Long live United Cheesecake Holiday!

My friend Siue Moffat who wrote the fabu dessert cookbook Lickin' The Beaters sent me a important letter that I think you all should read.
xoxo
SARAH

It's that time of the year again...
Time to give a big FU to exmass in all it's sickening glory.

Please join me for United Cheesecake Holiday - the time of year where vegan and nonvegan cheesecakes come together and are honored by you and yours. UCH denotes no gifts, unless they are food or handmade, with focus on eating cheesecake. It is a simple time of year...

To get you in the mood, here is a recipe that will be in my new cookbook, which is all vegan chocolate and candy and out by summer.


Double Decker Chocolate Mint Cheesecake
1/2 c chocolate chips
1 8oz tub vegan cream cheese
3/4 c soy yogurt
1 c firm tofu
3/4 c sugar
egg replacer equivalent to 2 eggs
1/4 c flour
1 tsp vanilla
pinch salt
2 tb crushed candy cane
1/4 tsp mint extract
chocolate cookie crust (**see below**)

1. Preheat oven to 325 d.  Melt chocolate.
2. Blend all ingredients except candy cane, mint extract and chocolate.
3. Take out 1/3 of this mix. For the 2/3 still in the blender add the melted chocolate and blend well.
4. Pour the chocolate into the pie crust. Mix the candy cane and mint extract into the remaining 1/3 mixture and pour this on top of the chocolate. Bake for 50 min.

**chocolate cookie crust
1 1/4 cup chocolate cookie crumbs
3 tb oil
Press ingredients into a pie pan.

Tough as Nails

YAY!
Tough As Nails new cd came out today!! I'm super stoked that they used some of my photos in the insert of the cd. :)

If you'd like to get a copy of the cd ($8 includes shipping) then send me an e-mail and we'll go from there.

If you'd like to get a little taste of what they sound like...go HERE.

SSOV

I got a FANTASTIC package from The Secret Society of Vegans which included this swanky new shirt that you can purchase over at SSOV headquarters.There was also some amazing Vegan cheese for me to try. It is VERY cheesy... at least from what I can remember. I think the last time I ate real cheese it was the early 90's and Kurt Cobain was still alive so who knows what it really tastes like. *laugh* Also included in the package was some vegan condoms. Gerry was snippy snipped a year ago so we have no need for them... Congrats to Karen & Ms.Pants (both from Edmonton for some reason) for winning the condoms. If you get preggers SSOV and GoVegan.net are not libel. :)

Remember kids... no glove. no love.

How?

How can I sleep through a crazy windstorm but not through my neighbours hi-jinx?

Dear Neighbours

Dear Neighbours
While we appreciate a good party … we are writing to say that you seem to be having a little bit too much fun.

What we would like to remind you is that you are living in a condominium complex. What that means is that you are surrounded by neighbors on all three sides of your place.

We’re not saying don’t have your friends over, but please keep the hooting and hollering down after 11pm. We are having a really hard time sleeping through all your noise and some of us have to work the next day and are not getting enough REM.

Your yelling, hooting, running up and down the stairs and Pearl Jam sing-a-longs at 4am is a little much to handle, so please try and keep it down.

And don’t forget to shhhhhhhhhh when you’re in the hallway. Voices really carry in our little courtyard and it wakes the entire building up.

Cheers.

Mailbox

Received a couple of magazines called Transitions which is the official magazine for The Ontario Association of Triathletes. They sent me 3 copies of their FOOD ISSUE because they used the Sweet Potato Corn Bread recipe from HIAV.

So if you are interested in all things Triathlete and Ontario... the first 2 people to e-mail me their mailing address will get a copy.

Laying low...

Gerry tattoo'd me today. Nothing new, just some touch-ups on my "Sue" arm. When did I become such a tattoo baby? I was whining through the entire tattoo... Gerry says I'm always a tattoo baby but today I just wasn't in the mood. I was ready to kill him by the time he was done.

I've been laying low lately cause this weather is KILLING ME! The rain the rain the rain the rain the rain. I'm sick of wet socks and damp parka's. Enough already.

I've been sooo busy working on my computer since I got back from Vancouver for the burlesque festival. I have been going through and editing some of the 2000+ photos I took during the weekend. It's exhausting but fun work. I've put a few photos up at SarahKramerPhotography.com and my new photo myspace page. I'm hoping I'll have the rest of my shots edited and up by the end of the week. Lemme know what you think.

I also did a fun shoot with Miss Bunny Ruffles last Saturday and I'm so pleased with how they came out. She was a doll to work with.