Human! Human! Give me cheese, human! Oy! Stop ignoring me!
Month: November 2020
Easter cat?
In vague parallel with the cadbury Easter bunny, Tolstoy is trying to hatch a clutch of rubber ducks.
[wine] Wine tasting challenge
Start from the top and work your way through the board. Ask your wine merchant for properly representative bottles of each, and aim for mid-range, affordable options.
Pornstars per million inhabitants
OK. So any reasons why the Czech Republic and Hungary are so much above the rest of Europe, in terms of pornstars density?
Encyclopedia of sandwiches
Of all of those, I’ve had 30. How about you?
Our gift to us
Katy has been dropping less and less subtle hints about wanting a new TV. Our old one still worked, was perfectly fine, but was older than Ben. So we used the “opportunity” of Ben getting a PS4 for his birthday to give him the old TV and getting a new one as a present to us. The price was very right, the size fits in our old TV unit and it’s a hell of a lot lighter!
We got another wall mounting bracket to put the TV in Ben’s room. I spent a solid hour swearing at Ben’s wall. These are rebar-reinforced contrete. I had my full body-weight against the drill, praying the bit wouldn’t shatter, and the damn thing was barely moving. As it stands, the building will fall down before that f’n bracket does. Except that now according to the ungrateful child, the TV is too high. Screw that, it’s not moving now…
Happy birthday, child
So we managed to not kill the boy another year. It’s been very touch and go for a while…
That’s going to leave a mark…
I ran the trail this morning. Even though it’s a nice run, I’m always afraid of tripping on a tree root hidden by leaves, or something like that, so I’m always a bit more careful running it.
This morning, I faceplanted in the most stupendous way. It wasn’t in the forest though, it was on the beach. I tripped on something, no idea what, and I cartoonishly got some really good air, then skidded for about a foot in small gravel and seashells.
On my face. As in, spitting out a mouthful of dirt. Fortunately, the only witness was a swan. So I brushed myself off and carried on with my run, with only a few scratches on my face and a bit of road rash on my hand.
On the plus side though, I’m now less than a kilo from my next weight goal achievement :)
[recipe] Chocolate cinnamon roll
For the dough
450g flour
65g sugar
30g cocoa powder
1 sachet dehydrated baker’s yeast
1/2 tsp salt
300ml lukewarm milk
50g butter
For the filling
80g butter
40g brown sugar
10g cocoa powder
Zest of 1 orange
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
Dissolve the yeast in 50ml lukewarm milk and let stand 10 minutes until frothy. Pour the flour, cocoa, sugar and salt into the bowl of a food processor, make a well in the center and pour in the yeast and the rest of the lukewarm milk. Begin kneading at low speed until the ingredients are amalgamated. Cover and let stand 20 minutes.
Add the butter to the dough and continue kneading at medium speed until the butter is well integrated, about ten minutes. Cover and let stand in a warm place for 1 hour 30 minutes or until the dough has doubled in size.
Mix the ingredients for the filling in a bowl and set aside at room temperature until ready to use.
Pinch down the dough then roll it out with a rolling pin to about 5 mm thick. Spread the filling over it.
Roll the dough onto itself and cut out rounds about 2 inches thick.
Place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, or in a buttered mold. Cover and let stand 30 to 60 minutes.
Brush with a little egg white and put in an oven preheated to 200Cbfor 15-20 minutes. Let cool. Enjoy.
Life goal
I want to be as happy as Not-my-dog looks in this pictures.