Blood Orange Madeleines. Recipe from the thick, glossy, free, Food & Drink magazine put out by the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario), which has given me great results with every recipe I've tried from it.
Despite my doubts about the orange puree,
which tasted bitter by itself (ever chew on orange peel?), added to the sweeter batter,
it seemed to work.
Let me also say that I'm glad I paid the extra $4 for the non-stick pan. Saves greasing and flouring all the little grooves. And they pop right out with a little nudging.
Then when you half-dunk them in dark chocolate for a finishing touch, they rock.*
* There's a texture to them that's like when you have orange zest in a recipe, so I was aware of little bits of peel. After I finished one, I had a very slight bitter peel aftertaste. The recipe says that using a blender is better to puree than a food processor. Well, I had a food processor, so that may have been it. They're still damn good.
Mani may now be the portliest Miao. He treats every meal like Thanksgiving Dinner and his nickname, "the Hearty Trencherman", has finally caught up with him. If all the other Miaos turn up their noses at brekkies, Mani will likely be the one to gobble everything up. I have trouble hefting him in one arm, but I can still manage.
My most huggable Kemi!
Maybe tonight I'll post an FSotD or two from what I wrote very late last night. But I have to share this sentence I just read in a book called The Ghost Map, about a cholera outbreak in London in the 19th century:
"But reports had surfaced of some customers discovering live eels in their drinking water, which suggested that the filters were not perhaps working optimally."
I love the British way of understatement.
I've finished my edits and e-mailed the new draft off to my agent.
And I'm already uneasy that she won't think I made the changes she wanted the way she wanted.
That feeling should fade once I start doing all the fun things I've been putting off while writing this book. And if she sells it, some publisher is probably going to want more (or different) changes, anyway.
It's the last day I'm editing this novel manuscript and I'm still not happy with the way I've named this one secondary character's job. He works in a children's wish charity. There are other employees who do the fundraising and the communications, IT, administration and accounting. He's the guy who is the one general laborer. He goes and actually gets the stuff they give the kids. He delivers it. He modifies it, if the kid's needs require it. He deals with anything hands-on. But I can't think of an atual job title -- Operations something-or-other? Anybody got a thought? I'm not trying to make him sound high-falutin', just want to be accurate.
Mani's baths are much slurpier than Merlin's. Merlin's baths are much slower because he has a tendency to get tangled in his floof.
