I'm making Brioche and this is my first go at a recipe that calls for a one to one ratio of butter to flour. I hope it taste like I imagine. The batter, and this was the first time I've been able to taste the dough like cake batter--its so good.
I just cant wait. Ever since watching 8 Femmes and seeing the sister look at the Brioche, snatch it along with a cup of chocolate and run into her room with it well I was hooked and I knew that I need to make it. Even if just once because this recipe is mortal, I mean a 1:1 flour and butter that can only be made during the holidays. None if this would be possible during the hot heavy months where everything needs to be like and airy and wonderful in its on lazy way. Then the berries and overflowing and the jam is just right for winter and the honey is oozing from the jar floating a piece of comb.
Hemingway's A Movable Feast did what I've always wanted to do in the first few pages. I leafed through it at the library this afternoon and it was great in its usual Hemingway style. Fill of descriptions of Parisian cafes, intellectuals, artist, and writers. Well at least I'll always have AMF to get lost in.
I finished Sostiene Pereira and also my goal to read 40 books this year. I think that I will read the bible next year. that will be the first book I read for the upcoming year. I think it will be good. That is the book that launched a hundred thousand ships and if I intend to read any more, that is go deeper into the literature and even all the other arts, for even if they don't say it they are based and mothered by the Bible and so I think I want to read it and I must read it. Its like my quest to finish Algebra 1/2, because I know that I can do it, and I must finish because of my GED test.
About grad school. I was listening to come economist talk about a possible recession and for just a minute I was thinking that I could not possibly go to grad school because interest rates are so high or will be high during a recession that I contemplated the ramifications of that for a while. That is good, I will not admonish myself, but I need to continue its like telling a high school kid that he cannot go to college because its just too expensive to go even if he wants and that can be the case sometimes but eventually one finds a way in the door if one is tenacious, no this again is bourgeois talk, some people do way these things and actively, so in no way am I going to think about this as a negative on my part. I must continue reading and preparing focusing on one thing at a time. Just follow the prescription outlined yesterday and it will be all right.
I just cant wait. Ever since watching 8 Femmes and seeing the sister look at the Brioche, snatch it along with a cup of chocolate and run into her room with it well I was hooked and I knew that I need to make it. Even if just once because this recipe is mortal, I mean a 1:1 flour and butter that can only be made during the holidays. None if this would be possible during the hot heavy months where everything needs to be like and airy and wonderful in its on lazy way. Then the berries and overflowing and the jam is just right for winter and the honey is oozing from the jar floating a piece of comb.
Hemingway's A Movable Feast did what I've always wanted to do in the first few pages. I leafed through it at the library this afternoon and it was great in its usual Hemingway style. Fill of descriptions of Parisian cafes, intellectuals, artist, and writers. Well at least I'll always have AMF to get lost in.
I finished Sostiene Pereira and also my goal to read 40 books this year. I think that I will read the bible next year. that will be the first book I read for the upcoming year. I think it will be good. That is the book that launched a hundred thousand ships and if I intend to read any more, that is go deeper into the literature and even all the other arts, for even if they don't say it they are based and mothered by the Bible and so I think I want to read it and I must read it. Its like my quest to finish Algebra 1/2, because I know that I can do it, and I must finish because of my GED test.
About grad school. I was listening to come economist talk about a possible recession and for just a minute I was thinking that I could not possibly go to grad school because interest rates are so high or will be high during a recession that I contemplated the ramifications of that for a while. That is good, I will not admonish myself, but I need to continue its like telling a high school kid that he cannot go to college because its just too expensive to go even if he wants and that can be the case sometimes but eventually one finds a way in the door if one is tenacious, no this again is bourgeois talk, some people do way these things and actively, so in no way am I going to think about this as a negative on my part. I must continue reading and preparing focusing on one thing at a time. Just follow the prescription outlined yesterday and it will be all right.
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