What happens when a Canadian and a Mexican make something American?

Today I was up at the crack of dawn, well ok, 10:30am. ;) But come on... that is pretty early for me lately considering. So anyway, I up was up early today because Ivonne and I were going to make a cheesecake. Mmmm We have been talking about making a New York cheesecake for over a month now and today was the day. We went to the store and picked up the groceries and then headed back to the apartment.

Ivonne set to work crushing the cookies that we picked out for the crust (they don't have graham crackers here), and I started making the filling. I mixed the first two ingredients together and then needed to mix them with an electric mixer. Well we did have one, but it was one of those kinds that is hand held and only has one mixer on it. So I put it in the cream cheese/sugar mixture and turned it on. Cream cheese flew EVERYWHERE! lol It was so funny. We both stopped doing what we were doing and between the laughing started eating, I mean cleaning, up our mess. It was in our hair,on our clothes, on my computer screen (ya I know, I know) but on a happy note, tasted really yummy. :)

After we cleaned up the mess we decided to put the mixer aside and just do it the old fashioned way. We also didn't have a measuring cup so I improvised a bit by using one of the cream cheese containers. After it was all mixed together though we were pretty proud of ourselves. We poured it into the pan (not realizing that it was smaller than mine it back home) and the filling went to about 1cm below the surface of the pan. It all worked out the in the end though and after figuring out baking times in the gas oven and letting it cool for hours, we think we did ok. Our Cheesecake looks a little brown on the top but wow, was it yummy!

Mario made us supper tonight which was soooo yummy. It was a linguine with a shrimp sauce. OMG it was soooo good. Ivonne and I beheaded and peeled the shrimp which was kinda gross but good to learn how. After beheading the shrimp though, we just sat back, drank lots of wine and had a really good meal.

Between yesterday and today, the 3 of us polished off 3 bottles of wine. ;-} They have this wine out in stores for only one week every year. It is a special wine and is extremely yummy and really cheap so you can't go wrong. I have only 2 left though, so I think on Monday I should go back to the store and hope they still have some left. :)