day five
walking and breathing take a stupid amount of effort. i think i can feel my muscles melting.
Day 4 of being sick. This is ridiculous.
I have transformed the living room into my own personal sick cave and my fever came back.
On the plus side, I have lentil and ginger soup, which is pretty much the shit.
Nutella Cheesecake
Cheesecake filling:
Directions:
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened (Or for you vegans out there: use the same measuring amount, but get Tofutti ”Better Than Cream Cheese”)
- 3 eggs (Ener-G is a great egg substitute for vegan cooking. Use appropriate amount to recipe)
- 2/3’s of a 13oz jar Nutella
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
Brownie Crust:
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth with a mixer. Add milk and blend. Add eggs one at a time, blending after each. Blend in Nutella and vanilla. Add lemon juice and mix. Pour into brownie crust.
Directions:
- 3/4 cup butter, melted (substitute with any vegan butter)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 eggs (read the substitution for eggs in the cheesecake filling section)
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (the brand Nature’s Flavors carries a 100% vegan cocoa powder)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- remainder of Nutella
- Preheat oven to 325 F
- In a large bowl, blend melted butter, sugar and vanilla. Beat in eggs one at a time. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Gradually blend into the egg mixture. Fold in Nutella. Spread the batter into a springform pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray and dusted with cocoa.
- Bake cheesecake for 60-70 minutes. Turn off oven and open door. Let cheescake sit in oven for 30 minutes. Remove, cover and refrigerate over night or until firm.
REALLY need to make this… note to self
This looks amazing, but I don’t understand why they try and veganize the recipe as Nutella is NOT VEGAN. At all.
Going to an open house at a meditation center that I’ve never been to before.
I am so excited that I might have easy access to a center, and a place to learn and make a better commitment to sitting.
I’m nervous, too. Not quite sure what that’s about yet.
In other news, I have a cup of earl grey on a rainy day and last night’s Maddow program to keep me company as I write cover letters.
The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.
One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down. Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face.It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me.
