Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 292

ShortNCuddlyAm · 04-28-2009, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Thanks for the support, everybody.

Glad to do something, even if it's only sign a petition.

vivaldirules · 04-28-2009, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

Watching an inspirational squirrel video.

Dreamer

Thank you, Dreamer. But you know, of course, that this all part of their grand and extensive plans to gain our sympathies. Just wait - there will be more deviousness to come, I'm sure.

yvanleterrible · 04-28-2009, 10:06 PM

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not squirrels!!!

Oh, my head... the pain... AAAAAAAAAHH!
Don't punish me... no... :hic:

GeoffC · 04-29-2009, 10:51 AM

not squirrels ... grey tree rats ....

montsnmags · 04-30-2009, 10:24 PM

Making raspberry icecream.

montsnmags · 04-30-2009, 11:40 PM

Now making meringues.

montsnmags · 04-30-2009, 11:43 PM

Now scanning negatives while the meringues get ruined by our shitty oven.

montsnmags · 05-01-2009, 01:17 AM

Bottom tray of meringues turned out good (super-light and crispy on the outside, air-pocket and gooey sweetness on the inside), but the top tray not so much (partly gooey on the bottom, and so they stuck to paper a bit). It's not the oven's fault - remind me to get a decent baking tray next time I'm down the cooking shop, will you?

It's not a loss though - the messed up top ones can go in the icecream, and the decent bottom ones are for "sweets" (ostensibly for my nephew tomorrow when we visit, but, realistically, they're for all of us to eat

).

Cheers,
Marc

Curly · 05-01-2009, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Bottom tray of meringues turned out good (super-light and crispy on the outside, air-pocket and gooey sweetness on the inside), but the top tray not so much (partly gooey on the bottom, and so they stuck to paper a bit). It's not the oven's fault - remind me to get a decent baking tray next time I'm down the cooking shop, will you?

It's not a loss though - the messed up top ones can go in the icecream, and the decent bottom ones are for "sweets" (ostensibly for my nephew tomorrow when we visit, but, realistically, they're for all of us to eat

).

Cheers,
Marc

Remember to get the baking tray!

(Also remember to invite me the next time you make meringues. They sound delicious even at 6.45 in the morning.

)

tirsales · 05-01-2009, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Curly

(Also remember to invite me the next time you make meringues. They sound delicious even at 6.45 in the morning.

)

It's 08:07 AM - and they still sound delicious

montsnmags · 05-01-2009, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Curly

Remember to get the baking tray!

Thanks, but can you wait until I'm down the road at the shops before reminding me?

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(Also remember to invite me the next time you make meringues. They sound delicious even at 6.45 in the morning.

)

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Originally Posted by tirsales

It's 08:07 AM - and they still sound delicious

They're a bit of a kids' food, unless you're doing something else with them (normally you'd sprinkle hundreds-and-thousands on them for the kids), but they're also nice if lightly crushed and stirred through icecream. With tonight's raspberry icecream (I use one punnet of raspberries and caster sugar to make the raspberry syrup that's added to the crème anglaise base, and one punnet roughly chopped for texture) I'll lightly fold through the meringues just before serving.

A slightly easier variation than icecream is to use them to make any kind of variation of Eton Mess (strawberries are traditional, but I've seen it or had it with mango, peaches or rhubarb) and put that in the top half of individual panna cotta set in brandy balloons (I like the Eton Mess if the cream is whipped with a bit of icing sugar and vanilla essence, as some do with pavlova).

Cheers,
Marc

phenomshel · 05-01-2009, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Thanks, but can you wait until I'm down the road at the shops before reminding me?

They're a bit of a kids' food, unless you're doing something else with them (normally you'd sprinkle hundreds-and-thousands on them for the kids), but they're also nice if lightly crushed and stirred through icecream. With tonight's raspberry icecream (I use one punnet of raspberries and caster sugar to make the raspberry syrup that's added to the crème anglaise base, and one punnet roughly chopped for texture) I'll lightly fold through the meringues just before serving.

A slightly easier variation than icecream is to use them to make any kind of variation of Eton Mess (strawberries are traditional, but I've seen it or had it with mango, peaches or rhubarb) and put that in the top half of individual panna cotta set in brandy balloons (I like the Eton Mess if the cream is whipped with a bit of icing sugar and vanilla essence, as some do with pavlova).

Cheers,
Marc

Marc, I'm sure it's divine, but what are "hundreds-and-thousands" ?

montsnmags · 05-01-2009, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

Marc, I'm sure it's divine, but what are "hundreds-and-thousands" ?

Also called "sprinkles", often seen on top of cupcakes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkles

In Oz, kids birthday parties are renowned for including "fairy bread", which is fresh white bread, cut into triangles, smeared with butter, and then sprinkled liberally with spherical, multi-coloured hundreds-and-thousands.

Cheers,
Marc

GeoffC · 05-01-2009, 04:27 AM

all of a sudden, i'm ravenous ....

Sparrow · 05-01-2009, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

all of a sudden, i'm ravenous ....

You're nothing like Ravenne!

04-28-2009, 10:06 PM	#4368
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not squirrels!!! Oh, my head... the pain... AAAAAAAAAHH! Don't punish me... no... :hic:

04-29-2009, 10:51 AM	#4369
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	not squirrels ... grey tree rats ....

04-30-2009, 10:24 PM	#4370
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Making raspberry icecream.

04-30-2009, 11:40 PM	#4371
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Now making meringues.

04-30-2009, 11:43 PM	#4372
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Now scanning negatives while the meringues get ruined by our shitty oven.

05-01-2009, 01:17 AM	#4373
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Bottom tray of meringues turned out good (super-light and crispy on the outside, air-pocket and gooey sweetness on the inside), but the top tray not so much (partly gooey on the bottom, and so they stuck to paper a bit). It's not the oven's fault - remind me to get a decent baking tray next time I'm down the cooking shop, will you? It's not a loss though - the messed up top ones can go in the icecream, and the decent bottom ones are for "sweets" (ostensibly for my nephew tomorrow when we visit, but, realistically, they're for all of us to eat ). Cheers, Marc

05-01-2009, 04:27 AM	#4379
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	all of a sudden, i'm ravenous ....