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Monday, September 08, 2003

Some loose ends   Word got out at work that I had made a margarita cake and I’ve already committed the one I made Saturday to the Armadillo crowd. Looks like I’ll have to make another. Luckily, Food Lion has Duncan Hines Orange Supreme cake mix on sale for 99 cents this week. I picked up two boxes. The recipe calls for instant vanilla pudding, but I got one box of lemon too – can’t resist the urge to experiment. Like with the “filling.” I used a syringe to inject an extra ¾ cup of tequila and triple sec into cake #1 on Sunday morning. It has aged two days and is ready to consume.   I made my own crème fraiche for the onion and bacon tart. The first attempt was a total disaster. The heavy whipping cream had one of those spread-to-open tops and it just wouldn’t open. I didn’t realize that I was squeezing it as I tried to pry it open and suddenly the cream spurted out and onto the carpet. That was a nasty mess to clean up and I had to go buy another pint of cream. I cut the top off with a scissors on that one. While searching the web for alternative methods of making crème fraiche, I ran across Deb’s experience with it on MurrayHill5. She added vanilla to her batch and also had a “minor mishap” – she spilled a little bit of the finished product. I had a major mess, cream on the floor, carpets, and even on the cabinets. Is there a crème fraiche curse? 4:48:00 PM    comment []

After giving Old Europe the finger and starting an unprovoked war, Junior got in over his head and had to go back to them, hat in hand. Bill Safire has shown today that his viewpoint of these events has now officially crossed the line between deliberate deception and clinical delusion: LONDON — While global attention is fixed on the Franco-German attempt to wrest control of the resurrection of Iraq from its U.S.-led liberators, practical elements in the Arab world are moving to influence the nascent government we have put in place in Baghdad. 1:11:29 AM    comment []