I have a recipe for cheesecake I've used for several years now. I love it, its a perfect New York style cheesecake and I got the recipe from allrecipes.com. Its called Chantalls New York Style Cheesecake if you're interested...
Anyway, twice this summer I've craved cheesecake, but having a whole cheesecake in our house is kind of a pants splitting disaster. So I've made half batches, once in little muffin tins, and once in an 8x8 glass pan. And BOTH times I used a water bath because I don't like my cheesecake to crack across the top.
But seriously baking your cheesecake in a water bath actually changes the texture to more of a custardy thing. I mean this makes perfect sense because of all the steam and moisture, but I don't like it as much. I am giving up the water bath from now on and living with some cracks. My sis-in-law also told me not too long ago that making sure your cheesecake pan is well greased will help keep it from cracking.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Why? Well...
I made a double batch of cookie dough tonight while listening to Ben Kweller radio on Pandora. Why Ben Kweller you ask? Well, because a few weeks ago when my brother was in town we were talking about concerts and how its just not that appealing anymore. I did mention that I have always wanted to see Barenaked Ladies in concert. To my absolute surprise my Sean found a BNL concert in 2 weeks in NYC, and Ben Kweller is opening for them so I had to check him out. I like. He grew up in a small town in TX.
Why Barenaked Ladies you ask? Well, quite simply I just think they would be funny to see in concert. Like theres a really good chance that what you see will be significantly different and more entertaining than what you hear on the radio/in records. AND I am pretty sure anyone who was in highschool in the late 90's/early 2000's and was a tidge nerdy liked the Barnaked Ladies. You know you did.
And on a marginally related note, I discovered that Murphy is absolutely TERRIFIED of my kitchen aid mixer. Why is my dog afraid of my mixer you ask? Well despite being a doberman Mr. Murph is terrified of a great many things. Particularly though,a few weeks ago I tried to step over the baby gate(used to keep the dogs in the kitchen) while carrying my very large mixer. It ended in near disaster, I literally barely stayed on my feet and might have actually set the mixer down (kind of dropped it)somewhere in the process, and I scared his little dobie heart. I knew he was upset that day because he was shaking like a leaf. I had no idea how deep that fear ran until today when i got the mixer out again and he booked it out of the kitchen and didn't even reappear when I got his dinner ready. poor puppy.
That is it for now.
Why Barenaked Ladies you ask? Well, quite simply I just think they would be funny to see in concert. Like theres a really good chance that what you see will be significantly different and more entertaining than what you hear on the radio/in records. AND I am pretty sure anyone who was in highschool in the late 90's/early 2000's and was a tidge nerdy liked the Barnaked Ladies. You know you did.
And on a marginally related note, I discovered that Murphy is absolutely TERRIFIED of my kitchen aid mixer. Why is my dog afraid of my mixer you ask? Well despite being a doberman Mr. Murph is terrified of a great many things. Particularly though,a few weeks ago I tried to step over the baby gate(used to keep the dogs in the kitchen) while carrying my very large mixer. It ended in near disaster, I literally barely stayed on my feet and might have actually set the mixer down (kind of dropped it)somewhere in the process, and I scared his little dobie heart. I knew he was upset that day because he was shaking like a leaf. I had no idea how deep that fear ran until today when i got the mixer out again and he booked it out of the kitchen and didn't even reappear when I got his dinner ready. poor puppy.
That is it for now.
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