Been mad productive this week. Hating being away from the keyboard. It’s good to get on a roll like this.
Average time of going to bed these last three nights: 4am
Supplies have been dwindling here at Miss Marple Manor due to me being too disorganised to go shopping, but two things I did have in abundance last night were elbow pasta and cheese. So, I decided to whack out a big pile of that old faithful, macaroni cheese, to sustain me in my creative endeavours.
In a fit of sudden madness, I decided to google for a proper recipe (instead of just making the primitive race-memory macaroni cheese we Davies have been preparing since the time of Henry VIII). So I ended up on the BBC food pages, being instructed by the River Cottage guy to use oven gloves when I put things in the oven.
I didn’t follow the recipe with any great degree of precision, but I did learn a wee trick or two. And the macaroni cheese at the end was delicious. Definitely better than race-memory macaroni cheese. Better enough that it was worth the extra effort? Well, not really. Mac cheese is mac cheese. But it was fun to cook like a proper homo sapiens! (And: boys cook best.)
So it made me think of South Park. The one where the kids go off to Jew Camp and Moses appears to them in the form of the bad guy from Tron and tells them all in booming god-voice that he wants macaroni pictures.
Whatever happened to South Park? I used to love that show. Somewhere it just slipped off my caring radar completely. I understand new episodes are still being made. I think I’ve missed about five seasons. I dunno. Weird to go from *heart* to *huh* so quick.
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If you read through the loooong post on the Iran article, but missed Johnnie’s comment, go and read it. It does explain a few things.
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What tips did you pick up? MC is freakin’ easy to make yum.
OTOH if you weren’t clued up to oven mitts, maybe it was something basic like “grill the top for a few minutes so it goes crunchy.” 😉
The two wee tips I got about the sauce:
#1: cook the butter/flour paste (the “roux”) for a few minutes before adding the milk
#2: make the milk hot before adding it to the roux
I didn’t have either of these things in my race-memory macaroni cheese cooking technique.
Good to see they used the term “Roux.” I like that word. I like the technique. Especially strongly flavoured brown roux, used in cajun…
For more… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roux
“#1: cook the butter/flour paste (the “roux”) for a few minutes before adding the milk”
Oh, like when you make gravy, and have to let the flour cook in the fat before you add water. I asked my science teacher about that once in high school.
i never really got in to southpark. i have only ever seen about five or six entire episodes. you know what else i never got into slash understood: tron. little motorbike races with green lines. BIG DEAL. but others mention it all the time. maybe i’m missing something.
hperm – Tron? You are missing nothing. It is just one of those films that did the right stuff at the right time.
I was never a fan. But if you ever want to reference 80s pop culture, it’s a goodie to know about 🙂
Erm… At the time, Tron was critically panned, and was considered a commercial flop. Along with The Black Hole and Return To Oz, Tron was one of the movies that almost sunk Disney. I don’t see how you can say “did the right stuff at the right time” – it actually killed the director’s career!
It’s only in recent years that it’s picked up a cult following, partly because of its pioneering use of computer graphics and partly because it used a lot of techie jargon that’s become more widespread in the internet era. (Hackers always loved it.)
I happen to think it’s a fun movie – better than The Black Hole by a mile, but not as good as Return To Oz.
It’s also essential for Moebius fans – not only did he design lots of the costumes etc, he also storyboarded the entire movie.
I remember seeing Tron at the movie-the-a-tre as a child. Good times. It got me kudos when I guessed it out of the blue in the first round of a pub quiz (movie posters photo round). Even Sam didn’t guess it before me!
It’s just a cool word. Tron. Fun to say in a geeky-evil-computer voice.