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Month: April 2012

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cheesecake

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to preface:
i frequent goodwill and savers quite a bit. lately i’ve been searching for clothes a lot (why buy new if i’m going to continue to lose weight? i’ll wait til i plateau), browse the frame section, and always peruse the books.
i’ve wanted a “joy of cooking” for some time now, and i always check the cookbook section hoping i’ll get lucky. one time i found (and purchased) one crica 1970s, which was interesting, but i really wanted a more recent one.
well, i found one. 1997, baby! a lot of low-fat stuff in it, but i just use full fat instead. (really; fat is not that bad for a person.) and today i put it to use!
to the content:
last time i made a legitimate cheesecake, i was probably 15. my dad had just purchased a springform pan, so i busted out the cookbook and whipped up a cheesecake for easter. it wasn’t that great. it was dry, and it was cracked. but really, can’t go wrong with sugary cream cheese.
so, tonight i made a raspberry cheesecake cooked in a water bath. i’m hoping that it doesn’t crack and that the water bath helps with the dryness. and like my mom (the non-cook) says, you can’t go wrong with “joy of cooking”.
i’m hoping it holds up.

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one post. one lonely post.
now two.
easter’s on sunday. i asked my dad if he would just hand over the golden egg since i’d be the only one searching for it. alas, the GE is not making an appearance this year. that makes me sad. 🙁 know what is making an appearance this year already though? my peonies. i’m kind of scared they’re going to freeze. it was down to 32 last night (i covered them up) and low-mid 30s but not freezing for the next few nights. i was hoping this year would finally be the year they bloom, but if they freeze, that’s not going to happen.
my tomatoes have made an appearance. i’m still waiting on my rosemary seedlings, but the back of the packet says it takes twice as long as tomatoes do. so, theoretically, this weekend they should be poking through. i hope my greenhouse abilities result in some spectacular plants. we’ll see.

sigh

sigh

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well, the big host migration of 2012 is over, and lo and behold, i was stupid and didn’t look up the correct way to back up wordpress blog posts.
sigh.
i lost 3  years’ worth of blog posts, including two kablpomos. 🙁 thankfully, i had backed up my anti-corn posts, which i would have been royally put out about after all that work (and math). (and look at all those prepositions in a row in that last sentence – wow.)
so here i am, starting anew (again).