• Baking,  Running,  Travel

    Too Hot to Run

    I made it 2.35 miles in this afternoon heat and then called it quits during my lunch break run today. Oh well, at least I got out there and ran. It’s something, right? Some days it is just too hot to run… Anyway, Chris loved his birthday cheesecake! We actually didn’t end up eating it until around midnight last night, after we got back to Albany. We went on a road trip to Cortland, NY to see one  of his close friends play a CD release show in the band Honor Bright. Note: there is nothing in Cortland but windy roads,  rolling hills, and farmland. Enough said. But, it was a…

  • Baking,  Food

    Birthday Turtle Cheesecake

    This is just going to be a quick post tonight. Chris turned 27 today and I wanted to wish him happy birthday. 🙂 Last night I made him a surprise Turtle Cheesecake. I googled “turtle cheesecake recipes” to find this one, and I used it because it looked the tastiest and the easiest. Instead of using full fat cream cheese, I substituted with three tubs of lite cream cheese. I also used fat-free sweetened condensed milk rather than the full fat kind. I tasted the batter and I honestly couldn’t taste a difference! Cheesecake still isn’t the healthiest thing, but Chris told me this was is favorite type of cheesecake, so I…