The BEST Cheese Cake

I thought since Valentines Day is coming up I would post about the best cheese cake ever and extremely easy to make. This recipe is from my Mom who is an excellent cook. One of her hobbies is collecting recipes. She has binders and binders full of recipes she has collected from everywhere (magazines, newspapers and other people). I have tried a lot of cheese cakes and I don’t like any of them but this one. (Maybe it is because it is my Mom’s recipe.) Really though, I will serve it to guest and most of the time I will get a few people who will take a very small piece, just to be polite, but they ALWAYS come back for more. This would be great for Valentines Day, special occasions or just a special treat.
  

Cheese Cake

There are three layers.
Crust (1st layer)
1 1/2 Cups Graham Cracker Crumbs (I use my food processor to crumble 1 package of crackers)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
Combined and press into a 10 inch Spring form pan. Then chill. Sometimes I save a little to sprinkle on the top at the end.
2nd layer
3 8 ounce packages of cream cheese (softened)
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs (lightly beaten)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combined and pour over crust. Bake at 350 degrees, for 40 minutes. Every oven is different, it should not be totally giggly in the middle, but if it is over cooked it will be dried out
3rd layer
1 pint sour cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combined and pour over 2nd layer after the 40 min. and bake for 5 more minutes.
Cool and then chill before serving.

Do you like cheese cake? If not, try this recipe.

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My Parent’s Kitchen Renovation

During the summer we took some time to renovate my parent’s (Who also had 12 children) house, and one of the rooms that needed some updating was the kitchen. They had replaced the cabinets, about 20 years ago, which we did not change. Some of the changes we did was to remove the wallpaper, replace the tile that was there for 46 years, replace the hardware, took down the paneling, replaced the sink and faucet and painted the trim and walls. Our goal was to try and update the house so they could hopefully sell (my Mom is having a harder time getting around) and move out by us into a ranch.

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How We Clean our Dishes

With a large family we go through a LOT of dirty dishes, ugh, and usually do two dishwasher loads a day. Like most people I do not like to rinse the dishes before or have the time to. Ever since I started using Shaklee Get Clean Dishwasher cleaner I no longer have to rinse the dishes before we put the dishes into the dishwasher. This is a load of dirty dishes that sat overnight. We have a four year old Sears Kenmore dishwasher.

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This is the Shaklee Dish Washer Automatic Powder Concentrate, that we will only use now.  It is the best cleaner on the market and is non-toxic.

We only use one of these little scoops in one of the compartments in the dishwasher. It calls for more but this is all we need. This bag last for a couple of months.

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Our days are so much easier, all we have to do is to put the dishes into the dishwasher and then just put them away. We also feel so much better not using toxic cleaner on our dishes that we put the food we eat on.
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How to Patch Cracks

This is one of the cracks we found under the paneling we removed at my Parent’s house. You could read about that here. This is above the doorway in their foyer.

The first thing to do to repair a crack like this is to scrape off any rough spots.

A Very Large Snowman

Yesterday it snowed several inches and the temperature was right around 32 deg. F. So the weather was perfect to go out and play in the snow and make a snowman. Before this it has been WAY to cold to go outside. Everyone joined in and made this HUGE snowman. This is only the first part of it. Scroll down to see a 17 1/2 foot snowman.

Here are six of my children, my Hubby, and two nephews.

  

Here are 5 of my children and my Hubby.

 

Here are two of my girls and two nieces all having fun in the snow.

Three of my girls.

I should have taken pictures of the little ones, they were off making an awesome fort.

Sharon Heasley