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[Previous entry: "Shane Tan: most googlest!"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "522 vs 3 vs (4x,2) (2,4x) (how esoteric? way esoteric!)"] 30/05/2005: "My Wierd-Ass Day! + I HATE STARBUCKS!"
Then I went to starbucks. The man in from of me wanted to order two tall-skim-milk-lattes with 3/4's full of foam. I looked at the back of his head in confused disbelief then moved on with my life. I said," i just want a normal flat white". "what a tall size?". "Yup,the smallest." "$3.50, please" Then i waited at the serving area for my coffee. 3/4 man's coffees were called, so he shuffles over grabs his coffees and demands a cup of boiling water. yea, i'm coping... sure. Then, he shuffles back, having inspected how much froth is in BOTH cups, and then points out that he ordered "lattes with 3/4's full of foam" and he had obviously recieved 3/4's full of coffee and 1/4's full of foam. Disgruntled, he signs, "we're sitting in so you can use normal cups not paper" expecting new cups of coffee and stormed off. WHEN HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ABLE TO DICTATE PERCENTAGE FOAM? He might as well have ordered a flat white but actually i want it to be served in a purple flower pot and garnished with a cherry. And ohh... by the way, i'd like the milk of a female human, not regular cow's milk please. But yea, whatever... i'm just gonna get on with my life. Juggling is on Sunday afternoons in Hyde Park in the city. I've never been but i thought i'd go and have a look. So i waited near the war memorial and pond were the skateboarders were. I was sitting on a bench drinking starbucks coffee and watched the skaters. One of the skaters started walking towards me. "Do you skate?" "No... I actually here for the juggling on Sunday's in Hyde Park have you ever seen them?" "No, I skate here regularly on weekends and i've never seen jugglers" "Oh, maybe i'm in the wrong place" "yea man, but why don't you just juggle here" "I'm might try and find the place"
There's more! So juggling at hyde park went great and I walked to central with Mark. We got to train station, trains are leaving from all weird platforms during renovations. That's ok... whatever. We're waiting for the train. I start balancing a club, as you do when waiting for a train. Then I hear Mark say, "hey man..." "who are you talking too," I say since i'm field of vision is obsured by club. Then I look and standing in from of me is heavy metal, thin wirey year-12 guy with 3 piercing through lower lips and jet black goth hair. We get into discussion about balancing objects and how somethings and easier than others. We also talk about how we got into juggling and stuff like that. Then we got onto the train and he got on too. Things went from bad to worse, he was an inquisitive young lad and our conversations went into issues involving "what is considered a juggle? a flash? a qualify? 10mins?" "what defines juggling" "quality versus quantity of practice" "how do you define the best? is it technical precision? artistic soul? or complete package?" I felt like I was having a drunken philisopical chat but I was sure I hadn't been drinking! Finally, we got off the train, purchased Stella Artois and got to Mark's house. Katherine had started making pizzas. Mark helped. I said that at the moment I was really into cooking and that there was a time in my life when i was obsessed with cooking shows and books. Especially anything by Jamie Oliver. "what have you been cooking?" "well, i've cooked sticky date pudding about 3x this month... it's really easy. If , you have dates i could make it for you right now." [click extended entry for Sticky Date Pudding Recipie] Totally made sticky date pudding at Mark's house. Right, well it's past midnight. My, what a long entry! yea, well, now i can get on with my life! 
Nigella’s EASY STICKY-TOFFEE PUDDING -------------------------------------- This draws on the culinary technology of the surprise pudding - that amazing affair by which, on baking, a layer of sponge is formed, under which evolves a thick and luscious sauce - while playing with the flavours of a traditional sticky-toffee pudding. True, if you're feeding 12 people you'll need to make two, but given how almost provocatively easy it is, that's no big deal. I can see this stretching to 8, mayhe even a little bit beyond, but I wouldn't want to ask much more of it, despite the gargantuan feast that precedes it. Better to have too much than give rise to even the slightest tremor of ration-anxiety at the table. Never Knowingly Undercatered, that's me. for the cake: 100g dark muscovado sugar 175 self-raising flour 125ml full-fat milk 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 5Og unsalted butter, melted 200g chopped, railed dates for the sauce: 200g dark muscovado sugar approx. 2Sg unsalted butter in little blabs 5OOml boiling water Preheat the oven to 190°C/gas mark 5 and butter a 1'/,-litre capacity pudding dish. Combine the 100g dark muscovado sugar with the flour in a large bowl. Pour the milk into a measuring jug, beat in the egg, vanilla and melted butter and then pour this mixture over the sugar and flour, stirring - just with a wooden spoon - to combine. Fold in the dates then scrape into the prepared pudding dish. Don't worry if it doesn't look vcry full: it will do by the time it cooks. Sprinkle over the 200g dark muscovado sugar and dot with the butter. Pour over the boiling water (yes really!) and transfer to the oven. Set the timer for 45 minutes, though you might find the pudding needs 5 or 10 minutes more. The top of the pudding should be springy and spongy when it's cooked; underneath, the butter, dark muscovado sugar and boiling water will have turned into a rich, sticky sauce. Serve with vanilla ice cream, creme fraiche, double or single cream as you wish. Serves 6-8. ---------------------------- Nigella Lawson. (Nigella Bites) ---------------------------- I've been using rolled oats in combo with flour instead of all flour. I also have used less sugar in pudding and olive oil instead of butter. It all works good. Replies: 2 Comments
Hey; Vik said @ 06/06/2005 01:59 PM EST
Good grief Shane Tan! I thought the Starbucks menu was ridiculous enough but 3/4 guy sounds even worse. jamalt said @ 05/30/2005 10:11 PM EST |
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