Planning my day

Easter is a religious holiday that has morphed from a solemn set of ritualistic remembrances into a  much more casual type of thing.

My In Law Family still has an Easter Celebretory Dinner, which I could pass entirely.  And being that I am the only one in that grouping  who attaches any form of religious signifcance to anything , I think I should be able to decide how to spend my day. To tell how far we have come, I might say something in November about it being Sunday and no one will mention Church , but everyone will mention what football game they will watch.

  But no, I will be dragged off for ham and kielbaska and hard boiled eggs, horse radish soup to be followed hours later with acute gastritis.

But factored in the mix was the word from the wife, daughter is coming home, so tomorrow early we need to cleant the house.  Oh, so it will be like every Satruday morning for the last 32 years. Get up early and clean the house. Yup, we clean house every Satruday morning and have done so forever.  This is even with the dailly , yup dailly vacuuming.  You have a Border Collie you vacuum , everyday, just like you did for 28 years before you got the Border Collie.

And then my wife added, Oh yeah we have to make the Cheesecake. Yup the Cheesecake from the secret recipe to go with the ham, kielbasy, hardboiled eggs, horse raddish soup and acute gastritis.
The ingedients for this Cheesecake cost about a gazzilion dollars, so we would be far better off if we just stopped at the bakery, but it would not be Easter , now would it , without the secret recipe cheesecake.

It will take hours to assemble the ingredients and mix them in proper proportion.  Bake and tiptoe about the house, lest any thump, bump or jump cause the cake to drop. One year someone bumped, jumped  or thumped and the cake dropped  going from a light and airy delicacy to brick like consistency in an instant.  Requiring a do over, with all potential offensive bumpers, thumpers and jumpers being sequestered elsewhere. 

But this year those very expensive ingredients will be baked in a brandy new Pampered Chef spring pan, purchased just weeks ago for this very occassion at a cost of about $40 dollars.  Yep , $40 bucks, but I am assured that it won't leak .

This cake had better be good.  Happy Easter