Last minute BBQ

So my dear husband decided to BBQ last minute on Sunday, we are all excited but wait what should we throw on the grill, well I had some frozen ground beef so I proceeded to make burgers, for salad I had no greens but I had tomatoes and corn, and a lot of chicken breast so this is what we came up with.

For the salad, chop tomatoes about 3-4 and 1 can of whole kernel corn, add a little salt and pepper.

 For the grill, I have no idea what my husband did to this chicken but it was so juicy and soooo GOOD, my husband never cooks but when he does he is the best! In other words I can only offer a photo of the chicken maybe one day he will give me his secret.

And well ok, I ate this burger. I grabbed whole grain bread, just 1 slice cut in half, topped it with mozzarella cheese and added some of that tomato salad :)

And dessert of course was the cheesecake I made yesterday.

We had fun and good and simple food that tasted delicious and was healthy too, well except for the cheesecake part....

Delfi's cheesecake, you will not regret this (easy way)

This super creamy delicious recipe has been in my house for a few years now, I have decided to share this recipe with all my friends because it truly would be a shame to miss out on this one!
I hope you enjoy it :)
Oh yes, this one is called (easy way) because I decided not to make the crust this time, one of these days I will post the recipe for the crust as well :)

Ingredients
for the filling
1 lb of cream cheese at room temperature
8 oz of sour cream
3 eggs
1 lemon, zested
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 cup of sugar
1 pie crust :)

for the sauce

1 pint of fresh strawberries, chopped into small pieces
the juice from 1 lemon
1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar

Preheat oven to 325
In a kitchen aid mixer or a similar mixer, beat the cream cheese at low speed until its smooth and free of lumps.

Add the eggs, one at a time and continue to beat until its all well combined.

Add the sugar little by little until creamy, beat 1-2 minutes at low speed.

Zest your lemon while the sugar is getting all beat up.

Now add your sour cream

Lemon zest

And vanilla extract

Continue mixing at low speed, then stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl to avoid lumps. Beat for another minute or so and you are ready for the next step.

I am using a crust from the store, this is the one I like when Im feeling lazy and I dont make the crust.

Pour the mix in the crust.

Place the cheesecake in a pan.

Boil some water to cover up at least half of the cheesecake, the part that is covered up by the aluminum foil of course. I suggest you place your cheesecake in the oven and then you pour the water so you don't burn yourself when you move the pan to the oven, that's what works for me.

You can't see the water but I did cover it up half way.
Cook cheesecake for 46 minutes. Remove from oven and let it rest there for 30 minutes. Place cheesecake in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

When you decide it's time to eat it you are going to proceed to make the sauce.

Prepare ingredients, be sure your strawberries are all chopped up.

Cook strawberries in a pot for 5 minutes on medium high heat.

Add lemon juice and sugar, mix and let it cook for another 5 minutes.

Remove and let sauce cool

Serve while the sauce its still warm!!!
Mmm enjoy....

Delfi

Refrigerator clean up frittata

mmmmmmmm this is soooo good and easy.
 All you do is take whatever is in your fridge, that half an onion, or the fresh deli ham you bought a week ago, perhaps the red pepper you were supposed to cook 2 days ago or the 3 potatoes that were left from last week, those are basically my ingredients, add 4-5 eggs to it and that's all it takes!

Ingredients:

Whatever you needs to be cooked ;) in my case
3 potatoes peeled and chopped
1 red pepper chopped
1/2 spanish onion chopped
1/2lb of deli ham chopped
5 eggs
salt and pepper to taste
1/2-1 cup of vegetable oil

First chop all your ingredients

Now heat the oil in a pan, when its HOT add the potatoes, you might have to cook this in 2 batches

Cook until golden on high heat and drain in a dish with a paper towel to remove excess oil

When you are done with the potatoes remove oil, leave about 1 tablespoon of it and add rest of ingredients.

Cook until soft, remove and drain in paper towel

in a bowl beat 5 eggs

add potatoes, and rest of ingredients, season to taste, mix well

return to the pan on medium high heat

cook for about 10 minutes or until eggs are not so runny
cover pan with a lid or a flat plate

turn it over without burning yourself

slide fritatta back to pan to cook the other side

And you are done! try this with a fresh salad, it is super delicious!
I hope you enjoy it as much as we all did :)
Delfi