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orinoco77My Eddie Izzard tickets arrived today. They will either be converted to an evenings entertainment for me and 2 friends, or an evenings entertainment for me and a tidy profit. Hurrah! I just hope the show is better than Circle. It's still funny, but it's definitely not his best work.
I can't be bothered with work at all today. I'm being kept sane by a mixture of IRC, aimless web surfing and the odd IM conversation with the ever-lovely Helen. This afternoon I plan to read bash.org, chat at a leisurely pace, and optionally do some work, should the need present itself. I may also search for some recipes. I haven't done any real cooking in ages. I rather fancy making some ice cream, after seeing a marmalade-based recipe on a newsgroup. Sounds very interesting to me. Those of you who've followed my root beer making adventures will probably be extremely surprised to learn that I'm entirely capable in the kitchen, it just seems to be things that involve yeast which throw me completely.
I'm also toying with the idea of starting one of those schemes where they pay you to read emails, then writing a script to handle the "reading". Nefarious and probably not terribly lucrative, but it has the advantage that it's absolutely no effort on my part and it's a nice kick in the teeth for the spam industry. Be nice to see an example email first though, just to check it's feasible.
I can't be bothered with work at all today. I'm being kept sane by a mixture of IRC, aimless web surfing and the odd IM conversation with the ever-lovely Helen. This afternoon I plan to read bash.org, chat at a leisurely pace, and optionally do some work, should the need present itself. I may also search for some recipes. I haven't done any real cooking in ages. I rather fancy making some ice cream, after seeing a marmalade-based recipe on a newsgroup. Sounds very interesting to me. Those of you who've followed my root beer making adventures will probably be extremely surprised to learn that I'm entirely capable in the kitchen, it just seems to be things that involve yeast which throw me completely.
I'm also toying with the idea of starting one of those schemes where they pay you to read emails, then writing a script to handle the "reading". Nefarious and probably not terribly lucrative, but it has the advantage that it's absolutely no effort on my part and it's a nice kick in the teeth for the spam industry. Be nice to see an example email first though, just to check it's feasible.
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As nicked from uk.food+drink.misc:
For those who like such things. I do :-)
235g marmalade (I used a bright but slightly too sweet homemade 3-fruit)
375g single cream (none of this faffing about with 1/2 milk, 1/2 double
cream)
10g caster sugar (not certain why I bothered, really)
1 tbsp plus dribble Drambuie
1 tbsp fresh orange juice.
Whizz the whole lot, or all the marmalade and as much of the cream as
will fit, briefly in a blender/food processor until the peel is an
appropriate size.
Put everything in the ice cream maker and proceed as usual. The result
was relatively soft and tasted very nice with an apple pie made with a
buttery crust.
I seem to recall a comment somewhere to the effect that, if you don't have an ice cream maker (I don't) you can achieve a reasonable result by freezing for a couple of hours, then whisking, then freezing, etc. I can only assume that the idea is to add air to the mixture to make it more like ice cream and less like frozen orange milkshake with bits in.