{"id":71,"date":"2011-05-11T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latter.name\/?p=71"},"modified":"2016-03-13T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:20:12","slug":"cooking-is-like-love-entered-into-with-abandon-or-not-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Cooking is like love\u2026 entered into with abandon or not at all\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often joke that it is great that I have found that one special person I want to annoy for the rest of my life.\u00a0 The truth is, that although our wedding was fourteen years ago, the celebration continues today.\u00a0 I am not saying that every day is a dream or that there aren\u2019t times when we get frustrated or cranky with each other, but we love and respect each other so we are happy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as simple and as difficult as that.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate our 14<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary we went to Moxi\u2019s for supper, then home for a new cheesecake I decided to try.\u00a0 I recently found a recipe for a Neapolitan cheesecake which sounded delicious, but had four (!) packages of cream cheese, and about 100 steps.\u00a0 It was also loaded with sugar and carbs.\u00a0 I decided to see if I could simplify and make low carb, and was quite pleased with the results. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neapolitan Cheesecake<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 100g bag of ground almonds<\/li>\n<li>1 packet splenda<\/li>\n<li>2 T butter, melted<\/li>\n<li>2 packages of cream cheese<\/li>\n<li>3 eggs, separated<\/li>\n<li>2 semi-sweet (or unsweetened) chocolate squares<\/li>\n<li>Sugar-free Strawberry Jam<\/li>\n<li>Vanilla<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 C splenda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix ground almonds, splenda packet and butter.\u00a0 Press into a <u>small<\/u> 8\u201d spring form pan and bake at 300 degrees for 5 minutes.\u00a0 Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Beat three egg whites until fluffy, but not hard.\u00a0 Set Aside.<\/p>\n<p>Beat three egg yolks with \u00be C splenda.\u00a0 Add cream cheese and beat until smooth.\u00a0 Gently fold in egg whites.<\/p>\n<p>Take out 1\/3 of mixture and mix with 2 melted squares of chocolate.\u00a0 If using unsweetened, you may want to add more splenda.\u00a0 Pour into spring form pan.<\/p>\n<p>Take out another 1\/3 of mix and add vanilla.\u00a0 Gently layer on chocolate.\u00a0 I used small spoonfuls to make sure it didn\u2019t disrupt the chocolate.\u00a0 You can put in freezer for 5 minutes if very runny; to firm up (helps keep layers clean).<\/p>\n<p>Add 2 generous tablespoons of strawberry jam to the remaining mix.\u00a0 Gently layer over the vanilla, taking care to keep the layers clean.<\/p>\n<p>Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour.<\/p>\n<p>You can make white chocolate curls from a vegetable peeler as a garnish if you like, or use whipped cream as a topping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often joke that it is great that I have found that one special person I want to annoy for the rest of my life.\u00a0 The truth is, that although our wedding was fourteen years ago, the celebration continues today.\u00a0 I am not saying that every day is a dream or that there aren\u2019t times when we get frustrated or cranky with each other, but we love and respect each other so we are happy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as simple and as difficult as that. To celebrate our 14th anniversary we went to Moxi\u2019s for supper, then home for a new cheesecake I decided to try.\u00a0 I recently found a recipe for a Neapolitan cheesecake which sounded delicious, but had four (!) packages of cream cheese, and about 100 steps.\u00a0 It was also loaded with sugar and carbs.\u00a0 I decided to see if I could simplify and make low carb, and was quite pleased with the results. Enjoy! Neapolitan Cheesecake 1 100g bag of ground almonds 1 packet splenda 2 T butter, melted 2 packages of cream cheese 3 eggs, separated 2 semi-sweet (or unsweetened) chocolate squares Sugar-free Strawberry Jam Vanilla 3\/4 C splenda Mix ground almonds, splenda packet and butter.\u00a0 Press <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/?p=71\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Cooking is like love\u2026 entered into with abandon or not at all\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latter.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}