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December 27, 2001
Sarah's Birthday Cake
Thursday, December 27, 2001
OK.
So we're in the wayback machine.
I went over to my friend's house the other, ah, month. It was Sarah's birthday, and I decided to bake her a cake. (The cake was also sorta for Emily, a very charming young lady I was attempting to impress with my baking prowess, but who was much to my chagrin getting ready for New York. Shows what SHE knows.) I planned on baking her a Kahlua Chocolate Cheesecake, because it's yummy. So, I asked my friend Emily to take the springform cake pan over to Sarah and Rusty's house, to put in their freezer to set the tasty Oreo crumb crust. I was going to follow a bit later, after I finished making the batter. (This came together at, like, the LAST POSSIBLE SECOND.)
So, I finish the batter, leave it in my cool Kitch-N-Aid 6-quart mixer bowl, and put said bowl into my car. I was sorta in a hurry, so I was driving my car with some, uh, alacrity.
OK, so here's what lateral G's do to cheesecake batter in a spherical bowl.
So now I'm SORE annoyed. It gets better.
So I walk up to the door, with a big scowly-face. Sarah answers the door, takes in the scene, and very courteously stifles a laugh.
My friends manage to refrain from laughing VERY loudly in my face, and help me clean up the car, and then eat the cheesecake (which turned out pretty darn good, although not quite as deep as it shoulda been.)
Without further ado, here's the recipe. Which rocks.
Kahlua Chocolate Cheesecake
1 1/2 cups semi-sweet choc chips
1/4 cup Kahlua liqueur
2 tbsp butter
2 large eggs, beaten
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup Sour Cream, Daisy brand, room temp
2 pkg (8 Oz) cream cheese, room temp
chocolate wafers, pulverized
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 tbsp sugar
9" Springform Pan
DO NOT SUBSTITUTE BRANDS. Other Sour Creams are not pure cream and their additives may affect the cake. Crumb crust: Pulverize chocolate wafers in food processor, measure and return to food processor bowl. Add sugar and melted butter, blend. Place in bottom of springform pan and tamp down solid. Cool in refrigerator to stiffen.
Cheesecake batter: Melt chocolate chips, butter and Kahlua in microwave. (about 1 min, stir, 1/2 min--watch carefully) Beat eggs in mixing bowl; add sugar and salt, then sour cream. Blend well. Gradually add softened cream cheese, blend until smooth. Add chocolate to cheese mixture and blend until smooth, increasing beater speed if necessary. Pour into springform pan with chocolate crumb crust. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 40 minutes or until center is just firm--do not overcook, center will continue to cook as cake cools. Keep an eye on the edges. If they start to dry out excessively before center is set, reduce heat 25 degrees. You may put a pan of water on the rack below the cake to help keep it from cracking as it bakes and then cools. Remove from oven when done. Run a sharp knife around between the cake and the pan. Cool for one hour, then refrigerate covered for several hours or preferably overnight. This is a good cake to cover with plain or chocolate-flavored whipped cream and shaved chocolate.
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December 06, 2001
Stupid corporations
Thursday, December 6, 2001
This is pretty funny. According to this article in Wired Magazine, some silly corporation thinks that I don't have the right to link their home page from my home page.
*snicker*
WARNING! This page is one of those stupid ones that plays you an "intro", with dopey music and lame graphics, before dumping you out at a home page that blathers on about how very little utility this company has for our fine planet. Be forewarned.
nanny nanny boo boo you can't get me.
Oh, this is good. Tell you what, KPMG guys...(what exactly is your company for?) here's MY agreement. If you send me, or anybody affiliated with Radiopossibility.com, an email requesting that I remove these links to your home page, you agree to call me on the telephone and sing me your company's theme song, and to donate $100 to the charity of my choice. If you don't agree to my terms, don't send any messages.
I can't imagine anything more ridiculous. This fascination the marketroids have with brand identity really has to go. I look forward to the day when I run a successful business, and these KPMG yahoos call me on the phone, trying to get me to use whatever ridiculous service they've roped a bunch of MBA thinkalikes into using, and I can say...
You guys are big idiots. Get off my phone. And your theme song sucks.
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