Cherry Galette

Merhaba From Turkiye.... Selam.

Cherry is in season..... yes, I love cherry...the fruit I never ate before in my homeland... I don't know... was there cherry tree some where I didn't know or really there was not one. But cherry is very hard to find in Indonesia, except cherry in can/ preserved.
That's why I really enjoy eating them fresh or make them something. 

Yesterday there were two Indonesian students visited us.. So happy to see them because I didn't meet them for a quite long time due to their exam before summer holiday. So touching also cause they came to farewell to me and family before they spend summer holiday in Indonesia... They are both good and nice girls.. I miss them already...

They brought us a bag of sweet cherry that I like...thank you girls! so I'm thinking to make a nice yet crunchy dessert for our iftar.... so voalla.. I got this idea.. Cherry galette...
With sweet delish cherry filling meet with slightly savory flaky crust... what could be delight than that? Oh. yeah.. with warm love of family...  

For the dough, I use smitten kitchen's flaky pie recipe. Besides it's using all butter in the recipe (no shortening required) also the crust is so nice with the flaky crunchy result. I just love it.

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Melon and Chia soda drink with Cocopandan syrup(Es Melon dan selasih)

Selam everbody.... Merhaba from Turkiye...

Until Ramadhan day 6 the weather still so friendly here... Even tonight when I post this Melon Chia soda drink.. Rain pouring soft on and off..it's just so peaceful. 

This Melon chia drink I made for our iftar today. In summer like this we can find melon easily and the price these days is so cheap.

The chia .... Hmmm.. I love chia. In Asia mostly we mix it in our cold beverages. The texture is so unique and if you search for more... it has many benefits.

What you need:

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Strawberry and Chocolate hand pie

Assalamu'alaikum....... Merhaba from Turkey..

It's late post.... actually I made this few days ago but since early Ramadhan day 1 I've been busy with things around the house. And like many other time in Ramadhan I have a little less sleep. And thanks God this Ramadhan in summer time the weather is so friendly... so many rain... air is so fresh with bit of windy sometimes... It's really helpful to keep my energy still fresh during day light.

Today's post is simply easy strawberry with chocolate hand pie. It's so simple, quick, easy yet double yummy. Serve it with vanilla ice cream or simple whipped cream will be more delish. But I serve it with Kaymak, it's a creamy dairy product similar to clotted cream, made from the milk of water buffalos, cows, sheep, or goats

Mostly recipe I googling around is directly put fresh strawberry over the pastry dough but as my own experiences with fresh fruity pie, it will end up with wet and messy looking pie. Yes.. some people okay with that.. But this time I want my pie looks pretty as I bought from patisserie (*_*)... So I bake my strawberry before filling it to the dough. The result is so nice and yummy in taste yet pretty good looking hand pie...

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Strawberry Cheese Panna Cotta and Sunday's Election in Turkey

Merhaba from Turkiye everyone...
Today 7 June 2015... happy voting day for Turkiye...

Political wind warmly blows since these last few weeks before the peak of the general election day (genel seçim) 2015 last week. Everyone talked about politics and possibilities after elections later. From çay bahçesi / tea house(where Turkish people drink tea) nearly stand every inch in area where I lived, until at offices (at least at public offices that I know).

It seems everyone here is very concerned about politics and government, including my husband. He also got "political fever" like any body else.  Every evening after work, He watched all politic channel, from one channel to another .... ppffff ... I can not even watch my favorite show!

Well ... today the people of Turkish have fulfilled their rights in the election booths .... 
The result of Sunday's general election is a major blow to the biggest party now (AK Party), which has failed, for the first time since it came to power in 2002, to obtain enough votes to form a single-party government, although it is still the party that received the most votes.Well .... I only follow the news here. I'm not voter because I am not Turkish citizen ... Just wait and see where the political wind blows...But I found an interesting unique quote ...

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anywaayyy....enough about what makes hot in this fresh summer in Turkey.... Let's talk about something cooler..something delightful and yummy... yes... I made Strawberry cheese panna cotta for our weekend dessert at home.

Before stawberry season ending soon... I still grab some of it from farmer market last week. Some I made this yummy Strawberry Cheese Panna Cotta, and some I will make simply strawberry hand pie later (it's a plan *_*)

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Peach Upside Down Cake / Cake Buah Persik.

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Selam Everybody..Merhaba from Turkey....

I like fruity cake especially upside down cake because it's so moist of cake yet so deliciously fresh from fruits. The fruit gives nice caramelized fragrant and taste that make this cake so great companion for tea/ coffee time.

My post today is Peach upside down cake. I use recipe from Midwestliving.com and I like it. My family love it too especially served with Turkish milk cream call Kaymak..hmmm..even more Yum! 😊(^,^)

The original recipe using American conversion, but here I also include my metric conversion.

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Strawberry Blackberry Pie dessert and award

Nothing more I can say about this fave dessert. Combination of the crunchy pie as a base and creamy yummy cheese cream, topping with fresh fruits which covered by yummy jam... Hmmm.. who's gonna refuse this??

İngredients for 9 inch Pie Crust:
 1 ¼ cup flour
 2 tbsp caster sugar
 115 grams butter, cut into cubes and store in refrigerator until ready to use
 5 ~ 6 tablespoons ice water
 ¼ tsp fine salt
For the Filling:
 ¾ cup cream cheese
 ½ cup powdered sugar
 1/3 cup heavy cream
Topping:
 3 tablespoons strawberry/ blackberries jam
 2 tablespoons cherry liquor
 ½ tbsp gelatin, dissolved in 2 tablespoons water
 Strawberry and fresh blackberries (or fresh fruit to your taste)

Method:
>> Pie Crust:
In a food processor, put flour, salt and sugar. Gradually mix in cold butter, pulse a few times, mix in cold water and pulse to resamble (crumble). Pour into the work table, gather the dough and fist forms a ball, wrap plastic wrap and refrigerate for a few moments ± 45 minutes
Pre heat oven at 190 ⁰ C. Sprinkle your work desk with a little flour, roll dough crust wider than your pie mold. Moving into your pie mold, bake until cooked ± 25 minutes

>> Filling and topping:
Combine cream cheese, powdered sugar and heavy cream, mix until smooth and well blended, set aside in the refrigerator.
Mix the strawberry jam / blackberries with cherry liquid. Heat the gelatin by double boil until gelatin dissolves, mix in liquor mixture, stir well. Remove from heat, let it slightly cool at room temperature, mix in Fruits (strawberries and Blackberries), stir them carefully to cover them with that liquor-jam mixture

>> finishing:
Pour the cream filling over the pie crust and smooth the surface. Arrange the fresh fruit.
Store in refrigerator before serving.

Enjoy.

And now about the award. This is my few times I receive such an honor from my dear Friend : Ridwan with his great blog Asian Spice mix , please do visit his kitchen here

I know Ridwan recently in foodie blog community. Even we know each other quite short time but we feel "close" since we are same Indonesian and of course we have same taste of food. I like mostly his recipe and bookmarked some of them too... Thank you Ridwan for passing some awards to me:

Now, I'd like to pass this awards also to my other foodie bloggers as below:

- Ancoo at Anncoo Journal

- Elies at Give thanks

- Paty at Paty's kitchen

- Shizuka at The cat, the rabbit and the hedgehog

- Ping at Ping's picking

- Yesim at Yesim style kitchen

- Elisabeth at Food and thrift

- Lizzy at That skinny chick can bake

- Stephanie at Eat. Drink. Love

- Junia at Mis pensamientos

- Madeja at Cranberry jam

 Please do visit their wonderful page with many great recipes and contents.

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Yogurt Panna Cotta with Cherry Compote

This is my perfect dessert for my family iftar. Light but really entertained us after all heavy meal on previous fast breaking.

served 2

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Plum #Cobbler, Friend's recipe

I got this recipe from one of my foodie friend, Ping from Ping's pickings. Ping has nice page with many great recipes and pictures, in fact I bookmarked some of them ^,^

and this is one of her recipe I've been tried in my kitchen, Plum Cobbler, check on her nice page so you can find some great recipes also, who knows you might try some

Well, here what you need for making plum cobbler:

Yield 4 individual ramekins

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CHERRY CLAFOUTIS

Happy Ramadhan to all Moslems in world. Have a 'barokah' fasting time and may God accepted our deeds

My simply Cherry Clafoutis, I think it's perfect dessert for our first day of Ramadhan, which is also festive my summer time here in Turkey. Simple, easy, and quick to make....

Ingredients:

 500 g fresh cherries, remove stems and pitted (traditional version no need to pitted)
 ¾ cup cream and milk mixture 1:1 ( half and half)
 1 tsp vanilla essence
 2 large egg
 ¼ cup sugar (can add 1 tbsp if you want sweeter taste)
 ¼ cup flour, sifted
 Pinch fine salt
 Icing sugar for topping
 Butter/ Margarine for basting the pan

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(mix) Fruity cookies

I always keep something in our cookies jar in case if there is family, friends or neighbors come to visit. Or it's just only for accompany our afternoon tea. Mostly chocolate cookies in it... But today I made something else. Since I found many dried fruit in my storage cabin, so why didn't I make them something? like this cookies......

Ingredients:

• 2 medium eggs 
• 250 gr unsalted butter, soften at room temperature 
• ¾ cup brown sugar 
• ½ cup sugar 
• 3 cups flour 
• 2 tsp ground ginger 
• 3 tsp ground cinnamon 
• ¼ tsp ground cloves 
• 1 tsp vanilla powder 
• ¼ tsp fine salt 
• 1 cup mixed dried fruit  
• 1 cup raisins or seeded sultanas, roughly chopped 
• ½ cup roughly chopped dried peaches (if any) 
• ½ cup pecans (or other nuts) roughly chopped 

How to make: 

1) Sift together: flour, salt, ginger powder, cinnamon powder, clove powder, vanilla powder, set aside. In a large bowl, beat together: butter, brown sugar, and sugar, beat until well blended. Beat in eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition, beat about 3  minutes more.

2) Carefully, mix in dry ingredient mixture alternately with fruit mixture plus pecans (or other peanuts). Stir with wooden spoon or spatula until blended.

3) Place the dough in plastic (I use plastic stretch) and shape it long pipe form (as shown),  wrap it carefully and  store in freezer about 40 minutes.
  Note: you can divide the batter into two equal part and wrap individually.

4) After 40 minutes, take the dough from frezer, slice with sharp knife about 0.5 cm thick. Place in baking tray lined with baking paper, do not forget to give a space about two fingers from each other. Let stand about 15 ~ 20 minutes until cookies are slightly thaw.

5) Pre heat oven at 180 ⁰C. Bake for 20 ~ 25 minutes until cooked and golden brown on surface.
Let stand until room temperature before stored in an airtight jar.

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Homemade Cherry Compote and some Facts about Cherry

As I said previously, for celebrating cherry season (read: Low price cherry) here in Turkey I will post some recipe using this fascinating cherry. And read some facts about this little cute fruit below that I copy from some sources.

 

Some great facts and advantages about this Cherry:
* Cherry contain anthocyanins which combat diabetes (lowers blood sugar levels)

* Consuming fresh Cherry also can reduce levels of cholesterol in the blood.

As reported by genius beauty, cherry juice can improve your sleep quality. Research has shown that people who had been drinking cherry juice without the sugar in the morning and evening, have better sleep than those who drink other juice in the same amount. The average duration of their sleep improved by 17 minutes after eating cherry juice.
The content of the cherry juice affects melatonin in the body. Melatonin is a hormone that regulates sleep and wake cycles, as manifested by Wilfred Pigeon, a psychiatrist the University of Rochester in New York.

Check my other post using Cherries.

Well, after knowing the fact of these cherry.. let's make this one also, shall we? ^,^

Ingredients:
 500 grams of fresh cherry fruit, pitted and clean the stem.
 7 tablespoons granulated sugar (or you can use diabetes sugar for a healthy reason)
 ¾ tsp citric acid (or can be replaced with 2 tablespoons lemon juice)
 ¾ cup water
 ½ tsp Vanilla extract

In a heavy-bottom sauce pan, put sugar, water and citric acid, bring to almost boiling and  sugar dissolves. Put in fresh cherry, stir very gently until all cherries covered with the syrup, let it cook about 2 ~ 3 minutes.
If you cook it too long, cherry will soft and tend to crushed, but if you like it that way (slightly like jam), you can also cook them a bit longer.

Let stand until room temperature before storage in sterile jars. Keep refrigerated

(Yield about 700 gr). You can double the recipe to make more yield.

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Cherry Cake

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋


First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

 

Yaayyy... Summer really come in market :))
Many kinds of fruits and vegetables which I couldn't find in wintertime, now everywhere in farmer market, and the price getting low each day :))
And I found many many fresh cherries with low price as well as strawberry and other summer fruits.
Cherry season is coming.... Hubby bought some kilos, now I'm thinking how will I do with those many cherries... For the start.. it's my simple Cherry Cake.

Cherry Cake

By: Çitra's Home Diary

Make one 22 cm bund pan

Ingredients: 

 1 cup pitted fresh cherries, cut quartered or halved
 ¾ cup caster sugar
 2 large egg
 ¼ cup (± 60 g) unsalted butter, Soften at room temperature. Plus for greasing baking pan 

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Kiwi Yogurt Panna Cotta with Pom jam sauce

Creamy and delish dessert is always being the number one request from hubby. Except for his favorite tiramisu, he always craves something like this, panna cotta. 

 

Ingredients:

- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 3 tablespoons water
- 4 tsp gelatin powder
- 1 cup (200 ml) heavy cream
- 1 cup (250 ml) milk
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence

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Steamed Fruits Sponge Cake / Steamed fruitcake

Hello........

Merhaba from Türkiye

If you are looking for something else for tea or coffee companion, maybe you can try this one in your kitchen, steamed sponge cake with dried fruit mixture in it. I guarantee your afternoon tea/ coffee time or just chat time with family and friends become more fun.

d(^_^)b

Ingredients:
- 5 medium size eggs
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 package (5 grams) powder vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons olive oil.
- ½ cup raisins or sultanas, roughly chopped
- ½ cup mixed dried fruit.
- Enough butter or oil spray for greasing bundt pan.

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Strawberry Cheesecake

Who doesn't like cheese cake? I think everybody like it and even more.. addict of it :)) .. like my hubby.. I think he addict cheesecake or anything made from cheese :))

it's my another recipe of cheese cake beside Brownies tangerine cheese cake, Brownie Cheese cake, Cheddar cheese cake with fruits topping, and other cheese cake you can check on "Cheese" section.

@(^_^)@

 Ingredients:

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Panna Cotta with Kiwi and Pom Jam

Until today,3rd March 2011 I still couldn't access blogspot from Turkey (read my previous post about it). Sometimes I can open/ access my dashboard page only (so I can write/ edit new post), sometimes I can not access at all. Hope Google Turkey can solve the problem with Turkish court & "Digiturk" soon regarding Digiturk's objection on Turkish league football streaming on some Blog.

Now, we'll talk about our favorite matter, Food ! d(^_^)b

I'm a little bit adventurer including in food. Feel so glad that I'm be able to taste a variety of food from various places (countries). For satisfy my Asian taste, Japanese and Thai Food is my number one choice. Turkish and Arabic coffee are my choice for beverage, but I always got one hot cup of Starbucks' latte a long with me to office when I was in Jakarta. Yes, I'm coffee lover. For dessert, creamy, light and d'lish are my fave... Frankly speaking I never made that kind of  dessert before when I was single. obvious reason was: I was living alone, so get them in ready was always easy.... @(^_^)@

And this Panna cotta is my 1st attempt. After googling and find out what Panna cotta is and how to make it... voalla... here it is.. My First Panna Cotta !

Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons cold water
- 3 tsp gelatin powder
- 1 cup (200 ml) heavy cream
- 1 cup (250 ml) milk
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup plain yogurt
Garnish:
- Kiwi
- Pomegranate (I use pomegranate jam)

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Cheddar Cheesecake with Fruits Topping

Selam everybody..Merhaba from Turkey.

my another Cheddar Cheesecake post. My previous post was Cheddar cheese Cupcake . After succeed with Cup cake trial, I was trying to make a bigger dessert, cheddar cheese cake. I use mix fruit as topping. Beside pomegranate jam  I also use fresh kiwi and fresh navel oranges. But of course topping your cheese cake is about your own style and taste. Just be more creative and have fun with it d(^_^)b

The ingredients and method is almost the same with the cupcake, only you will need 7" fixed based baking pan (If you are using springform pan, make sure it's wrap tidily with heavy duty-aluminium foil to make it waterproof). You also need bigger pan for water bath baking. Fill it with hot water. Set a side.


Ingredients A:

- 1 fully press cup grated unsalted cheddar cheese.

- 130 ml whole milk

- 40 gr unsalted butter

Ingredients B:

- Sifted ¼ cup all purpose flour. 

- Sifted ¼ cup cornstarch.

Ingredients C:

- 4 medium egg yolks

- 1 tsp lemon zest

Ingredients D:

- 4 medium egg whites

- ¾ cup caster sugar

- 1 ½ tsp lemon juice

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Brownie Tangerine Cheesecake

I'm enjoy going and walking around in Farmer market. I can see many various color from fruits, vegetables, local (traditional) ready food and local hospitality. Mostly people see me in curious way with smile in their face, yes, it's because my Asia look among Them  :D  

Start early winter I can find many kind of orange or other fruits that mostly we find it in winter. Like this mandarin orange (tangerine orange), I bought 5 kg for 5 Turkish Lira (around US$ 3.5). Pretty much to make many kind of food or dessert. Well.. maybe I can try to make Cheesecake with tangerine... and voallaa... Before the cake really ready, my mouth already watering :) 

I served it with my Pomegranate jam as sauce...hmm...Yummy!

This cheese cake I made brownie as base instead of biscuit crumb.

Ingredient and how to make brownie base:

1) Prepare your 7" springform pan. Grease with margarine. Preheat oven on 180 deg C.

2) Melted 80 gr dark cooking chocolate together with 50 gr unsalted butter over double boiler. Remove from heat. whisk in 1/2 cup caster sugar, 2 eggs one at the time. Whisk until sugar dissolve. 

3) Whisk in 1 tablespoon whole milk. Mix in 1/2 cup flour. Whisk just until everything well combine. Pour in springform pan and bake 10 ~ 15 minutes. Let your brownie base cool.

 For the cheesecake:
- 450 gr Cream cheese. softened on room temperature.
- 1 cup caster sugar.
- 3 large eggs
- 40 ml juice from tangerine orange.

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Cake Nanas (Classic Pineapple Cake Upside down )

Just like this cake.. so moist and creamy...it's classic recipe I got from very old Indonesia cooking recipe book...even I lost it's cover ...@(^_^)@ . It's "cake nanas" means Pineapple cake... Simple and not much ingredients being used.. have a try!

Things should prepare:

- Pineapple. Cut a circle and holes in the middle. Soak in sugar water overnight. Or if you want more easily and quickly you may use canned pineapple, drained.
Ingredients:
- 250 gr unsalted butter + for grease the pan. Softened at room temperature.
- 3/4 cup caster sugar.
- 7 egg yolks
- 5 egg whites
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt.

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Seftali Kompostosu (Peach compote)

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Selam, Merhaba from Turkey.

"Kompostosu" or "fruit soup". Like jams, tomato paste, chili paste, "kompostosu" is also mostly 'homemade' in houses at Turkey. Mostly made during summer time when a lot of fruit harvested that season ...

"Kompostosu" or in English compote Fruit stewed or cooked in syrup

Seftali is a Turkish name for peach. During this August summer (which coicendencly Ramazan month) I already made some Kompostosu from some vary fruits.. very refreshing for break the fast...

• 6 peaches. peeled and wedge lengthwise.
• 3 cups water. bring to a boil.
• 1 +1/2 cup granulated sugar, if you want more sweet could be added.
• yellow food coloring (optional). 
• 1 teaspoon citric acid or can use one tablespoon of lemon juice.

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