Venti's birthday and my grocery porn

Today is Venti's 16th birthday. Venti does not have to eat GFCF but he has been a good sport around the house because he understands why his siblings do need this plan. He didn't want his birthday meal to be GFCF though. He wanted pizza and the 10 lb cheesecake with cherries on top.

Gluten and casein free...no. Delicious...yes. And making this for him is the least I can do for this great kid whose 16th year of life we are celebrating.

I had rid our home of all things wheat and dairy, so while the kids were in school I went to the grocery store to get the ingredients for the cheesecake. I covered the cream cheese, butter, graham crackers, whipped cream and sweetened condensed milk.... grocery porn to me now...in my cart with the GFCF items I needed to restock at home. I felt so naughty.

I made the 10 lb cheesecake and hid it in a brown paper bag in the basement refrigerator. Then I went upstairs and, making sure that nobody was around to see me, I licked the spatula. Oh yes, I did.

"Dairy, sweet dairy" I moaned.

I was tempted to go downstairs and rip open the brown paper bag for more of this incredible guilty pleasure but I washed my hands (the kitchen equivalent of a cold shower) and drove to the pizza delivery place where I bought a $30 gift card.

Venti spent the night at Latte and Mocha's house where they all stuffed their faces with pizza and cheesecake. StarBUCK, Java, Bean and I ate GFCF leftovers at home. We had our own special treat though. I'll write about it soon.