Happy Mother’s Day to my mom! Thanks, Mom, for never nagging me about my weight, never making me go on a diet and never making me feel bad about my size. You’ve saved me so much money, not just on diet shakes I never bought, but on therapy I’ve never needed. You are awesome!
I love my mother so much, I bought this last night:
OMG, it’s in my kitchen! That’s right, I brought white flour into my apartment for the first time in years. I would have sooner thought I’d find a rat doing the cha-cha behind my salt canister, but there it sits. It was a required ingredient in an otherwise healthy recipe for strawberry cheesecake. I considered trying to use whole-wheat flour in the batter, but decided I didn’t want to screw up the recipe. Mom deserves the best fat-free, cheesecake I can make.
The cheesecake was scrumptious, but I felt like I was committing an act against nature when I put cottage cheese in the blender. It tasted the same after it was smoothed, but the texture was so off it reminded me of glue. There was a definite “Ew” factor. But that went away once I added the other ingredients.
Now, I will stuff the white flour into the back of the cabinet until the time I use it next Mother’s Day.
ETA: As requested, here is the recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake from the Cooking Light web site.
Happy Mother’s Day to your mom, my mom, and all the moms out there…
I have to say, this past weekend I finished reading all your archives. I’m now wondering what I’m going to do with my free internet time. But until I find another blog I love enough to read through 3 years of past history, could you please update more, and write longer entries to keep me occupied? Thanks :P
All kidding aside, you’re doing a great job, keep it up!
Ok, now we have to have the recipe! :)
I got the recipe at the Cooking Light Website. Here’s the link:
Strawberry Cheesecake
If you’re really not using it until next Mother’s Day, put that flour in the freezer! (I agree, whole wheat flour in cheesecake is a bad idea!)
The therapy you never needed…love that concept! I owe my mum thanks for that as well. =)
FREEZER – not cupboard. . .
Cheesecake is seriously my weakness! I can say no to just about any other high calorie food but it just seems like a sin to not eat cheesecake. I think I had it 2 or three times while I was home in the US and only once was that FF. oops! Thanks for the recipe (although I can’t find ff cottage cheese here so I won’t be trying it out anytime soon which may be for the best as I’d probably eat the whole thing!).
Yeah, definitely freezer. It will prevent bugs from invading, which will happen if it sits in the back of your pantry.
plastic container in the freezer, or it will absorb all sorts of nasty flavors you don’t want in your next cheesecake.
Okay, I might just throw the stuff out then because I doubt I’ll be using it anytime soon and I don’t have much room in the freezer.
If you’re not going to use that flour for a while, put it in the freezer! It will get stale sitting on your shelf.