Chocolate Cheesecake

I have taken up baking for other people now that I am back to healthy eating. So I've been making cakes and cheesecakes for friends and family. My most recent being this chocolate cheesecake with crushed up maltesers.

I'm so bad at following recipes so I just make up I crushed up digestives and placed at bottom of dish covered it with melted butter and squashed down to make a flat base. I put this in the fridge to set and started on the topping. I took a tub of soft cheese about 300g, half a tub of mascarpone maybe 150g and a pot of double cream and whisked together. Add to this 2 bars of melted milk chocolate and a packet of crushed maltesers. Whip it together then add one bar of melted dark chocolate. Spread on base and leave to set in the fridge.

Scotch Broth

I love home made hearty soups and used to love my nan's version of scotch broth. My nan passed away many years ago so I only had my memories to make the soup on.

I used my left over Sunday roast  leg of lamb. I put the lamb bone in a large soup pan with some water, soup mix (pearl barley, lentils etc) and a lamb stock cube. I brought it to the boil and then added; carrot, turnip, celery, courgette, onion, rosemary and lots of salt and pepper. 

I let all the vegetables cook and then took out the bone and stripped it of meat. 

It was similar to my nan's and just as tasty. Even my 11 year old asked for more.