Come Away with Me

Ros' Cheesy Birthday

The next day was a Monday so I went to work as usual. Before leaving the house, I woke Ros up to lock the door behind me. I remember vaguely calling out repeatedly as i made my way downstairs to be careful as my stairs is quite steep. Before i even reached the landing I heard a loud "THUD" followed by groans of pain... She lost her footing and tumbled down the stairs, dog in arms! Aside from a huge and black bruise that grew almost instantaneously on her leg, she was perfectly alright though poor Variel seemed to be in a momentary state of shock due to the sudden fall. What can I say, it's so my friend to start off her birthday with a bang :P

I left work on the dot and rushed home in the soonest time possible as we agreed to whip a fantastic meal for our much talked about, 2 person birthday bash! :)

The special birthday menu included the birthday gal's all time favorite food-CHEESE! And hence the cheesy menu for the day: cheese and pumpkin gratin, mixed beans salad with baby cheese, fried fish and of course cheesecake!


I absolutely love the salad (the baby cheese added a nice twist to it) and Ros picked the fish as her favorite dish for the night. While we thought the gratin tasted fine, both of us agreed that it would have been better had my microwave oven function been able to live up to its task better. It's just not as baked and browned as would like it to be.

We rested a while after dinner before progressing to Ros' highlight of the day- The birthday cake!


Ros trying to take a bite of the undecorated cake; My first attempt at decorating a birthday cake.



Ros taking the decorated cake out delicately from the cake box and looking dangerous as she prepared to cut the cake after we sang the birthday song :P Notice Variel peeping out from beneath the kotatsu?

The completed Oreo cheesecake.

Personally i wasn't too pleased with how the cake turned out though i had a lot of fun decorating it. Taste wise, it was up to expectation thanks to the recipe I got from Rosie but once more my less than dependable oven did not produced the desired result. What came out was a mixture of a baked cheesecake on the outside and what the Japanese would call 'rare' cheesecake (those with soft center) as the inside just could not hardened nicely. The birthday gal though seemed to like this 'best-of-both-world combination' cake very much and oh well I guess that's what matter :P

posted by テレサ @ 9:24 AM