Saturday Beefcake

Running around the internet to steal images for our Saturday feature can be very time consuming. There is a lot of available male pulchritude, i.e. in photographs and making a decision just to pick one is very difficult not to mention our committee meetings are pure mayhem with Pookie and Nurse Betty usually uniting on one opinion and, of course, Bernice coming up with cheesecake recipes right and left. Well, she may have a point -- many of the shots are rather cheesey. She still doesn't understand.

The older term is cheesecake, perhaps, referring to pictures to get lonely heterosexual men through whatever it is that lonely heterosexual need to get through, usually a war or two. If they were homosexual, they'd be wrestling. Oh, that was yesterday's post. The term beefcake has been attributed to a hollywood journalist's term for pictures of Guy Madison and his bare chest, a treasure to be sure. Anyway that's a post for another day.

Well, one discovery we made is that our European friends love to photograph rugby star Frederic Michalak and who can blame them? There is a plethora of his images and when there are that many a bit of cheese is bound to occur. We picked two without any cheese, one especially to show off his tattoo and we put all the cheese in one of Bernice's favourite cheesecake recipes below. These clips may be from Dieux du Stade which are highly recommended showcases for beefy male pulchritude.

Cheesecake Pie

For the crust:

10" pie pan

2 cups vanilla wafers or graham cracker crumbs (very fine)

6 tablespoons melted sweet butter

1/4 cup sugar

Filling:

12 oz mascarpone cheese

2/3 cup sugar

10 ounces of condensed cheddar cheese soup (1 can)

2 tbs lemon juice

1 tsp grated lemon rind

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp almond extract

Topping:

1 cup sour cream

1 tsp grated lemon rind

1 tsp vanilla extract

1. combine crumbs, butter & sugar, press into pie plate

2. beat mascarpone until smooth and add eggs and sugar alternately (3 times) and beating each time

3. blend in just one cup of the soup, lemon juice, rind & flavours

4. pour into crust and bake for 50 minutes in a 350F oven

5. in the meantime, fantasize about going to Europe to hook up with Frederic Michalak, and blend the sour cream, remaining soup, flavour and lemon rind. Spread on top (no, not Frederic) of the baking pie and then bake for five minutes more.