Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Two days of running and homemade cheesecake

Yesterday, I got a late start running. I went down to Meiji Jingu Gaien to do timed laps, concentrating on my running form to avoid injuring my foot, this time. I was only trying to do 9 min a lap for a 1.3+ km course, so that I could do (even when workmen showed up and set up a parallel detour so that they could dig up the course). Only 4 laps plus the running to get there, so pretty limited, but I was already committed to making cheesecake. I had made one batch before before using a comprise between the recipe on the cream cheese package, the recipe from my mother, and what ingredients are convenient to me. The crust is 125 g of flour, 75 g of unsalted butter, 30 g of sugar, one egg yoke, and one teaspoon of water, which is straight from the SliceSy manual for by bamix (what I have instead of a food processor). My mother's is a pie recipe without the egg and using oil, and it just doesn't stick together well enough for tarts. The filling part is 200 g of cream cheese (because that's the size they sell), 60 g of sugar (usually I use caster, but I ran out so half brown this time), just one tablespoon of flour I think (Mom), 3 egg whites (because I've got a surplus in the freezer), 1 tablespoon of olive oil (to make up for the lack of yokes), 90 g of no fat yogurt (because that's what I have: Mom, 1/2 cup of evaporated milk, which comes in 170 g cans here; package, 200 g of cream, which would cost as much as the cheese), 1 tablespoon of lemon juice (0 for Mom, 2 for package), and 20 g of unsalted butter. 24 min is enough in my convention oven at 180 deg C. This makes 2.5 14 cm tarts, which is inconvenient, thus the need to make it twice (which killed my supply of unsalted butter, which comes in 200 g most commonly, but I've bought 150 g, which really doesn't take you far, with no reasonable replacement found yet due to the Japan butter shortage). Unfortunately, yesterday, I was having a bad day and didn't reset the temperature from making pizza, so the three I made were at 250 deg C: unexpected blackness. Fortunately, it's only skin deep, and I've verified it's okay today, although I'll definitely save the uneaten unburnt one for someone special.

Today's running was down to the same place and only two laps total, in which I did two groups of 5 intervals of 30/20/10 second running slow/fast/fastest under the constraint of making sure that my left foot was moving properly. I only covered half the distance as when I wasn't being careful and I was counting rather than using the new watch. I definitely can move up to more groups or longer intervals. At home, I did a little lower leg and upper body work.

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