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ctseawa at 10:21am on 23/11/2006
ctseawa at 10:21am on 23/11/2006Damn these measuring systems! I hates 'em, I tell you.
Have you ever heard of someone accidently baking a cheesecake? No? Well you have now. Yesterday when I went to make the pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving I did the math wrong (3 times, no less) and decided that 6 8oz packages of cream cheese are needed to make up 1.5lbs. This is clearly wrong (duh). So... after I added the correct spices, sugar, pumpkin, eggs, and cream I came to realized I had twice as much cream cheese as I should have had. I then proceeded to fix this by adding another pie's worth of spices, sugar, eggs, and cream. After that I ran out to The Mrs. Cooks and bought a second springform pan so I could bake up the accidental cheesecake.
I hope they taste good, that's all I can say.
Aside from that fun, I also prepped the turkey (brine for 8 hours, rinse, pat try, spread on roasting sheet to air dry in fridge overnight), made the stuffing that will sit under the bird while it cooks, made the stock for the gravy, and baked a carrot cake.
Today is prep the house, cook the bird, make the garlic mashed potatoes, put the gravy together and then "relax with dinner".
Thanksgiving is the holiest day in my calendar. It is worth the effort. I just wish I could do math.
Have you ever heard of someone accidently baking a cheesecake? No? Well you have now. Yesterday when I went to make the pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving I did the math wrong (3 times, no less) and decided that 6 8oz packages of cream cheese are needed to make up 1.5lbs. This is clearly wrong (duh). So... after I added the correct spices, sugar, pumpkin, eggs, and cream I came to realized I had twice as much cream cheese as I should have had. I then proceeded to fix this by adding another pie's worth of spices, sugar, eggs, and cream. After that I ran out to The Mrs. Cooks and bought a second springform pan so I could bake up the accidental cheesecake.
I hope they taste good, that's all I can say.
Aside from that fun, I also prepped the turkey (brine for 8 hours, rinse, pat try, spread on roasting sheet to air dry in fridge overnight), made the stuffing that will sit under the bird while it cooks, made the stock for the gravy, and baked a carrot cake.
Today is prep the house, cook the bird, make the garlic mashed potatoes, put the gravy together and then "relax with dinner".
Thanksgiving is the holiest day in my calendar. It is worth the effort. I just wish I could do math.
thankful
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S/R
You're so cute.
Plug in a change in the # of servings and then POOF, you'll have a rough framework for your "new" cheesecake.
Thus speaks the grim voice of morbid experience.