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Nancy, let your hair down
May. 14th, 2013 11:03 amSo, we had a bank holiday. Yes, I know it's a while back.
I experimented with ( hairstyles and gluten-free brownies )
I experimented with ( hairstyles and gluten-free brownies )
Well, as some of you may recall my task last weekend was to work out how to make beer cake. Cake which tasted like, and contained, beer.
Preliminary results from the beery-cake investigation board are now in.
( The report is quite long. It does contain pictures of cake. )
Preliminary results from the beery-cake investigation board are now in.
( The report is quite long. It does contain pictures of cake. )
Lots of people have been doing a 25-days-of-Christmas thing, answering a different question each day, and I've been enjoying reading their answers. I haven't been doing it myself, because I've already banged on endlessly about Christmas.
Yesterday's question was "What's your view on eggnog?" which is largely irrelevant if you live in the UK. I claimed (commenting on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
strange_complex's LJ) that I liked eggnog. But I definitely haven't had any recently, and in a post answering a similar question in 2008 I claimed I'd never had it at all.
I went to look at Wikipedia to find out what it actually was and then got confused. If it's made with whipped eggs, and served hot, why don't the eggs cook? Er, apparently it is not served hot.
I don't appear to have a clue what I'm talking about.
( Time to investigate )
Yesterday's question was "What's your view on eggnog?" which is largely irrelevant if you live in the UK. I claimed (commenting on
strange_complex's LJ) that I liked eggnog. But I definitely haven't had any recently, and in a post answering a similar question in 2008 I claimed I'd never had it at all. I went to look at Wikipedia to find out what it actually was and then got confused. If it's made with whipped eggs, and served hot, why don't the eggs cook? Er, apparently it is not served hot.
I don't appear to have a clue what I'm talking about.
( Time to investigate )
Anyone who communicates in any way with snow_leopard may have noticed that, in recent months, she's gone a bit evangelical.
When I say a bit, I mean a lot.
Really quite a lot.
However, I have a theory that if anyone endorses anything really wholeheartedly and is not (a) a celebrity, (b) being paid to do so, or (c) a known deranged enthusiast, then it might be worth checking out.
( So I did )
snow_leopard may have noticed that, in recent months, she's gone a bit evangelical.When I say a bit, I mean a lot.
Really quite a lot.
However, I have a theory that if anyone endorses anything really wholeheartedly and is not (a) a celebrity, (b) being paid to do so, or (c) a known deranged enthusiast, then it might be worth checking out.
( So I did )
I never knew that you were untrue
Mar. 8th, 2012 12:29 pmEvery so often you hear of an odd combination of ingredients someone is cooking, and think "no, really?". Oh yes, they assure you, really. Sometimes, of course, you think "no, just no" (a colleague of mine recently recommended chicken-breast stuffed with nutella. Eww. I mean, he likes it, go him. But I don't think I'll be trying it.)
Yesterday, wondering what to cook out of the things I had available, I was suddenly moved to wonder whether smoked haddock and pesto would be a ( fortuitous combination )
In summary: no.
Yesterday, wondering what to cook out of the things I had available, I was suddenly moved to wonder whether smoked haddock and pesto would be a ( fortuitous combination )
In summary: no.
Today's foolish experiment:
Look at the sun, or a lightbulb, or something brightish. Use common sense, please do not blind yourself.
Now close your eyes, or put your hands over your eyes, and you should see the bright after-image.
What does this image do? Does it stay still, does it drift? I keep observing that my after-images always drift to the right. I have no idea if this is significant of anything in the slightest.
Be my data points, darlings...
Look at the sun, or a lightbulb, or something brightish. Use common sense, please do not blind yourself.
Now close your eyes, or put your hands over your eyes, and you should see the bright after-image.
What does this image do? Does it stay still, does it drift? I keep observing that my after-images always drift to the right. I have no idea if this is significant of anything in the slightest.
Be my data points, darlings...
