Cheesecake sunday

Today I made cheesecake, and it actually turned out remarkably well, owing principally to the absence of any need to use an oven. This gives me an opportunity to post a gratuitously big picture of a cheesecake! mmmmmm.

I went for the trad. plain one, simply because in adding flavours and fruit, there's far greater room for error. Though I did add dark sugar with molasses instead of the boring normal brown sugar - which turned out suprisingly well! Hurrahhhh

I have a HoA mock exam tomorrow.. I can't decide if I'm worried or overwhelmingly confident, I sort of modulate between the two. I keep trying to use Queen Mary as a mental carrot and Goldsmiths as a mental stick, but let's face it, I'm going to pick cheesecake-making over revision any day. 

I haven't read anything in so long.. I think I'm going to start on Siri Hustvedt's 'The Shaking Woman', as it's a sort of non-fiction feminist autobiography thing. Also, it's got a very nice cover, and considering that I ascribe a great deal of misplaced importance to book covers, that makes it high on my agenda of 'books to read before you see that oxford guy/get called up for university challenge/meet affluent, intellectual but easily impressed strangers with links to the London literary scene/become the Doctor's new assistant'.

A cheesecake I came across and am desperate to emulate:

'Om nom nom nom nom'