**There is a recipe at the end of this post!! Scroll past the words if you're hungry and read the rest
while it's in the oven ;) **
Dear Beloved Blog Reader,
I have dedicated myself to writing creatively every day for at least 3 hours. Part of that commitment will be a blog for hopefully someone's enjoyment. :) These are just my crazy thoughts and delicious recipes.
I made a lot of resolutions this year. I have a lot of objectives I want to realize before the end of 2011, or at least by December 2012...juuust in case the Mayans aren't just pulling our leg. Thinking about the Mayan Calendar conjures up mental images of some psychic Mayan priest laughing his ass off as he writes the end of the long count on the calendar. He thinks "I may have a fatal case of small pox, but we'll see who has the last laugh..." My imagination is needless to say and strange place and just brimming with ideas. I guess that's why I'm a writer. My opinion of new years resolutions is that they can begin at whatever moment you decide to commit yourself the cause of bettering yourself. Furthermore, I'm getting into shape too! I've been more motivated than ever to go to the gym regularly and work to better my health. I'm sleeping better, thinking more creatively, looking and feeling better, and overall reaping the benefits of a new outlook. I have been attending audition after audition and building what I hope will be an impressive resume, and in the future I hope to post links to the work that I have done. My goal with this blog is to sort of document my journey as an actor and as a writer. I'll share what I have success with and any tips I have. I also hope to provide you with some delicious gluten free baking with easily obtainable and not too expensive ingredients.
I hope some of you will find my journey to be a fun, interesting, and perhaps inspiring read. It is also my wish that you share your thoughts and opinions with me and tell me about your blogs! I'd be more than happy to subscribe. :)
and now to my recipe for the day, but first a note to those just starting out on a gluten free lifestyle.
1. Convenience in eating baked goods just got more expensive
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2. Invest in a bread machine...they make life sooo much easier...and for some reason my bread just turns out more...bread-y
3. decrease the apple cider vinegar in half if you don't like hints of sour tastes. I absolutely adore the flavor of apple cider vinegar and therefore double what is probably necessary. Not that it's overpowering (should you choose to make it my way), but it may be a bit much for some people.
4. I know it's a tough transition, but I never realized how much fun, albeit difficult and frustrating, baking could be. In this sort of misfortune, I've discovered a whole new aspect of myself- the healthy eating enthusiast and the happy baker/sharer.
The Big Cheesecake
This recipe evolved out of me looking for a recipe without having bought enough cream cheese to make any of them. So I just winged it to an incredible result. For one it was less crazy rich- still rich but not insanely so...which I liked, as did others. It got great reviews among the non gluten free people who sampled a slice. Pictures will come when I learn how to add them.
what you will need:
For the crust-
kinnikinnik smorables- (they're the only gluten free graham cracker I've found that I'm not allergic to...)
approx 1/2 cup earth balance soy free butter style spread- (or regular butter if you'd like)
For the Filling-
2 blocks of cream cheese
3/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons potato starch or tapioca...or corn it really doesn't matter (i use bob's red mill because they appear to have a monopoly on the gluten free flour sector of the economy...seriously, Bob, you have no competition, what is that? Are you offing prospective gluten free flour manufacturers as they try to rise up? I mean king arthur's mill has a brown rice flour I've seen but nothing like the variety Bob has...)
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract (I like the non imitation stuff, but I'm sure that would be good too)
2 eggs and 1 egg yolk
To make the crust:
bust up the whole box of graham style crackers with a meat tenderizer/ heavy hammer type object you have lying around, put them in a plastic bag first (it helps to have some sort of pent up aggression you need to get out...really pulverize them!) or you could go the boring route and break out a food processor...but that's not fun, is it?
melt 1/2 cup of earth balance and pour over you crumbs, you may need more or less depending on how gritty and pressable to mixture is, just add it til it feels right.
bake at 350 degrees without filling for 8 minutes
To make the filling
Melt your 2 pkg of cream cheese by stove top or microwave, once melted add the 2 eggs and one egg yolk and mix thoroughly
add the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly
pour over the crust and bake it at 325 degrees for 20ish minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
Resist the temptation to devour the entire thing immediately and cool then refrigerate overnight...or as long as you can handle the wait, at least 3 hours.
Enjoy!
Love,
Amber
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