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liptonrm_backupI feel like I've completely lost my baking mojo. Ever since Thanksgiving nothing seems to work out right. At Thanksgiving my apple pie's crust wasn't completely done and some of the rolls were still doughy. Now I've been trying to make an old family sugar cookie recipe that's frustrating the hell out of me. It just won't work right. I have wasted more flour, butter, and sugar this week than any one person should ever have to throw away.
I did make a pretty great cake for the Mum's birthday. No wonder I'm not really in the Christmas spirit, I have yet to eat a single holiday cookie. That's it. Tomorrow is dedicated solely to baking. I'm going to produce something, gorramit.
Maybe it's just that I have a shitty oven. I don't know.
There, that's it, enough with the baking OCD. I recently re-read LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea. Like most good books it improved immensely on the second read. I noticed so many rich, wonderful layers and truly appreciated the way it represented the overweaning pride of youth. It is such a shame that SciFi made such a hash of their adaptation because there are so many amazing things they could have done with that fantastic story.
I stayed up late last night and watched Patrick Stewart's A Christmas Carol. It was a nice adaptation and he was very good in it. I teared up at the end. I empathize with Scrooge, the world beat him down until he couldn't see the good in other people anymore, let alone himself. I can understand how one could slowly close onself off from everyone else as a protective measure until one was locked in a draughty old room eating lukewarm soup out of a cup. The bravest thing Scrooge ever did was knock on his nephew's door that Christmas morning and ask to be allowed in.
I'm not a huge fan of Dickens but it's no wonder that A Christmas Carol has been adapted and re-adapted so many times in so many different media. We're all of us looking for a way in out of the cold.
I did make a pretty great cake for the Mum's birthday. No wonder I'm not really in the Christmas spirit, I have yet to eat a single holiday cookie. That's it. Tomorrow is dedicated solely to baking. I'm going to produce something, gorramit.
Maybe it's just that I have a shitty oven. I don't know.
There, that's it, enough with the baking OCD. I recently re-read LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea. Like most good books it improved immensely on the second read. I noticed so many rich, wonderful layers and truly appreciated the way it represented the overweaning pride of youth. It is such a shame that SciFi made such a hash of their adaptation because there are so many amazing things they could have done with that fantastic story.
I stayed up late last night and watched Patrick Stewart's A Christmas Carol. It was a nice adaptation and he was very good in it. I teared up at the end. I empathize with Scrooge, the world beat him down until he couldn't see the good in other people anymore, let alone himself. I can understand how one could slowly close onself off from everyone else as a protective measure until one was locked in a draughty old room eating lukewarm soup out of a cup. The bravest thing Scrooge ever did was knock on his nephew's door that Christmas morning and ask to be allowed in.
I'm not a huge fan of Dickens but it's no wonder that A Christmas Carol has been adapted and re-adapted so many times in so many different media. We're all of us looking for a way in out of the cold.
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Date: 2007-12-23 08:19 am (UTC)Baking is such an exacting discipline! I have yet to master the arts of flour + leavening + flavoring + heat + time. Probably because I usually just throw things in without measuring ... it works for stovetop entrees, not so much for cakes and pastries.
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Date: 2007-12-23 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-23 09:21 am (UTC)