Sundays baking: chocolate mini cheesecakes

This Sunday I went a bit fancy. I remember a cheesecake recipe that a friend of mine from Japan made for me once and it was so delicious and so simple, but I never got to make it. I must have that recipe somewhere. But anyways, this other recipe seems very similar with the only difference that it also has chocolate. They came out good although I am not crazy about chocolate, so I think they would have been better just plain cheese. They were hard to remove from the muffin pan, but with lots of patience I did it. They are also cooked in a bath of water, and it is very tricky to get them in and out of the oven without getting them wet, to me impossible, but it didn't seem to affect them much. I made a lot of them and was able to give to some of my neighbours as a belated valentine gesture. I have great neighbours so am very grateful for that too.

Este domingo hice algo mas elaborado. Me acuerdo de una receta de pastel de queso que una amiga mia de Japon me hizo una vez y estaba buenisima y era muy sencilla, pero nunca la hice. Debo tener esa receta por algun lado. Pero bueno, la cosa es que esta otra receta parece similar con la una diferencia que tiene ademas chocolate. Estaban ricos aunque no me mata el chocolate, asi qeu creo que hubieron estado mejor de queso a secas. Era dificil desmoldarlos, pero con paciencia lo consegui. Tambien se cocinan al banho maria, y es muy complicado sacarlo y meterlos al horno sin que se mojen, para mi que es imposible, pero parece ser que no les afecto mucho. Hice muchos y pude darle algunos a mis vecinos como de regalo de san valentin retrasado. Tengo unos vecinos increibles asi que estoy muy agradecida por ello.

And this weekend, my sister in law came to see us. Luca had a great time with his aunt and I took a break from some of my duties and I even got to sew several times this weekend. My embroidery is going well...pictures when I finish..hopefully soon. We went to a trail where my husband used to ride his bicycle. It is a beautiful place and the weather was so nice that Luca rode his bike while we walked. This is how he did the end of the return trip, on top of his handle bard and us pushing. It is not a short ride so I am very proud of htis littel guy.

Y este fin de semana, mi cunhada vino a vernos. Luca se lo paso genial con su tia y yo descanse de algunas de mis obligaciones e incluso cosi en varias ocasiones este fin de semana. Mi bordado va viento en popa..las fotos cuando lo acabe..espero que pronto. Fuimos a un sendero donde mi marido solia ir en bici. Es muy bonito y el clima era perfecto asi que Luca fue en su bici y nosotras caminando. Asi es como hizo el final del recorrido, encima de su manillar y nosotras empujandole. No es un camino corto asi que estoy muy orgullosa de mi pequenhin.