I love Wednesdays. Time to play along again with all the hotter-notters at Loobylu's. Head over there to check out the cute artwork Claire's featuring this week and to see what's hot and not around the globe!HOT
Chaxgven Also known as Thanksgiving. We renamed the holiday after receiving this charming invitation a few years ago from my nephew who was then in kindergarten. (In case you don't read invented spelling, it says, "Dear Baicker-McKees Could you come over for Thanksgiving."
Naturally, we couldn't refuse.) Hope you have lots to gve chax for this year; I know we do. And it's not just the food.
The Kitchen That's because of the food. Specifically at the moment because of the Chocolate Amaretto Cheesecake that's about to come out of the oven. (I'll have to add a picture shortly.) Not traditional - but good on any occasion. We're having pumpkin pie too, and lots of other typical Thanksgiving dishes, but I'm planning to give special chax for this dessert. Here's the recipe, which came to me by way of a work colleague of my husband's. Here's the amazing part: it's low fat, but you'd never guess that from the taste. It is, quite frankly, incredible.
Chocolate Amaretto Cheesecake
2 small tubs soft light cream cheese (I've tried fat free, but the texture was weird.)
1 cup sugar
1 cup 1% fat small curd cottage cheese
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1/4 cup amaretto (you can sub almost any liqueur, like c
4 Comments on What's Hot + What's Not: Happy Chaxgven, last added: 12/25/2009
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Hey Carol, unfortunately on my far away continent we don't do chanx gven but after seeing your nephew's gorgeous invite I really wish we did, I'd definitely be crashing his party.
The pond looks way cool too.
Maureen. www.thepizzagang.com
Your Chax Gven note reminded me that my little boy told us the other day in a very authoritative tone, "Did you know, Mommy, that some people don't celebrate X-mas?" "No?" "No. The celebrate Zeeee-Mas."
Chanx for that amazing recipe...far too yummy!
You have done a great job with your pond...looks fantastic Carol!
Chele x
ooh - looking forward to the Advent blog - the little mushroom house is so very cute. Happy Chax Gven!
xx