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Recipe Blogging

Marcus Wareing's Turkish Delight Cheesecake



Hands-on time 30min, plus 2hr chilling.
Serves 10

80g (3oz) unsalted butter, melted
2tbsp honey
200g (7oz) rich tea or other plain biscuit, crushed
3tbsp cocoa powder
4 gelatine leaves
250g (9oz) cream cheese
25g (1oz) caster sugar
250g (9oz) sour cream
2tbsp semi-skimmed or whole milk
3 x 50g bars chocolate covered Turkish delight, chopped
Rosewater to taste

1. Mix the melted butter and honey together, then add to the crushed biscuits and coca powder. Mix well, then press into a greased 20cm (8in) springform cake tin and refrigerate

2. Bloom the gelatine leaves in a little cold water and leave in the fridge. Beat the cream cheese until soft, then add the sugar and sour cream and mix well.

3. Heat the milk, then add the strained gelatine, stirring well. Add four spoonfuls, of the cream cheese mix to the milk. Stir well, then fold in the Turkish delight and rosewater to taste. Blend lightly with a stick blender or pulse in a blender.

4. Pour the mixture on the base. Chill in the fridge for couple of hours until firm

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Heidi all cosy on the zebra bed

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Heidi and George making the most of the October sunshine

40th Anniversary of Monty Python

Even though I wasn't even born when Monty Python first aired, I think it transcends generations, the celebration of the absurd. Simply wonderful.

In praise of… Monty Python's Flying Circus

"I'll give you 13 shows, but that's all," said the BBC's head of light entertainment in 1969, and Monty Python's Flying Circus aired to a perplexed, but eventually grateful, British audience on Monday 5 October that same year. Over the subsequent 45 shows, the rules of television comedy were rewritten as John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam created lunatic characters and sketches, as funny today as they were 40 years ago. A new generation now memorises the Lumberjack Song, the Spanish Inquisition and the Dead Parrot sketch (famously employed by Margaret Thatcher shortly before she politically "ceased to be") – although the Fish Slapping Dance is harder to pull off, culminating as it does in a 3m plunge into Teddington Lock.

Sunday Egypt Blogging



I can attest that crossing the streets in Cairo requires nerves of steel, but a useful lesson to learn.

Friday Music Blogging - Egypt Theme Edition

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Heidi and George hanging out in the kitchen