Ado
Thursday 29 November 2007
Sunday 25 November 2007
Monday 19 November 2007
A thought for the Week Ahead (3)
Due to planetary allignment you will be strongly drawn to do the opposite of what you should. This will lead you to selling your old TV going out with the proceeds and waking up next to 'HIM' again. The same goes for boys and girls. Don't fret as you will have some change left over to get him a taxi, buy some paracetamol and a packet of hobnobs. N.B. stay in next week end and listen to music.
Bobby Peru
Bobby Peru
Saturday 17 November 2007
Wobbly bits
I was going to write about sex, but I’m still researching….
What I mean is, I still have to interview the Reformed Libertine who would certainly be a source of knowledge both factual and anecdotic
In the meantime I got the first pressie for my birthday! A lovely wobbly silicone cake mould. A round one with ridges and a hole in the middle.
So it was that I fought with the cat for the possession of the two-steps ladder and climbed to the dizzy heights of my cookery book shelf to take down the venerable Artusi: the Bible of Italian cooking. Boldly I went where I never dared before: Blancmange And retreated straight away to the safety of panna cotta from a modern practical cooking collection. Cholesterly challenged but easy to do, it necessitated one key ingredient: leaf gelatin. 2 sheets. This mysterious ingredient comes in a 25g bag of 10 sheets. In Ireland, that is. Apparently in Italy (where the recipe originated) it comes in single 25g sheets. The result was a very sorrowful looking liquid mix of cream, milk and sugar. I checked again in the morning, just in case by some strange anomaly of physics it had solidified out in the shed overnight. It hadn’t.
Ado and The Chef dug deep in their culinary expertise (one having been a bohemian salad chef in Paris, the other having earned a proper C.E.R.T. qualification) and instructed me to rescue my mixture by adding 2 tubs of Philadelphia and one further sheet of gelatin thus transforming the disaster into a cheese cake. Foreboding an ill outcome, I got cheep cream cheese from Lidl As I was stirring it into the warmed up creamy mess to be rescued, I managed to have a long conversation holding my mobile phone between shoulder and ear. Miraculously the phone didn’t join the cheese in the bowl. Problem was, I was distracted from proper stirring and half of the tiny sheet of gelatin stuck to the bottom of the pot and there it remained. A further night chilling in the shed did nothing for the physical quality of my disaster. It was still at the liquid state. Maybe going sour as well. Or maybe it was the cheap cheese. We’ll never know.
Attempt number 2 was a budino, as wobbly as the mould but edible. Regrettably it is still lurking in the fridge. I wonder why…
Pinzimonio
What I mean is, I still have to interview the Reformed Libertine who would certainly be a source of knowledge both factual and anecdotic
In the meantime I got the first pressie for my birthday! A lovely wobbly silicone cake mould. A round one with ridges and a hole in the middle.
So it was that I fought with the cat for the possession of the two-steps ladder and climbed to the dizzy heights of my cookery book shelf to take down the venerable Artusi: the Bible of Italian cooking. Boldly I went where I never dared before: Blancmange And retreated straight away to the safety of panna cotta from a modern practical cooking collection. Cholesterly challenged but easy to do, it necessitated one key ingredient: leaf gelatin. 2 sheets. This mysterious ingredient comes in a 25g bag of 10 sheets. In Ireland, that is. Apparently in Italy (where the recipe originated) it comes in single 25g sheets. The result was a very sorrowful looking liquid mix of cream, milk and sugar. I checked again in the morning, just in case by some strange anomaly of physics it had solidified out in the shed overnight. It hadn’t.
Ado and The Chef dug deep in their culinary expertise (one having been a bohemian salad chef in Paris, the other having earned a proper C.E.R.T. qualification) and instructed me to rescue my mixture by adding 2 tubs of Philadelphia and one further sheet of gelatin thus transforming the disaster into a cheese cake. Foreboding an ill outcome, I got cheep cream cheese from Lidl As I was stirring it into the warmed up creamy mess to be rescued, I managed to have a long conversation holding my mobile phone between shoulder and ear. Miraculously the phone didn’t join the cheese in the bowl. Problem was, I was distracted from proper stirring and half of the tiny sheet of gelatin stuck to the bottom of the pot and there it remained. A further night chilling in the shed did nothing for the physical quality of my disaster. It was still at the liquid state. Maybe going sour as well. Or maybe it was the cheap cheese. We’ll never know.
Attempt number 2 was a budino, as wobbly as the mould but edible. Regrettably it is still lurking in the fridge. I wonder why…
Pinzimonio
Tuesday 13 November 2007
A Thought for the Week Ahead (2)
A glorious confluence in Mars will prompt you to buy a chocolate bar of the same name. This houever will be left in the car on a sunny day and will turn to liquid. This you will decide to scoop up with chips, leading to a lifelong weired food craving which will haunt you to the grave.
Bobby Peru
Bobby Peru
Thursday 8 November 2007
Monday 5 November 2007
A Thought for the Week Ahead (1)
The effect of Pluto can be felt this week but not half as much as the effect of Pernoid. This will leave you waking up in strange houses with different socks to the ones you went out in. Don't underestimate the importance of tea in your life.
Bobby Peru
Bobby Peru
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