MiniCheesecake

Wouldn't that have been an awesome ministry to be included into the world of "1984"? I'm sure Big Brother loves cheesecake. Who doesn't? Anyway, this was my first attempt at making a cheesecake of any kind, and I had no idea what I was doing. I just got this recipe off of allrecipes.com, and went at it. I didn't want to buy any extra pans or anything, and these looked easy to eat also.


They're supposed to be tiny-cupcake sized, but I didn't have the right pan or tiny-cupcake cups. And that'd be too small anyway; you'd have to eat like 3 at once, then feel all guilty about eating so many. But made three times bigger, you'd be able to savour the cheesecake-y goodness with little guilt or fuss.

I also tried to make the crust come all the way around, so that you wouldn't really need the cup to hold it:


It looks interesting but the cheese taste didn't really come out as much in this one. I also kind of failed with the crust; it tasted blah and the texture was kinda nasty. When it was fresh out of the oven, it was pretty greasy looking too. Better luck next time.

So I bought a plant

And it looked like this. I had no idea what it was, but it was cheap and it looked hardy. I saw that it was a perennial so after it blooms, I thought I could just let it be for a while (which is what I did with the CNIB crocus).

It eventually grew into something that looked like this:

Tulips! I hadn't expected that at all.
When the flowers began to wilt, I clipped them,following the same instructions as the crocus, thinking they're both grown from bulbs, so they're pretty much the same, right? (<-faulty logic). I also wanted to take photos of just the flowers.

They didn't look very interesting until they began to dry and gain interesting shapes and textures. I took photos against a background of plain white printer paper.


It's fun to take pictures from different angles!

The plant itself grew a bit more, then began to wilt. I think you're supposed to leave it be as it stores nutrients in the bulb, and when it has wilted and can no longer photosynthesize, you clip it down. It needs a period of cold followed by "spring" to start growing again, I think. I hope I can get it to grow again.