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

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

Crème brûlée is good and also looks very fancy in writing, what with ` and ^ and all that I hardly ever get to use so must search for on my keyboard. You know what is also good? Chocolate fondants. Fondants mm. Also pies and whipped cream and othello cakes and B&J ice cream some of which I just had and pancakes and crêpes and cakes with coconut and baked alaska and almost the rest of the recipes in my cook books.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! :D

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Any time! :D

[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