Day: 18 May 2025

La Viña (p2)

I already tried this recipe but I wanted to try again. This time I followed a different video

Ingredients:
900g cream cheese (3×300 packs), room temperature
80g grana padano cheese grated (I didnt have Manchego Cheese)
150g sugar
5 whole eggs, 2 yolks
600g heavy cream (30% fat)
4 tbsp normal flour

Process:

  • Preheat oven at 250C.
  • Prepare the baking mold. User a bit of butter in the bottom. Add two sheets of baking paper, add butter so the cake doesnt stick too much
  • In a bowl, cream together the cream cheese, grated cheese and sugar. I used a hand-mixer at medium speed.
  • Add the eggs and yolks, one by one, mix with the hand-mixer. Dont add the next until fully blended.
  • Add the cream and continue mixing.
  • Add the flour and mix a bit more.
  • Pour the cheesecake into the mold.
  • Bake the cheesecake for 30 aprox, until it jiggles like gentle waves and the top is brown.
  • Let it cool down and then transfer to the fridge. Chill for 6-8 hours or overnight.
  • Take it out of the fridge for 1h or so before eating so it is at room temperature

To be honest, I dont remember how it was my first time. But it doesnt look bad at all.

I think I should have put the temperature a bit lower as the top got brown too fast and then the center too creamy.

So know yourself and your oven!!!!

I will teach you to be rich

I watched some time ago a video about the author and finally decided to read his book.

First of all, being rich has different meanings to each person. I don’t need a mansion, ferraris, 1st class plane tickets, 5* hotels, restaurants, etc.

I just dont want to worry about money in the future when I will not have the edge to work in IT and want to do something else.

I think the books doesn’t discover any magic trick. It is basic, but the funny thing, mostly people dont follow the steps in the book.

I think I have been good at saving money and not having debt, but I was always scared to invest, as I didnt want to pick stocks. But as I discovered by him, you can invest in index funds. I am looking in the long-run. The only good thing I have done regarding investment was to put money in my pension pot.

  1. Study your expensive. Make a conscious spending plan: Fixed costs (rent, utilities, debt, 50-60%), Investment (pension, ISA – 10%), Saving goals (holidays, xmas, house deposit, wedding, emergency, 5-10%), guilt-free spending (dining, party, clothing, 20-35%)
  2. Credit cards: pay your debt. find out why you are in debt. I hate credit cards. I know you can get nice perks from them but it is not for me. My expending habits, doesn’t make sense, apart from buy long-haul plane tickets. If you need done, at least, get the one with less interest.
  3. Open an account with high interest rate. Automatically put money on it.
  4. Put money in your pension pot. Max up as much as you can your tax-free allowance. Use automatic transfers.
  5. Find an investment fund in Vanguard. Dont pay high fees in managed funds!! They are a rip-off. Good source of advice danielsolin and ronlieber. Make automatic transfer into them.
  6. Review your system once a year.

If you have most your savings/investments automatically, the money left is the one you can spend guilt-free. You decide what a rich life means to you.

Honestly, these kind of things should be teach in school or at least in univerisity.

Money represents hard work and luck