Cheesecake has Halloween spirit

Cheesecake has Halloween spirit
By Steve Petusevsky South Florida Sun-Sentinel
October 21, 2004
This time of year I think of how my kids have grown up and how much I used to enjoy walking through my neighborhood to gather Halloween candy with them. But the allure of free candy has waned.

My daughter Sabrina, 19, is in college; Jared, 16, is almost out of high school.

The candy collection may be gone, but the spirit of Halloween lives on in my house. The past few years my daughter has come home from school around the beginning of November. She insists on making pumpkin cheesecake. I don't know where this tradition started. But I find it both a blessing and a curse.

Sabrina makes a huge cheesecake and tells me that she is on a diet. I, hating to waste a perfectly good cheesecake ... Well, you can guess the rest. Too bad she isn't as crazy about poached pears.

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Mark Harvey