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09/12/2024

09/12/2024

Terrys chocolate orange cheesecake (no bake)

I made this in the uk before we moved back over to turkey and I’m wanting to make it here. Soon as I figure out the substitutes il Turkify the ingredients.

Ingredients
Base
◦ 250g Digestive biscuits
◦ 100g Butter (melted)

Filling
◦ 750g Mascarpone
◦ 300 ml Double cream
◦ 2tsp Orange/vanilla extract
◦ 30g Cocoa powder
◦ 200g Icing sugar
◦ Few segments of Terry's Choc Orange

Decoration
◦ 1 Terry's Chocolate Orange (segments & chopped )

METHOD
First blend the digestives until all the buiscites are crumbs, you can also do this by putting them in a strong food bag and lightly hitting it with a rolling pin.
Add the crushed biscuits to the desired cake tin and add the melted butter and stir thoroughly until all of the mixtures is coated with the butter and pat down hard to create a firm base!

Put the base in the fridge for 30+ minutes to set hard.

Next in a mixing bowl add the cream cheese (mascarpone) , icing sugar, extract, cocoa powder and cream, wiz this up with an electric hand mixer or by hand until nice and thick. I then decided to dice up about 6-8 segments of the choc orange and I added these small pieces of choc to my mixture and folded it in.

Now spread all the mixture over your pre-set base and smooth around so it's nice and neat

Now pop it back on the fridge and leave it for a good 6+ hours or over night if you prefer.
Now for the topping and decor I just used the segments of orange and places them all around the top of the cheesecake and for the middle and edges I crushed up some more Terrie's choc orange segments and sprinkled them all around, covering any uncovered spots.

I didn't use a spring form tin so I had to free them edges by running a sharp knife around the cake becomes pushing up the base of the tin to release my cheesecake. Also I used a small but deep tin so I had a lot of filling. Next time il use a wider tin or il half the filling recipe if there's only a few of us going to eat it. My original recipe is amazing for parties and events though.
WITHOUT A DOUBT THIS IS THE BEST CHEESECAKE I'VE EVER TASTED!
Enjoy and don't forget to let me know how it goes when you try it.
Thanks

09/12/2024

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07/12/2024

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04/12/2024

🤶🏻🎅🏼🌲
😂Just in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day..............! 😂
Here's my top tip
🎄Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!! 🙄We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes...💓
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!👏🏼
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a s**t load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)😜
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking 😉.
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto!
I ( nor any other woman I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to p**s about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 😠😠😠
4. Vegetables...🍆 Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same 😉.
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bu**er them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PI**ED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over 😂
🎄Merry Christmas!🎄

24/11/2024

American Pancakes
(The best recipe ever)

I could never ever make these pancakes properly when I was learning to cook and bake. There was always something wrong with them. Either they weren't sweet enough, too thin a d sloppy or greasy.
Over the years I played and played and played with the ingredients and I eventually found this was the best way to do them.
I have to admit. They are absolutely stunning, light and fluffy!!

Ingredients

°210 grams plain flour
°50 grams granulated sugar
°2 teaspoons baking powder
°55 grams unsalted butter, plus extra for cooking
°2 teaspoon vanilla extract I used 2 pkts vanilla Seker
°2 large eggs
°240 ml milk

Method
In a mixing bowl, sift flour, sugar and baking powder and stir to combine.

In a seperate bowl add the butter microwave for a few second until just melted.
Now add the vanilla, eggs and milk to the butter mixture and stir to combine.

Next Add the wet mixture to the dry whisk. The mixture should be nice and thick.

Heat a large frying pan on med-low heat and spray with oil or use a little butter

At this point I find it easier to pour my batter into a large jug as it's easy to pour the mixture into the frying pan and less messy.

Pour the amount of batter for the size you want your pancakes and let them sit until you see all clear bubbles form on the surface of the pancake. Now you can flip over the pancake and within a minute and or so it I will be golden and cooked. You can rest aside on a plate to cool before eating. Or add a k**b of butter while hot and let them cool mmmm.

Keep up this process and cook all the pancakes using all of the mixture.

You can serve the pancakes immediately with whatever tickles your fancy.
° Butter
° Maple syrup
° Nutella
° Honey
° Freshly chopped fruit
° Whipped cream
° Ice Cream
° Bacon & Eggs
° Sucuk & Eggs
° Golden Syrup

Enjoy every bite.

24/11/2024

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21/11/2024

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18/11/2024

And I'll not be doing the school run! day off kids! 😬
it's pretty and feels magical but the thought of slipping with a knackered knee makes me shudder.

18/11/2024

Its Snowing, here in York 😬😬🌨❄️☃️⛄️

Is it snowing where you are??

15/11/2024

Nohutlu, etli, sebze yemeği
Chickpea, lamb and veg Turkish stew.

My Version

Ingredients
● 2 Pkt 400g Diced Lamb
● 1 Pkt mixed Bell Peppers (red/green/yellow) chopped
● 1 Extra large brown Onion chopped
● 4 Small Aubagines peeled and cubed
● 2 Heaped tsp of crushed Garlic or 1 small bulb, peeled & finely chopped.
● 2 Tsp of Cumin
● 2 Veg Stock cubes
● 1 Pint of water
● 2 Tins of chopped Tomatoes
● 2 Tins of Chickpeas and juice from tin.
● 1 Tsp Oregano
● 2 Tbsp if Salça or half a tube of Tomato puree.
● 2 Tsp of pul biber or 2 Tbsp of sweet paprika.
● a good shake of Salt & Pepper

Method
1. Take out a large pot/Stew pan with lid.
Chop all of the veg and set aside.

2. In a hot pan pour in 1/2 a cup of water and both packets of lamb and brown off until the mest is sealed.

3. Remove the meat from the pan and set aside.

4. With a little oil in the same pan, on a low heat, fry up Pepper and Onions together for around minutes and as they start to soften, now add in the Aubagines and fry until soft and Dark in colour

5. Now add in all the other ingredients apart from the tins a d punt of water. Give it a good stir for a few minutes to combine all the flavours.

6. Now add in the Tins of Tomatoes and Chickpeas and the pint of water. Give it a good stir, bring to the boil then pop the lid in and leave it on the lowest heat for around an 1.5 - 2 hours until the lamb so soft it melts in the mouth. Keep stirring occasionally so it doesnt stick to the bottom of the pan and burn. (Add in more water if it gets too low)

This meal is supposed to be quite soupt like stew, so you can mop it up with some fresh, crusty bread or serve with it Turkish rice.

Let me know how it goes!
Enjoy!

15/11/2024

Absolutely precious ❤️

14/11/2024

I've just read a bloody article saying that the covid Injection is cancelling out Fillers and Botox 😬😬😬😬
great!! Expect to see this next time you see me in the street 🤣🤣