Facile Friday - A little bit of this, a little bit of that

I have been busy lately.  Maybe I am prepping for the holiday season or maybe I just have extra energy to take on little projects.
I have been cooking, baking, celebrating and having a grand old time over the last week or so.  Wanna see?

OK!




First, I had some sweet potatoes and the kale trees in the garden are still going strong so I thought..."I bet kale and sweet potatoes would be good."  I made a hash and it was really good.  As you may or may not be able to see, I cut the potatoes really small and it made for a great bite, each and every time.  Here is the recipe I used, with my own little tweeks to it.  I added red pepper flakes and just a touch of nutmeg.

Kale and Sweet Potato Hash

But wait there was more in me!  I whipped up these sinful baked donuts.

Baked Coffee Cake Donuts

These are like little donut shaped coffee cakes.  I have decided that they are perfect because the recipe I used only makes 6 donuts and that is just not enough for me to make myself ill.  Not that I would ACTUALLY eat all of them......I just dream about it and with only 6 it is a dream I could reach, if I wanted to go there.

My next adventure was a Japanese Cotton Soft Cheesecake and I will tell you that it is a labor of love.  It does require some work and architectural skill.  This is the contraption that I had to create to cook this cake.  All I can say about this is that it worked!

This cheesecake is really cheesecakey with a totally foreign texture from what I am use to but good gosh it was good.  It is really puffy, as the name suggests and very light as cheesecakes go.

I had some fresh frozen strawberries that Max and I picked a year or so ago, so I made a strawberry sauce with the last bag of those and kept them a little on the tart side which went well with the cake.

Japanese Cotton Soft Cheesecake

Whew!  I did a lot more baking than I thought I did.  Lots of great recipes and yummy stuff.  Give it all a try and let me know how it went.

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