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So here it is.. a blog. Repository of some of my present musings and interests. Sometimes things pop into my head that should probably stay there - it is possible I shall share at least some of them here. (Naturally I shall filter out the ones about my sordid obsession with the culinary dark arts, one has to protect the innocent!) Please feel free not to take this too seriously, much of it could wind up being snippets of things that amuse me. Yesterday I came up with this: Few politicians can be considered first class, but not a few are number twos. What can I do with it? Nothing springs to mind, except perhaps blog it. Perhaps in some other life I'm a failed stand-up comedian. I have the beginnings of an idea to introduce another player into the Mr Moonlight story, a nice visual has occurred to me, and a summoning gone wrong seems appropriate. When I finish up here I shall literally put pen to paper. I find writing at least initially longhand helps my ideas flow. When I type up what I've written, I give it a first revision at the same time, and as a bare minimum check my spellings and grammar . I do want to keep tabs on my current reading here. I usually have several books on the go at the same time. Currently I am working through 'Pyramids' by Terry Pratchett. I reread Pratchett's books over and over - usually at work where they provide much needed amusement whilst I eat breakfast. 'The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle', by Stuart Turton was loaned to me by a friend who shares a love of murder mysteries, (especially Agatha Christie's works). It is a new take on the genre and very very clever. The protagonist occupies different bodies - a selection of the guests at the house where Evelyn is murdered. Each day he spends in a different guest, and he has been tasked with discovering the murderer - or maybe saving Evelyn from actually being murdered, it is hard to tell. The book twists and turns and is quite intriguing. 'New Science - Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations' is an English translation by David Marsh of 'La Scienza Nuova' by Giambattista Vico, published in 1725. Not far into this yet, I had to find a copy of the frontispiece online, as it wasn't included in the Kindle edition. The first part of the book explains the idea - and uses a detailed description of the frontispiece to convey this. So being without it would have made things somewhat harder. 'The Complete Works of Michael De Montaigne' is again a translation, this time by Donald M. Frame. Montaigne's Essays are famous, I kept reading about them, so treated myself to a nice hardbound copy to dip into - usually just before bedtime. So there we have it - a blog entry - enjoy! (whispers almost inaudibly 'Bon Appétit). |
| Coconut Ice is a really easy to make sweet (candy). Basically it involves mixing together desiccated coconut, icing sugar and condensed milk. Press the mixture into a suitable receptacle, I use a square casserole dish. Cover it, I wrap it in cling film, then let it set in the fridge for 24 hours. Cut into bite size chunks and store in a sealable container. The recipe I use gives the measurements as 250g (9 oz.) condensed milk 250g (9 oz.) Icing Sugar and 200g (7 oz.) desiccated coconut, different sources give slightly different measurements. The icing sugar needs to be sieved when you use it. So I made some, but the cans of condensed milk are 379g (about 13 oz.). I had no use for leftover condensed milk at the time, so I recalculated the other ingredients accordingly, using the proportions 5:4 for the amount of icing sugar/condensed milk to desiccated coconut, which meant I used 300g (11 oz.) Ah!, but I wasn't finished. I bought some glacéed cherries, which i halved and laid out over the set coconut ice. I also bought two blocks of milk cooking chocolate and a carton of single cream. The chocolate I broke into small pieces, and melted in a Pyrex bowl over a saucepan of warm water. When it was melted, I stirred in cream, a little at a time. I also added a small shake of icing sugar to the mix, perhaps an ounce. When it was a homogeneous liquid, I poured it all over the cherries resting on the coconut ice. I was glad that I'd bought two blocks of chocolate, because It covered everything perfectly, the cherries just submerged. Now it's sitting, again covered in cling film, and will shortly be departing for some more fridge time. Tomorrow I will cut it up and try it. Looking forwards to that. |
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). I mostly reject that. I'm eating rice with an egg this morning but Pannya just brought me chocolate milk from 7/11 (bless him; I really don't need it).
