Korean Food

My best friend in high school was from Korea, I would eat Korean food with her all the time. I miss it. I usually crave it when I am pregnant. We discovered a really good Korean restaurant today. We all enjoyed the food and it was a really classy place.

Rose trying out chopsticks

GMAC really liked the soup

U liked everything, he's a "foodie" like his mom!

One of my favorites, Bibim Bap

Mango Cheesecake!

Crucian Dad and I grew up in tropical climates where we eat lots of mangoes. We love mangoes! The other day I made mango cheesecake. I've made it in the past but couldn't find my recipe, so, I looked at some of my other cheesecake recipes and made one up. It turned out pretty good. We enjoyed it with Crucian Dad's sister and hubby when they came over last weekend.

Mango Cheese cake

Crust

1 ¾ cup graham cracker crumbs (I used my food processor)

3 TBSP sugar

¾ stick of butter

Filling

3 (8 oz) packages cream cheese, room temperature

2 cups mango puree

4 eggs

¼ cup sour cream

1 cup sugar

½ teaspoon ground cardamom

2 TBSP all purpose flour

Directions

Preheat oven to 3 50 degrees F.

Crust- combine in a med. Bowl crumbs, sugar and cinnamon. Add butter. Press down flat into a 9 inch spring foam pan, bake for 8-10 min. cool

Filling- beat cream cheese until smooth. Add the rest of the ingredients and beat (scrape the bowl as needed.) Pour into crust evenly and bake for 1 hour. Remove from oven, let it sit for about 20 min, then cover and refrigerate for 5 hrs.

Optional-- reduce about 1/2 up of mango puree by simmering and once it's cool spread it over the cheesecake before serving

ENJOY!

-Mallu Mom

CHRISTmas pictures

Merry CHRISTmas!! ..no we are not late with this. We are Catholic and to us CHRISTmas is a season not just one day.

Our Nativity

Kids after Mass

Rose and I made this, we used holly from our front yard!

Crucian Dad, placing the angel on top of the tree

We sang happy birthday to Jesus, a tradition we started when Inch was little.

Appum and Estew(south Indian dish) for brunch

Christmas Eve dinner

Rolls made by "U", riz djon-djon (rice and Hatian mushrooms),
Baked Chicken, Ham, Scalloped Potatoes made by Inch,
and brussel sprouts (we got the recipe from our good friend)