The hypocricy of the anti-Israel brigade

Midnight Fuckup won't return to the thread to deal with the responses anyway, so why not?

Exactly.

Remember the old days when we would spam worthless threads with pie recipes?

Also, large smiley spam in rep comments. Those were good times.

Meh, you just want more recipes don't you? Here's a dherry and chocolate baked cheesecake.....



Ingredients

• For the cheesecake
• 150 g unsalted butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
  
  
• 300 g dark chocolate digestives
  
  
• 100 g golden caster sugar
  
  
• 3 tablespoons cornflour
  
  
• 900 g full-fat cream cheese
  
  
• 2 large eggs, preferably free-range or organic
  
  
• 100 ml double cream
  
  
• 1 orange
  
  
• 50 g good-quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), broken into small pieces
  
  
• For the cherries
• 300 g dried sour cherries
  
  
• 3 heaped tablespoons caster sugar
  
  
• 1 orange
  
  
• 1 stick cinnamon
  
  
• 1 vanilla pod, halved lengthways
  
  
• 1 splash rum, brandy or grappa
  
  
• For the chocolate sauce
• 100 g good-quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), broken into pieces
  
  
• 200 ml single cream
  

Method
I've used cherries here because they take two things that are already delicious together – cheesecake and chocolate – to a whole new level. You really can't beat a good cheesecake and this one is mega.

Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4. Grease and line the bottom and sides of a 24cm springform cake tin with butter.

Finely crumble the biscuits into a bowl then mix in the melted butter. When it's well combined, spoon it into the cake tin, spread it evenly so it covers the base, then press it down. Cook in the oven for 10 minutes, then let it cool. Turn the oven up to 200ºC/400ºF/gas 6.

To prepare the cherries, add them to a pan with the sugar, the zest of the orange, the juice of half, and the cinnamon. Scrape the seeds out of the vanilla pod and put them to one side. Add a splash of rum and the vanilla pod to the pan, then put it on a low-to-medium heat and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Take it off the heat and leave to cool.

To make the cheesecake, combine the sugar and cornflour in a bowl, then add the cream cheese and beat well. Add the eggs and beat again until the mixture is smooth and light. Slowly beat in the cream, then add the reserved vanilla seeds and zest of the orange, and beat again.

Using a slotted spoon, take half the cherries out of the pan and gently fold them into the cheesecake mix with the chocolate. Spoon this over the biscuit base, and gently shake the cake tin to level out the surface. Pop a few cherries on top and gently press them in. Scoop the remaining cherries and juices into a small bowl to serve with the cheesecake.

Put the cheesecake in the centre of the oven and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until the top is lightly brown and the edges have set. If it looks like it's browning too much, cover the top with some tin foil for the rest of the cooking time. When the time's up, take the cake out of the oven and either leave it to cool at room temperature, or, if you like your cheesecake really firm, pop it in the fridge until completely chilled.

Just before serving, make the chocolate sauce. Pour the single cream into a small pan and place over a low heat. Cook until it just starts to bubble, then add the chocolate and whisk gently until it has all melted.

Serve your gorgeous cheesecake with the bowl of reserved cherries and a jug of warm chocolate sauce on the side so people can drizzle over as much or as little as they like.

Well, we might have a discussion as to whether or not Israel gets a pass or alternatively is judged by too high a standard. Just a thought.

Or, well, fuck it, who am I kidding? This fucking place!


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Okay, then riddle me this batman - let's say it's only "haf-time" for our Native Americans (whose land we took and herded them into reservations). And now we might take some of their reservation to build a feeway. They've been stockpiling weapons all along and are attacking Elkshit Idaho on a daily basis.
Oh well, "Custer had it coming" I guess. We brought it on ourselves. No sense launching jets from nearby Mountain Home AFB is there?

I wasn't aware Paris Hilton posted here...think she can buy Anc's share of the board?

Why don't you start a thread?

That's Paris Hilton? When did she give up on peroxide? Anyway, I thought this was one of the supposed Aurora pictures, along with various other images of vaguely similar looking but clearly different people.

This is an Ostrich.

Tut tut.

These are not historical wrongs. These are ongoing. If and when Israel stops its land grabbing, then they can assume the moral high ground. Not before.

Dunno if that's actually her...could be her lesser known sister Nicky, whom I'm fairly sure was brunette.

I'd forgotten the mystery behind finding out Cass' s identity, and trinity's too. I heard he/she/it posts here again under a different name.

I think I had lumped Cass and trinity together somehow.

No way in hell someone that cute posts to WF.

If only I had kept the yellow car photos.....

Cast of characters

The death toll escalating sharply now. Hospitals in Gaza struck repeatedly last night. Water and sewage systems targetted.

Israelis watch bombs drop on Gaza from front row seats. Clapping when blasts are heard.



Israel must kill all Palestinian mothers, says Israeli MP.

Barbaric.

Good. Stomp them so hard that they'll shit their pants at the mere thought of launching rockets at Israeli targets. Better yet, finish the job and scour every last one of them from the face of the Earth.

The mainstream media in the US has been removing journalists from the fold who display less than full-throated support for Israels violence.

Ayman Mohyeldin was removed by NBC after he wrote "4 Palestinian kids killed in a single Israeli airstrike. Minutes before they were killed by our hotel, I was kicking a ball with them." and tweeted "The US State Department Spokesperson just said that Hamas is ultimately responsible for Israel shelling and killing 4 boys who were cousins aged 9-11 because Hamas didn’t accept the ceasefire. Discuss among yourselves."

Diana Magnay was removed by CNN after labelling the aforementioned Israelis who were cheering missile strikes from a hill overlooking Gaza as "scum".

I don't agree with the amount of force Israel is using, but Hamas very much started this round.

They keep firing into Israeli civilian areas, and were it not for the US funded Iron Dome, ten times as many would be getting through.

Violence is never going to solve this conflict, but both sides need to be sick of it and Hamas are every bit as guilty as the Israelis are at prolonging this.

"Every bit" is lowballing it when Hamas are the ones who are initiating the violence. They're a toe-headed kid poking at a wasp's nest with a stick. You don't blame the wasps when the kid gets stung.

The current round of rocket fire from Hamas was precipitated by Israeli operations in the West Bank targetting Hamas (killing ten), itself precipitated by the kidnapping of three teenagers (which Israel blamed Hamas for, and which Hamas denies).

You can trace this stuff all the way back. "They started it!" is a fairly meaningless claim.

Yep. And keep in mind, even before whoever fired the first shot lifted a rifle, Israel has systematically been depriving Palestinians of their property. Imagine how people would respond to a settlements policy in our own countries.

The current increase you mean. They've never really stopped. If Hamas stops firing rockets and starts making use of other means then Israel will start to feel international pressure, just as if Israel stopped its stupid expansionist games they'd acquire the moral high ground. Although that may not be a good thing, as it would simply solidify a view the west is anti-Arab in this case, and could possibly make thing worse, which is a depressing thought.

I don't disagree, but I don't see how firing rockets towards a much heavier armed enemy stops them expanding territory. I do see how it leads to you getting flattened and your people killed though.

There are other means. Hamas needs to drop the "Isreal off the map" and "rockets first" mentality, and be smarter to get international support. Of course that may just mean Tehran stop using them as proxies too.

The US has a lot of influence to get Israel to behave, but so long as their enemies riason d'etre is eradicating Israel, they're not going to apply it much.