One million sugar-coated fingers.

[reddragdiva]

• Coolest Grammy ever.

• Libertarian Troll Bingo.

• Twisted broke. steer helped try to fix it.

• Sesame Street as first fisting experience.

Freda is (still) nearly walking! Today her high chair arrived. It's like a starship console for babies, complete with cup holder. She enjoys banging things against it. Her next two teeth are coming through, making her a misery.

The front room is partially rebuilt. I scrounged together more screws for the shelf, and it's now holding about 150kg of records.

This Sunday (17th February) is fairly near my birthday, so we'll be down the Pembury from about 7pm. All welcome.

arkady's soda bread: 400g self-raising flour, 100g margarine, teaspoon salt, 250ml milk or milk/water. Add salt to flour, rub fat into flour, add milk, stir it in mixer till it forms dough, knead dough on floured surface, stick in loaf tin, bake on 200°C for ~40 min (or until risen and you get a hollow knocking sound). Allow to cool until it won't burn your fingers. Eat it, it won't last long enough to get cold. Not too much work, incredibly nice.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I should point out that I didn't actually use a mixer - I just made a well in the fat/flour mix, poured in the milk, then stirred briskly with a fork until it formed a dough.

200°C is 400°F/Gas 6. Instead of baking in a 1lb loaf tin, you can form the mixture into two rounds which will take about 20 minutes to bake.

You could also substitute buttermilk for ordinary milk/milk and water. :-)

[steer.livejournal.com]

Should now be fixed -- and hardly on fire at all.

[wendolen.livejournal.com]

Is there any reason other than thrift to use icky margarine instead of nice butter?

[reddragdiva]

We had rather nice margarine (Bertolli olive oil spread), but butter should be fine.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I use it for preference in baking because it's easier to rub in when it's cold. Those yellow butter-a-like brands don't taste bad, or at least, when you eat cake one large mouthful at once without stopping to consider its merits as a masterchef competition piece it's very good indeed.

[wendolen.livejournal.com]

Mmm, delicious trans-fats. ;)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Those trans-fats that have a greater volume of free rotation than cis-fats and make it runnier and easier to rub in? That would be the other way round.

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

Is that this sunday coming up?

[reddragdiva]

Yep!

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Jay would appreciate the Bingo card, although it is inexplicably missing "wants a socialized military".