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lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I'm going to learn some more patisserie this year. I want to get croissants sorted and make pate a choux something that I can just knock out. Last year pate Sablee was my aim to just learn how to work with and I've got pretty good with it even if I do say so myself! I make a pretty amazing French fruit tarte with pate sablee, frangipane and fruit in it.

Thank you to FIR too.



It's hardly the first accusation against Woody Allen. I like a lot of his films: Manhattan is a classic, just amazing, and All I Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but was Afraid to Ask is very funny, particularly the black sperm amongst the Jewish ones. He is a bit of an odd-ball and he's kinda struck me as a wrong 'un before.

I have a good sense for that sort of thing: I can often spot the husbands of Mrs Generali's friends who are cheating or a bit handy with their fists. The divorces rarely come as a surprise.

I'm not a big supporter of Valentines Day: I love Mrs Generali 365 days a year, not 1. She gets flowers and, even better to her mind, free corporate branded freebies. There's little that Mrs Generali likes more than a JP Morgan water bottle or a Goldman Sachs golf umbrella.



The word tumour isn't very nice. I'd not thought of it before but then I've not really had to. They've belonged to other people so I've felt sympathy rather than fear.

Thank you for the offer to PM you. I may well take you up on it. LIR and NDG have also been very supportive during my recent travails.

Shhhhh, I have a rep to maintain. Really I have been mean and just stringing you along to stick a knife in.


Frangipani is definitely one of my favourite things, and the sort of things you are making are my 'oh bloody hell some ones coming and I deed a pud I don't need imagination for' because they are default mind sets for me. I love nuts, and experiment a bit with how to use them. I also make brittles with other seeds. Pumpkin seed brittle is pretty yum IMO. Different dimension to the almight deserved kings of sesame and penut and pecan, but amazing. I use ground bunts for cake making a lot but it gets expensive. I love soft damp nut cakes though, and especially that sort of hopeful sink int the middle that might look disappointing but always tastes better. Ground pistachio makes some amazing cakes. Nuts are currently verboten but I have abandoned plan last week and tonight I plan to eat both some walnuts and some hazelnuts. I'll either live or die.:rotfl: but I'll have eaten nuts, and spinach (I love spinach) and grapes. If their plan had worked I'd stick at it, but it dodn't and I miss nuts and fruit and veg, Its not like abandoning of for alcohol, cream and chocolate) but I just don't like it. Nuts have been very sorely missed. . I don't like walnuts that much even, but that bitter taste has been missed....so unsweet!

For some reason in the last couple of years my pastry making skills have got worse. :mad: I don't know why. I know I don't get on with this cooker, but I don't think it can take all the blame. I have excellent pastry hands, they are cold:o. I can only think I am a bit out of practise as I make pastry less. I get quite a bit of shrinkage at times. :mad::mad: I want to get those metal beans on a string. I get fed upon chasing beans about.

I don't really like Allen films. I mean, I'll watch one, but..,,its not my thing. I'm already self satisfied enough. I don my need the extra dose I think.

lostinrates

Whohoooo....

HMRC are giving us money back! Thats nice post to open.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

LIR might be interested to read this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2554214/Ive-created-lot-problems-Why-Labradoodle-creator-blames-puppy-mills-breeding-Frankenstein-versions-designer-dog.html

And here's one for Big Dog, who might be feeling like Little Dog after this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554418/Meet-Freddy-7ft-1in-11st-growing-The-Great-Dane-whos-big-walked-dark-dogs-wont-scared.html

Thanks, He's amazing to speak out.

He's right.

There is nothing wrong with crosses in themselves. All breeds strated as just that really. They are infact, often a healthy thing, its my dream that KC allow and register permitted outcrossesnon some breeds to restore health. But designer crosses are a hideous thing more often than not, even though the individuals are often charming lovely dogs.

There are good breeds for most purposes and good breeders, and regulating those breeders easier than the cross breed breeders.

I think he's remarkably brave and noble to admit he started a trend which has been a disservice to dogs.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

It used to be normal for Doctors to lie to their patients AIUI.

We'll see what's wrong with me. I might be at Death's door or perhaps have something like a cold of the neck, time will tell.

I am a little scared though despite the fact that I shouldn't be.

It is absolutely 100% normal to be scared. You guys see me sometimes panicking and I have had YEARS to come to terms with something that doesn't come with a word like 'tumour'.

Surely you don't hold it against me when I get nervous? Do you? Huh? ( lir taps foot impatiently?). No, I didn't think so, ....because you did say no, right?;)


So why would you not be scared? Your life ticks a long, your healthy, you do the right things, you are fit as a fiddle you eat well, you cook, ok, you have a drink, you sometimes have a treat,....but you do pretty much the right things right? These things happen to other people......

Its normal to be scared, cross, then fine, angry at yourself, even cross its you not the slob next door, then terrified, and all kinds of other things. Its normal, natural and frankly unavoidable.


So roll with it. . Poor old Leon, he's not going to be popular what ever he turns out to be, where as you my love are surrounded by love and support.

lostinrates

Inspired by gen I'm going to try the Georgian recipe for pheasant I've wanted to try for a while with the guinea fowl tonight.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Inspired by gen I'm going to try the Georgian recipe for pheasant I've wanted to try for a while with the guinea fowl tonight.

Even if farmed they want some fat to keep them moist. Bacon, olive oil or butter; it's all the same.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Even if farmed they want some fat to keep them moist. Bacon, olive oil or butter; it's all the same.

They are ( very) free range. Its a pheasant recipe, haven't re read it. But obviously fat will be similarly requisite. Think butter is the fat. I should of course not eat that, I'll clarify it first though I guess.


I love guinea fowl, its a very nice meat I think.

zagubov

Good luck Gen and as tomterm says they didn't say it was likely benign to reassure you but simply because it's true.

Viva, you're right about which Woody Allen films were funny. Annie Hall had a great brief dialogue between Christopher Walken and Woody Allen and not that much else.

Sleeper and Bananas were great but Take the Money and Run was a howl!

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

Good luck Gen and as tomterm says they didn't say it was likely benign to reassure you but simply because it's true.

Viva, you're right about which Woody Allen films were funny. Annie Hall had a great brief dialogue between Christopher Walken and Woody Allen and not that much else.

Sleeper and Bananas were great but Take the Money and Run was a howl!

The problem with Woody Allen films is that I can't remember all of them. It is a good 30 years since I've watched them and my memory of films is not great. I remember enjoying Annie Hall, but can't remember why. I do remember thinking Sleeper was a hoot though (especially the Orgasmatron) as well as Bananas as it was just so bonkers and it was brilliant self-casting. The use of Gershwin in Manhattan though was sublime. He had a golden era which is long-since passed. I'll have to look out Take the Money and Run.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

They are ( very) free range. ...


I love guinea fowl, its a very nice meat I think.

Have you established that it is dead?