Remember that cheesecake I made..?
If you don’t, you’re gettin’ way too short-term, brainiac.
Better amp up your Vita-B intake, and hit up some of these brain games.
No, but for real. The cheesecake to make.
I started with this recipe.
It was nice.
But not as nice as what I did to improve it.
I ditched that hard crust. (still not sure if i was to blame for that or not.. maybe it was the rice?)
My first thought was to add some ginger cookies in any way possible. I’ve been thinking about them for some time now.
They’re so very sweatshirt weather foods. (I am currently munching on some leftover Ginger Snaps between paragraphs.)
So. I took about 2 cups, ground in my food processor, and added 1/4 cup of melted butter.
My little food processor was $1 at a rummage sale.
I have used it no more than three times in the last two years. It was worth the money.
I pressed the Ginger Snaps crust into the bottom of the pan, then lined the pan with Anna’s Ginger Thins.
STOP, YOU’RE BEING TOO PRESH ALREADY, CAKE.
As for the innards.
I purchased some new vanillas at The Spice House.
Vanilla paste, and fancy Tahitian vanilla extract.
I used a whole teaspoon of the Tahitian stuff, instead of a half.
I also bought some new ground cardamom.
When I rolling pin’d the first ones, it left them too big and crunchy.
It unnerved me.
I also added half a teaspoon of Saigon cinnamon, and a 1/4tsp of ground clove.
(after some research, this seems to be the spice makeup of Western chai… but guess who lives in the west? wait. do i? yeah. western medicine. right. carry on. *does brain jumping jacks* anyway.. it’s the chai i know and love and want in my mouth box)
NOW WHO TASTES LIKE CHAI, BITCHES!?!?!?! (seriously, that first one didn’t taste like chai ‘t’tall.)
I used the same recipe for the sour cream topping, but added a bit of vanilla paste so it got all spreckly.
After I put that on, I chopped up these here giant ginger cookies I got at the market coffee shop, and sprinkled them on top.
(then i stuck the cake back in the oven for 10 minutes)
They were chewy, and spicy, and raaaaaaaahhhhhhhh. (i had one for breakfast)
This cake turned out like.. I don’t know.. Like…
Well, this woman approached me at Friendsgiving and told me it was “like eating a Cinnabon, while getting woken up in the morning getting dick from behind, and it’s just, like, gooooooood.” :/
PLEASE DON’T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT I DON’T KNOW YOU AND YOU’RE MAKING ME UNCOMFORTABLE AND ISN’T THAT YOUR BOYFRIEND STANDING RIGHT THERE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT HIM DOES HE DO THAT TO YOU NOW I HAVE A VISUAL STOP TALKING AND WALK AWAY GO HOME WHO ARE YOU EVEN FRIENDS WITH?
Sorry.
PTSD.
Here she is.
Her insides kind of fell apart when she was cut.
She didn’t have more than 4 hours in the fridge before she was served, though.. (i procrastinated. surprise!)
I wonder if I took her out of the oven too soon.
She puffed up, though! AGAIN! WHAT GIVES? I’m going to get to the bottom of this, for reals.
As for Friendsgiving..
I tried to be vigilant and take photos of all the foods.
But one second, there were no foods at all, save a couple of cheese plates..
(this one in particular had curried cashews on it… they were like getting dick from behind while eati… WAIT!)
(they were good, though)
These are delicious brussel sprouts cooked with bacon.
Pretty much the only way brussel sprouts should ever be cooked.
The crowd played a game of “NOT IT!” with the turkey.. Apparently no one in life knows how to carve one..
Except me. I’m a badass bitch that knows how to knife a bird.
Can’t I ever just be at a party? Why must I always work!?
Here’s the gobbler wrapped, also, in bacon.
I’m quick, but when I looked up from my work, the counter had exploded with sides, and everyone had full plates already! Punks.
There was one in front of me, that was made of rice, and chick peas, and butternut squash? I think there was coconut in it.
One of my favorites, and I’m for sure getting that recipe.
The most amazing mac n’ cheese.
Incidentally, the only thing I went to get a second helping of.. (it was gone) (i cried)
The food spilled out onto two other tables and included another turkey(deep fried) mashed potatoes, sausage stuffing, mushroom sage stuffing, green beans with almonds, broccoli and cheese casserole, mulled apple cider, I made some turkey gravy, and some gluten-free cornbread stuffing.
A looooot of gluten-free stuff.
Glutards.
There’s like, a million out there.
My friend’s turtle was pretty pooped.
Pretty adorable, as far as reptiles go, no?
