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Further culinary discoveries
When I ask my mother for a recipe, she always responds “What, you want to make a foo? Are you crazy? Do you know how much work that is? Here, let me give you the recipe for a bar, it’s much simpler.” Then after a great deal of coaxing I convince her to give me the foo recipe anyway, and it never fails to be substantially easier than I had been led to believe.
Well, this rolada was no exception. Having just made the second (production) version, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s actually not a very hard cake to make at all, it just got an unnecessarily bad reputation. In fact it’s kinda fun to make, and fairly straightforward.
And very good. :9
Rolada 2.0, now with certain of the bugs fixed, is presently beginning its two-day refrigeration. Woohoo!
Props & such
OK, that rehearsal went well. I’m looking forward to doing this.
For next time: A list of sundry items that we may need
Things I learned today
Be more forceful when mixing melted chocolate into the beaten yolks. Similarly don’t be afraid to fold the yolks into the whites more thoroughly. Roll the souffle so it comes out short and fat, not long and thin, since it’s easier that way, and the expansion joints in the cream do a hell of a lot more good.
And damn, it’s a good thing I decided to try a practice cake before the one for Thanksgiving.
To those of you at Buffy night this week: Yes, the experimental cake will be there. I think it turned out tasting reasonably well, but since it’s not going to be tasteable for another day or two, it’s kinda hard to tell. It will probably be very ugly, however.
Ite, missa est.
Totals for the day:
43 applications.
31 to the United States
3 to Canada
3 to Israel
6 to various places in Europe
Tomorrow: The post office.
Fascinating…
From the Belief-O-Matic quiz, following darklingrose‘s meme… (Kinda surprising. Neo-Pagan is fine, but then Unitarian Unimodularism, Reform Judaism, and New Age .* all tend to leave me very cold. But OTOH, I don’t think that most quizzes are equipped to handle a fairly orthodox Jewish Pagan. 🙂
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
3. Reform Judaism (91%)
4. New Age (90%)
5. Liberal Quakers (89%)
6. New Thought (81%)
7. Bahá’í Faith (80%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (80%)
9. Scientology (79%)
10. Sikhism (79%)
11. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)
12. Hinduism (73%)
13. Orthodox Judaism (69%)
14. Islam (62%)
15. Jainism (62%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (60%)
17. Secular Humanism (57%)
18. Theravada Buddhism (57%)
19. Taoism (48%)
20. Orthodox Quaker (47%)
21. Nontheist (37%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (34%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (33%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (24%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (22%)
26. Roman Catholic (22%)
27. Jehovah’s Witness (17%)
Discoveries
The top headline of this week’s Weekly World News reads “Three new commandments discovered!”
Excellent evening
Good people, good setting, good fire, good food. What more could one ask for?
Oh yeah, a full night’s sleep. Ah, whatever — sleep is for the weak. 🙂
I’ll leave the details to other people who can type more coherently right now — I need to go wake up enough to handle students. But thanks to all of you who showed up last night!
*whew*
So I just gave a talk to my research group about my latest paper, and they seemed to like it. For a group as hard-to-please (and quick to pounce) as this one, that’s no minor thing.
Woohoo! I get decent recommendation letters when hunting for postdocs!
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