birthday time
we celebrated eric’s birthday the other day. we also celebrated our fourth anniversary. this time of year is really kinda crazy so it’s hard to celebrate eric’s birthday away from everybody else’s birthdays, christmas, and our anniversary dinner. (this year eric’s also getting a ‘half birthday’ with no christmas wrapping paper or decorations, and a whole day just about him! i’ll elaborate when the time comes. :D)
our day started with some tasty pastries, compliments of eric’s early-morning trip to safeway. 🙂 for lunch we celebrated our anniversary by going to the cheesecake factory (yum!) then we went to see a movie for eric’s birthday. once we were back home, eric got to enjoy his birthday cake….a vegan cheesecake! 🙂 it was really good! seriously tasty. thanks samantha for the recipe!
here’s a horrible picture of it, smoothered with raspberry sauce, raspberries and soyatoo (a soy version of redi-whip):
then the pups helped eric open his birthday present:
and if you’re curious, here’s a picture of my belly:
so far we’re enjoying our christmas weekend! we’re still hoping for snow on tuesday, too. 🙂
December 24th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Happy Birthday, man!!! (and Happy Anniversary to the both of you :).
I’m having trouble with the concept of a vegan cheesecake, though…
December 24th, 2007 at 10:23 am
yeah, being a big fan of cheesecake i was more than skeptical and couldn’t get the image of blocks of tofu out of my head, till i tried this recipe. it is seriously good. no ‘soy’ or ‘tofu’ taste and the consistency is, i’d say, 80% the same. plus a pound of dark chocolate makes everything better. 🙂
December 24th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
just wanted to reiterate the happy birthday wishes from both of us. 😀
did you use silken tofu for the vegan cheesecake?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
it’s extra firm silken tofu and tofutti cream cheese. you can find the recipe over at samantha’s food and book blog, noveleats (http://www.noveleats.com).