Archive for August, 2006

Vacation

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

We left on vacation the day after I posted my cheesecake post.  I was so busy, I wasn’t able to post that I was leaving.  Entries will be sporadic until I’m back in another week and a half or so.

This last weekend was a Family Reunion with my Mom’s family in Jim Thorpe, PA.  My Grandpa turned 80 this year and my Grandparents have been married for 58 years, so we were celebrating that as well.  It was a lot of fun.  They have 6 children, 25 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren, plus spouses for their children and 6 of their grandchildren.  That’s a lot of people – 56 total, including my grandparents.  About two thirds made it and that was hectic.

Tonight and tomorrow we’ll be spending at my aunt and uncle’s house near Philadelphia and then heading up to Massachusetts to spend a week with my grandparents.

Chocolaholic’s No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Pour most of a 12 oz bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl.  Leave about an inch or so in the bottom of the bag.  Take two chips out and eat them.  Mix up in a seperate bowl 12 oz of softened cream cheese, a full stick of softened butter, half a cup of sugar, and 2 tsp of vanilla.  Eat two chips.  Melt chocolate chips in bowl, stirring often.  Eat two chips.  Pour melted chocolate into cream cheese mixture.  Lick spoon used to stir while microwaving.  Thoroughly stir in chocolate, when resting hands grab a chip or two to help with your energy.  Mix 8 oz of whipped cream into the bowl.  Thoroughly mix in cream, doing as before when hands are sore.  Pour into two 8 in circular graham cracker crusts in pie pans.  Lick bowl.  Put cheesecakes in refridgerator to chill.  Check chocolate chip bag.  Pull out last little chip in bottom corner.  Throw bag away.  Wait three hours.  Eat one full cheesecake.  Wait a day.  Eat the other.