Today I’m presenting a new version of my cream and kefir cheesecake. It’s the top recipe at my house these days, a dessert that’s becoming very popular and that’s why I chose it to celebrate the blog’s two-year anniversary. 🙂

Yes indeed, today marks the second anniversary of the blog, two years since the publication of the very first recipe!

Wow, how time flies! I couldn’t miss making this cliché joke 🙂 but seriously, it’s the truth! Two years of recipes, articles, advice without salt, words (a lot of them, yes, sometimes).
So many words… really that many? Maybe a food blog should consist of just recipes, without so much chatter or storytelling, perhaps. And I assure you I sometimes try to write less, but I don’t always succeed! In fact, as time goes by, I tend to… tend to…
I looked at some recipes from the early months of the blog and they were all a bit more concise, a bit less ‘narrated’… I can’t say what more or less, what I know is that I enjoy writing more now, reading, re-reading, correcting, re-writing… And I still enjoy blogs with lots to read, I always have, I used to frequent several before starting my own, and I still do.
In short, that’s how it is, reading is something I like, and writing too. I enjoy writing just as much as I enjoy cooking.
It’s true. I’ve realized over time that I write and cook in exactly the same way: I sit here at the computer telling myself ‘today I want to write a short recipe’, but then after the first introductory lines, a whole storyline unfolds in front of me, that I have to tell. Why shouldn’t I say them? 🙂
The same thing happens when I start cooking. Sometimes I set the water for pasta thinking ‘today I’ll prepare quickly’, I call everyone saying ‘it’ll be ready in ten minutes’, but then I make them wait two hours because along the way I’ve decided to prepare this and that and the other. Sometimes I even overcook the pasta (oops, it happens!) because I realize, for example, that I don’t have bread, so I start making some breadsticks on the fly, forgetting about the pasta! 🤭

Anyway, let’s move on from the flaws! Let’s talk about what I do well! And so, let’s talk about my cream and kefir cheesecake! 🤩

I had made it, or rather re-made it, for my birthday. And there my father, in front of his second slice, says this wonderful thing: ‘it’s the best dessert I’ve ever eaten’. Wow! After a compliment like that… a recipe must be kept right in the family recipe drawer! Those recipes that should never be forgotten and should be brought out at every birthday, every anniversary, every occasion, every ‘mom, when will you make it again?’.

It was at that moment that the cream and kefir cheesecake earned the place of honor as the recipe to celebrate the blog’s two-year anniversary. Last year, on the occasion of the blog’s first year, I shared with you in the milk bun recipe all the backstory, all the reasons that led me to start the blog and the circumstances in which it all happened.

This year I want to keep it short (haha! See? I’m trying to write less!!).

This year, I want to say just one important thing: Thank you! To those who follow me, to those who have written beautiful comments, to those who join the chats on the FB page, to those who have tried my recipes and sent me photos (your photos are all here!).
To my spouse, who certain evenings thinks I’ve disappeared somewhere, while I’m simply here at the computer, writing, correcting, choosing photos, researching, responding to comments. I also chat a bit with blogger friends, I must say. 😃
To my daughter, who is a treasure because sometimes she helps me with the blog (for example, with the heart-shaped cookie photos and for this Christmas craft where she even volunteered to photograph the step-by-step 💛), sometimes she cooks (here her recipes as a little beginner but with great potential!), and sometimes she would like to cook more, but can’t (my fault, I confess with guilt, because I often monopolize the space and kick everyone out of the kitchen!).
And, as they say, last but not least, thanks to my son, who… makes sure not to help me in the kitchen! 😁

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