Childhood is short, immaturity is forever

Cast-iron skillets (aka gietijzeren pannen)

: juleske; October 7th, 2009

Does anyone have experience with cast-iron skillets? I thought they would be so cool, I could fry stuff in them and put it under the grill to finish, make cool pancakes and lots of fun stuff. But whenever I put it on the (old electric) stove, the thing starts fuming and producing huge amounts of smoke. That before I even put anything in it! When I add oil and food it gets worse, much worse.

Anyone? Is it just a bad (Ikea) pan?

There we go

: juleske; August 27th, 2009

~~Friday thursday the 4th 3rd of september~~
FRIDAY THE 4TH OF SEPTEMBER
20:00 Cocktails (maybe a different place for once?)
22:30 Inglorious Bastards

That is all.

PS. Crossposted on Facebook. (Suck on that, x-post haters!)

Been cookin'!

: juleske; August 10th, 2009

Cooking update. The three best things I made in the past month were probably

Caramelised carrots (veggie)
I looove caramelised carrots. I usually make them in the oven, but these were even better.
Swedish meatballs
Or, really, 'Blueberry-Balsamic BBQ Turkey Meatballs'. No excuse to go to Ikea anymore. These were all kinds of awesome.
Oatmeal cookies
I'm biased because I love all things oatmeal, but these were made with applesauce which save the cookies a sortof sweet "stroop" flavor.

Other notables:

Spinach leek and onion quiche
(veggie) Nice, but when it says "season with salt and pepper", it should really say "salt and pepper this fucker up to the wazoo and back".
Spinach ricotta fritatta (veggie)
Very nice and light dinner
Roast beef
My first roast! The baking time calculation was spot on.
Chicken kokkiinisto
I never like Jaimie recipes. It was nice for a change but not super.
Miso Salmon
Not very special and my teriyaki sauce always turns out runny instead of caramalized and thing. I can let it simmer for 15 mins to get it like that, but then why does the recipe never say "simmer for 15 minutes"?
Fresh pasta
A little nicer tasting than normal pasta. Not much, but a little. Fun too make, though!
Chicken yakitori
Again, runny teriyaki sauce. Gah.
Chocolate malteser cookies
Nice cookies! The 2nd time I used dark chocolate instead of milk choc and it made them even more chocolatey.

Random links

: juleske; June 26th, 2009

1000 frames per second video, pretty!
The map of human sexuality, not about to fill in my own, but it's well made!
New Russian girls foto trend - not sure how this came to be a thing..
A not-annoying banner ad!

Avatar

: juleske; June 25th, 2009

There's a teaser trailer for Avatar: the last airbender up. Those who haven't seen the series yet should really start soon!

Freeeeeeedom!

: juleske; June 24th, 2009

Obligatory exam post. Ancient philosophy. My questions:

- What led the Pythagorici to think that everything in the world was made of numbers (weed? geekiness?) and what did Aristotle think of that? (he thought they were a bunch of hippies)
- What is Aristotle's idea of the four causes?

Then halfway my exam, the professor (Steel) came in an said, "Oh, you don't have a question for part 2, well, just pick your favorite part of Marcus Aurelius' medidations and tell me about that". Which was fortunate, because I'd only read one or two parts. Instant favorites!

It was a weird exam. Steel was happy to chat about all sorts of stuff, but when I gave my answers he nearly dozed off in ostentatious boredom. He didn't ask any sidequestions, which probably means I did average (if you suck, they'll give you a few 'extra chance' questions, and if you do good, you might get some bonus questions). But I connected each question/text fragment with at least one other author and I gave my own opinon, so that's usually some points there. I didn't have overly much to say about the main questions, though. But I'm sure it was enough for a solid 10-12.

Let the summer begin!

Hamlet!

: juleske; June 18th, 2009

I got my hands on a DVD of Kenneth Brangah's Hamlet, the unabridged four-hour best Hamlet version ever!

Movie night, anyone? :)

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: juleske; June 9th, 2009

I found out today that Neil Gaiman has actually been divorced for the last five years. The world makes so much more sense now! Say hello to everyone's new favorite hipster couple.