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24 October 2006

this is oddly cathartic [More:]
so here I am in the midst of finishing a gargantuan pumpkin cheesecake. it's about twenty minutes from coming out of the oven and right now the entire apartment is bathed in the heady aroma of pumpkin pie spice and 3 pounds of Philly's finest.

dibs on a slice anyone?

it's the biggest cheesecake recipe I've ever seen or made. I think this thing is gonna feed not only my colleagues but prolly all of mecha and mefi and maybe some extra for leftovers.

anyways earlier on I was following the roommate's recipe for a cookie crumb crust. like all his recipes it was pretty basic: "mash 1 box shortbread cookies, mix with 1 stick melted butter, refrigerate".

he's a really, really good cook that lad, however his recipes tend towards the spartan on the details.

sooo... there I was wandering around the living room with a box of lorna doones and a 4 quart steel mixer bowl, wondering how in the fuck I was going to mash up an entire box of cookies - seeing as we're somewhat light on kitchen gear at the mo, not to mention the food processor went tits up on us about two weeks ago.

Now, might I add that we do have nine bikes and seventeen pairs of wheels and about five thousand eight hundred seventy-two bicycle-related doo-dads and whatchamajiggers including a huge, 48" tall locking rollaway tool chest full of every bike part and maintenance option known to god (you know, those kind car mechanics have? we got one, only it's full of bike tools).

then inspiration struck as my eye lit upon ye olde 12 oz. claw hammer.

turns out a 12 oz. claw hammer is the dog's nutz for mashing cookies, especially in one of those cheapassed Target steel mixer bowls cos the profile of the claw and the bottom of the bowl marry up like peas n carrots. So I wrapped that hammer up in a floursack rag, stuck one of my old Stabbing Westward cds in the stereo and got jiggy with it. it freaked out the cat and I'm sure the downstairs neighbours wondered what the aitch I was up to, but as they say in the movie Office Space: god DAMN it feels good to be a gangsta.

I feel so much better now. thank you all for listening.
Shortbread crust sounds amazing. Where did you find this fantabulous recipe, woman?

I thought for sure you were going to say you rode back and forth over the cookies until you smashed them all with your bike! That's how my neighbor "shovels" snow out of his parking spaces every winter - he drives back and forth over it until it melts.
posted by iconomy 24 October | 08:32
Gourmet survival at its finest. I applaud thee, lonefrontranger. Oh, and dibs on a piece, por favor.
posted by chewatadistance 24 October | 09:02
do us a favor and take a picture of all your bike tools? and your bikes all lined up? i'll salivate all DogPavlov-like.

seriously: a cool photo awaits.
posted by shane 24 October | 09:03
Mmmmm... I can just smell it. Pumpkin cheesecake is the shitz. Dollop of cool-whip, pleeze? : )
posted by Pips 24 October | 10:03
Pumpkin cheesecake is the shitz.

Please never use that phrase when talking about food. Especially yummy, scrumptious pumpkin cheesecake.
posted by me3dia 24 October | 11:04
The best way to smash up biscuits (oh, alright, cookies) for a crumb crust is to put them in a ziplock bag, batter them into pieces with a rolling pin, then, still in the bag, roll them into crumbs. Probably not as much fun as hitting them with a hammer, but much less messy.
posted by essexjan 24 October | 14:29
thanks jan. if only we had a rolling pin... :P
posted by lonefrontranger 24 October | 16:37
iconomy: Shortbread crust sounds amazing. Where did you find this fantabulous recipe, woman?

I did not find it anywhere, my roommate gave it to me.

do we still have a recipe blogsite? if so I'll post the whole thing there.
posted by lonefrontranger 24 October | 16:39
shane: will do. I gotta wait until aaron's back from DC later this week tho cos he bogarted my Stylus for the trip and I don't have a wide enough angle lens for the Nikon to fit it all in from anywhere inside the apt. that kinda glass would cost me roughly a grand.

and I sure as hell am not hauling it all out down three flights of stairs to the tennis court just so I can get enough distance to shoot a pic. I mean I like you and all but... well I'm kinda lazy that way.
posted by lonefrontranger 24 October | 16:46
*hands chewie a piece o' cheesecake*
posted by lonefrontranger 24 October | 16:48
Oh, so THAT's what that great smell emanating from the north was. I thought maybe one of the breweries in town was cooking up some pumpkin ale or something, but this sounds better! Glad it turned out LFR!!!
posted by eekacat 24 October | 19:30
Those of us who have had that stupid Madeline Khan earworm can sleep tonight. || The only thing that sucks about being me is...

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