Singapore Laksa with Prawns, Beansprouts and Eggs.

I miss Laksa when I left Singapore. 

This is a lazy but still authentic version of homemade laksa I have discovered while living in Sydney in 2007 and deprived of a really good Laksa. Yes, even the famous Hunter Street@Martin Place "Malay Chinese Take Away" Laksa doesnt cut it with me because the gravy tastes more like our Chicken Curry and NOT Laksa. So the pleasant find I had was this prepacked Laksa Mix from Prima Taste.  A box of laksa premix cost about A$4.75 here.

I like to balance my dishes so you might see more ingredients here than necessary. I dont like dried beancurd so I dont include it.

Serving: 2 Pax
Time to Cook:  20mins.

Ingredients

- Box of Laksa Premix
- Pack of Rice Noodles or sphagetti
- A dozen of Fresh Prawns
- Bean sprouts
- 2 Eggs
- Button Mushrooms (optional)
- Some Boy Choy Leafy Vege (optional)
- 8 crab sticks (make sure they are not the overly sweeten type)

Cooking Steps

1. Follow the Laksa Premix Instructions to prepare the sauce. I tend to add extra half cup of water to the mixture.

2. Either boil or steam fresh large prawns and when cooked, rinse with tap water and peel the shell and devein. You may choose to retain the prawn head or remove. if your prawn is not fresh and firmly stuck to the prawn body before cooking, I would remove the head.

3. Throw water, and with fresh pot of boiling water, cook vege for 2 mins and remove from pot. Set aside.

4. In the same hot pot of boiling water, cook mushrooms for 5 mins. Remove from water, set aside.

5. In the same hot pot of boiling water, cook crab stick with plastic for 3 mins, Remove from water, set aside and remove the plastic.

6. In the same hot pot of boiling water, add 2 rinsed eggs and cook them until they are hardboiled eggs. Remove from pot. 

7. Throw water, and with a fresh pot of boiling water, cook noodles. When cooked, portion into the serving bowl. (New water so that your noodles do not absorb all the "flavor from prev ingredients) 

8. In the same pot of used hot water, dip to cook  beansprouts for only a min and remove. Portion on top of noodles.

9. You are ready to place the previously cooked ingredients on top of the noodles.

10. Pour the laksa gravy over the noodle in the serving bowl

This is my bowl of goodness:)

Oreo Cheese Cake

Easy Cheesecake recipe that works
The cheesecake recipe that Jas gave me totally rocks. It was the first time i baked a cheesecake today and i succeeded! Talk about fail proof recipe!

So for the better good of those cheesecake lovers, heres the idiot proof recipe!

Crust
- 1 cup (250grams) of crushed Oreo Choc Sandwich cookies (abt 12cookies. I use the white cream for base)
- 1 Tbsp butter melted (or 1 pack of 1 serving small disposable butter pack which i used today)

Filling
- 4 packets ( 8 oz or 250grams each) of Philadephia cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup of sugar (i used lesser, add amt to personal sweet preference )
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- 20 oreo choc sandwich cookie, quartered (break them using hands)

Baking Crust
- Mix crushed cookied (finely blended using food processor) & butter, press onto bottom of a 9 inch pan
- bake at 165 deg for 10mins

Baking cake
- Mix cream cheese, sugar & vanilla with mixer on medium speed until well blended
- Add eggs, mix on low speed just until blended
- stir in broken quartred cookies (do NOT blend cookies)
- Pour over baked crust
- Beake for 1 hr or until center almost set at middle rack at 165 degree
- loosen cake sides with spatula or whatever u have when cake is ready
- cool cake
- put in fridge for 4 hrs or overnite
- garnish with whipped cream or whatever toppings u desire!

DONE!
PS: rem to grease ur pan or use grease proof paper for easy removal of cake
PS2: press cookie crmb for crust evenly.