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Huck_Phlem
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I tried to cook with philo dough. I made an apple thing with pie filling and it was a bit soggy in the very middle but I think it's really good. Next
Time I think I'll bring the temp up to 425F and then see how it works out.
I want to try to make Baklava. mmmmm
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BBP
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Had a hard time getting up (some asshole lit fireworks last night, and the storms outside...) this morning. Discovered my coat was still wet from
yesterday's visit to the town centre (I got myself a nose flute), so I had to wear my extra-thick winter coat without hood. It was a bit too warm.
Made my way to the delivery station, where I had to fold 60 extra sections into 60 newspapers. Ugh.
My bag became loaded, and as a result, bound too tight so it was troublesome getting out the newspapers.
Early on in the round, my bicycle fell over. This caused the front mudguard to get too close to the wheel. I tried to kick it back, but it took me
quite some time before it was out of the way. Time I didn't have, so I tried to fix this issue whilst delivering newspapers. Because the tire got
rubbed against the mudguard, it gave so much friction it was very heavy to get forward.
And at the halfway point, it started to rain. One of those days...
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punknaynowned
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I always hated that
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punknaynowned
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that's pretty!
what is it?
ha!
almond pizza?
I am feeling like a dumb tourist today
forgive me
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BBP
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Gevulde speculaas.
Speculaas refers to all cookies with a certain spice mix (although there are probably countless varieties):
15 gr of cinnamon
2 gr of ground cloves
2 gr of ground nutmeg
1 gr of white pepper
1 gr of powdered ginger
1/2 gr of cardamom
This way of preparation gives a soft, sweet & spicy kind of cake. It's stuffed with almond paste.
To be edited to contain full recipe:
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punknaynowned
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Cake! it looks maybe 25cm across
I thought at first they were almonds
though I suppose they could be roasted sesames on a cookie size...
but no, and hot-spicy too!
Speculaas, that's an interesting word. We have speculate in english as a verb. I also remember it being related through misuse to scapula but in
Latinized languages.
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BBP
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Recipe for gevulde speculaas:
200 gr of flour/baking powder mix (couldn't find Eng. transl)
125 gr of brown sugar
2 tablesp. of the spice mix described above
150 gr of unsalted butter
2 tablesp of milk
2 eggs
300 gr of almond paste
55 gr of almonds (to decorate it)
flour
salt
Grab your sieve.
Siefe the flour+baking powder, the sugar, the spices and a dash of salt into a mixing bowl.
Cut the butter into small pieces and put them in the bowl.
Add the milk.
Knead until you have a smooth dough, then roll it into a ball.
Wrap the ball in plastic foil and put it in the fridge for an hour.
Beat the eggs with 1 tablespoon of water in a bowl.
Take the almond paste and another bowl. Break the paste into small pieces and put these in the bowl. Add half of the beaten egg. Mix with a fork until
you can smear it.
Preheat the oven at 175 degrees Celsius
Take out the baking sheet before it's hot in there. Make sure there's a free space in the middle of the oven for it.
Cover the baking sheet with waxed paper.
Strew flour over your workspace and rolling pin (to prevent the dough from sticking too much. This is a necessity.)
Divide the doughball into 2 equal parts.
Roll them both into sheets of 15*30 cm.
Put one sheet on the baking sheet.
Spread the almond paste over it. Make sure you leave a small border around the paste layer.
Put the other sheet on top. Press the sides of the sheets together.
Smear the remainder of the egg over the dough. Decorate it with almonds. Put the baking sheet in the middle of the oven.
The speculaas will be ready in 40 to 45 minutes. Take it out and let it cool.
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Huck_Phlem
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wow I thought it was confinement loaf.
Hey I got my laptop fixed!!!!! Whoooooo Hooooooo! Plus I got an antenna and digital converter so my kids can watch the boob tube but the only thing
that comes in on a regular basis is the Mexican chanels. hahahaha
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MTF
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Watch out: my daughter got her driver's license on Wednesday.
We went to Lake Tahoe for Thanksgiving, so she got to learn how to drive in the snow. So far, she's turning out to be a better driver than Tiger
Woods.
(but Tiger's a better putter)...
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BBP
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 Congratz on your daughter MT!
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Huck_Phlem
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MTF
Watch out: my daughter got her driver's license on Wednesday.
We went to Lake Tahoe for Thanksgiving, so she got to learn how to drive in the snow. So far, she's turning out to be a better driver than Tiger
Woods.
(but Tiger's a better putter)... |
Where did you eat?
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MTF
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Huck_Phlem
Where did you eat? |
The Sunnyside Inn in West Lake. It was rather expensive, but quite pleasant...
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BBP
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This friendly guy came over to clean out our household ventilation system. He was impressed my my father's tape recorder collection and he had a go on
the pinball table. And we got new ventilations everywhere. Our toilets are a lot noisier now but I assume that it's for the benefit of all of us.
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Huck_Phlem
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Westlake is nice!
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punknaynowned
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B, I obviously don't live over there and so feel I can't comment, but I do feel you are 100% correct about the nationalist agitation. It is a vicious
cycle that feeds and gets bigger on ignorance and starts with the individual and how they think about things.
Of course, amazingly, you said it better than I could in other than your native language!
>hats off<
>bow<
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BBP
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Thanks! I can't believe how anyone could believe PVV. It... it boggles the mind, you know... Gosh. I truly hate the Zappa forum right now. Nothing
sensible in weeks. I spend more time on my own forum even without counting the daily spam chuck.
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polydigm
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I've just been checking my post history. Did I really not come here between September 06 and March 08? That's almost a year and a half. I was under
the impression back in September 06 that you were closing down the Goose, maybe that's why I stopped coming for a while - I can't remember.
Anyway, my news is that after an up and down year of work with pieced together contracts, teaching some really painful classes, I've finally got
myself a contract for the whole of next year in a college where I really want to be with my ideal part time fraction of 0.6, teaching three Physics
classes. These are international fee paying students, all in their late teens, and they're all there to do the work. It's called foundation studies -
it's like a final year high school course to prepare students for university. Okay some of them have typical teenage attitudes but you don't get any
of the discipline problems like in a regular high school.
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MTF
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Teaching three Physics classes only brings you up to 60% of full-time? Holy moley. Unless you're just lecturing straight out of the textbook, that
sounds like a full-time job to me.
Does that include grading tests and homework?
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BBP
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Wow Poly! That's great news!
You were indeed away for a long time... in '07 things were so bad with the Goose that we only had one regular visitor outside DED and me; namely
Scallopino, who I presume is busy now. I was indeed very close to shutting it down, but my father wouldn't hear of it. And now I'm real glad for
it!
I have something up my sleeve for Zappadan, btw. But I'll post a newsletter and drop a word on Zappa.com about it.
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