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Posts Tagged ‘cream cheese’

Broccoli Pasta with Bacon & Prawns

By • May 25th, 2011 • Category: What's Cooking

Remember I had some leftover cream cheese? Well, I figured another way to use it. Pasta baby! I have to admit that the idea of using cream cheese instead of regular parmesan came from a TV advertisement. But hey, whatever works right? It’s a really simple recipe for a weekday dinner. Easy to make in [...]



Caramelized Onions with Chorizo & Mushrooms on Cream Cheese Puff Pastry

By • May 10th, 2011 • Category: What's Cooking

This food blog is deprived of food. Sorry! Here’s a quick and easy dinner I made tonight and it was delicious. I know, I know, what it lacks in photo mojo, it made up in taste. I have three tubs of unused low-fat cream cheese lying in my refrigerator that I’m dying to use up [...]



Red Velvet

By • Jun 8th, 2010 • Category: Baking Projects

Who would have thought that there were so many types of flour? I alone have seven types of flour in my larder. And seriously, I really only use two – plain and self-raising. Is all that flour really necessary? I was looking for a red velvet cake recipe when almost every recipe I found asked [...]



Cheesecake Brownie

By • Jun 8th, 2010 • Category: Baking Projects

I was a rebel as a kid. My parents had plenty of headaches from my mischiefs. I hated school and homework even more. I especially had a ‘fondness’ for my class teacher who previously (unfortunately) taught my more academically-inclined older brother. Every day she would remind me how well-behaved my brother was, and sneered at [...]



Continental Lemon Cheese Tart with Stewed Plums

By • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Desserts

A girl friend and I were checking out old school and uni photos yesterday, some dated to more than 10 years ago. We were amazed at how baby-faced some of us looked and how some have simply ‘transformed’ themselves. We talked about the old days and how we have grown over the years. A mutual [...]