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ursamajorHappy birthday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mister_skip!
Hooray, there is to be a Golden Compass movie coming out around my birthday! I had heard vague mutterings about this before, but now there is a website with a Determine your dæmon quiz! And I am still head-over-heels distracted with the shiny new media embedding in LJ, so a shiny new embedded media dæmon quiz you get! For me, it decided I was spontaneous, modest, shy, fickle, and assertive:
If you think that's wrong, tell it so in the Flash above so that I'm not stuck mismatched to an ocelot for the rest of my days. Or go determine your own Dæmon.
In other news, that Supernatural Brownies recipe that was in the Times a few weeks ago has been getting test-kitchen levels of practice chez moi, between baking for choir and friends under the weather, and it's almost to the point where I've got it memorized. It's incredibly simple, but so moist and fluffy it's worth the extra 15% effort above and beyond box-brownies. And it scales very easily, too; I've quartered the recipe for a personal pan-size one and the only weirdness was that the baking time was still almost exactly the same, wtf. (remark, when you get a chance, how do I add a compact version of this to Gal's recipes? *G*)
Line 13x9 pan with parchment paper and grease it with butter. Put butter and chocolate into a microwave-safe bowl, then melt in the microwave in 30-second bursts on high, stirring between each one. Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, beat eggs, then add the salt, sugars, and vanilla and whisk to combine.
Stir the chocolate into the egg mixture, then fold in the flour until just combined; you don't want to overstir at this point. Pour the batter into the pan, and bake for 40-45 minutes or until the brownies are shiny and beginning to crack. Cool in pan, then slice and eat!
Things I never imagined doing that I in fact did last night: helping to teachnoghri's mom how to play Wii Tennis. She had trouble with serves, but got a couple of good rallies going against Steve, who was playing with his non-dominant hand. He's pretty banged-up from the accident, but it could've been a lot worse, and at least both his parents were *already* coming to visit for the weekend; they just pushed their tickets earlier.
mister_skip!Hooray, there is to be a Golden Compass movie coming out around my birthday! I had heard vague mutterings about this before, but now there is a website with a Determine your dæmon quiz! And I am still head-over-heels distracted with the shiny new media embedding in LJ, so a shiny new embedded media dæmon quiz you get! For me, it decided I was spontaneous, modest, shy, fickle, and assertive:
If you think that's wrong, tell it so in the Flash above so that I'm not stuck mismatched to an ocelot for the rest of my days. Or go determine your own Dæmon.
In other news, that Supernatural Brownies recipe that was in the Times a few weeks ago has been getting test-kitchen levels of practice chez moi, between baking for choir and friends under the weather, and it's almost to the point where I've got it memorized. It's incredibly simple, but so moist and fluffy it's worth the extra 15% effort above and beyond box-brownies. And it scales very easily, too; I've quartered the recipe for a personal pan-size one and the only weirdness was that the baking time was still almost exactly the same, wtf. (
remark, when you get a chance, how do I add a compact version of this to Gal's recipes? *G*)2 sticks butter, plus a little extra for greasing
8 oz chocolate (whether chocolate chips, baking chocolate bricks, etc. This is a marvelous way to use up the ends of various chocolates you have leftover.
4 eggs (the fresher, the better; the "Live Poultry Freshly Killed" place on Cambridge Street across from the New Deal Fish Market gets fresh eggs in near-daily for Very Cheap; the Brookline Farmers' Market also sells fresh eggs on Thursdays from mid-June to early October.)
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup brown sugar (
1 cup white sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup flour
Line 13x9 pan with parchment paper and grease it with butter. Put butter and chocolate into a microwave-safe bowl, then melt in the microwave in 30-second bursts on high, stirring between each one. Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, beat eggs, then add the salt, sugars, and vanilla and whisk to combine.
Stir the chocolate into the egg mixture, then fold in the flour until just combined; you don't want to overstir at this point. Pour the batter into the pan, and bake for 40-45 minutes or until the brownies are shiny and beginning to crack. Cool in pan, then slice and eat!
Things I never imagined doing that I in fact did last night: helping to teach
noghri's mom how to play Wii Tennis. She had trouble with serves, but got a couple of good rallies going against Steve, who was playing with his non-dominant hand. He's pretty banged-up from the accident, but it could've been a lot worse, and at least both his parents were *already* coming to visit for the weekend; they just pushed their tickets earlier.
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Date: 2007-04-26 21:42 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-04-27 17:56 (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2007-04-27 05:29 (UTC)And you want to know what's cooler than knowing they're making a Dark Materials movie trilogy??
Knowing someone who's working on the movies. :-D It's true! I have a friend in London who's working with the company responsible for animating the polar bears. Awesome, huh?
She had to sign a confidentiality agreement, so she can't tell me anything, but I don't think I'd want her too. I hate spoilers.
Re: Yay!
Date: 2007-04-27 17:56 (UTC)