Blog Archives: July, 2008
Mini Blueberry Cheesecakes
Blueberry cheesecakes I picked up a pint of local Ontario blueberries on Saturday at the St. Jacob’s Farmer’s Market. From a number of sources on the Internet, I pieced together this tasty recipe for mini blueberry cheesecakes.
Mini Blueberry Cheesecakes
Ingredients
- Crust
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 1/8 cup sugar
- cinnamon
- Filling
- 1 package cream cheese, softened
- 3/8 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- Topping
- 1/2 pint blueberries
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
Directions
- Line muffin tray with 12 medium paper cups. Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Blend blueberries and cornstarch. Cook over medium heat until thickened, stirring constantly.
- Melt butter. Add graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and cinnamon; mix together with fingers. Pack into bottom of muffin cups.
- Beat together cream cheese, sugar, and egg. Stir in vanilla. Spoon into muffin cups. Spoon blueberry mix over top.
- Bake for 15 minutes at 350°F.
- Top each with a blueberry. Remove from tray and let cool. Serve or refrigerate.
Makes 12 mini cheescakes.
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Summer Reading: jPod
This is the first post in my “summer reading” series, as I aim to tell you about as I seem to have gotten into a bit of a reading binge over the summer.
jPod JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland and also a short-lived TV series on CBC (before they decided to cancel everything that I liked). It’s about a bunch of geeky-but-hip twenty-somethings working at a video game company in Vancouver. The TV series was quite good and highly recommended. The book is a bit wacky, but enjoyable. I read an interview with Douglas Coupland a while ago that he “thinks in Helvetica” and he tried to use font and text layout as almost a character on its own in the book, in a way that almost worked.
Readers of my blog may be familiar with my aversion to carrots, so I was very pleased to come across this line in the book:
“Carrots coast through life. If they were any colour other than orange, they’d be extinct by now.” She adopted her carrot voice. “Hi, I’m a carrot and have a bland nothing flavour, but because I’m attractive and because I’m just about the only orange vegetable that can be eaten in raw form, you keep me in your kitchen. I mock you for your weakness.” (Douglas Coupland, jPod, p. 267.)
