So, recently I watched a cute recipe on Gen's Guiltless Gourmet. It's called a "Margarita Yogurt Cheesecake"
But, I'd rather call it a cheesefake because it's actually made of yogurt, instead of cream cheese. It's actually really low fat and low in sugar! <3 YAY. I modified it a little, but visit the site (click on the marg cheesecake) and show some love! I kinda have a rant.. but I left it for the end. The top in the picture is chocolate
Makes 5 tarts.
Ingredients for the filling:
- Plain, vanilla yogurt: 16 oz or two cups.
- half a lemon
- like a spoonful of zest
- half a lime
- half an orange
- coffee filters (8)
- wire mesh strainer and large bowl for draining.
- half cup of sugar
First, mix yogurt, juices of the citrus fruits, zest, sugar. Then, put 4 coffee filters into the mesh strainer and then into the large bowl. Pour all the yogurt into the coffee filters. No worries! 16 oz of yogurt JUST fits into the coffee filters. Cover with some plastic wrap or a plate and put it in the fridge.
You have to pour off the liquid that collects in the bowl every hour for 3 hours. Then you check after 2 hours, then after a couple. Then, at the 12 hour mark, scoop out all the stuff in the filters into a new set of filters. TRUST ME! It's important to drain out as much liquid as possible. It make it more "cheesecake-like". After 12 hours, it'll be done. One way to know that it's done is that you'll be able to peel the coffee filters away from the yogurt when you put the yogurt in a bowl.
Set aside and make your tarts
Ingredients for tarts:
- 1.5 cups of graham cracker crumbs. (about 6-8 crackers put in the blender)
- 1/4 cup of butter, melted<-- GOTTA USE THE BUTTAA
- muffin or tart pans (dollar store tins that bend are better)
- a bar of chocolate
Crush the crackers in the blender. Then, mix it with the butter. You want it to be *barely wet* or *damp*. You want it to *just* be able to be pressed in the tin. If you've ever pressed eyeshadows with biosilk before, you'll know what I'm talking about. So, just spoon the stuff into a muffin tin and press around. Bake from 8-10 minutes. NO MORE THAN THAT! yay.
Note, please use butter. I tried it with olive oil and it just crumbled. I don't think it has the fat that butter has... so the crumbs might not stick together as well. Once it's cool, spread some melted chocolate in the tart. Cool in the fridge until the chocolate is hard. Then pop them out of the tins and spoon yogurt inside.
You can do this with different kinds of fruits! I made mine with an entire lemon but it was too sour >< So remember kiddies (and others), only half a lemon.
RANT TIME. I changed the color to blue so people don't get confused. Today, I gave my BF a tart to try, and he was like "oh okay i like it". Then later, I find out that he wasn't *that* crazy about it..
Well.. why don't you tell me beforehand? I *HATE* it when people don't tell me the truth when I ask. As long as you aren't an asshole about it, I appreciate your comments. Seriously. How else do I improve my cooking? Just say "there is too much lemon". Granted, men aren't that picky. Most of them will shove anything down their throats, provided that it's food and they're hungry. Still, when I ask for your opinion, give me your friggin' opinion. I rather have you "hurt" my feelings than be like "EVERYONE TRY THIS YUMMY THING" when it's not optimally yummy at all. Seriously.
Like for example: I gave my bf some tarts to take home because I thought he liked them. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THEM THAT MUCH, DON'T TAKE IT HOME TO SHARE WITH THE FAMILY. DON'T FREAKING EMBARRASS ME LIKE THAT IN FRONT OF YOUR GODDAMN PARENTS.
Really homefry? Really bro? Are you going to do that to me? I'd rather eat it myself than his parents to think that I'm a complete fail. Mind you, they don't like me that much already. But that probably has more to do with my makeup and such.
Ugh.
Anyway, enjoy this recipe! See you next time.
I AM GIVING AWAY FREE SHOES. Seriously guys I am. I bought a pair of black heels like 5 months ago and... I CAN'T GET THEM TO WORK FOR ME UGH. They are 4.5 inch heels, size 8 (US sizing) with a chunky heel and .5 inch platform. Some followers may recognize them...
I wore them once with insoles. I will obviously be taking those out. They're just too large :( EVEN WITH INSOLES AND STUFFS and i am sad. My loss is your gain. You want them? Just shoot me an email (chunkyxmunki(@)gmail(dot)com) and let's work something out. I'm basically asking for a little shipping for intenational peeps or we could even work out a swap lol. I really don't care. They're collecting dust k?
This is a pretty late haul post as I got this like 2 weeks ago in Soho. I got this from the store, Necessary Clothing. I actually saw these pair of shoes in Marshalls like 2 months ago, but they were more expensive at 25.99. I bought them for 20.99 :3 Happy happy! These are from Bamboo, size 7.5. The heel is estimated at like.... 3 inches?
They are actually awesome and super comfortable. I want more Bamboo shoes.
*Warning, this is just a little rant I have to get off my chest*
Actually that's just bull. I have friends, but not friends that I kinda want. Don't get me wrong. I love my friends. I have a lot of them. Their interests vary from walking outside, to rowing, to anime, to reading. However, they don't contain makeup, and clothes. I mean, I have a friend who doesn't care about her stuff. She's like "... clothes are clothes... I don't get it".
-___________________- What is there to get? Looking back now, I never really had friends who liked makeup or clothes. In high school, literally it was just me who wore makeup. My friends who did, well... barely cared beyond the minimum. They didn't stalk makeup blogs or attempt to make their own clothes. If you saw pictures, it would be like me with crazy eye makeup and them looking glowy in their fresh, natural faces.
And well, it's never bothered me until now. Today, actually, I was feeling really bored and restless and I lashed out at the bf. He asked me about some vest I dug out of my moms closet and I wanted to make shorter. I just... wanted to hit him. I knew that he only cared because I care. He couldn't care less about makeup or whatever. (Today, Masterchef was not on btw). I didn't want him to freaking ask because he wanted to flatter me or whatever. I wanted to talk to someone, anyone really, about my fucking vest. Like is it that wrong to want to have a friend to talk to when I want to talk about vests and skirts and making outfits and the latest makeup seen in Glamour magazine?
I wish I had a friend to talk to about makeup and fashion. I mean, after a while, just flipping through magazines and blogs get boring. No offense ladies. I need human interaction, period.
So yeah. I feel better now. I just need a friend and it makes me really moody. This isn't a call for people to start commenting more or like have meetups lol. It's just a general rant about it and well, I hope I find someone in my college who actually shares my interest.
Today, I went to my friend, Eunice's, house. I brought over delicious banana cupcakes with honey cinnamon creamcheese. AH I'm a bad blogger because I didn't take picture :( But here is the outfit today. I went with all black. Well the pants are more navy... But whatever. I've accented it with bright blue shoes and a white belt.
Shirt- XS black shirt from Old Navy, sequined hand sewed on. I have a tut here
Shorts- Altered from old high waisted black pants.
Shoes- from Taiwan.
Belt- From my mom's closet like 20 years ago. It no longer adjusts. Not for days where you eat a feast.
