Every year Mrs. Hillbilly spends about 3 days making her famous amaretto cheesecakes for THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD. It’s insane. So yesterday I went over to Mrs. HB’s house to get her recipe and to photograph how she made her delicious cheesecakes, so I could share the recipe with you. We also exchanged Christmas presents as well.
As soon as she opened her door I greeted her with a loud Merry Christmas, and handed her her unwrapped present. Flour sack towels and an Emile Henry loaf pan. I thought it was the perfect gift since she had recently started to dabble in bread making.
Plus I made sure to point out it would be the perfect pan to bake something in and give to SOMEONE ELSE. And then I fessed up and told her I got it for free with some credit from One Kings Lane. LOL.
Do you do that? Do you tell people how much you paid for their gift if you got an awesome freakin’ deal on it? Why is that? What’s wrong with us? It’s so tacky, but it’s like we have no filter and we are just as excited about how much we {didn’t} pay for something, as we are to give the gift. Clearly none of us went to finishing school.
Mrs. Hillbilly gifted me 2 gallons of Organic Milk. Holy Cow!
It was awesome. Milk, for Christmas. Who does that, and for that matter, who on earth would love to receive 2 gallons of milk for Christmas? Crazy people I tell you. Crazy people.
Then Mrs. HB went on to tell me she was embarrassed that she paid $5.39 a gallon for the milk. What? $5.39? Where did you buy it… at a gas station? It was total awesomeness.
After that we got to work making {and photographing} cheesecakes, assembling cake boxes, drinking cocoa, and eating ham sandwiches. It was the perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon. Good friends, good food, and good craic as the Irish would say.
What did YOU do yesterday? Anything fun?
~Mavis
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If you are planning on serving ham this Christmas and have never tried baked pineapple before, you need to try this recipe. My neighbor Girly Girl gave it to me some time ago {Chino the Handyman grew up with this} and I now serve baked pineapple every time we cook a ham. To not serve this dish with a ham dinner would be like not serving mashed potatoes with turkey. Quite simply, they belong together.
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