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EEEEE! My birthday parcel arrived this morning, and la famille have completely outdone themselves this year! Best parcel ever. Enough tea to see me through my PhD or reenact the Boston Tea Party! (Fortunately, being from good Nova Scotia and Loyalist stock, the reenactment won't be necessary.) I've already had my first cup of Morse's, and it's obviously the kind of tea my East Coast water has been looking for, even WITHOUT milk! Also, subscriptions to The Beaver (a Canadian history magazine... don't think I don't know where your minds went) and Canadian Geographic! Recipes! A full compliment of baking recipes from Rogers Flour Mill in Armstrong, BC (source of most of my family's baking needs since the mid-nineties, and I can picture my mom chatting to the clerk as she ransacked the recipe racks to get them all for me)! Recipe books dedicated to potatoes, rice, and pasta, thus showing a profound grasp of the three main food groups! Music! A silly hat! Camisole tops! Chocolate! Eeee, fantabulous.
I don't know what I'm going to bake first! I'm running out of bread, so maybe I'll try Rogers Basic White Bread, since I have all the ingredients. Sadly, I can't venture very far into whole wheat breads until I locate a source of brown bread flour, because the sad truth is that you can't bake Canadian bread recipes with American flour unless you use bread flour (it has to do with varieties of wheat and gluten content). I know King Arthur Flour makes a brown bread flour, it's just that my Shaw's doesn't carry it. Psssht, way to encourage your shoppers to eat less processed food, Shaw's. Anyway (and I know as a grad student I shouldn't have time to bake bread but I enjoy it soooooo much!), I've also been looking for some nice, fibery, fruit-containing (it still counts as fruit if it's hidden in baking, right?) loaf/muffin recipes to bake now that I've depleted my pumpkin supply. Wheat Germ-Applesauce Loaf should definitely do it. I may venture to make it into muffins, though - less slicing=less panic on the making-lunch front in the morning=better fed tarimanveri.
Anyway, this afternoon I'm meeting up with fellow members KF and JR of the Spring 2005 Dijon study group for a mini-reunion! KF is in town from Syracuse, and while JR is now working in Boston, we haven't managed to meet up - until now. It's definitely the time for reunions, though. This year's Dijon group is in France now with Prof N, and their pictures are starting to show up on Facebook and I've had a few emails from Bonnie... and nostalgia has struck, hard. So it will be awesome to see K and J again and reminisce! And only fair, since CC, CM, AL, and RM are BACK IN FRANCE now and planning reunions there.
Must go and figure out bus timing, and then maybe spend a few quality minutes with the foundation charter from the cartulary of Holy Cross of Quimperlé. It arrived yesterday and I'm very excited. Fresh meat New cartulary! I actually had to take it and show advisor R so she could share my glee. She did, and sent me off to "have a good weekend with it," not without a healthy undercurret of innuendo. Yay, advisor R. Anyway, from the glance at it I had last night, it looks like Count Alan who founded the monastery did so after God told him to in a dream while he was deathly ill. That's right, I glanced at it and good get the gist. How awesome is that?
Okay, now for the T website.
I don't know what I'm going to bake first! I'm running out of bread, so maybe I'll try Rogers Basic White Bread, since I have all the ingredients. Sadly, I can't venture very far into whole wheat breads until I locate a source of brown bread flour, because the sad truth is that you can't bake Canadian bread recipes with American flour unless you use bread flour (it has to do with varieties of wheat and gluten content). I know King Arthur Flour makes a brown bread flour, it's just that my Shaw's doesn't carry it. Psssht, way to encourage your shoppers to eat less processed food, Shaw's. Anyway (and I know as a grad student I shouldn't have time to bake bread but I enjoy it soooooo much!), I've also been looking for some nice, fibery, fruit-containing (it still counts as fruit if it's hidden in baking, right?) loaf/muffin recipes to bake now that I've depleted my pumpkin supply. Wheat Germ-Applesauce Loaf should definitely do it. I may venture to make it into muffins, though - less slicing=less panic on the making-lunch front in the morning=better fed tarimanveri.
Anyway, this afternoon I'm meeting up with fellow members KF and JR of the Spring 2005 Dijon study group for a mini-reunion! KF is in town from Syracuse, and while JR is now working in Boston, we haven't managed to meet up - until now. It's definitely the time for reunions, though. This year's Dijon group is in France now with Prof N, and their pictures are starting to show up on Facebook and I've had a few emails from Bonnie... and nostalgia has struck, hard. So it will be awesome to see K and J again and reminisce! And only fair, since CC, CM, AL, and RM are BACK IN FRANCE now and planning reunions there.
Must go and figure out bus timing, and then maybe spend a few quality minutes with the foundation charter from the cartulary of Holy Cross of Quimperlé. It arrived yesterday and I'm very excited. Fresh meat New cartulary! I actually had to take it and show advisor R so she could share my glee. She did, and sent me off to "have a good weekend with it," not without a healthy undercurret of innuendo. Yay, advisor R. Anyway, from the glance at it I had last night, it looks like Count Alan who founded the monastery did so after God told him to in a dream while he was deathly ill. That's right, I glanced at it and good get the gist. How awesome is that?
Okay, now for the T website.