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B2's party went off without a hitch. There was far more food than was needed, so we have a fridge full of leftovers. (Anyone want to come over for dinner?)
My cheesecake was a hit with the partygoers, but I think I need a proper quiche tin with a loose base so I can make the damn thing then extract it from the pan and present it nicely. Christmas, perhaps.
Oh, and the recipe? Really simple.
port wine cheesecake
1 packet Port Wine Jelly
1 packet Arnott's NICE biscuits
125g butter, melted
2 packets Philadelphia Cream Cheese blocks, softened to room temp (~450g)
2 tsp gelatine
1 carton cream (~250mL)
1/2 cup caster/icing sugar
1. brush the rim and base of a quiche/flan tin with some of the melted butter
2. make up the Jelly, but only add 1/2 the water, let cool
3. mix up gelatine in 4 tsp hot water
4. in a blender crush/blitz the NICE biscuits into crumbs, add melted butter and mix to a sticky crumb
5. press into quiche/flan tin, making a biscuit crust
6. with electric beaters, beat cream and caster sugar until it's thick
7. with electric beaters, beat cream cheese until soft, add cream-sugar mix, 2/3 of port wine jelly, and the gelatine mix
8. pour cream cheese mixture into biscuit crust, and chill for 20 mins
9. pour remainder of port wine jelly over, making a glaze
It takes about an hour from go to whoa, all in all - no baking, just chilling, and if you want to decorate with strawberry halves, you can do that too...
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Finished next chapter of 'To The End of Love'. It may be drivel, but if so, it's now drivel that is out of my head, so there is space for the next thing.
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Still trying to decide if I should go for the full extract of the implant, or just get the surgeon to graft over the implant. The jaw has been aching pretty steadily the last few weeks, and I'm hesitant to add to the pain and aggravation.
There's also the possibility that I'll lose some bone from the extraction: the nature of an extraction is always a little fraught with possibilities, and while I'm pretty healthy (and my last extraction 10 years ago has had the bone fully grow back) I'm still worried.
Plus, it's getting to the point where I think the root canal tooth might have to come out. I'm pretty sure that the irritation is in there since they can't find anything else wrong with it...
Choices, choices. I'm coping with it, but I don't know how that's going to go when I start playing hockey next week (or the week after). Just summer comp, but still...
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One question I have about Trump 'going down'.
Let's assume that the USA actually elects the most qualified candidate for president, as would happen in a sane, reasonable world where people actually want someone qualified to do the job, even if they don't like the candidate in question, and even if they're not happy that the candidate has apparently "gotten away" with things that the country has spent millions of dollars trying to prove and yet hasn't managed to do more than suggest that the candidate's actions may have been "unwise".
In short, let's assume that Clinton wins.
What are y'all gonna do if Drumpf won't concede to Hillary? He's been crowing on about cheating and rigged elections (in much the same way that the Bernie Bros did in the Democratic convention), and now that we're in 2016 and we're allowed to live in our own little bubbles of belief with nothing and nobody to challenge them, do you really think that Drumpf is going to declare himself the loser?
I mean, sure, that's the polite thing to do. But the words 'polite' and 'Donald Trump' are not remotely within lexicon of each other.
What if he doesn't?
My cheesecake was a hit with the partygoers, but I think I need a proper quiche tin with a loose base so I can make the damn thing then extract it from the pan and present it nicely. Christmas, perhaps.
Oh, and the recipe? Really simple.
port wine cheesecake
1 packet Port Wine Jelly
1 packet Arnott's NICE biscuits
125g butter, melted
2 packets Philadelphia Cream Cheese blocks, softened to room temp (~450g)
2 tsp gelatine
1 carton cream (~250mL)
1/2 cup caster/icing sugar
1. brush the rim and base of a quiche/flan tin with some of the melted butter
2. make up the Jelly, but only add 1/2 the water, let cool
3. mix up gelatine in 4 tsp hot water
4. in a blender crush/blitz the NICE biscuits into crumbs, add melted butter and mix to a sticky crumb
5. press into quiche/flan tin, making a biscuit crust
6. with electric beaters, beat cream and caster sugar until it's thick
7. with electric beaters, beat cream cheese until soft, add cream-sugar mix, 2/3 of port wine jelly, and the gelatine mix
8. pour cream cheese mixture into biscuit crust, and chill for 20 mins
9. pour remainder of port wine jelly over, making a glaze
It takes about an hour from go to whoa, all in all - no baking, just chilling, and if you want to decorate with strawberry halves, you can do that too...
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Finished next chapter of 'To The End of Love'. It may be drivel, but if so, it's now drivel that is out of my head, so there is space for the next thing.
--
Still trying to decide if I should go for the full extract of the implant, or just get the surgeon to graft over the implant. The jaw has been aching pretty steadily the last few weeks, and I'm hesitant to add to the pain and aggravation.
There's also the possibility that I'll lose some bone from the extraction: the nature of an extraction is always a little fraught with possibilities, and while I'm pretty healthy (and my last extraction 10 years ago has had the bone fully grow back) I'm still worried.
Plus, it's getting to the point where I think the root canal tooth might have to come out. I'm pretty sure that the irritation is in there since they can't find anything else wrong with it...
Choices, choices. I'm coping with it, but I don't know how that's going to go when I start playing hockey next week (or the week after). Just summer comp, but still...
--
One question I have about Trump 'going down'.
Let's assume that the USA actually elects the most qualified candidate for president, as would happen in a sane, reasonable world where people actually want someone qualified to do the job, even if they don't like the candidate in question, and even if they're not happy that the candidate has apparently "gotten away" with things that the country has spent millions of dollars trying to prove and yet hasn't managed to do more than suggest that the candidate's actions may have been "unwise".
In short, let's assume that Clinton wins.
What are y'all gonna do if Drumpf won't concede to Hillary? He's been crowing on about cheating and rigged elections (in much the same way that the Bernie Bros did in the Democratic convention), and now that we're in 2016 and we're allowed to live in our own little bubbles of belief with nothing and nobody to challenge them, do you really think that Drumpf is going to declare himself the loser?
I mean, sure, that's the polite thing to do. But the words 'polite' and 'Donald Trump' are not remotely within lexicon of each other.
What if he doesn't?
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