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Busy Here, Easy Cheesecake Recipe

Things are busy here, as usual. My father is visiting from Florida, and today we will meet up with him to visit. We don't see him often because of the distance - Connecticut to Florida.

We spent the weekend cleaning and getting out of the house so we could have a showing and open house. Unfortunately, we have no news from either of those. It is a little depressing. We have now had about four viewings and this was our second open house - in fairness, we had the first open house while we were under contract with potential buyers.

My hubby has been working so hard through all of this. He is under a lot of stress - and he suffers from depression and anxiety issues. It has made him a bit hard to deal with but in fairness to him he does get up again every morning and resolve to deal with his issues and continue working on the house. I don't know if any of you deal with depression - I'm not talking about being a bit gloomy. There is a stigma about it, I think, in most people's minds. My hubby is actually under a doctor's care for this problem and he is taking medications to bring it under control.

I don't pretend to understand it myself. It is very hard because the rest of the family gets disappointed when he feels he can't deal with something or he gets anxious about things that seem small to the rest of us - 

I don't want to share too much about this for fear I will make him uncomfortable. But things have been stressful lately.

My brother Alan suggested I blog about cheesecake next time I made an entry. You see, I made a small cheesecake in a graham cracker crust - ready made - pie size.So why didn't we call it cheesepie instead of cheesecake? Now, I don't know if my brother understands the blogging concept - but to make him happy I've posted his thoughts here. Anyone have any ideas about how cheesecake got to be called cheesecake? I'll give you the recipe, though, if you want to make one:

Take a ready-made graham cracker crust. In a bowl, mix a bar of soft cream cheese until smooth. Add 3T of lemon juice, and then one egg.  Pour half of this mixture into the crust. Take 1/2 C of preserves/jam/jelly, mix it with 3 T lemon juice. Dot the cream cheese mixture in the crust with half of the preserve mixture. Pour the remaining cream cheese mixture into the crust. Then dot the remaining preserves on the top - and swirl with a toothpick or knife. Bake at 300 degrees for about 55 minutes, or until the center is almost set. Let cool on a rack for about an hour, then chill for at least 3 hours - you have to make this ahead! But it is very easy and not too sugary - the kids loved it.

Hope you all have a great day.

House sale and stress

{ 12:19, Tuesday, August 22, 2006 } { Posted by HarvestMom }

We too have our house for sale and know how it can bring you low. So my heart has lots of encouragement for you! This will be the 4th house we have sold by owner. We always have anxiety after a few weeks of no showings and realestate agents banging down your door telling you they can get it sold, what a pain. It always works out. I have to just do the next thing when I start to feel like those awful emotions are taking me down.
We will keep your home in prayer. I always find it helpful to pray about someone else's situation when ours is all I can focus on.
Blessings, Theresa

Edited by HarvestMom on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 12:20

Dear Chris

{ 04:35, Tuesday, August 22, 2006 } { Posted by Robin }

Hiya! Things are starting to go back to normal today. Yea! Thank you for your sweet notes and praying when things were stressful. :)

I found this about cheesecake:

"Cheesecakes can be made of ricotta cheese, havarti, quark, twaróg, or, more usually, cream cheese. Other ingredients such as sugar, eggs, cream and fruit are often mixed in as well. Flavorings such as vanilla or chocolate may be added, and a fruit topping, like strawberries, is frequently added. Typically, the cheese filling or topping covers a crust, which may be pastry, cookie, digestive biscuit or graham cracker-crumb. Sometimes the base is a layer of cake."

Maybe that last line is why it is called cheesecake?

I am redoing my HSB blog. I do want to keep one that I save all of the entries on, I really do. Sometimes I just doubt that anything I have to say is really interesting to others. lol

I think I found another reason why God led me to your blog. Your husband and I suffer from the same things. Perhaps someday I should share what it is that I suffer from.

I hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday. I am going to try to update my blog(s) some time today. Warmly, Robin.