Hi, Karen! I made your cheesecake last week for an annual faculty party and it was GONE before the first round ended (they have two parties for day time and evening faculty and staff). I tried to find a couple of people who had a piece to find out their reaction but it just goes to show people WANT alternatives to sugar. I had one piece of it and chowed down. Boy was it good. I have a ton of cream cheese in the frig to make another one this week.
I have an appointment this morning at the allergist and I'm taking your cookbook with me. It's been really tough to get in to see him with my schedule (and the extra cost of the sitter). But I wanted him to know how I've been able to get back on track, more or less, along with a great deal of prayer, journaling and support form my husband and close friends.
The food is the key - good, tasty food will keep me happy. I've just resolved that my life will always revolve around food and that won't change. But how I handle the food has changed. It forces me to shop at a couple of different stores since I don't like the meat and seafood selection at one place. We're buying a small freezer in May (after the annual spring cleaning trash pick-up when we can get rid of boxes and junk in the basement) to stock meat and seafood mostly when we buy in bulk or bags of veges on sale. It will help a great deal since I eat A LOT and still lose weight.
ANYWAY, I digress...the cheesecake was a great success and I will try something else for the upcoming field school road trip so I can have legal snacks.
My next digression on this cheesecake is to make it, cut into chunks, dip the chunks into chocolate (actually, the peanut butter cup recipe) and then freeze them. YUM!!! Cheers!