Classic Cheesecake all pau!

My Cheesecake all done for Christmas day as well. 

Haumea's Bakery is now closed.

Momofuku Crack Pie my way for Christmas Day

Momofuku Crack Pie my way..........

Clam Chowder my way

Fried Brown Rice with Linguica

Pasta Medley Soup

Combination Plate Casa Haumea

Shredded Beef Enchilada and Taco oh and spanish rice made with my brown rice.

Vegetable Soup

It's not Campbell's Soup it's plain ole' vegetable soup with tubbitini pasta.

Palutaw or Ginata-an

Palutaw or Ginata-an a Filipino Dessert

I only make this dessert every now and then.  I am picky about what goes in it as I have had different versions.

This is made with coconut milk, tapioca pearls, lanka strips and mochi balls.



Huckleberry Muffins

I still had some Huckleberries about a cup.  I had frozen already 1.5 lbs.

 I just enjoy these berries.

This is a nice recipe.

1/2 cup butter, softened use the good stuff don't bother with margarine

1 cup fine baking sugar

2 large eggs (room temperature)

1 tsp vanilla or 1 tsp vanilla bean paste

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup half and half 

1/2 plain yogurt 

1 cups fresh or frozen Huckleberries or your fruit choice

zest of one lemon or one orange or mandarin

Cream the butter and sugar until creamy and fluffy careful not to overwok, add eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla. Whisk together the dry ingredients and add, alternating with half and half and yogurt, to the butter mixture. Add zest. Fold in blueberries. Scoop into muffin tins (use an ice cream scooper if you have one, greased or with papers, and bake at 350F for 20 - 25 minutes. You should get 12 large muffins.

This is a good tender inside and crunchy outside muffin.  I'm sure this would be yummy with cranberries chopped up and white chocolate shavings in there too.

I love blackberries too and that would be a winner.  Oh yeah and fold the fruit in softly.

Bon appetit.



Roast Duck Congee

Since I roasted the Chinese Duck earlier, I took the wings and made Roast Duck Congee

Chinese Roast Duck in your own kitchen

I picked up a nice Pekin (Yes that is Pekin) Duckling prepackaged, prepped.  Well it had the Head and Feet which I chopped off.

Considering how oily/fatty a duckling is, I pricked the heck out of this quacker so alot of this fat would render off and thus it did.

The skin didn't come out as crispy but the layers of flavor that I wanted was there.

I'll have to come back and edit this post on how I did the sauce in 2 steps.

Hamburgers and Shitake's in Gravy

Scampi

I picked up a new little Canon that I can still carry in my purse and hmmm kinda liking the photos so far.
Although I am a Sony Person this is doing it job.

So I picked up some USA Jumbo Prawns today Scampi I tell you Scampi and it was good.

Only thing I was too lazy to have a whole bottle of Chardonnay to go with it by myself.

Made another cheesecake

Cheesecake

Okay instead of turning on the heat, I figured what the heck, bake a cheesecake.

So the kitchen is warm, the cheesecake came out nice and we'll taste this one tomorrow.

Good night. 

Our 4 days off

We really needed some time off, after the past couple months.

Our journey took us to the Wine Country of course. Saw some friends met some new friends, had some great wine and tour and great food.

Here goes.

This is at Alpha Omega, you know I've been wanting to go there and never got around to it.  Our friend Bridget Raymond whom is Wine Propietress of Brijitte Wines, sent us there and whoah very nice.  Met a local wahine that works there and well we talked story for a while.  These are the fountains on the grounds quite nice the grounds.  Jackie our new friend at A/O also plants the gardens there as well.

New French Oak Barrels. On the left up there are one of the owners.

These are the grapes after they've been pressed and gone through the fermentation.

It really looked like fall and glad we were there this weekend.

The drive through the tunnel of trees.

Went to Calistoga for lunch and also went to revisit Crystal Geiser been 25 years or so since we last went there.

This Red Dragon fly was something

We had lunch at Brannan's

I had a Ceasar Salad with Salmon

This salmon was so perfectly cooked the skin was exceptionally crispy.

We both had Butternut Squash Soup it was pretty good.

Pappa had a burger but I did not take a photo of it. It was just a burger.

See my hubby in my glass. :-)

This guy was riding this bicycle through the window at Brannan's interesting.

 The grounds and tasting at Cakebread was what I expected. I also got an autographed Cookbook from Delores Cakebread.  The Reserve Chardonnay was awesome.

It was soooo nice seeing the fall colors.

Pappa's Miso Clam Soup at Morimoto, we had dinner with our son and his girlfriend.

Pappa's Kobe just like he likes it.

Red Snapper Display at Morimoto

Morimoto Sushi Rice Pudding with Manila Mango and Verbena Bean Sauce with Tuille

Hubby and his 28 year old Morimoto Sake. Son had some too they both liked it.

I've posted these doughnuts before from Morimoto. They are very good.

Doors should be opening very soon in Napa for Tyler Florence.

Love this entry at Celadon

This is going to be our next dining experience

Last night 11/13/10 we dined at Boulevard One Mission St.,  San Francisco

Nice dining experience $$$$ but worth it.

Monterey Red Abalone and Oyster Starter with Lobster Mushroom and other mushrooms. This was so yummy.

Hubby's Angus Filet Mignon with Chard and Fingerlings cooked medium rare, excellent

This was my Halibut Entree with wilted spinach, a squash blossom stuffed with deliciousness on a bed of avocado quinoa and couscous this was delish!

My dessert was a semifreddo with a oat cookie on top with some passion fruit very subtle. Also with White Chocolate scoop icecream and medallion, with some cookie crumb.

We had some good wine as well '07 Duckhorn Cabernet Sauvignon, 2004 Chateauneuf Du Pape, and 2000 Chateau Mageaux

It was indeed a beautiful weekend.