The Days Are Just Packed

[xifeng]

Ha ha! I spent the entire morning yesterday not working and still getting paid for it!

Well, actually, I foolishly volunteered to help out in the pharmacy, which requires a drug test, and today was the first day that a.) Karen in Personnel and I were both there and b.) there wasn't snow on the ground, so I was on the clock and I got paid to, basically, drive over, sit in the waiting room, drink water, and take the drug test (which, per the Lords of Low Prices, must be sent to a lab in Kansas to be properly cultured wtf). Also, I ran into Ainsley and Karie (of all people) in the waiting room, and I haven't seen then in a while, so there was some catching up. They seem to be doing okay.

Also, I have really fallen off the wagon in re: the matter of doing anything worthwhile, but hope to pick myself up and get back on. Seriously, I have scarcely read anything that wasn't somehow Oceania-related--not that I don't just love Oceania, because I do, but I need to read other things too. Please feel free to kick me.

Oh, and I am so totally going to try this. I love crème brûlée, and would make it at home once in a while if I had a torch, but there's never been any sense for me in spending the money to get a torch given that I'd probably use it once a year; much as I love it, crème brûlée is not in line with my preferred eating patterns. (Then again, neither is gobbling chocolate chips in front of the computer. LOL L33 IZ HYPOCRITE.) Now I don't have to have a torch. :D

Because I have also been negligent about updating my LJ and thus have not done this: a happy belated to queen_lily_rose and jadecat, who were a year older as of 9 January and 11 January respectively. Srry gaiz. :<


Happy birthday, imperfectkatoru and arisha!

Comments

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Anything with diacritical marks must be delicious, just because it's so hard to type! Also, if the rest of the recipes in your cookbooks are like pancakes and B&J ice cream (which I also just had, mmm, maple ice cream with blondies) and crepes and cakes with coconut and baked alaska and so on, they must be a powerful force for yum in the galaxy.

I am not sure what a Danish fondant is; here in the States, it is like a pliable sugar paste that we use to cover cakes and create a smooth surface for icing when we're decorating them, but it may have a different meaning for you.

MOREOVER YOU FORGOT MARZIPAN. MARZIPAN IS ALSO DELICIOUS. IT'S LIKE THE GOD-KING OF DELICIOUS.

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

Well, there's marzipan in othello cake! Othello cake is all smothered in marzipan, when done right. Mmm.

A chocolate fondant is a muffin-sized chocolate cake with a delicious runny chocolatey middle usually served with either whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. It looks something like this (http://media.photobucket.com/image/chocolate%20fondant/boo_licious/misc2/ultimatechocolatefondant.jpg).

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes. Everything should be smothered in marzipan.

In the US, we would call that something like a chocolate lava cake, because it contains a center of delicious molten fudge. :D