I do.

Sauerkraut & bratwurst casserole

Ingredients:

1kg sauerkraut
1 package of bratwurst (6 big sausages)
2-3 tablespoons of mustard
2dl of sour cream (smetana)

Preheat the oven to 200C. Put sauertkraut on the riddle and let it drain for a moment. Slice the sausages and fry in a pan until sausages gets a little bit of color. Mix all the ingredients together. Pour into prepared baking dish. Bake about for 45 minutes.

If you want, you can serve the dish with the green salad.

I promise this dish is really easy to make. And it's tasty, even on the picture the dish doesn't look tasty. Let's just say, if you like sauerkraut you will love this dish!

Until next time!

Filled peppers

Hello sweeties! I made filled paprikas today. I have wanted to make them quite a while and yesterday I got an idea of new filling. So now I'm gonna share it with you. I also wanted to use spices that my mother brought me from Thailand. The chili is really hot! And that's why I like it. It gave a little kick to the dish :)


Ingredients

3 large red peppers
400g minced meat
200g flavored cream cheese ( I used pepper-chili cream cheese)
100g grated cheese
Olive oil
Onion
2 garlic claws
Salt
Chili

1. Cut the sweet peppers 'hat' and remove the seeds.
2. Sauté the onion and garlic in olive oil.
3. Add the meat to the pan and season it with salt and chilli.
4. Mix the cream cheese mixed with minced meat mature.
5. Fill the peppers with the mixture and sprinkle with grated cheese.
6. Put the peppers if desired hats stuffed with sweet peppers and cook in the oven at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes.

The filling is really good, the cream cheese was perfect choise to the filling. I'm pretty sure I gonna make use the filling again. :)


Till next time!~~

Matcha smoothie

Hello sweeties! Lately I have fell in love with matcha. Matcha is japanese fine powder green tea. It has many health benefits. I gonna list some of them for you.
Health benefits of matcha:

• Boosts metabolism and burns calories
• Detoxifies effectively and naturally
• Calms and relaxes
• Enhances mood and aids in concentration
• Provides vitamin C, selenium, chromium, zinc and magnesium
• Fights against viruses and bacteria
• Is rich in fiber
• Lowers cholesterol and blood sugar
• Does not raise insulin level

I like to use it because I’ve always liked it taste. I didn’t knew about the health benefits until last weekend. But hey, it’s better late than never
Jonna’s matcha smoothie:
1 liter of turkish yoghourt
about 1-2 dl whole milk
1-2 tea spoons of matcha
small about of hot water
2 bananas
If you wanna sweeten the taste you can add teaspoonful of honey.
Mix all the above ingredients in the blender and blend until the mixture becomes smooth. You can also stir if necessary.

 

Till the next time~~

Low carb diet

Hello sweeties! 2 weeks ago I started to follow low carb diet again. Mostly because I feel much better when I don’t eat carbs.I have noticed that when I eat carbs I feel sort of puffy. I also started to go to the gym. I’m really glad that my back isn’t aching as badly as month ago. So hurrey to that!  That’s why I keep going to the gym 3 times a week. 

Anyway, I gonna share with you my low carb pizza recipe. It’s really good, personally I think it’s even better than normal pizza. And it’s super easy to make!

 

Jonna’s low carb pizza:

pizza base:

150g of mozzarella cheese

2dl curd

1 egg

3 tea spoons if wheat brans

3 tea spoons of rye flour

toppings:

ham

pepper (red, green or orange)

pine apple pieces

slices of onion (half of it)

2 tea spoons of tomato sauce

150g mozzarella cheese

sprinkled oregano

 

Preheat the oven to 200C. Mix mozzarella, curd, wheat brans, rye flours and egg. Make base of the dough and put it on the oven for 10 minutes. After that add the toppings on the base and put pizza back on the oven for 10-15 minutes.

Enjoy!

 

If you are interested to know more low carb recipes let me know!

 

Until the next time~~