Friday, August 26, 2011

dad's deals

my dad loves a bargain. when i was younger he would buy 20 pounds of butter or 2 dozen loaves of bread at a time, just because they were on sale. we had this huge chest freezer out in the storeroom and it was always filled with his "deals."

one time he bought little cheesecakes. they were small and came in a little tin with a clear plastic lid. and they were frozen. and he bought a lot. i think some of them had cherry topping.

i still think about those cheesecakes.

it doesn't seem like anything i get at a restaurant tastes quite as dense or creamy. i'm sure they were just sara lee or something awful, but in my mind nothing - no matter how gourmet or costly - is quite as good.

last night - due to the moon or the gravitational pull or the tide or female hormones or hey, maybe it was hurricane irene - i suddenly had to have cheesecake at 9:40 at night. (no i am definitely not pregnant) now i literally NEVER do this, because in general i hate to leave the house, but i hopped in my mini and ran to the store (which closed at 10). with 6 minutes to spare, i bought a little 6in round "new york style cheesecake" from the deli. i got home and todd and olivia and i all devoured a piece. i promise you it was one of the the most satisfying things ever. reminded me of my dad's little cheesecakes from the storeroom freezer.

in fact, this one was still a little frozen in the center.


1 comments:

Shawn Smucker said...

I love those little things that make time seem like one great big circle. Someday, when your daughter is your age, she will run to a grocery store just before it closes, hunting down a cheesecake.