I read your response to the ginger thread, you say you grate frozen ginger. I like to share this tip I learned a month ago, Do not know why it never occurred to me, but if you bake, say your making a pastry, freeze your butter and grate it instead of having to cut it in with a knife or whatever one generally uses.

Grating frozen butter, such a simple idea, yet so very effective.

At least they're fresh!>> ^Hybrid:

These pies seem to be missing their puff pastry tops.

These pies seem to be missing their puff pastry tops.

Funny, I was just reading the Gorgias Socratic Dialogue yesterday. This is just chopped full of rhetoric, "These are the times we live in", which is of course, meaningless...when has their not been violence and injustice in the world, but it sure sounds nice.

Rhetoric is to politics what pastry baking is to medicine, and what cosmetics are to gymnastics. -Socrates

In the best case of coincidence; a friend of mine asked if I could bring her a cup cake. I said: I'd make a cup cake cannon and barrage her with pastries. Someone else then asked if I had seen the Cup Cake Cannon video...someone needs to stop pulling the ideas out of my head and putting them on the internets =)

You know what works better than the Batter (stuck with whatever funky batter mix inside) Blaster? Mix up your favorite batter and put it into a pastry bag with your choice of tip. Interested to get a can an see what the added air does for the consistency,Are you really that lazy that you need it in a can? Whipped cream for that matter-a waste of good Nitrous Oxide!! Otherwise-Does it come in Belgian Waffle Mix?

Hmmmmmmm? A pot roast, coat it with a can of this bout' 15mins from done, voila. Baste with yer choice of reduction!!

>> ^spoco2:
There's obviously no changing people's minds here.
But to just address one point of QM "Under socialized health care is it "fair" that the healthy guy with no major medical problems gets little return on his health care taxes while the fat smoker spends two years in a hospital bed before expiring?"
Well, we handle the smoking issue here in Australia by taxing the shite out of them. Over 63% of the cost of cigarettes is tax. This is fair... you don't NEED to smoke, you shouldn't really smoke, by doing so you are indeed vastly increasing your chances of becoming ill and costing the rest of us money. So... we make the buying of the product cover the probably cost of taking care of you... the more you smoke, the more you've paid towards your own care.
Seems fair.
Same could be applied to fast food etc. and less tax being put on fresh food and healthy options. It becomes murky as to what you class as what around the edges, but by and large you can make those that chose to be unhealthy pay more to be so.
You're not outlawing such behaviour, you're not stopping people smoking, you're just encouraging people not to in the first place by making it expensive, and if that doesn't stop them at least they are contributing money to the rest of us.


It's not just fast food, though, that can make you unhealthy. It's soda pop, pastries, too much starch, too much sodium, too much hamburger, too many eggs, too much cheese. What the fuck are you going to do, start taxing everything except raw vegetables? Some things are perfectly healthy choices depending on how often you eat them and how much you exercise. The government hasn't a fucking clue what each individual's exercise habits are. This is the most dictatorial, socialist-engineering nonsense I've ever heard anyone say. The only way to dissaude someone who is eating irresponsible amounts of junk food relative to exercise is to penalize people who eat a responsible amount relative to exercise. It's like having a lineup of 10 suspects in which 1 is the murderer, but you don't know which one, and so you shoot them all. I think that's morally bankrupt to punish the innocent to get to the guilty.

Part of living in a free country is to be able to take personal responsibility for one's own health choices. There's a huge difference between having a public option for car accidents and crack babies vs having a public option for conditions that may have been the result of that individual's own poor life habits. I think that people should be on their own to finance health problems that they incur past the age of 30. It is impossible for the government to distinguish whether the condition was the result of such choices, thus is cannot fairly administer a general tax to provide unlimited coverage without disproportionately benefiting those who made bad choices. And I think individuals need to be the customer for insurance companies, not employers.

Apparently any long U-shaped pattern that might vaguely resemble the long hair of the Mona Lisa or one of the filthy bums on my street means that Jesus is risen in your burnt-ass pastry.

yay! i LOVE and cherish and have many kissy kissies for those days.

also, its best with the song mushaboom by feist for the soundtrack

is it compulsive that i have a a whole burned CD for domestic spring time mom days? also for winter ones and summer and fall ones. i have different ones for baking different types of bread/pastry. i have one for sick days. i have ones for days im extra lovey... interestingly enough, the fall domestic mom/family day is mostly iron maiden and slayer.

I've seen that movie way too often over the course of the last 15 years ... and Phil burrying himself in pastry still puts a smile on my face.

>> ^Abducted:
"In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust"
Eh?


Really? You've never heard the phrase "Real men don't eat quiche"?

That and the Chai Lattes are insults to their masculinity.

"In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust"

Eh?

In Danish a berliner is exactly that.

I am a delicious pastry.

This video is likely never to be found again, as Mr. Morrison tend's to defend his copyrights with great vigor. I'll describe it to you:

The video is in black and white, with a young, long haired and possibly intoxicated van swaying at the mirophone, telling a screaming fan that he'd play the song if he'd 'shut the F&#k up. It was a great, emotional and somewhat downtempo live performance and since it was low light and black and white film digitized for YouTube, so it had both the feel of real emulsion and a soft pixelation, as you can probably sense from the thumbnail.

So, VideoSift, Sorry I couldn't find the replacement but offer to you instead this fascinating article by WFMU's website 'beware the blog', regarding an album that Van recorded to sourly satisfy a contractual obligation, wherein he sings off-the cuff songs about breakfast pastries and whatnot, with full mp3 of each track...

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/van_morrisons_c.html