Maybe your choice of latitude isn't as hot and sultry as it could be. Get a taste of the tropics in your cheesecake, with a baked coconut flake crust and zesty lime filling.
Mexican chorizo, as opposed to Spanish, is raw, and can be bought in sausage links, or just in a package (pictured in the procedure) as ready-ground sausage meat. I tend to do unorthodox things with my secret...