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First: Thanks so much for the love! I love you, my LJ-friends, so much!
So I thought I would be well enough to go to work today. Then I woke up at 5 AM this morning with a splitting headache. I took the max dose of pain killers and went back to bed, but couldn't fall asleep for more than one hour due to the ache. The pain killers took away the worst part, in that after a while my head no longer felt like it would explode if I accidantally moved it a fraction of an inch, but it still hurt quite a bit. So I decided to stay at home today as well. I still have a headache (have taken several more pain killers), but it's much better now.
I watched The Plan yesterday. Since I had read so many unenthusiastic reviews, and wasn't overly interested in it to begin with due to the lack of pilots, I was kind of pleasantly surprised that I didn't hate it. I liked the way they used material from earlier seasons. It was a big retcon and a way to explain the whole "and they have a plan" mantra. Cavil was way too dominant, they might as well have renamed the movie "the Cavil show", but I enjoyed watching it. No need to see it again, but it's nice to have watched it all.
I also watched Terminator: Salvation last night. I liked it. I was in the right kind of mood to watch it, so I didn't mind the blatant disregard for physical laws (throughout the film, but especially towards the end, such as when the helicopter outflew a nuclear blast), the fact that Marcus wasn't recognized by the other terminators to begin with and so on. Also, why was John Connor so surprised to see a humanoid terminator, and why couldn't he grasp that it could be friendly? Didn't he grow up with that? Also, how lucky that the Terminator portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger was made in a different alloy - they managed to melt him down in the first movie, right? Here, the terminators just kept going even after being covered with melted metal. Ok, so maybe I had a few problems with the movie. But I still liked it. I laughed out loud when the Arnold-look-alike terminator made its appearance. It was very much a set-up for sequels, but I won't mind that. And both Christian Bale and Sam Worthington are easy on the eyes.
daybreak777 and I were discussing pumpkin pies and such, and she asked me about seasonal foods and cakes in Sweden. She was interested in these recipes, and I thought I'd post them here in case someone else is interested as well. They both have metric measurements and degrees Celsius (my teaspoons are 5 ml). I have translated them from Swedish, so I'm not sure I'm using the proper terms for everything. Don't hesitate to ask if anything is unclear.
Spice Cake - this is a soft, sponge cake type of cake that is very common this time of the year. It's often made in a bundt pan.
Ingredients:
Prepare a pan with a volume of approx 1.5 litres by greasing the inside, add flour if you want to. Melt butter or margerine over low heat and let it cool. Whip eggs and sugar so that they are white and fluffy. Add milk/sour cream, the melted butter/margerine, and the flour mixed with the spices and the bicarbonate or baking powder to the batter. Pour into the pan, and bake in the lower part of the oven for approx 45 minutes. NB: My recipe says 45 minutes, but in my oven it only takes around 30 minutes. Not sure why, perhaps I'm using a different kind of pan or something.
Saffron Cake - this is mostly baked in December.
Ingredients:
Grease and flour a springform pan with approx 24 cm diameter.
Melt the butter/margerine over low heat and allow to cool.
Prepare the saffron.
Whip eggs and sugar until white and fluffy. Add the saffron, butter/margerine and milk. Mix the flour with the baking powder and add to the batter. Pour the batter in the pan.
Bake in the lower part of the oven for approx 45 minutes. In my oven, this does take 45 minutes, but I usually cover the cake with aluminum foil after half that time, to prevent the cake from becoming too dark. Take care not to bake for too long, this cake has a tendency to become dry.
After cooling, sift confectioner's sugar over the cake. Sometimes I cut out a heart shape (or something similar) in a paper and use this to create a pattern for the sugar.
I googled and found similar recipes in case you don't want to do the conversions yourselves:
Saffron Cake here
Spice Cake here
I hope you enjoy the recipes!
Ok, I think this entry is more than long enough.
(But if you want more to read, and by any chance haven't seen taragel 's latest work yet, I highly recommend her comment!fic from the latest rewatch. Tara, I'm continually amazed by your ability to write tension and awesomely hot scenes in new fresh ways.)
So I thought I would be well enough to go to work today. Then I woke up at 5 AM this morning with a splitting headache. I took the max dose of pain killers and went back to bed, but couldn't fall asleep for more than one hour due to the ache. The pain killers took away the worst part, in that after a while my head no longer felt like it would explode if I accidantally moved it a fraction of an inch, but it still hurt quite a bit. So I decided to stay at home today as well. I still have a headache (have taken several more pain killers), but it's much better now.
I watched The Plan yesterday. Since I had read so many unenthusiastic reviews, and wasn't overly interested in it to begin with due to the lack of pilots, I was kind of pleasantly surprised that I didn't hate it. I liked the way they used material from earlier seasons. It was a big retcon and a way to explain the whole "and they have a plan" mantra. Cavil was way too dominant, they might as well have renamed the movie "the Cavil show", but I enjoyed watching it. No need to see it again, but it's nice to have watched it all.
I also watched Terminator: Salvation last night. I liked it. I was in the right kind of mood to watch it, so I didn't mind the blatant disregard for physical laws (throughout the film, but especially towards the end, such as when the helicopter outflew a nuclear blast), the fact that Marcus wasn't recognized by the other terminators to begin with and so on. Also, why was John Connor so surprised to see a humanoid terminator, and why couldn't he grasp that it could be friendly? Didn't he grow up with that? Also, how lucky that the Terminator portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger was made in a different alloy - they managed to melt him down in the first movie, right? Here, the terminators just kept going even after being covered with melted metal. Ok, so maybe I had a few problems with the movie. But I still liked it. I laughed out loud when the Arnold-look-alike terminator made its appearance. It was very much a set-up for sequels, but I won't mind that. And both Christian Bale and Sam Worthington are easy on the eyes.
daybreak777 and I were discussing pumpkin pies and such, and she asked me about seasonal foods and cakes in Sweden. She was interested in these recipes, and I thought I'd post them here in case someone else is interested as well. They both have metric measurements and degrees Celsius (my teaspoons are 5 ml). I have translated them from Swedish, so I'm not sure I'm using the proper terms for everything. Don't hesitate to ask if anything is unclear.
Spice Cake - this is a soft, sponge cake type of cake that is very common this time of the year. It's often made in a bundt pan.
Ingredients:
- 100 g of butter or margerine
- 2 eggs
- 2.25 dl sugar
- 1.5 dl of "gräddfil". I think this would best be substituted with plain youghurt or sour cream or half yoghurt/sour cream, half whole milk.
- 1.5 tsp of ground ginger
- 1.5 tsp of ground cloves
- 2 tsp of ground cinnamon
- 2.75 dl of wheat flour
- 1 tsp of bicarbonate or 2 tsp of baking powder
Prepare a pan with a volume of approx 1.5 litres by greasing the inside, add flour if you want to. Melt butter or margerine over low heat and let it cool. Whip eggs and sugar so that they are white and fluffy. Add milk/sour cream, the melted butter/margerine, and the flour mixed with the spices and the bicarbonate or baking powder to the batter. Pour into the pan, and bake in the lower part of the oven for approx 45 minutes. NB: My recipe says 45 minutes, but in my oven it only takes around 30 minutes. Not sure why, perhaps I'm using a different kind of pan or something.
Saffron Cake - this is mostly baked in December.
Ingredients:
- 200 g of butter or margerine
- 0.5 g of saffron (if "whole", grind it with a sugar cube with a mortar and pestle)
- 2 eggs
- 3 dl of sugar
- 1.5 dl of milk
- 4 dl of wheat flour
- 2 tsp of baking powder
- Confectioner's sugar to decorate
Grease and flour a springform pan with approx 24 cm diameter.
Melt the butter/margerine over low heat and allow to cool.
Prepare the saffron.
Whip eggs and sugar until white and fluffy. Add the saffron, butter/margerine and milk. Mix the flour with the baking powder and add to the batter. Pour the batter in the pan.
Bake in the lower part of the oven for approx 45 minutes. In my oven, this does take 45 minutes, but I usually cover the cake with aluminum foil after half that time, to prevent the cake from becoming too dark. Take care not to bake for too long, this cake has a tendency to become dry.
After cooling, sift confectioner's sugar over the cake. Sometimes I cut out a heart shape (or something similar) in a paper and use this to create a pattern for the sugar.
I googled and found similar recipes in case you don't want to do the conversions yourselves:
Saffron Cake here
Spice Cake here
I hope you enjoy the recipes!
Ok, I think this entry is more than long enough.
(But if you want more to read, and by any chance haven't seen taragel 's latest work yet, I highly recommend her comment!fic from the latest rewatch. Tara, I'm continually amazed by your ability to write tension and awesomely hot scenes in new fresh ways.)