I'm getting married!!!

When I got home from work Jon said he was kinda cold and was wondering if he should turn the heat on. I was fine and warm, but if he needed to he could. We went back and forth a little bit, but then just sat down on the couch to cuddle instead. We chatted about what we were going to do that night and weekend. Talk about dinner and other things.

Jon then asked if I want to see some candy/food he got from work in a stacked box thing. I said heck yes and started following him to his office, he said, naw I'll just bring it to you. I thought that was nice of him. 

He handed me the stack of pretty boxes and I plowed through them, unexpectadly in his eyes, since he was kinda nervous. Mint candy, lemon cookies, chocoate covered pretzels, truffle, I thought yum, I can't wait to dive in!

I got to the largest bottom box and felt it was little light. I opened it and pushed the paper open and there is was in the pretty blue box.

I immediatly threw the entire box down in the couch and started weeping and looked at Jon and smiled and hugged him. He was already crying his eyes out at this moment.

We hugged & kissed again and again, he then said, well are you going to open it?

I said yes but you have to put it on.

I opened the little box and it was exactly how I envisioned it 2 months ago when we looked at rings.

Perfect!

He put it on my finger and we hugged and smooched and said I love you.

Then...I called him a punk. Of course I would, he was so sly about it.
He wasn't cold after all, just quite nervous/excited. :)

Everything about the moment was so perfect.

Memorable and original. 

Cheers to Cheesecake Season!!

So to start off the season I made a Raspberry white chocolate cheesecake with cinnamon sugar & white chocolate sauce for my sister Melissa. Pretty damn good way to start off the season!! The consistency was perfect and a great cake to put sour cream in.
It was also the first cake I made in my new apartment with an electric oven. I haven't had good luck in the past with electric ovens; at first it didn't seem like it was going to make, since I had to bake it for an extra 30 minutes, but it turned out damn damn good!!
For the Thanksgiving holiday I tried a mini cheesecake recipe and it worked almost perfectly! Made a batch of pumpkin and a batch of apple pie mini cakes. Electric oven worked pretty great with the minis as well.

Can't wait to try more varieties with the mini cake recipe and bake a crap ton more cakes!!
Cheers to Cheesecake season!

Always taking cake ideas! :-D

til next time
-shan

Octopus

I was watching a blind man from the distance walking on the beach of a lagoon approaching the water, which was like a sulfur lake. He did not have his walking stick with him, so he had to feel about with his feet. He took step by step feeling for a drop in the water. After he was confident there wasn't one he trotted forward with confidence, but suddenly he dropped into the lagoon. Thankfully he could swim and surfaced almost immediately and propped himself on the ledge where he dropped in. The moment he surfaced I seemed to enter his body, because I could see through his eyes. As I was on the ledge there was a Lochness monster type creature, that swam inches from me. I stood as still as possible with legs, still under water, squeezed to the edge and my arm locked in place holding myself steady. The creature slowing sank back into the murky water. Moments later people about 10 people gathered and watched from their doorways of the large houses circling the lagoon. A helicopter dropped a net into the water and took out a massive black octopus with cream colored spots & tentacles. The creature looked at me with it's sad small eyes as it was being lifted away. 

Cheesecake shop idea names

One thing I've been thinking about for years would be a name for a Cheesecake shop I hope to open some day. Nothing really hits me.

-Chocolate & Vanilla (combinations you can create & eat)
-Shanna's Cheesecakes (just like mom makes 'em)
-Cheesecakes & Other Things (desert. coffee. smile.)
-Cheesecakes (slices, bite sizes and big hearts)
-Cheesecake's by heart (One size fits all)
-Shan's Cheesecakes (So good you'll ask her to marry you)
-Cheesecake Shop (Stop in and indulge)
-CrEATe (Design your own cheesecake shop)
-CreATE (Cheesecake your way)

Never realized how many stupid ideas I have...guess I won't know what will work until I put them down on paper.


That's what I've got so far. I will be brain storming more ideas & slogans, as well as color schemes and anything else I can think of. I welcome opinions.

:-D

-s

Dream & another cheesecake

I woke up last night with my left leg, toe to hip asleep. It may have been the 500 calorie burning workout and yoga I did earlier, but man was it weird.
I dozed off again and dreamt I got a flat tire on the front right side with Jon in the car with me. A woman then rear ended me and bent the rim of my back right wheel. She apparently just slid it off and hammered it back to normal.
I drove to the nearest auto body shop to get them fixed. Out of nowhere my Mom shows up with a pair of tickets to a Twins game in the 6th row. Amazing!
Jon and I were at the game wandering around. He banked some balcony seats at a restaurant overlooking the stadium and river/lake thingy. It was gorgeous and all I wanted to do was gp explore. It started to drizzle then I woke up.

Now, I just want to go to a Twins game or maybe just get an iced coffee.


Cheesecakes:
I will be making the Dirt Cup Cheesecake for my sister's birthday & Ma's day for Sunday. They are excited to try it!
I'm amazed my family & friends still like to eat them. Does that mean I'm doing something right?

peace
-shan

Cheesecake Pop pics

Two words

CHEESECAKE POPS!!

Dark & Milk Chocolate almond coated
White chocolate w/ various spring colors
Dark chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Peanut butter chocolate dusted with powdered sugar
Dark & Milk Chocolate pumpkin seed coated

Last but not least...my love in every pop :-) (cheeeeeeezyyyyy)

more to come...