I couldn't find the recipe that I worked from last time I made one (probably 2 years ago), so I pretty much just guessed. It is pretty hard to mess up cheesecake.
Last time I made the blue cheese cheesecake, the recipe called for gargonzola dolce which is insanely expensive, so I ended up using cream cheese and roquefort, which was too strong.
This time, I am using cream cheese and Italian Gorgonzola. I'm not sure this is strong enough! But anyway, it's basically a NY cheesecake with maple bacon and the Italian Gorgonzola. It is in the oven. When it is done, I will garnish with the rest of the bacon, and maybe some thyme (although I'll have to go out in the yard in the dark and see if any is active right now - I don't think it is - I could garnish with rosemary, I guess, but thyme would be better.
Tomorrow, I am going to separately caramelize sweet onions and also pears to bring to serve with. I am going to a wine and cheese party for a friend's birthday tomorrow night and we were all supposed to bring fancy cheese (so I'm doing the cheesecake). When I made the previous blue cheese cheesecake, caramelized onions were the perfect topping.
I started this a bit late this evening, but it'll have to go in the fridge overnight, so doing it tomorrow was out.
