Pi and junk

It's Pi day and I made this pie for me and my roommate because 1) I don't have a lot of time lately (as evidenced by my lack of posting) and B) I *heart* this pie.

It went over well.

Speaking of roommates, I bought a house in the last two months and have been working on fixing it up (slowly, I've only done the upstairs so far, excluding the bathrooms). This means I have a new kitchen to work in that is in desperate need to fixing up. I'll start posting pictures of what I've started with and what I've done so far. Maybe you all will be able to make suggestions.

If you're on Pinterest, let me know!

Also, I don't think I've mentioned this, but I have an Etsy store, Dreams of Annika if anyone's interested in some of the other things I like to do.

Cheesecakes

So my newest sister-in-law makes TOTALLY AWESOME cheesecake. We were all sitting around today discussing our Mother's Day plans and the question came up on whether or not Tricia would be making the TOTALLY AWESOME cheesecake.

The answer was no.

Heartbroken as I was, I just came across this post for a single serving of a no-bake cheesecake that takes a few hours to set up rather than overnight or an entire day. Try it out, and let me know what you think!

Here's a deal!

I frequently bring in cakes and such to work. (Never mind why.) So it's well known that I like to bake. My boss likes to make crazy plans for us to open a little cafe or bakery or a lunch cart: she'll make delicious side dishes, the head estimator will barbeque, and I'll make dessert.

Recently, she ordered two cookbooks for me from Taste of Home. At the end of each year, the recipes published in this monthly magazine are combined by topic into hard back books and sold for $35. If you wait long enough (like a year), the wherehouse gets cleaned out and the books are sold for $5 - total bargain! I received the cupcake book and the dessert book from 2008 which are in perfect condition and have already come in handy.