The rocky road to success!!
Yesterday I watched 3 episodes of Dead Like Me. It is great and I am sorry it has been cancelled. It is only on Austar, our pay TV here, but I really like it. Arrested Development has started on free-to-air, and amazingly, they started with the first episode at an ungodly hour. I have watched the first 5 minutes and it is very good. Not laugh out loud funny, but like The Office : situational, ironic, satirical humour. Of course the rest of TV is poor. This week we get an Enterprise and a Medium and that’s all really. Oh I do like Operatunity, that’s interesting.
The protesters at Baxter Detention Centre have been arrested for invading airspace by flying kites. The whole thing smacks of Big Brother, and not in a reality TV show way. When protesters went to protest in front of Amanda Vanstone’s house they were stopped and she said it was becoming too personal. As if detaining indefinitely, children too, isn’t personal.
Today I am going to visit for Easter and that is all. We have been for a 25 minute walk, and now the Labradors are playing with the extra-squeaky squeaky toy. Daylight Saving ended last night : Spring ahead, Fall back. So the clocks went back an hour. Of course the Labradors woke up at 7-30 am which was 6-30 yesterday, but we all got an extra hour’s sleep. It was so light. It is usually dark at 7 am but it was as light as can be this morning. That does not bode well for tonight when the sunset is at 6-11 pm and so it will be dark by 6-30 pm. This is the worst part of the downhill run to Winter. I like the other aspects of Winter though. You can always get warm and toasty, but I can not always get cool in the hot Summer.
The GardyGardeners gave me a recipe for Rocky Road, so I made some last night. I will put it here now. The Chocettes are tiny balls of Picnic, Turkish Delight, Crunchie etc, covered in chocolate. I don’t know if they are available everywhere, but they are here in Australia. And the squeaky toy is just about de-stuffed and almost dead!!!
Special Rocky Road
200 g dark chocolate
2 x 250 g roast almond chocolate
250 g pink and white marshmallows
1 cp roasted nuts of your choice
1 cup toasted shredded coconut
150 g Turkish Delight Chocettes( or chopped up Turkish Delight)
extra g melted white chocolate for decoration
Grease and line a slice tin ( 30 x 20 cm or 12 x 8 inches) and melt the dark chocolate and spread in the tin as a base. Melt the almond chocolate and then mix in the other ingredients. Spoon over base, flatten slightly and then drizzle white chocolate over the top. Refrigerate till set. Use a hot sharp knife and cut into pieces.
I used caramello chocolate Easter eggs instead of the Turkish delight, but you can tailor the type of chocolate and nuts etc used to suit your taste. It is very rich and though the recipe says to cut 24 pieces, I cut about twice that.
The protesters at Baxter Detention Centre have been arrested for invading airspace by flying kites. The whole thing smacks of Big Brother, and not in a reality TV show way. When protesters went to protest in front of Amanda Vanstone’s house they were stopped and she said it was becoming too personal. As if detaining indefinitely, children too, isn’t personal.
Today I am going to visit for Easter and that is all. We have been for a 25 minute walk, and now the Labradors are playing with the extra-squeaky squeaky toy. Daylight Saving ended last night : Spring ahead, Fall back. So the clocks went back an hour. Of course the Labradors woke up at 7-30 am which was 6-30 yesterday, but we all got an extra hour’s sleep. It was so light. It is usually dark at 7 am but it was as light as can be this morning. That does not bode well for tonight when the sunset is at 6-11 pm and so it will be dark by 6-30 pm. This is the worst part of the downhill run to Winter. I like the other aspects of Winter though. You can always get warm and toasty, but I can not always get cool in the hot Summer.
The GardyGardeners gave me a recipe for Rocky Road, so I made some last night. I will put it here now. The Chocettes are tiny balls of Picnic, Turkish Delight, Crunchie etc, covered in chocolate. I don’t know if they are available everywhere, but they are here in Australia. And the squeaky toy is just about de-stuffed and almost dead!!!
Special Rocky Road
200 g dark chocolate
2 x 250 g roast almond chocolate
250 g pink and white marshmallows
1 cp roasted nuts of your choice
1 cup toasted shredded coconut
150 g Turkish Delight Chocettes( or chopped up Turkish Delight)
extra g melted white chocolate for decoration
Grease and line a slice tin ( 30 x 20 cm or 12 x 8 inches) and melt the dark chocolate and spread in the tin as a base. Melt the almond chocolate and then mix in the other ingredients. Spoon over base, flatten slightly and then drizzle white chocolate over the top. Refrigerate till set. Use a hot sharp knife and cut into pieces.
I used caramello chocolate Easter eggs instead of the Turkish delight, but you can tailor the type of chocolate and nuts etc used to suit your taste. It is very rich and though the recipe says to cut 24 pieces, I cut about twice that.
posted by 2paw @ 3/27/2005 11:27:00 am
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