RAM and it's raining
Grumble grumble grumble. Why when Froggy upgraded my little laptop with some new RAM to get me up and running faster that 256, did it work in the store and then on Sunday and now it goes kaput???
For the moment it's working and I'm hoping that the darn thing doesn't just turn itself off again. It sounds like a trip back to the store and a return to the stone age for my future computing ventures.
The morning started badly. The alarm kept going off reminding us that we went to bed a lot later than usual. All for a good cause no less: we made cannelés and stuffed mushrooms for the leaving party Froggy is helping host today at the library. With my excitement of discovering my LJ I seem to have forgotten to tell Froggy that cannelés cook for an hour per batch in the oven. Thank goodness there were only two batches. Then of course it was stuffed mushroom time and they took a good 30 minutes in the oven too.
Cannelés de Bordeaux
requires cannelé molds
Ingredients
250g sugar
100g flour
50g butter
½ l milk
2 whole eggs & 2 yolks
Vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
Soup spoon of rum
Step I
1.Boil the milk with the butter and the vanilla;
2. Leave to cool;
3. Mix the sugar and the flour in a large bowl;
4. Add the whole eggs into the milk/butter/vanilla;
5. Add the yolks then the salt;
6. Mix into the sugar/flour;
7. Add the rum and mix together;
8. The dough will be liquid similar to crêpe dough;
9. Cover and place in the fridge for several hours (overnight is even better).
Step II
1. Heat the oven to 180˚ C;
2. Butter the molds;
3. Take the dough out of the fridge - mix it a bit;
4. Fill the molds to the very top with a ladle;
5. Put them in the oven for one hour - do not open the oven during this time.
6. After the hour is up take the cannelés out of the molds immediately and place them on a grill to cool.
Stuffed mushrooms
Ingredients
As many large, regular, white mushrooms as you want to prepare
Enough cream cheese to fill the mushroom centers
Chives
Shallots
Hard cheese to be grated or grated cheese (emmental, gruyère, cheddar)
1. Rinse and chop the chives finely
2. Peel and dice the shallots finely
3. Mix the cream cheese with the chives and shallots until smooth
4. Grate the hard cheese into a bowl
5. Wash the mushrooms thoroughly
6. Remove the stems unless you're already working with caps
7. Fill with cream cheese mix. Place on a baking tray
8. Sprinkle the top with grated cheese
9. Bake in a hot oven until the mushrooms look cooked and the grated cheese has melted (approximately 30 minutes depending on your oven)
While the oven was working overtime Froggy got caught up in some Nicolas Cage - Angelina Jolie action movie and I was testing the different LJ options. We must have crept off to bed around 1:30 which didn't help us feel like getting out of the warm bed today.
To be fair Froggy got up first to take his shower and get ready for work. He even cleaned up the disaster we left in the kitchen. But I couldn't really sleep. Someone started construction work bright an early and between the hammering and their electric saw I had pretty much given up. Complete defeat was acknowledged when the kids in the apartment above us made it clear to us and the rest of the hearing world that they too were awake. I'm not sure if it was the initial screams followed by high pitch crying or the racetrack running which helped me leave my pillow but somehow the desire to sleep vanished and I joined Froggy in the kitchen.
The sky resembles dirty dishwater this morning. As Froggy was preparing to leave someone turned on the tap and a deluge of dirty dishwater fell to the ground. Now Froggy's gone, my laptop is on the blink, I'm waiting for the vampire and my tummy is beginning to rumble.
It's cold. Grumble grumble.
For the moment it's working and I'm hoping that the darn thing doesn't just turn itself off again. It sounds like a trip back to the store and a return to the stone age for my future computing ventures.
The morning started badly. The alarm kept going off reminding us that we went to bed a lot later than usual. All for a good cause no less: we made cannelés and stuffed mushrooms for the leaving party Froggy is helping host today at the library. With my excitement of discovering my LJ I seem to have forgotten to tell Froggy that cannelés cook for an hour per batch in the oven. Thank goodness there were only two batches. Then of course it was stuffed mushroom time and they took a good 30 minutes in the oven too.
Cannelés de Bordeaux
requires cannelé molds
Ingredients
250g sugar
100g flour
50g butter
½ l milk
2 whole eggs & 2 yolks
Vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
Soup spoon of rum
Step I
1.Boil the milk with the butter and the vanilla;
2. Leave to cool;
3. Mix the sugar and the flour in a large bowl;
4. Add the whole eggs into the milk/butter/vanilla;
5. Add the yolks then the salt;
6. Mix into the sugar/flour;
7. Add the rum and mix together;
8. The dough will be liquid similar to crêpe dough;
9. Cover and place in the fridge for several hours (overnight is even better).
Step II
1. Heat the oven to 180˚ C;
2. Butter the molds;
3. Take the dough out of the fridge - mix it a bit;
4. Fill the molds to the very top with a ladle;
5. Put them in the oven for one hour - do not open the oven during this time.
6. After the hour is up take the cannelés out of the molds immediately and place them on a grill to cool.
Stuffed mushrooms
Ingredients
As many large, regular, white mushrooms as you want to prepare
Enough cream cheese to fill the mushroom centers
Chives
Shallots
Hard cheese to be grated or grated cheese (emmental, gruyère, cheddar)
1. Rinse and chop the chives finely
2. Peel and dice the shallots finely
3. Mix the cream cheese with the chives and shallots until smooth
4. Grate the hard cheese into a bowl
5. Wash the mushrooms thoroughly
6. Remove the stems unless you're already working with caps
7. Fill with cream cheese mix. Place on a baking tray
8. Sprinkle the top with grated cheese
9. Bake in a hot oven until the mushrooms look cooked and the grated cheese has melted (approximately 30 minutes depending on your oven)
While the oven was working overtime Froggy got caught up in some Nicolas Cage - Angelina Jolie action movie and I was testing the different LJ options. We must have crept off to bed around 1:30 which didn't help us feel like getting out of the warm bed today.
To be fair Froggy got up first to take his shower and get ready for work. He even cleaned up the disaster we left in the kitchen. But I couldn't really sleep. Someone started construction work bright an early and between the hammering and their electric saw I had pretty much given up. Complete defeat was acknowledged when the kids in the apartment above us made it clear to us and the rest of the hearing world that they too were awake. I'm not sure if it was the initial screams followed by high pitch crying or the racetrack running which helped me leave my pillow but somehow the desire to sleep vanished and I joined Froggy in the kitchen.
The sky resembles dirty dishwater this morning. As Froggy was preparing to leave someone turned on the tap and a deluge of dirty dishwater fell to the ground. Now Froggy's gone, my laptop is on the blink, I'm waiting for the vampire and my tummy is beginning to rumble.
It's cold. Grumble grumble.