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So I mark today as the day I officially learn German. Before this I was taking on Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian as well, so now I just want to narrow down on German. The foreign language bookstore I patronized in Melbourne gave me a lot of new resources on German, so I have every reason to focus on it. I plan to use this journal to mark my ( Read more... ) -
Gâteaux aux Pommes
A few years ago, Nathalie passed to me a French recipe that featured apples and batter. The only thing that distinguishes it from regular apple-and-cake combinations is a layer of crispy, buttery sweet topping baked together with the cake.
I want to find out more about it so that it can perhaps enjoy the same status as the Viennese Apple Cheese ( Read more... ) -
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If all goes well, we will have a shop by the end of the month... and I will finally have a place to experiment on new recipes more frequently!
I gained some weight. I worked rather hard towards it and it's paying off quite well. But last week I had a week of fasting. I excluded meat from my diet because I LOVE MEAT. At the end of the fast I started ( Read more... ) -
Banankaka - Nordic Banana Cake
A regular banana cake - but with spices typical of Nordic baking. I used a blend of ginger, cinnamon, allspice and cardamom.
My colleagues liked the warm taste of spices with the banana. I felt that the texture could be improved. I actually used the wrong kind of sugar. I also did not mash the bananas thoroughly. And also was slipshod with the ( Read more... ) -
C.S. Lewis
“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Dough Wrangling
All right so this week is Nordic Desserts week!
Cinnamon Roll √
Nordic Style Banana Cake
Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake
Cinnamon Roll didn't go so well because I forgot to constrain its expanding area and it expanded out of its roll. Thus my mother cut it up and we served it pretzel style.
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My God's name is Jehovah
In the beginning God had just one rule for Adam and Eve - to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But they broke that rule.
When the flood washed the earth clean God had new rules for Noah and his family as they settled on dry land - particularly
But you must not eat flesh with its blood of life. Otherwise, I will require your blood ( Read more... )