Meanwhile police have closed off an area following a to be called Crash at a roundabout at Fort can aired in the southeast of Edinburgh that happened near McDonald's restaurant at 830 firefighters have been using cutting equipment at the scene to release motorists from their vehicle Germany has described Russia's decision to expel 2 of its diplomats from Moscow as unjustified The action was in retaliation for a similar move by Barry Lynn last week the German government ordered 2 Russian officials out of the country saying more school wasn't cooperating in the investigation into the murder of a form of Chechen commander in Berlin. So Paul McCartney has revealed he secretly recorded his own version of traditional Christmas music years ago that snow played every year and his household over the festive period the former Beatle says the instrumental pieces are just for his family and won't be released so he's been reluctant as to whether he should talk about them he told the b.b.c. It came about because he didn't think there were many good Christmas records around like words like do something kind of traditional and simple and easy with all the All Good King Wenceslas all over so I actually went into my studio over a couple of years and I made what the kids like. It's gonna traditional So it's something they've heard through the years you know and now it's the grandkids doctrinally to it with my Cowles record and in the city a short time ago the Fitzy 100 index was up 38 points at 7255 is what my dad would have called a good jumper fern cue John the former Rangers defender Morris Ross is predicting a brick say the well handle the pressure tonight when they face the Swiss say the young boys Rangers need to avoid defeat to seal their place in their own to 32 and guarantee European football after Christmas sale to Karen Romania to take on clues having already booked their place in the next round and British heavyweight boxer Deleon White has been formally reinstated as the mandatory challenger for Deonte Wilder's w.b.c. What I would say to all that comes after adopting violation charge against him was dropped. 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Story and it is extraordinary this 4 year ban from all major sporting events and this I guess we all unite grew up with understanding and we all grew up understanding that you know we thought the East Germans were on drugs and we knew that some top g.b. Athletes were on drugs and here this seems to be state sponsored stuff and it's not just a back page story you know I I do even go back just to the kind of l.e.d.s. Of that memory join because I was actually thinking exactly that just before we came on on e r I think that the people taking are probably thinking here about the early to mid sixty's you became aware of that behind what was then called the Iron Curtain that the the Soviet countries obviously the u.s.s.r. You know even the Czech Republic Czechs of archaea and East Germany in particular you knew that they had good each sporting heritage and one of the things that actually are I really admired was that if you take for the moment the debate about drugs being legal illegal watched. One of the things I think was fascinating about that period is it was the evolution of sports science that was the idea of all these kind of treaty scientists trying to make sporting peoples and Davis bets are better Norn more intellectualized a great understanding of physiology and one story that really intrigued me because it was actually one on one telly quite recently was the story of Elena Baltacha the tennis player whose father Sergei his mother had been part of that training culture of an academy and they had been selected I think 9 year old they met in a leather Mary is giving us a. Red Army cane of recruitment training camp one is a tough week the other is a soccer player but one of the reasons that they'd been identified was the predisposition position of Saturday's family to produce good sporting people so that to the Beattie family your family has exactly that join you know and I think there's a lot to be a lair from not why is south in families produce strong athletic and sporting traditions Why is that in sports seem to replicate a particular type of body and a type of energy so there's much that we know nor much more now that we know about sport and Sport Science and the physiology of all than we ever knew before and I think we have to be if we're honest with to go back to that period behind the Iron Curtain and see much great pioneering was done there but something went terribly wrong wrong now whether what went terribly wrong was the prescription of very obscure areas of performance enhancing drugs which the Soviet Union or lots of early Russia simply ignored it and then thought well we'll get our way around this because we'll plan a rewrite and that's where the mistake was made the mistake was not about getting Greece on knowledge or great a straight sport science but actually abusing the systems. Been put in place to try and bring or make feet on this part of the equation as well you know I plan on growing up in the seventy's and watching athletics drugs but I was only young didn't think about drugs likes to be thinkin it's behind on cotton it's gelatin to them the discipline and I kind of thought there's a lack of freedom so they're made to train like all the time that's what I was sort of thinking that's why they were so dominant because it was the research and it was the science and it was the train every day and I think that was that was part of it I remember my parents making terribly put would now be considered politically correct comments about the lady shot putters Yeah yeah the drug regimen that created their progress and physique. Obviously you know not something that one would say in any company never mind polite company these days or speculate about yet it is fascinating and it's fascinating as well to to consider why these countries thought it was so important not the real crunch the question may have been a question you know why would you do such things why would you take a kind of a noble and Juno wholesome field of study sports medicine into wholesome and you know. Healthy pursuits why why would you take that to such an extreme Why would you twist it and and why why would you want to win at all costs and that then brings you to. The reason why this ban will be so painful isn't it and why it's such a huge punishment and it's because these things are so important you know that this was all done to to further the greatness of the the revolution and the Fatherland and to to show the. Success and the supremacy in every way of the people from the Eastern Bloc and the Eastern Bloc no longer exists this idea of sport as a huge hue. Huge player in soft diplomacy as a marker of your international status as just such an important thing for your national pride that completely exists which is why you know saying you can't compete in all these events you can't have your flag you can't of your tracksuits you can't host these events that is why it's such an enormous issue and why it's such a big story and why there's so much at stake you know and one of the things I was looking at this through our pay him an archive interview with the whistleblower who really blew the top pole of this and it was her Rangers or if anyone else it was her and just the guys wearing this the guy has had to change his name is like an f.b.i. Informant he's now living in the the u.s. He's had to change his name he's had to leave his family behind in Russia he's interviewed wearing basically a ski mask it don't see his eyes and he was wearing glasses you know he says he is absolutely convinced he is a huge personal risk for having exposed what went on at the highest level within the Russian Sports Management our world if I just pick up there on one of on as little phrases there he's now in the u.s. And I'd quite like to follow the law as as a thought because I think the clear beneficiaries of this will be the American highly competitive American collegiate sports system that you know most of these Russian athletes know unable for the next 4 years and 4 years as a as you know a long time at the height of your sport on the ball therefore to compete under the nation's flag unable to stand on the podium hearing their own national anthem looking maybe to kind of maximize opportunity is within their career the vast majority of them probably 90 percent of them will go to the American collegiate system where they'll be on very strong and decent scholarships and will of the the again become come under a regime which is highly competitive. We've not always as clean as we would like to make it but also a collegiate system where the idea of you you know the status that you can have within your own college and build up your peril achievements are huge so I think in lots of ways that's the the next part of that story because that system has also been exposed not always to do with drug taking but actually to do with the way in which money is used there's been an awful lot of attacks in the basketball profiles within the collegiate system they are usually involving Nike and Adidas and the big Morris we are companies cultivating kids from the genuine even in the recent scandal of celebrities and high fliers and so on paying you know big backhanders to get some of them are some sort of Ivy League yeah there were 3 or scholarships there and they go it's going to really a system that has some a regular room for various things of a nature says no legal stuff feel good lad I think a Monday was almost destroyed because there's no stuff cable so I don't I'm an excellent pick out that you know but when I watch these major sporting events I don't believe it anymore yet you still believe it. A little bit it does cut it does color your view of it and you have to be I mean all the people whose whose medal you know who are in a different place or who didn't understand the variables that you use you know whose whose whole c.v. Was was changed by these things the opportunities they didn't get you know because I know it's a kind of a One thing leads to another doesn't it's a. Cause and effect thing and you know the the the the ripples of this are enormous all all the people effects done to people just yet like I suppose like us just watching on television thank you really really is this really what I'm watching here I I I'm not sure I always believe it at the very very high end but when you felt of Diane and he is a sport I don't know I mean Susan maybe has much glee and in-depth knowledge of badminton but I don't. Very much if that is the thing that differentiates the winner from the person that comes thought you know I may be wrong but I suspect that technique and quality and speed and energy and train l a t and training all of these things are detail minutes as well and therefore you know you can end up Kane of over stressing this issue and remember you know as in the case that we're all patriots are hot and you know what seafood is less because that was right in the gold medal I believe you know so there's a we are that and you have to kind of return back to that through through through the eyes of whom is this the global scandal and it's a global scandal because we've actually gone through a period where science and pharmaceutical science is beginning to kind of shape the body and you know some of the drugs are a cunt Lee a cunt Lee demonizing Russia no will become legal you know and that's the other case the whole thing about that we have to stop the car sale at what point you know Ok instinct Thank you well you know I'm not lead an opinion but I look old oh I can more about 100 on you know look at old records yeah and I know there were dodgy Yeah and the British Yeah. I agree with that and we can't really touched on it before there are records from the seventy's and eighty's that were ours Yeah and we've got to tell them you are going to turn a blind eye they're still there no one's been there in 40 years you know right why Yeah we know what let's move on Nobel Peace Prize winner and switchy used to be seen as a symbol of human rights spent years on the his arrest for promoting democracy. And of these pictures he's no me I'm a civilian leaders She's at the International Court of Justice to defend our country against charges of genocide. I mean this is extraordinary this is extraordinary it is and you know what i Reports come across to me reading and listening to recover it if this is the. Maybe I'm reading too much into this you think but I can almost feel the pain of the people writing in saying these things because she was such a huge untiring figure you know a Nobel winner seen as such a powerful symbol of peaceful protests so dignified all the things she went through and then journalists who went through a huge amount of jump through a huge amount of hoops went to extreme lengths to ensure view her to tell her story or no having to tell the story of her standing up and. You know talking don't genocide it was I really I really know it's still in the speech to be fair she says didn't exist she says it doesn't identities got a very structured argument about it but. You know we also we all watched the coverage of what happened to the rectangle you know with with horror and obviously we can all make up our own minds that I really noticed this when on the Today programme when Michelle Hussein who is a moose from who had interviewed on throwing Suchi in 2016 and it had been explained this 1st started to to. When this adult 1st kicked off and it was an extremely touchy and difficult and unpleasant interview and I'm sure it was extremely hard and. A big deal for the Today programme to prove us all together and just when Michelle Hussein was introducing this you know I could I could feel almost disappointment is not too strong a word for it. But I think a lot of people that's a lot of people's reaction to to the story is disappointment and finding it very very hard to watch. I think this is the disappointment that somebody who you in much of the world's view was almost saintly she was and then they have been accused of being party to trying to kill off a certain race it is what is that I really think it is and that she. Yes she had such stature and then to you know and then you read you dive into the coverage more deeply and people are debating why is she doing this you know she playing to a home audience is this a very pragmatic move on her part she playing a long game you know she's trying to she has got this very uneasy alliance with the military rulers of Burma she has this weird status where she's had to be given a special title and you know her situation although she has verified it supporters her situation is not clear cut and it's no way guaranteed so it's. Playing a long game here and you can read into all these things and I've read some really great analysis really clear good analysis over and you read and make a lot makes a lot of sense but your visceral feeling when you see her standing up there is as I think it's disappointment it's really really she's doing that and I that sleeth that and you know I want to believe that she's being manipulated perhaps because there's so many people had invested in there and you see him standing up then you're wondering we don't really know what's going on in the country with the advisers around awhile is going on and it makes you think really can we invest in anyone you know if you can't if you can't invest in her you know it really makes you think really who can I invest and go into your other she's lying or the interest of course that are wrong well you know what there's and there's probably a few in between Israel John Boehner I'm very struck by just one location a detour and sent to feet of history I'll bore you with us all to 2 seconds there's a wonderful play by back to back to back Galileo and it's at the point where Galileo needs the permission of the Catholic Church to publish his final findings on astronomy and he has he's befriended a very very liberal you know who supports him and the point of which has. To be published the cardinal becomes the pope now the scene involves Galileo standing speaking to him about his findings. All these courtiers come in and of a statement on the pope and another one and another one and eventually the mikes are and gradually throughout the scene you see the pope taking on all the bar all the all the wheat and all the institutional requirements of the papacy nothing to do with him as an individual but to do with the position he occupies now here's a woman I mean are I like Qana fell in love with our Dimmu our story kind of and the age that wonderful Cain. You know race against that she had and it was really. Compelling but maybe her passion the story is over detail meaning an overwhelming what's really going on here because here is a woman that's taken on a very different role and it's the role as a leader who or she has to her she required almost by expectation and by harder and by her seniority to defend her own military now not so often at the heart of a quite a lot of genocidal. Court cases and it was certainly the that the case you know when you do things like. The killings in Sierra beyond and Bosnia we've seen even my bloody Sunday in the trials there as well where there's expectations that the that the elected officers of state will defend the military come hell or high water and often the things that they do exactly what she's doing they say well there might have been one or 2 incidents they imply that the might of been a bottle in the bottle but this is not in any way systematic or systemic of of the man of modern. Army or of the military she also goes on she comes very very very dangerously close to saying something that I always check myself about when it comes to Scotland which is right or wrong my country you know there's a whole kind of thing which is that the root of kind of blood and soil nationalism where you defend the indefensible and I think that she's perilously close to being put in a position where she is defending the indefensible I don't think that this story as it's been written about here in Britain because we're compelled by this wonderful woman and a history on a Nobel Peace Prize we don't know enough about the Buddhist Muslim say. The kind of root of this we don't have a real deep understanding of it nor do we have a real great understanding of the Rangar people in our history and so to some extent we're looking in a window saying she used to be beautiful didn't she and. Still going to but. Yeah it's very hard to cover and you can see you can see that as well especially given that there's been a lot of other news happening as a lot of people haven't really massively and engaged with the story so I did a quick check on the quick share service and the Sun The Sun story was 112 words the deal America managed 37 metric a man with 236 and then compare that the broadsheets had great big heavy the times that probably had the biggest one can ask a strange question and you just pick up on the word beauty and think she's been covered a different way because you can describe this woman as a beautiful woman. I'm not sure about that I mean I think part of her historic or an appeal was this beautiful and not just that she was beautiful she was so brave and calm and the flowers in her hair you know she was the whole package. I think I don't know about is I think very hard question to answer I'm not sure you know I actually think yes it does it is part of it I mean I think there are demeanor Nesat of arcane of Luke our story ness kind of played to waste on my ideas of the station beauty you know there was some sounds obvious a little clearer by that and I actually as she stands trial no there's no question that she's older self evidently and Tara here scurrying slightly and our faces may be more lined and therefore you could play out you could actually do one of these old Kane or troll t.v. Documentaries about the changing face of Einstein's to use don't you know if he still emotionless or not no I'm not game for now but you certainly could and her face has changed but I wonder also within the changed face but there's also the bar didn't really of responsibility because she went through a very different Barden when she was you know an imprisoned and storing kind of hero it was actually fighting the system she now is the system and age 73 I mean it's like you know we are we are asking a lot of our you know absolutely. And and I you know my put my hand up to that so it's been fascinating I mean it's been fascinating to observe how do we how do we deal with that how do we turn around how we feel about turn to make sure that it's then properly covered in reflected and what we do is a very difficult one the instinct like the last topic and this is having a boxing and it's a but it's not really a book 6 percent of a just I think you may think you made 66000000 quid. Is once again the heavyweight champ in the world he won this rematch he has and he really junior but all of the build up to the fight was focused on whether Saudi Arabia was the right country to be hosting international sport that will go what will go with you out of that you know the political element to a boxing match where you go it's a place that has the money you don't like the regime. So what. That it's the nature of boxing isn't it always. Point your favorite fish series I've been is that not just you know narrative his favorite was not. Is that I mean that seems to me as. As the norm boxing a very very distance observer it seems to me. It's a pantomime it's a huge circus that rules into tones of varying natures. And set up the circus says up to 10 and then we'll rule out again and it doesn't seem to doesn't seem to impinge on him boxing because it's not like to Reno were to quote We were talking about earlier it's not a national sport there's nothing there's no podiums in tracksuits and national anthems and boxing it's all about money so that's what determines that that's sort of generally because I mean you've got felt a lump except China for example if it over a cup in Russia and cats are is there anywhere that sport wouldn't go for the money not just boxing because of the Formula One you've got all these sports yeah I mean I think that when you've got a sport which is go global appeal and then there is always going to be that cane of economic determinant where people will see the opportunities in the big opportunity here really is that you know a conflict to them deeply damaged state will pay huge sums of money for the live event you know you don't have to go back to far in the great history of boxing when boxing was going to. There are a jumble just going to his nerves really well and yeah well I know the middle of one of the probably the best example because you know was the weather his politics and government wanted attention for themselves so these things have always existed but the other thing importantly about it as a lot of the money is not the live event it's the global television rights to the event briefly and if I'm allowed another tiny little not to join so I remember being a student and Washington d.c. And I was walking home one night and I saw this group a young African-American teenagers with trays a drink on their head like cans of beer it felt very much like Scotland were playing some very little of what going to these trees of beer and that I had and they were cued up to say this a tale I was utterly baffled why were these groups of kids going into detail and I saw this sign for and say the whole box office cable vailable. Young $9091009.00 of whatever it was $999.00 and what they've done is the chipped in a gallon to get $100.00 to go into a room where it should be your Home Box Office was showing the sugar relay not fun I want to watch Michael Holmes Yeah so they were in Glasgow yeah exactly the selling box to that sort of us not where the real money was and the actual live event sometimes actually feel. Recent profit so they're going to show Uribe up because they can guarantee a life profit but the real boxer in being back showed the world you know but as you say I mean you go where the money is this is and it's also like we were talking about earlier itself diplomacy you know that's so do you know it legitimizes so dear Abe It becomes an Ok place to you know they can attract these huge events you know it looks good for them you can't escape that but that's the that's the nature of boxing I mean it's it's a it's it's political in a in a very different way isn't it you know it's the appeal of boxing is it's mythology the rocky meth it's the at college you know it's it's the personal triumph it's all those things that the venue doesn't really matter we run out of time but we always get Tex and we never read the map or someone said I'm Florence Griffith Joyner Yes we have talked about Russia we only have I think your heart exploded because of all this there were dead indeed she also had the longest fingernails in the history of yes she really started the whole leg Yes absolutely it was Diana Ross meets anabolic steroids. Thank you. So that again. Was reasonable That's the phrase of the week thank you very much Listen thanks to everyone for listening thanks for your texting to my name was in charge thanks to Anna and to Stuart will see you all next week I think Lucy's here tomorrow coming up in our Christmas cooking to freeze and cheese or to please with the kitchen cafe. If. You're not. Here to help bring some. We've got a. Little. With us today they are full of advice on how to get a head start on food for the festivities Welcome to the kitchen. We're going to talk cheese shortly but 1st. Christmas Eve. You're laughing already are always manic. I think lots of us need a bit of help with. Yeah that's what you're here for yes thank you yeah I think the problem is every kind of panics it's a last minute like we're going to do but there's so many things you can do around not just Christmas with any family get together around the table you can prep it up and we can do one dish in a minute put in the freeze freezer in the fridge take it out it's easy to stuff so . You can make it any time you want if you've got a spare hour that's the time to do it put it away in the freezer forget about it until the day before Christmas Eve we take it out overnight and they can finish it off on Christmas Day for no more than about 20 minutes the job's done right so what we're doing Ok so what we've got here is only 5 ingredients so it's a really simple one can you have them with this all right this is a take on the please red cabbage so we're doing a red cabbage and we're going to braise it off. With some lemon oranges and a little bit of sugar and that is it you can if you want throw in a cinnamon stick. In my face out there but he's not looking. But if you wish to do it please do so. In this way I don't think you need to be honest because the reason why this is a wine for Christmas in my book Ok. Crisp it's clean it's. A pool it's going all the kind of bouquet that you think of Christmas is in the wine you can add a little bit more suggest to it that again that kind of Christmas Well I think is enough in it Ok so what we're going to do is we're going to go red cabbage and we're going to cut it directly in half Ok and then half again and then half again so what we want to do is we are not going to end up with this kind of to Dish will kind of the work looking for mushy I thank you or not. So what you really want is nice thick chunky pieces of h. Ok rather than that which is good because normally on Christmas Eve I'm standing there straight in this car but yes seems that in a long time when you're in a rush we really want this to be an absolute sort of chunky warming kind of on the plate not a mush that we are all mushy Ok so we're into half and half again having to basically make quarters or eights Ok and then we take the knife and we decor it to straight or take in the hard core taken in the middle of that so we've done that we're going to cut that all up that's all that's up into nice chunks all salted so that you take your pan you put your plan on the heat and then you take your cabbage and you put your cabbage into the pan slow medium sort of heat no high heat Ok And at this point you crack open your bottle of reason now well people still need a whole bottle for this recipe we're going to go on the whole bottle of wine you don't need to go and buy a 910 Powerball or reason here you know you can go to the supermarket and pick up a 5 pound bottle like this one and just use that Ok can you keep a week last for yourself I would suggest telling the party do that for sure. The whole view remember here is a Christmas. So let's go and that's what you do is you're going to pour your bottle of recently in over your car make sure your cavity is covered if the bottle of wine doesn't fully cover the cabbage Ok just add a little bit of water so that it's purely covered but make sure it's covered Ok Ok then on top of that some little bit of brown. So there's a little bit of tartness going to come out of all of this so you need a balance in it Ok So that goes into there then we've got orange and a lemon that's all going in doing this right so what we're going to do is we are going to take one point about half of each so it's going to cut them in half and then into quarters so that goes in the pie and we give us a really gorgeous area look at the color of that already so this is a really great gorgeous brew a Deep Purple and with and you can see there's a lovely them and then the orange is the color in there and you can already see that the cabbage is starting to turn the wine that kind of deep purple the kind of beautiful rich color lovely hair sticking out on to the back or we turn that dances over lowish heat and we leave that for no more than about an hour to be honest just let it simmer go for a bath come back before Christmas and you how you sound very very relaxed see a lot of very chilled. Care you're fed when you're fed says well in the bath with your reasoning a lier So it's they all sort itself out in the promotes Oh so then you just let it cool down cool it down makes this really cool not know he it's all in that put it into an ice cream container or a bowl if you have got the lid for it just click on it and put in the freezer and then just leave it so all I really want to do on Christmas Eve is take it out and you want to have a Save a calendar something like that and pour the whole thing or into the whole thing and into that but put a bowl underneath so what you want is the juice to reach to come through there and leave the cabbage on the top to finish it off all you really need to do is just per little bit of reasoning if you still got any left if not crack another bottle it's fine if you don't I mean it's Christmas out there is plenty of time Lovely out of the butter throw in your cabbage stir through leave it for about 15 to 20 minutes on the low heat cook it through that's it. Now if you're stuck in how to fill your cheese board this Christmas Don't worry cheese expert Phoebe Wale is here to help us we've got some alternative choices are now why. Old card later on but let's start in the supermarket Phoebe they all of a great range of cheese now don't they but how do we decide what to choose always difficult there's so much there isn't there I mean some supermarkets just have tons and tons and tons but the one thing I would say is do not go for that pre-packed selection they've got all wrapped up in cling film and the little books everything pre-wrapped it's quite entice things that was in it because all the work is done for you you are doing generator don't do what I want I'm stepping away separate away from the boxes so what do we do instead then we get overwhelmed and think that we need to have hundreds and hundreds of bits of cheese and things like mince pies and things covered in wax I'll just be sloppy. You wouldn't. I love my cheese I really do like watching. Alice my reasoning. Let's get together so yeah so how many cheeses do you really don't this cheese board Well I think you know I think 3 is pretty soon although I normally have about 6 and I'm only 2 so I can't help it but but really I think we get we've had so much by the time it gets to cheese you want 3 just really nice things that you can that will just you can sit with and drink with your poor finish up your wine and just go for 3 really good ones just really really good one kind are we looking up they want your recommendations so we're in the supermarket I think the big one for the supermarket I think the thing that they do really well is hard cheese so I would think you can always find a bit of Conti or a bit of awesome Aracely there. That will just be lovely nutty warming restorer to of the cheese bring you arrived after the after to run absolutely right so we've got a bit of heart and then for a bit of soft something soft and white in a beautiful. White velvet jacket something blew me and I wouldn't be unveiled. And for that I wouldn't go precut because the thing that supermarkets do really badly is the precut and the kill the cheese cheese is a living thing you know so you get a wedge of cheese in a supermarket it's not going to have developed anything to a tong So you need to buy a whole one yet if you can you get those little like a whole Cambodia or a little whole goat cheese or something something was mauled all the way around so it can continue that maturation making notes here in just a 2nd member there's a. Cabbage as well. And then last one blue cheese and I think supermarket blue cheese is really grim. I think again. And it's that it's that really angry aggressive metallic tying that those blue cheeses have from there there must be something in the supermarket fill in the believer diety that we're here for I'm quite partial to tell anyone please but this is a quest to become. So quite like we were. In the supermarket may be hard if you can get a wee half still to know we have to be Stilton can be done I've seen that in the supermarket recently but a wee bit is still to. Going on nothing to have Stilton and then keep developing it won't get that really miserable says crew Gee we were alerted to love or we can. Write Phoebe will be back for some more cheese ideas which are a bit more out of our comfort zone a little bit later on now if you are not a big fan of traditional Christmas pudding this is for you Gillian Russell's been to see Jenny Hardy for a delicious Lee simple alternative to see we're going to make a Christmas placed plenty in this full of really lovely fish to flee 1st with personal time orange What's the spice of this quest of the. It is like tar you can push it really well make it smaller base I used pieces but the fish thing about it I think is you can make it advance Also you can heat in the microwave which means you're not using a precious open space let's get started with this gorgeous concoction and it's for the chocolate which suits me to him to the ground where do we start Ok what we start off with are sugar and eggs and I would cease to be the best thing to you as you might not think I'll make a difference but absolutely well so the 1st thing we're going to do when a mix up the cost of sugar and the eggs being up the eggs before they go in the ball just makes it easier for them to incorporate and also just makes things a bit quicker. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to add a mix of melted chocolate and butter and I the thing to remember about this is that there's no corporate in the stressed a piece of all lists on really good chocolate so this is all or 70 percent cocoa solids Belgian chocolates really truly good chocolate what I would see if you want to get the best chocolate you possibly can and the other thing to remember she melted chocolate in the butter together over the pond just really gently don't want to burn anything that's been cooling for that but maybe half an hour but you want it to be still liquid but not warm enough to do anything to you don't want to end up with scrambled eggs and up all their. Looks chocolate lovers have a dice those are they're really a lovely moment when you me can play nice when you have I did the chocolate the button. Makes anything that's never going to come together and then it turned into this really lovely smooth mixture is a really nice moment I think we've just experienced that many minutes here in full force it just starts so what we're going to is a mix of plain fire and southeastern Florida if you wanted a for me you could use to all play. But we've got it about freezing huge and it makes us slightly keep here also in this flow thing it's a funny looking color it's mix of spices in there Ginger and cinnamon and some cloves in there and what you want to do the stage we don't serve any thing you don't want to get into this we want to make sure the flowers and courtly enough that you know going to get any little specks of flour when you come into play. Why we do this stage of the chalk that's been incorporated I would take the ball off the mixer stand and just get our stuff through to make any pockets of flow anywhere then we've got this ball of salt flute here we're going to put that in there so when you say blue so what's so we've got from if you didn't want any peas and if you wanted you know you didn't like it or you wanted to give it to the kids you could do orange juice which is a nice festive flavor it would have exactly the same effect and then the last thing we're going to do is going to some white chocolate chips in there too so what we're going to do tonight is we're going to chance for that mixture into the party line to snorkel East is just lined a 10 I'm going to transfer the whole of our brainy bottle into the or this goes into quite a bit of an arch 160 degrees what you want to do is test after maybe 25 minutes pipe in a skewed in the meadow it should be clean when it comes out should be where it would not make damp comes on there are definite where you do want a liquid in the middle Ok let's get it in the oven. Ok Jenny So our Christmas spiced brain he has had what about 25 minutes in the oven 2530 minutes in the often and now it's completely cool and this is important for you to eat it what we're going to do you know watch I'm not going to I'm going to hunt you for trial head because Tony whose farm the earth than me I'm going to decorate it and to make it look far more faced of what we have here we've got some of our lovely Belgian white chocolate and we've got it mounted in a piping back and you would have it. Just so the. It's not too hot not too runny and I give you a lot more control when you're trying to decorate a Brownie Ok so it's really simple you start from one corner of the brownie and you start to sling horizontally this is when you can get a bit creative artistic if you want to do it a different design again you can do like swirls crisscrossed so tightly yet and this is actually something that a child could do as well they want to get involved and as you can see it was quite easy to do yeah I think even I could tell you what effective it does really stand out against the dark of the brownie and then we got some lovely dried cranberries and we're going to generously cover the ground me with the cranberries making sure that every part gets a bit of crimson and cranberries are so Christmas and yeah they really are and they just give a really nice pop of color as well. Jamie's recipe is online along with all the recipes from today Afi Christmas pudding or Christmas brownie which fancy traditionally Christmas put in but listening to that I think I might be swayed to go that way with a glass of p.x. The finest real awful science guitar but you Phoebe put a. Note to beat you about the traditionalists when it comes to Christmas pudding putting. Fruit. Has got it right it's all the way chocolate chocolate here he was quite keen on the chocolate. And we Phoebe back to the cheese board what if you're a real cheese lover and you fancy something just our wee bit different this year something to really take your comfort so for me you know the thing that I always come back to is sheep's milk I love sheep's milk sheep's milk is the best of all the milk and after you've been stuffed with all the amazing food I think sheep's milk just slips and is from a different realm what would you choose you need to go you need to go to the Cheese Shop and you need to spend time in the queue or spend time in your local deli and get this yes the deal isn't always be pretty soon. So again 3 cheeses I'd go for soft white sheep's milk cheese so the credible British examples of this flower Marie in particular and Wigmore just really musing. Gentle and sweet but just so. The loop eat them side fantastic really really love those cheeses the cheeses that made me fall in love with cheeses the soft white sheep's milk cheeses what are we going for a hard one again a couple of British choices there you could go for Cora Lynn from Humphrey Errington in southern limits are really quite sharp but again that beautiful nuttiness behind or something like barks where which is from near Coventry really crystalline texture and just crumbles in the mouth but all that sweet sharp nuttiness It's just beautiful and to finish up of course the blue and for me with Mr Turner not my p.x. . Rock for Rock for all the way that yellow to me. And that just kind of just pushed past that great big thump of aggressive blue to the back of your throat and then disappears it's magical Oh lovely What about you Afi what she's Are you going for it to push the boundaries I always thought of a friend down south and he sent me some courtyard. Cushman hot for the whole history gotta have some of it. So of if we are we out with a police car but Ok so the press coverage is all sorted it's all done and dusted all get a little taste of that later on looking for a return so over the next something else that can be made in a year this is this is a little this which I love make Lassie So this is a 3 cheese brussel sprouts past Saturn chestnut that I am. Very exotic and sit up a 24 hours 40 hours in advance mixes well cling film to put it in fridge or you've got to do is put it in. For about 20 minutes all day sorted no problem I'm not much of a split love and I hopped on do you think this is going to tell you if you don't converted after this nothing will could very. Well can't compare. Well so you'd be fine is plenty plenty Yeah so we're going to do is read some brussel sprouts some parents. Or some chestnuts beautiful this time of year fantastic what we're going to do is we're going to see this all off together Ok so we got some pancetta beers but it's mostly time to get in there get a bit of stir through so we could be standing here on the diva for Christmas the. Loss of some real nice Mondays here the Monday evening Monday evenings you know your thoughts to the gathering today and so there we go consciously and into their kid we used to be in this we're yeah you can be patient and you want something you need a little bit of that kind of smoking always smells lovely already smokes every year so into that we're going to put in some chopped onion. We have already done that goes into there get us there through Ok in a separate power we're going to blanch all for about 3 minutes some brussel sprouts cut them in half 3 minutes take them off leave in the air dry perfect Ok so none of that schooled in the bottom no no no just cut them straight in half 3 minutes boiling water take them off that the mad rice and then it in the safe no promises Ok All right back to the parents are here with us of all of oil with the pan set or the onions in chopped up that takes about maybe 3 to 5 minutes to brown the onions soften the onions get a bit of color into the pan setter and then into that so we can add some flour and what we're going to do is we're going to make a root flour that audience in the pancetta Ok So that goes and we put the flour in and we stood out in a few minutes and so we made the source because lumpy but at the same time you need to teach there in it from this point all right so into that we're going to add some double cream I will say that's a milk and if you can keep unbuilt cream and milk you happen to be a bit of a mixture to be honest in this one so this needs to keep stirring this through at this point it's really important to pay a bit of attention to the dish the wind out yesterday the forget the wine forget the t.v. Put your favorites get the locks on for 3 minutes you know this is the perfect timing for that sing along where you stir this through what you really want is a really silky smooth source right no longer Ok so that's where you go pay attention here if you do get a few lumps Is there anything you can do to get rid of them say what's there like hell a lot of that a little more much. Yeah probably below cream into it figured out that it out there but don't do too much Ok so now it's time to assemble this this is a really easy assembly Ok here is where we take our improved dish and into that we layer up sort of always we didn't there was a wrong word as we throw it out you just check it nobody actually eating here chucked them in Ok took your Brussels sprouts into the bottom Ok then we've got these the whole chestnut available at any supermarket to see about them and I care about it yeah the volume pot I guess we just rip them open so. These are whole chestnuts we wanted just a little bit more probably just educate them out just give a quick break and basically yeah they're all into the bottom like so Ok nice and easy get there what we do is we take our source and we just pour the source right over the top. And we take the spoon and we make sure that it's well put into all the corners so they're covering the whole of the biggest sauce in every made from basically that's what we're looking for Ok to have a little glen a display it will have to sprout come on how is under its love and love shown to it so in a blender we're going to have. Just some bread and some chopped nuts and we're going to make a little sort of like a crispy kind of topping to go with this Ok along with some cheese All right so it's going to blast that switched off we would do if it was switched on or as well Ok so here look my mistake. If you don't know. Why the fish left but right so that if you put the lid on yeah it does need to. So we've mixed together I made a little sort of a crumble top to add to that we're going to add some 3 cheeses Ok I'm listening up Ok you're probably not a lot of cases Ok we're not going to play like me this some of these but here we go so we're going to use a Red Leicester. And some Apple would smoked I'll come on now. That's for another. Symbol in there s. No cheese Ok you're given. All that to know something there's no good cheese and. I love seeing the cheese I can't believe. She did that somewhere it does honestly please trust you know how you are they are still Do you see we didn't see this because we want to texture and flavor in between it or read less to get a really lovely color Ok the mozzarella has a string less effect to it and then the smoked cheese will call it Ok just use a nice bit of smoked cheese through it Ok So that goes. On top of your mixture with the source so the bottom you've got your chestnuts your pants set is through the source you have got your Brussels sprouts you've got your cheese on the top then you take your bread and nuts mix and you kind of get a really good sprinkling all over the top Ok so you want to cover the whole dish all right once you've done that leave it to cool because it's the war from the source been on it and also the Brussels sprouts are going to have a little bit at that point there what is totally cool give it a really good cling film so this completely put it into your fridge and then when you want to cook it all you need to do is put the oven about 200 degrees but never in 20 minutes golden brown on the top your prosperous way of telling you well I'm going over to snowy minutes if you can compare me Phoebe how much is cheese close the dish after your own heart well I love sprouts I think you're wrong Jenny I think it's a great yes I love that you are willing to be converted makes things to so much better. Underused Yes not loved enough so how else could we use cheese Christmas Now Jenny I know I said that no good cheese exists but I mean. Just to give you. A little quick backtrack here because I hope to this year have cheese cheese as the main thing in every course of my meal. To this yeah so go for scores of the best things I've had this year as we were we North summer and we had this thing which was this amazing cheese score on with cream cheese and smoked salmon on it and what that's going to be my starter sound example on the market is no cheese or you can use the. Smoked she did might just use a bit of apple we. Just did I never did those that combination of the the cheese gone which is likes it's Irish you know. It's your cheese earth and then the living she's is like you know. Walking around it's your earthly plane and then smoked salmon is a theory and high all of those different layers of density love it would have as a canopy can you if you were having a party party I think you might do that right for you have your main course learning course always have a big Vasher so Vasher and is awash trying to seasonal cheese from the east of France and it's one of the only seasonal cheeses that are left it's a cheese or trance humans so when the cows come down the mountain in the winter you make this quick make cheese and so the one I get is about cow member sized and it's barren 2 with a bit of spruce ran the outside so it has this incredible sappy rich quality stick that in the oven you don't do anything to it you just stick it in the oven pull it out and it is just do it's cheese but it's much stronger and more rich and creamy year than cam and they're really for a lot and a little bit for tea you know it's got a good cheese for a stew and it's going to have that with amazing gammon kind of pineapple e glazed gammon and some roast and blankets so how are you going to get the cheese in the pudding that well that's easy. Because I'm going to take the Christmas pudding this much maligned Christmas pudding and then I'm going to chop up I'm going to chop it really fine and then I'm going to bake it I'm going to bake those bits of Christmas pudding so it's like a Christmas pudding toast decide and nobody's going to stay with me I think it was you know your mother and we had all year long way to abated. And then on that Christmas put in that crispy Christmas pudding I'm going to have some blue cheese here of course I should have still because Stilton is traditional By might have stitch will turn which is a rom. Version of Stilton and it's amazing I have a beautiful bit of Cork and. Love it yeah yeah yeah you're bouncing all of the right Ok and I am going to have a quick taste of the sprites while I'm here just to see a fine converted I can only say I think it benefits from the cheeses I'll see everything everyone used to use everything. That cabbage I'm going to cook by often I'm here to it's teeth so festival with that with the wine and that it's a bit like mold wine you know you're absolutely lovely does work today though very much to Phoebe Alfie and Gerry for all the ideas we hope to meet the run up to the big day a bit calmer if you missed anything today you can subscribe to the kitchen coffee podcast on. All the recipes are on the kitchen cafe page of the b.b.c. Video Scotland website for all of us unity. I will see you next week. On digital radio f.m. Medium wave b.b.c. Sound b.b.c. Radio Scott. 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