Freshness

  

Mmmmm......

  A few weeks ago I made some cheesecakes for a banquet dinner. There were three plain cheesecakes and two chocolate cheesecakes. They were both very good and I had a hard time figuring out which one was my favorite. Actually, I never really did come to a decision. Who knows? We might need to have a redo.

   I still have not figured out why cheesecake has such a reputation for being hard to make. It really isn't. It may crack on the top, but you can usually hide that {or cover it with cherries}. They are really quite easy and anyone who loves to bake should try it at some point. Of course, I'm not a connoisseur so maybe it is hard and I just haven't figured it out yet. Either way, nobody has ever complained.

Sweet Dreams...

   Writing a paper but dreaming about these:

Pie Perfection

 
   On my birthday, instead of a cake, I had a birthday pie. Home-made pie is one of my strongest weaknesses. Strongest weakness...that doesn't sound right. Anyway, I would choose pie over cake any day. I had plans of making a chocolate chip pecan pie, but ended up making a chocolate meringue pie instead. I love the little peaks on top of the meringue.

 

   One day, my sister-in-law, Chrisy, told me how much she liked meringue. The only problem was she normally didn't like whatever flavor was underneath the fluffy top. When I made pie, she would "scalp" the meringue off the top and pawn the unwanted bottom off on someone else. So one year for her birthday, I decided I was going to make her a meringue pie. It was quite a creation. At the time, she said she liked it but now she claims that it cured her of her meringue obsession.

  

    

 

Happy Thursday!

   I had decided not to post today. It was an extremely long and aggravating day at school today. I had a headache. I just wasn't feeling it. Then it was supper time and we had -- breakfast. Occasionally we will have breakfast for supper and it never fails to amuse me. I think it's funny every single time. It also happened to be delicious.

 

 That's an omelet, by the way, fully loaded with red and green peppers, ham, and pepper jack cheese. Very yummy.

Cleaning Day

   A few days ago, I faced the facts and confessed my love of chocolate. I would now like to say that I am not to blame for this addiction because I come by it quite naturally. My mom also loves chocolate. Together we could really do some damage in a candy store.

   Tonight she made some "healthy" double chocolate brownies using whole wheat flour. I was scared to ask what else made them so "healthy". Sometimes ignorance is bliss. She made them in a mini muffin pan, so they were almost bite-size. As they cooked, the smell of chocolate drifted throughout the house. I was somewhat skeptical, but when mama pulled them out the oven and popped them out on a plate, I had to have one. Self discipline has never been one of my strong points. With a glass of milk in hand I grabbed a brownie and gingerly took a bite.

   Smiling, I told her, "These are pretty good. They're a little...grainy"

   She replied, "Just imagine your eating a little broom and it's sweeping through your intestines cleaning them out. Fiber does that, you know."

 

Hmmm. Thanks Mom. Just what I wanted to in-vision as I enjoyed my slightly gritty brownie.