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18098. thoughtful - 1/3/2006 11:34:05 PM

Then recently in the NYT Nigella Lawson had a recipe for a simple to make molten chocolate baby cakes.

I have a dinner party to plan in Jan and was sorely tempted to make that puppy for dessert. For chocolate lovers only.

But then again that pavlova looks good...could put some ice cream in there or some custard with the fruit on top...drizzle with some melted choc...lots of possibilities there.

18099. Ms. No - 1/3/2006 11:43:25 PM

That's one of the things that keeps me at my current job. It's more than a little frustrating.

18100. Ms. No - 1/3/2006 11:44:06 PM

Er, health care, not chocolate. I wouldn't bitch about staying for chocolate.

18101. Jenerator - 1/4/2006 12:03:15 AM

Tful,

The molten cakes are really good (I'm a longtime Nigella fan). She aso makes a decadent chocolate pavlova!

18102. Jenerator - 1/4/2006 12:04:19 AM

Tful,

I like my Pavs with sweet whipped cream and berries - passionfruit is quite good. The sour with the sweet, the smooth with the crunchy.

Mmmmmmmm.

18103. Ms. No - 1/4/2006 1:01:13 AM

Devonshire cream and olala berries!

18104. Magoseph - 1/4/2006 2:02:04 AM

Charlotte aux fraises soaked with Grand Marnier

18105. arkymalarky - 1/4/2006 2:56:30 AM

Man those are some torturous food shots to be showing two days after New Years Resolutions.

My last day of work before the holidays was 12/16 and today is my first day back. Man is this tough...this is the longest day ever.

That was Bob's break. I went back yesterday and the week is going by fast so far. All that will change when I start two night classes per week in a couple of weeks.

18106. jayackroyd - 1/4/2006 3:41:24 AM

We had a local bakery that used to make these things called Boston Cream Pies...they were really one layer of sponge cake covered in a film of vanilla pudding and the top was divided into four sections, each of which were covered with fruit topping: strawberry, pineapple, blueberry, and apple. Then, the edge of the top was piped with white buttercream frosting and the sides of the cake were frosted in chocolate.

One of my earliest on-line acquaintences (in the days of compuserv)was a guy who went by the monicker of Orville Fudpucker. He was a freight pilot based in Plano, TX, and he baked what he called Texas Sized Jelly Doughnuts--18 inch square yeast cakes with a jelly center, ranging from blueberry to jalepeno.

18107. judithathome - 1/4/2006 6:44:53 AM

Wow! Is he still alive?

18108. thoughtful - 1/4/2006 3:45:44 PM

One time I had cream puffs where the cream was laced with bailey's irish cream...it was very tasty.

18109. alistairconnor - 1/4/2006 5:15:26 PM

pavlovas... back in style

Never went out of style, Jen. Never could. (lust. time I made one. might have saved my marriage if I'd made more pavlovas)

molten chocolate baby cakes

baby molten chocolate cakes
molten baby-chocolate cakes
chocolate molten-baby cakes
rubber baby buggy bumper

18110. thoughtful - 1/4/2006 5:21:58 PM

Forget rubber baby buggy bumper

Try this:
A box of biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits
And a biscuit mixer

18111. judithathome - 1/4/2006 9:24:38 PM

For those of you in the USA, don't forget that postage rates go up to $.39 on Sunday. I had just finished putting $.37 stamps on 48 envelopes when someone on a another forum mentioned it. However, the $.02 stamps are lovely.

18112. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 1/5/2006 8:09:33 PM

This kept me alive as a sub in an inner city grammar school when I first started teaching. I could say it and then challenge the kids to try it. The ensuing laughs broke the ice and disarmed them enough for me to start teaching. You have to speak it aloud in under four seconds to appreciate the effect of it.


One smart fellow, he felt smart.

Two smart fellows, they felt smart.

Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.

18113. Macnas - 1/5/2006 8:26:26 PM

I'm not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
And I'm only plucking pheasants
'till the pheasant plucker comes.

18114. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 12:27:35 AM

I''ve never heard Wiz's, but that's one I may use in my senior English class.

I've heard Mac's, and I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Except I learned it "fig plucker's."

18115. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 12:29:08 AM

Pheasants makes a lot more sense than figs.

18116. Ms. No - 1/6/2006 1:05:31 AM

There was a segment on NPR last week or maybe only earlier this week about a woman in NY who teaches at an immigrant school. She was having a hard time getting the kids to do some particular English project and instead got them talking about tongue twisters and nursery rhymes they'd learned in their own languages. So behind the commentary she was doing there are these incredibly intricate sounding tongue-twisters and rhymes going on in different languages. It was really cool to hear.

18117. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 1:29:04 AM

I had the funniest thing happen at work today (something funny happens at least once every day, but this was different).

Our campus is multiple buildings fairly close together, and people walk on the grounds from building to building. I was heading from my building to another one, when a little boy started walking toward me from the cafeteria. He hollered "Hey!" and I didn't pay much attention, figuring he was hollering at someone else. After the third time, I said, "Are you talking to me?" He said, "Yes. Do you go to high school?" I said, "I teach high school." He asked my name and I told him. I asked what grade he was in and he said, "third." I told him I'd see him in about ten years. He was so cute.

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