Day: December 5, 2018

St-Nicolas 

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Le 6 décembre, jour de la Saint-Nicolas, est fêté traditionnellement dans plusieurs pays européens du Nord et de l’Est de l’Europe (notamment la Belgique, le Luxembourg, le Nord et l’Est de la France surtout en Lorraine et en Alsace, les Pays-Bas, l’Allemagne et la Suisse) « où il distribue des cadeaux à tous les enfants sages ».

Lors de sa « tournée », saint Nicolas distribue traditionnellement une orange et du pain d’épices portant son effigie. Le Père Fouettard, vêtu de noir et porteur d’un grand fagot, parfois le visage barbouillé de suie, l’accompagne, et distribue une trique (une branche de son fagot) aux enfants qui n’ont pas été sages et menace de les frapper. Saint Nicolas est censé voyager sur un âne; aussi les enfants doivent-ils, le soir, préparer de la nourriture (foin, paille, carotte ou grain) pour l’animal. Au matin, ils trouvent les friandises (ou la trique) à la place de ce qu’ils ont préparé pour l’âne.

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[recipe] oven-poached eggs

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Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Add one tablespoon of water to each cup of the muffin tin, then crack an egg into each of the cups.

​If you like runny yolks, poach the eggs for 11 to 13 minutes, and if you prefer the yolks to be a little more cooked, poach the eggs for 14 to 15 minutes.

When taking the muffin tin out of the oven you’ll notice that the water has risen to the top, and sits on top of the egg. It can be easy to mistake this for an egg white that’s not fully set.

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[gallery] Mandy Budan

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Mandy Budan is a Canadian artist who works primarily in acrylic. She paints abstracts of the landscape, emphasizing and rearranging the elements to show the beauty of the landscape in unexpected ways. Inspired by nature, Budan uses strong colour, discrete shapes and rhythmic patterns to create paintings which can be enjoyed for both their abstract and realistic qualities. She finds the majority of her inspiration in her home province of Ontario, but also explores the provincial parks and conservation areas and hidden green spaces looking for that elusive combination of light, colour and shape that speaks to her love of painting.

Online store: http://budanart.com/category/original-paintings

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Dylan Moran on the state of the world

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The new show, Dr Cosmos, which is touring, is about “the bonfire of now. The blazing relentlessness and the effect it has on you. How do you sit still without coming apart at the seams?”

Middle age tends to accelerate the conviction that the world is going to hell in a handcart, but Moran points to “a massive consensus: we’re all agreed that the world is indeed f*cked right now. Everyone knows that the American president is a ludicrous person, in Westminster we’ve got two zombie political parties having a pretend show of political debate that’s never going to lead to anything, and Britain is going through this extraordinary act of sending itself to its room and not coming down as a show of – what? You shat your pants in front of the whole world and you’re sulking? It’s embarrassed by its own behaviour, frankly, and it’s a postcolonial sulk. Everybody’s just looking around, waiting for the embarrassment to fade. But Britain has this tradition of carrying on resolutely, because you’re committed to something, and is therefore locked into a position where it has to be seen to execute the absurdity it doesn’t want to go through with. These are desperate times.”

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