Recipes, just three for now. Revision: 20 November 2024
cheesecake | muffins | pasta sauce
Just a place where I put requested recipes. Here’s the cocktail recipes we used at Equinox in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Aunt Sylvia’s Cheesecake
Here you go! Start with a 9 inch spring form pan. It’s a 3 part recipe:
1) Make your favorite bottom crust. My mom (Aunt Sylvia makes graham cracker crust)
2) Mix and bake cheese cake one hour
3) Add topping raise temperature to 425F and bake five minutes.
The shut off oven and let cheesecake rest in oven one hour.
My mom will sometimes substitute maple flavor for the vanilla in the cake yet still use the vanilla for the topping.
Cranberry Pumpkin Muffins
Here’s my fav Autumn snack that I hacked.
I reduced the sugar and changed it to 1/3 brown sugar. Also I reduced the white flour and added 1/4 cup whole wheat flour for an “earthier” flavor. I tried it with fresh cranberries and it was boring, re-constituting dried cranberries in some water in the microwave is so much better. I use fresh pumpkins that I grow each year but most of y’all will have to used canned. I added chopped walnuts to the last batch and it was wonderful.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin (I use fresh that I grow)
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1 cup dried cranberries (soak in water to plump up)
Preheat oven to 400°. In a bowl, combine the first 4 ingredients. In a bowl, beat the eggs and sugar; add the pumpkin and oil and mix well. Stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in the cranberries.
Fill foil- or paper-lined muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake at 400° for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Sylvia’s Tomato Sauce Recipe for Pasta
3 tablespoons olive oil (best one can buy)
4x 28 oz. cans tomato puree (San Marzano)
4x 28 oz. cans whole tomatoes (San Marzano)
1 rounded tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 bay leaf
1 rounded tablespoon of basil,
2 teaspoons of oregano
1/2 rounded cup of white sugar
2 large garlic cloves minced
1 rounded cup of diced onion
1/2 cup dry red wine
1 cup of grated parmasaen cheese.
If you need instructions to make this you’re in bad shape.
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