African Vanielje on May 19 2009 at 1:04 pm | Filed under: amazing cakes, baking, chocolate, sweet kitchen
chocolate cheesecake - what ricotta was made for
Okay, I’ve finally succumbed to the dark side. I have signed up for facebook, bowing not to peer pressure, but to TDPS (teenage daughter pressure syndrome). And you’re right. My daughter is not yet a teenager, but she is practising hard, and there is nothing more demoralising for someone barely 36 years young (okay 36 and a half…three quarters) than to be patted pityingly by a child who has it firmly settled in her mind that you are way too old ever to be hip, or to understand why social networking sites are important. So fine, I admit I signed up so I could keep an eye on her, but she is blithely ignoring my friendship requests. I think I should write a letter to someone at the facebook site…only who? And signed what? Desperately unhip mother seeking access to daughter’s life?
Maybe I’ll just look around this facebook thing to see if all the dark predictions I made and conspiracy theories I foresaw are in actual fact, vaguely possible. Ooh, this is so immediate. Usually it takes ages to get a blog/comment conversation going. Hmm, a lot of unknown people asking to be friends though. Sorry guys, no can do. I don’t pick up hitchers either. My husband would kill me.
But lots of old blogging friends (you are all welcome) and quick access to some blog posts which makes things easy for lazy people like myself. Hmm, easy to upload pics too, and a good place for non-foodie pics. Okay, so it’s not all bad. I think I’m getting the hang of this.
Only, whoops, I seem to have spent most of the day pottering around in here. No work on the new deli newsletter. Barely touched a new blogpost. Haven’t even looked at my synopsis for the publisher. Insidious this… I knew there was a reason I warned Dakota about this. Luckily, I have emergency back-up. I can call a friend. There is a chocolate ricotta cheesecake sitting on the deli counter, and the other me, the sensible one, is refusing to allow me to taste it until I log off from facebook. Okay, just one last check…
Just kidding, this cheesecake is good. It’s no contest. I don’t know who started this chocolate polka dot thing. I got it from Julie le Clerc’s Little Cafe Cakes. She says the concept is Maida Heatter’s. As usual I’ve tinkered a bit. Used my own pastry recipe and adjusted the filling to what I had in the fridge, but it’s still to die for and I make it often in one form or another. So cheesecake 1 – Facebook 0. But that’s today. I’m sure we’ll go another round tomorrow.
For those of you who haven’t figured this out yet, I always post the recipes separately, to Vanielje Kitchen Cook Book (VKCB) in the sidebar. This works out to be a lot easier in the long run when you are looking for a recipe and don’t want to trawl through all my stories or ramblings from months ago. So what are you waiting for. Open up my cookbook and get baking. Ohh, and feel free to pop in and chat on facebook…
xx
It’s great you’re on Facebook! It is more immediate than blog communication, but the blog is essential for the in depth stuff, so they make a great combination. I go for a week without logging on to Facebook, then have a flurry of activity.
As for teenage daughters, another blog friend’s daughter in the US hooked up with me on Facebook, cos she was trying to up her number of friends and as i was in an ‘exotic’ location she thought it’d be cool. So maybe one of your friends will be able to link up with your daughter and reassure you of no dark happenings!
The cheesecake looks wonderful – Facebook doesn’t stand a chance!
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Kit, there is hope yet. I am about to post the cheesecake recipe. I got a little sidetracked last night with an old friend who has just arrived from London. Late night, lots of coffee needed this am.
THat’s so funny – you are the second of my blogging friends who has signed up in a month at abotu the same time that I am edging towards the precipice to sign up too! I’m not doing it to be hip – I’m doing it because I hate feeling left out and my husband has banned me from staring over his shoulder when he logs on to see what our friends are up to!!
Twitter is still out though. I’ve spent some time with people twittering recently and it’s just rude & antisocial!!
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Listen doll! I’m not having my 12 year old make me feel old. Actually she does that regularly, but I’m not going to admit it to her!
Facebook is a devouring beast that takes up too much time. We as “hip” moms need to get with the program because we are supposed to be Twittering on Twitter which is taking over the Social Network scene.
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