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I am anti-trend. Yes, I have worked in the arts. And fashion. Now food. How much trendier, how much under the influence can one get than art, fashion and food? Yet I recoil from trends, fads and crazes with a knee-jerk reaction, like being faced with the plague. Never one to easily fit in, I found that no matter how I tried to wear the latest styles or act like the others I looked little more than a misfit, a goon (yes), so why bother? While others were oohing and ahhing over the hot new artiste du jour, the David Salle or Julian Schnabel or whoever was being promoted as hot, I was too much of a naturally born skeptic to follow the crowd blindly, analyzing, over-analyzing and doubting the sincerity of this one or that. Too much is made over a film, a book or an exciting new gadget? I steer clear. I may purchase something – a cool pair of shoes, a lovely skirt, all the rage – but then I will safely tuck it away in the back of the closet only to pull it out 5 or 10 years later when the fad has passed and happily slip it on, pairing it with the most unlikely things. I may deign to discover a book or a film several years down the line, but first impressions and doubts tend to stick and I have been known to regret the money spent, close the book with disgust and give it away without having read further than the first chapter. Cell phone? Had to have one forced on me when I began working outside of the house. Iphone? Just got my first and my men still roll their eyes in dismay that I only use it…to phone.
And food. Once one is plugged into the world of food blogging, one has a front row seat to all the newest trends and crazes, watching the hottest, the coolest, the funkiest scroll by with a flick of the wrist: cupcakes, macarons and cake pops, bacon or pork belly, this new restaurant or cookbook. Mini this or fried that, edible dirt, molecular and foam, have absolutely no charm for me. If you must tack the word gourmet, heirloom, redefined or gastro- onto the name of whatever you are selling, then count me out. Farmer's markets and eating more leafy, green vegetables, eating local and seasonal…wait a minute? Well, we've been doing this for years! I wouldn't call these trends as much as I would call them smart!
Screeeeeech…. Wait a doggone minute there. Did you say….macarons? Ah, the trendiest of food trends, that lovely little French confection, that wisp of powdered sugar and almonds, that mouthful of delicate, feminine froth. Since these tiny, colorful treats have taken the world by storm, shops spreading like wildfire across the globe, one pastry chef creating even more eye-popping, astonishing flavor combination after the next, I have tasted exactly five store-bought macaron selections: Ladurée (much too gooey and sweet), Fortnum & Mason (a tad dry, a tad bland), Pierre Hermé (luscious! Some I could have passed over but his cassis-chocolat and caramel au beurre sale are exquisite) and Vincent Guerlais and Sucré (my favorites, beautiful flavors, perfect shell-filling balance and not overly sweet, simply suggestive, seductive), but I tend to prefer purchasing a box of handmade chocolates to macarons any day. Macarons for a treat, a snack, a dessert are simply not my thing. There is little attraction and, quite possibly, the fact that everyone seems to go wild over them, everyone dreams of nibbling on a chocolate-truffle macaron by PH or is willing to spend hours queuing on the sidewalk in front of Ladurée, so many have elevated this tiny sweet to dizzying heights, had me simply turned off from the get go. Just another trend, fad, craze. And I am so not interested.
"So then why do you make macarons?" you ask with a sneer or a laugh. "I mean, just take a gander at your blog, stroll through your own recipe index and there they are for all the world to see: Espresso Sea Salt Chocolate Macarons, Coffee Macarons, Gingerbread Macarons, Blueberry Hibiscus Macarons with Blueberry Vanilla Mascarpone Cream, Tulip Macarons with Honey-Pistacho Mascarpone Cream, Violet Macarons, Vegetable Macarons with Chili Chocolate Ganache, Beetroot Macarons with Smoked Salmon, even Cotton Candy Macarons. Guilty as charged! I've been caught red-handed falling in line and succumbing to this latest food trend. But I can honestly say that I was seduced by the baking challenge rather than beguiled by the treat. Never one to be tempted and turned on by any dessert not rich and hearty, creamy and gooey, I would have never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would have taken to the delicate, ethereal French macaron. Husband despises them and I did long avoid both eating and making them, but THIS challenge got me started, thanks to Deeba, the wonderful baker behind Passionate About Baking, and ever since we have baked macarons side by side, in failure and in success, gathering around us so many passionate, talented bakers in our own virtual Mactweets' Kitchen. And today is World Macaron Day, so I will heartily and lustfully shout out a cheery Happy Macaron Day to you all and share my latest creation: Raspberry Coconut Macarons with Chocolate Ganache for Mac Attack Challenge #27.
These rather brown macarons are indeed Raspberry-Coconut – having mysteriously turned the color of mud in the oven after beginning their round life a stunning, deep fuchsia pink. I added 2 tablespoons of dried raspberry powder – sifting out the seeds – and a couple of tablespoons sifted dried coconut powder to the powdered sugar/ground almond blend of my traditional recipe (without the spice, cinnamon or cocoa of course). I filled the shells with a simple dark chocolate ganache, although if I did not have such a persnickety family I would have stirred some raspberry or cherry preserves into the chocolate. In spite of their sad murky color, the flavor was brilliant, a mild yet wonderful fruity flavor which paired beautifully with the chocolate. The macarons were perfect: a thin crispy outer shell giving way to a perfect, tender, mildly chewy inside. Wonderful.
But to end this anti-trend, non-fad, craze-free sentiment and blog post, I will add on a recipe that immediately became a family favorite: Pudding au Pain. We always prefer the old fashioned, the homey, the comforting over the latest and the hottest. And what is better or more delightful or, for that matter, more popular than a Bread Pudding? But this Bread Pudding is no regular Bread Pudding…. This is French Bread Pudding. The stale bread is soaked in hot milk and then the softened bread is mashed into a purée into which is blended the rest of the ingredients. Plump raisins are added for sweetness to an otherwise lightly sweetened pudding and baked under a lovely caramel. Of course, I based the recipe on JP's favorite Françoise Bernard from Recettes Faciles, but giving it my all-American twist of finely grated orange zest, a dash of cinnamon and a splash of vanilla.
The result? Instead of chunks of bread rising to the top and getting crusty while others remain soft and rather than, as so often happens, the custard separating during the baking, the puréed bread blends into a batter-type mixture and creates a dense, chewy, pudding-like cake. This is a marvelous way to use up any type of stale bread or cake, any and all kinds blended together; this is a staple of most French boulangeries: leftover breads and cakes are used to create a very popular, old-fashioned dessert, either vanilla or chocolate and topped with either gooey caramel or a chocolate glaze or ganache. Next time you crave bread pudding, next time you have stale bread piling up around you calling for attention, make this fabulous French Bread Pudding. Gorgeous, addictive, a perfect balance between very delicately sweetened pudding and sweet, sweet raisins, mildly bitter caramel and the hint of orange and cinnamon….a truly stunning treat.
PUDDING AU PAIN –or- FRENCH BREAD PUDDING
Adapted from Recettes Faciles by Françoise Bernard
3.5 oz (100 g) raisins, dark or blond
7 oz (200 g) stale bread, cubed
2 cups (500 ml or ½ litre) milk, whole or low fat
¾ cup (150 g) sugar
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
Finely grated zest of one orange, preferably untreated
Dash of ground cinnamon, ¼ to ½ tsp
½ tsp vanilla
10 sugar cubes (2 oz, 60 g)
2 Tbs water
Couple drops lemon juice
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Have ready a regular loaf pan.
Rinse the raisins and place in a small bowl; cover with hot water and allow to soak for 15 minutes to plump. Drain and set aside.
While the raisins are plumping, cube the stale bread (smaller is better, but about an inch square is fine) and place in a large mixing heatproof or Pyrex mixing bowl. Bring the milk to the boil in a small saucepan and immediately pour the hot milk over the bread cubes. Allow the bread to soak up all of the milk, tossing and pressing the cubes down into the hot milk regularly. This should take several minutes.
Once the bread has soaked up all of the hot milk and is softened, either run it though a food mill or purée it using an emulsion mixer or robot until fairly smooth. Return to the mixing bowl and whisk or stir in the sugar, the lightly beaten eggs, the plumped and drained raisins, the finely grated orange zest, the ground cinnamon and the vanilla. Stir to blend well.
Place the sugar cubes, the water and a few drops of lemon juice into the loaf pan. Place the loaf pan over medium-low heat and carefully cook. The sugar will melt and the mixture will bubble; allow to cook gently, shifting the pan around and back and forth gently, until it turns into a deep golden/light brown caramel. This can take from 5 to 10 minutes but watch very carefully for as soon as the sugar begins to turn into a caramel (turning brown) it goes very quickly and can burn easily.
Remove the loaf pan from the heat and carefully tilt the pan back and forth so the caramel evenly coats the bottom of the pan and goes a little way up the sides. Immediately pour the pudding batter into the loaf pan on top of the caramel and smooth. Bake for one hour until puffed and golden.
Remove the loaf pan from the oven and allow to cool just until the pan can be handled (the pudding should no longer be hot but should still be warm). Run a sharp knife around the edges to loosen the pudding then place a serving platter upside down on top of the loaf pan. Quickly invert the platter and the pan and lift the loaf pan off of the pudding.
The Bread Pudding is delicious eaten warm or at room temperature, plain, with yogurt, whipped cream or ice cream. We love it plain with a cup of coffee.
20 comments:
- Emma said...
Uh oh, you may have just started a worldwide bread pudding trend... Husbands and sons will queue up in the kitchen from afternoon to evening, waiting for their share of the pudding! Strange flavors will be added such as jalapeno and cumin, or tomato and mango caramel; my, how exotic! The people won't be able to get enough!!
:D Just kidding... maybe.
I know what you mean about bucking trends until a later date. It helps explain why I so love the Spice Girls today...
- March 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
I'm glad you are fiercely anti-trend like me! I never follow fads and steer clear of any commercial propaganda. I try to be myself and not copy anybody... Copycats who want to be "in" are just destestable.
Those macarons are awesome! That flavor is terrific.
- March 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM
- Javelin Warrior said...
I've always assumed macarons were far more enticing to look at then to eat ;) While I have never tasted a macaron or attempted to bake them, they never fail to look dry - and somewhat boring if still elegant. So I've really never seen the appeal in fussing over cookies like macarons when I could be baking gooey chocolate chip cookies. Just saying, this is one trend I still don't get...
- March 20, 2012 at 12:55 PM
- Kate at Serendipity said...
HERE'S that bread pudding! Now I see what you meant--this looks amazingly wonderful. I'll trade you a cup of gelato for a slice!
What a great idea to make the caramel in the bottom of the pan. Sort of a bread-pudding tatin...
- March 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM
- Mardi @eatlivetravelwrite said...
It's funny, I much prefer making them to eating them too... Happy Jour du Macaron! Btw, the brown? Maybe the coconut in the shells? Oilier than almonds? Bakes faster and discolours? Anyway, they look great to me!
- March 20, 2012 at 3:27 PM
- Lora said...
What an elegant flavor combination whatever the color. The bread pudding looks divine. Thank you so much for starting Mactweets and inspiring us month after month. It's been so much fun.
- March 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM
- Terra said...
I didn't know there was world macaron day? That is sooooo fun!!! Your macs look simply perfect, gorgeous:-) I just recently fell in love with bread pudding, I know, I know, I have been missing out:-) Your bread pudding looks delicious! Hugs, Terra
- March 20, 2012 at 7:23 PM
- Sandy said...
I'm so with you, Jamie, thanks for these wise words! I am macaron-addicted for years now. To me it isn't a trend but I know there are people trying to jump the "trendy train".
I love mac-attack and your's are as stunning as a macaron can be. warmly, Sandy
- March 21, 2012 at 12:53 AM
- Sally - My Custard Pie said...
...I feel much better after reading this post. I always thought it was just the awkward streak in me that, when everyone was running towards cupcakes, whoopie pies, cake pops et al, I was rapidly backing away in the opposite direction!
I'm not a fan of eating macarons so have never made them (although my 13 year old had a go and they were excellent). Your French bread pud is interesting too - my Mother made bread pud with water not milk but in a similar way. I was brought up on the stuff (no throwing away bread in our house).
- March 21, 2012 at 5:13 AM
- Jill @ MadAboutMacarons said...
Your macarons sound absolutely delicious and they look perfect. Tell me, for the brown colour - what colouring did you use? I hear it can sometimes happen with gels rather than the powdered colouring. Your husband doesn't like them? What? My husband hates me talking about them but he never complains when he 'has' to eat them, lol. Love how you finished off with your new trend of the bread pudding. It sounds so funny in French! Wonderful.
- March 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Gourmantine said...
I have to agree, there's no point really in following any trends, but macarons... I love eating them so much, that I've been baking them non-stop for a good year just not to go bankrupt in buying them :) (expensive little suckers..)
- March 21, 2012 at 1:48 PM
- Mira said...
Your macarons look fabulous and full of flavours! I'm glad I found the MacTweets, because I enjoy both baking and eating macarons (actually, learned to bake them so that I could eat them more often :)).
And thanks a lot for the bread pudding - I've seen it in tha bakeries, but never thought of preparing some at home.
- March 21, 2012 at 1:56 PM
- Lisa said...
I could eat bread pudding at every meal..sweet or savory, and be quite happy. Macarons, maybe not, but I do love them..as long as they're not too sweet, an as you mentioned, the flavors are unique and delicious. Hermes are the best to me..but Frabcois Payard makes some mean macarons too. Dying to try Zumbo's!
That said..I love your bread pudding and the raspberry-coconut macarons look and sound phenomenal! Oh, I do like certain aspects of MG - like the pearls, sometimes called caviar. Once you feel a chocolate (or any flavor) pearl pop in your mouth, it's love :)
- March 21, 2012 at 7:40 PM
- Baker Street said...
Bread pudding is the most welcome dessert in my house. My husband absolutely loves it.
Your macrons are just gorgeous Jamie! So inspired to just get up and give it go..
- March 22, 2012 at 4:00 AM
- Sara{OneTribeGourmet} said...
Happy Macaron Day...I think I need to come to France to learn how to make these gorgeous mac from you babe! xx
- March 22, 2012 at 7:43 PM
- WiseMóna said...
Happy Macaron Day - and sorry I missed it Jamie. I am so tardy these days but that bread pudding caught my eye and I had to swing by to see it. I do love bread pudding and yours sounds like it would be devoured in an instant in my house. And - I also try not to get swallowed up into the world of trends ... drives me nuts!
- March 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM
- Dewi said...
Your macaron look absolutely gorgeous, and the pudding is irresistible!
- March 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM
- Barbara | Creative Culinary said...
Sorry I missed the celebration! Funny, I made something using pomegranate juice the other day and the end result is brown too. The flavor is fantastic so I'll survive but I'm on the trail of how to color the end result to have a more visual appeal. Truth is, these look good to me; you know me...I simply watch the festivities from afar!
- March 25, 2012 at 10:04 AM
- Deeba PAB said...
Love the anti trend you, so much like moi sistah, but some trends like these are worth every frill, foot and fancy! Love how you churn out perfect and delicious macarons month after month, effortlessly! And that is a mean bread pudding ... flavours after me heart! Now that is a trend you might have just set hun! xoxo
- March 25, 2012 at 11:30 PM
- Elizabeth said...
How on earth did I manage to miss out that it was World Macaron Day just 5 days ago? I've been robbed. Now I will have to wait until next March.
(The last time I had macarons was when we bought some from a vendor in Lyons. They were so amazingly wonderful that we sat by the river, finished the lot and immediately returned to the fellow's cart to buy a dozen more.)
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One pair of crusader spurs. A spur is a metal instrument composed of a shank, neck, and prick, rowel (sharp-toothed wheel), or blunted end fastened to the heel of a horseback rider's boot for the purpose of asking the horse to move forward. It is usually used to refine the riding aids (commands) and to back up the natural aids (the leg, seat and voice aids). The spur is used in every equestrian discipline. There are rules in most equestrian organizations about spur use and cruelty issues.
The very old word derives from Anglo-Saxon sputa, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. Medieval High German Sporn, modern German Sporn, Dutch spoor, Frisian spoar. Generalized sense of "anything that urges on, stimulus" is recorded in English from c.1390.
The spur's use cannot with certainty be traced further back than Roman times. Early spurs had no neck, a prick being riveted to the shank. Prick spurs had straight necks in the 11th century and bent ones in the 12th. The earliest form of the horseman's spur armed the heel with a single prick. In England the rowel spur is shown upon the first seal of Henry III, but it does not come into general use until the 14th century.
The spurs of medieval knights were gilt and those of esquires silvered. "To win his spurs" meant to gain knighthood, as gilded spurs were reckoned the badge of knighthood. In the rare cases of ceremonious degradation, they were hacked from the knights heels by the cooks chopper. After the battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the French chivalry suffered a humbling defeat, the victors hung up bushels of knights' gilt spurs in the churches of Kortrijk as trophies of what is still remembered by the Flemings as the Guldensporenslag (the battle of the golden spurs). For another reason the English named the French route beside Thérouanne as the Battle of Spurs.
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- Based on a detailed case study of parallel grammar development distributed across two sites, we review some of the requirements for regression testing in grammar engineering, summarize our approach to systematic competence and performance profiling, and discuss our experience with grammar development for a commercial application. If possible, the workshop presentation will be organized around a software demonstration.
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- We present an architecture for the integration of shallow and deep NLP components which is aimed at flexible combination of different language technologies for a range of practical current and future applications. In particular, we describe the integration of a high-level HPSG parsing system with different high-performance shallow components, ranging from named entity recognition to chunk parsing and shallow clause recognition. The NLP components enrich a representation of natural language text with layers of new XML meta-information using a single shared data structure, called the text chart. We describe details of the integration methods, and show how information extraction and language checking applications for realworld German text benefit from a deep grammatical analysis.
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A turbulent week. Emotions rampant; head down, fingers scurrying across the keyboard. A very short blog post is called for. In between home improvement… well, home finishing… projects, taking extra time to snuggle Marty as the end nears and working on my various projects. Bits and pieces. My life, my emotions spread thin, bumping up and down, a commotion of sensations. My words come out in short gasps, my movements fluttering from one thought to the next as I gather them up and jot them down, painting words in black and white. Time is fleeting, rushing past like my nine-year-old self on a bike whizzing home, wind whipping my thick mess of hair out of my eyes for the first time all day, hurry hurry. Or time slows down to a trickle, as thick as molasses, as slow as my son preparing to execute any chore we have requested of him… one sock, first shoe, check text messages, tie shoe, stare off into space and dream for a while, second sock….
Apartment renovations continue in fits and bursts and our hallway is nearly finished. Ceiling lights purchased for the kitchen and even as boxes and now-empty suitcases gather round us like so many faithful, adoring disciples, we may soon be able to drag the truck-sized toolchests (in the plural), the various painting supplies, ladders and the rest of the home improvement paraphernalia up to the attic and give ourselves just that much more floor space. I slowly, painstakingly send out change-of-address notices as I slowly, carefully order my work here at the computer. The desolate rain bursts into glorious sunshine, winter leaving icy fingerprints on the windowpanes.
My projects old and new clutter my worktop and my life, I finalize stories and tap joyfully on the send button, waiting for the satisfying whoosh of email sent; writing mojo back in full swing. New ideas fill my head and take shape as I discuss the creation of this event or the writing of that piece with friends and mentors, pushing myself forward on a surge of activity and enterprise. I connect with those around me, hoping for newfound involvement in my city of Nantes. The bright clear days find me wandering through town, seeing hitherto unnoticed artwork, graffiti scrawled across unlikely spaces, new buildings perched above my line of vision in unexpected material, impulsive colors, in stunning juxtaposition to the graceful, elegant old beauties in fading cream and black, the architecture one expects in this place. My camera captures images, which cry out to be transformed into words.
And Marty. No words to describe the sadness in our hearts, the heaviness crawling through our home as we watch him, sadness and discomfort replacing mirth and curiosity in his eyes.
And I bake. A flurry of flour, a dusting of salt, a sprinkling of yeast; hands, fingers sinking into dense, soft dough, pushing, pulling, worries and frustrations released in the gentle, rhythmic movement, replaced with a utopian calm. My mind wanders to words, sentences, tales amid the fragrance of vanilla and sweet apples, redolent with the exotic nip of cinnamon, against the tang, the heady earthiness of the yeast. Warm from the oven, drizzled with sugary icing, the crunch of almonds and we sit together en tête-à-tête in the bright kitchen drinking coffee and eating sweet bread. No words are needed.
An apple-filled yeast coffee cake, this Apple Cinnamon Twist is added to November's Twelve Loaves line up of fabulous recipes. Twelve Loaves is a baking-from-scratch event created by Lora of Cake Duchess, Barb of Creative Culinary and myself to inspire our fellow food bloggers to bake. November's challenge was all about our favourite Autumn Fruits: Apples & Pears. I saw this fabulous twisted loaf on Kate's blog Food Babbles and couldn't resist! I made some slight changes to her recipe including changing her pears for apples and the results were incredible. The dough is fast and easy to put together, more time is spent waiting than fiddling with fussy ingredients – time spent writing or painting or hugging a Boston Terrier. Once filled, the dough is cut and twisted like for my Pesto Parmesan Russian Rosa Loaf, a joy to make once one gets the hang of it. Topped with a marvellous cinnamon glaze, this was one of the best sweet yeast coffee cakes I've made yet and worth making over and over again.
I am sharing this with Susan of Wild Yeast for her weekly Yeastspotting!
Adapted from a recipe on Food Babbles which was adapted from a King Arthur Flour recipe
For the dough:
3 ½ cups (450-460 g) flour, stirred up and lightly spooned into measuring cup and levelled
3 Tbs (50 g) sugar
1 ½ tsp (6 g) active dry yeast
1 ¼ tsp salt
3 Tbs (45 g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
1 tsp vanilla or orange extract
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 cup (250 ml) milk (I used half whole, half lowfat), warmed to tepid/skin temperature
For the filling:
½ cup (100 g) sugar (I used less)
3 Tbs flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3 medium apples, peeled and grated
1 Tbs lemon juice
For the glaze:
1 cup confectioner's/powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla or ½ tsp orange extract, optional
3 Tbs heavy cream or whole milk
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Prepare the dough:
Place all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir or whisk to blend. Add the soft butter, the warm milk, the room temperature egg and the vanilla and stir until blended, all the dry ingredients are moistened and a shaggy dough forms. Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and allow to rest for 30 minutes.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for 10 minutes, dusting with flour if needed. Any large chunks of butter left should be incorporated and the dough should be soft, elastic and light without being too sticky.
Place the dough in a clean, oiled bowl and turn the dough to make sure it is oiled all over. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and the clean kitchen towel and let rise for 1 ½ to 2 hours, until the dough is doubled in size.
Make the filling:
Peel and grate the apples (I used the large holes of my grater), discarding the core. Toss the grated apples with the lemon juice.
Whisk together the sugar, flour and cinnamon in a medium mixing bowl to blend. Add the grated apples to the dry mixture and stir to blend well, making sure all of the dry ingredients are melted into the apples leaving no clumps. Cover and set aside.
Assemble the Twist:
Line a large baking sheet, long and wide enough to hold two long loaves, with parchment or oven-safe paper.
Gently deflate the risen dough by scraping it out of the mixing bowl and onto a lightly floured surface. Using a large, sharp knife, divide the dough into two equal pieces, returning one temporarily to the bowl.
Roll half of the dough into an approximately 10 x 12-inch rectangle with the long side perpendicular to your body. Spread half of the apple filling evenly all over the dough rectangle, leaving a ½-inch edge empty on three sides – one long, two short – and 1-inch filling free across the top edge. Starting at the long end nearest your body, roll the dough up around the filling into a jellyroll or log and seal the edges. Gently roll back and forth to even out the thickness of the log.
Using a very long, sharp knife – a butcher's knife works best – slice the log lengthwise in half. Gently lift each half onto the parchment-lined baking sheet and place them side by side, cut side up (the many layers of the "open cut" will be up). Keeping the filling side up and starting from the center, twist and twine the two lengths together as tightly as possible with squishing the dough and filling. Pinch the ends to seal and tuck underneath.
Repeat with the second half of the dough.
Cover the loaves loosely with plastic wrap and a clean kitchen towel and allow to rise for 1 to 2 hours. The loaves should be pretty much doubled in size.
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
Bake the loaves for 30 – 40 minutes or until risen and golden brown. If the loaves seem to be browning too quickly, just cover lightly with foil. The finished bread should sound hollow when tapped.
Remove from the oven to a cooling rack and allow to cool for 1 hour before making and drizzling the cinnamon glaze.
Prepare the Cinnamon Glaze:
Measure then sift the confectioner's sugar into a small mixing bowl with the cinnamon. Add the cream or milk, the extract if using, and, stir with a fork or small whisk until well blended, smooth and creamy. The glaze should be smooth and just liquid enough to ribbon off of a spoon to drizzle all over the bread but not so liquid that it runs together and off the bread.
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Our fifth series of NFL Legends is the kind of lineup that makes opposing defenses cringe. It features six legendary quarterbacks and arguably the most dynamic running back in NFL history. Safeties cross your fingers and linebackers close your eyes, here's a look at NFL Legends Series 5:Randall Cunningham - The Eagles' most dangerous weapon established himself with a career season in 1990, throwing 30 touchdowns while rushing for almost 1,000 yards.Joe Montana 2 - The NFL's preeminent quarterback wrote a new chapter in his storied career in 1993, arriving in Kansas City to lead the Chiefs' attack.Bart Starr - Hall-of-Fame QB delivered victories in the first two Super Bowls, earning MVP honors, and helping establish Green Bay as "Titletown."Barry Sanders 2 - The definition of elusive, Barry Sanders confounded defenders with an arsenal of moves and cutbacks to go with his tremendous speed and serious power.Steve Young - He survived the USFL and rough years in Tampa to finally win over the San Francisco faithful as Joe Montana's heir, throwing six touchdowns and earning MVP honors in the 49ers' Super Bowl XXIX victory.Archie Manning - Mississippi's favorite son moved even further south to lead the Saints for 11 seasons. Rumor has it his sons can play football too...Dan Marino 2 - He threw for 61,361 yards and 420 touchdowns in his unbelievable career, making the Dolphins title contenders for 17 glorious seasons.NFL Legends 5 is scheduled to arrive on shelves in early July. Stay tuned to McFarlane.com for photos of this line in the coming weeks.


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Role of video marketing in social media
Social media marketing involves attracting people who see value in the content you post on the internet. While status updates and photos can help you achieve a well-rounded social media marketing campaign, whiteboard videos – thanks to their dynamic and compelling nature – capture the attention of viewers and give them a more comprehensive idea of your company, products or services. Moreover, creating something like this yourself let you exercise your creativity far more than images and text can accomplish.
Research shows that most people prefer watching whiteboard animation than reading texts. So by using short explainer videos in your viral campaigns, more and more people are likely to pay attention to your efforts than when you use long boring blocks of text. Research also shows that over 40 percent of online users tend to share and repost their favourite animations. So your videos will have a higher chance of being seen by potential customers that you have not been able to reach through other marketing efforts.


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It's not an upgrade.. Dangit..
Instacast 3.0 for iPhone and iPad now available
Instacast, the very popular podcast app, has been updated (as a new app) with a completely new design and a new robust syncing mechanism. Instacast is also now a universal app for iPhone and iPad so that you can enjoy and follow your favorite podcasts with any iOS device.
Switching from Instacast 2 to 3.0 is like buying a brand new car. While everything looks quite familiar, you have a much better experience. Everything just smells fresh and feels great in your hand. And this car has been rebuilt completely with modern technologies.
The new features of Instacast 3.0 include a brand new look that removes a lot of friction by making everything accessible with fewer taps. The developers also switched out a lot of old methods with newer technologies like automatic reference counting and Core Data to make Instacast better and faster. Alongside these fancy new technologies is Instacasts new Cloud sync. Instead of using Apple's iCloud to keep your podcasts in sync, the folks at Vemedio put in a lot of work to create their own. All you need to do to use it is sign-up for a free account and all your data will be seamlessly moved to the cloud.
Instacast has been one of our favorite podcast apps for quite some time and the new Instacast 3.0 makes a great app even better. Are you a podcast subscriber who uses Instacast? If so, let us know what you think of the update!
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Instacast 3.0 for iPhone and iPad now available
A trend I've noticed recently.
disappointed that it is not an upgrade. if i do decide to buy, will it "upgrade" my old version and capture my current settings/podcasts?
Really disappointed it's not an upgrade
I take issue when Devs pull this type of shady garbage. I purchased what was apparently Instacast 2.0. Paid to upgrade to "Pro" to get push notifications (which never worked anyway). Purchased the iPad version to sync podcasts between my phone and tablet (which never worked anyway).
Oh, and now they want another $5 to basically repurchase what should have been a working product all along? No thanks.
I agree. I'll never touch this app for this reason alone. Add things via IAP is one thing, but to charge again for some decent, but RELATIVELY minor changes, that's not cool.
I agree, though no universal SUCKS. And I'd kill to have them download my podcasts straight into Dropbox. The only feature I liked about doing it through iTunes is that I wouldn't have to deal with the loss of space. I'm always behind and they suck down a LOT of space.


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The World Championships Are Nearly Here
Pre-Registration for the FFG World Championship Weekend Closes This Sunday
The FFG World Championship Weekend is now just around the corner! This November 9th – 11th, we're hosting the greatest and most enthusiastic players from across the globe in the World Championship Tournaments for seven fantastic games:
- A Game of Thrones: The Card Game
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- Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game
- Dust Tactics
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- Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game
- X-Wing™
Pre-registration for this event ends this Sunday, October 28th, so don't wait any longer. The FFG World Championship Weekend is loaded with all-new opportunities for attendees, so register now, and make your plans to join us!
Not yet convinced? Read on to learn more about the exclusive and exciting events of the FFG World Championship Weekend.
Star Wars: The Card Game™ Learn-to-Play Tournament
In addition to three days of sterling competition and camaraderie, all players who compete in our World Championship events will get custom participation prizes, such as those we've already shown for A Game of Thrones, Dust Tactics, and Warhammer: Invasion. However, when you pre-register, you get more.
Pre-registered attendees get a free FFG World Championship Weekend t-shirt and the opportunity to participate in the World's first-ever tournament for Star Wars: The Card Game™!
On Sunday the 11th, at 1 PM, before Star Wars: The Card Game is even available for public release, sixteen players will sit down to battle for the fate of the galaxy. Borrowing pre-constructed decks for the Jedi and Sith factions, players will demonstrate their mastery of the Force™ in a tournament that tests skill over deck-building.
How will you learn the ways of the Force? We'll have demos of the game starting on Friday and running all weekend. Furthermore, pre-registered attendees can challenge FFG staff members to games of Star Wars both Friday and Saturday and win a chance to qualify for Sunday's tournament. Just look for the FFG staff members sitting at the designated Star Wars: The Card Game tables and challenge them to a game! You'll get a demo, a chance to learn the rules, and a chance to qualify for Sunday's learn-to-play tournament.
While players will have to return their demo decks after the tournament, we will have other prizes available.
World Championship Premieres
The Star Wars: The Card Game introductory tournament isn't the only debut event of note at the FFG World Championship Weekend. Far from it!
This last year has been a terrific success for our Organized Play program. Organized Play enjoyed tremendous growth both in participation and its number of games. At the FFG World Championship Weekend, we'll host the first ever World Championship Tournaments for three new games!
The histories of these games are yet to be written. Their legacies are wide open. Who will be their first World Champions? Will it be you?
Dust Painting Contest
Hosting the FFG World Championship Weekend at our headquarters in Roseville, MN allows us to dedicate more time and energy to these World Championship events than we have been able to give them in past years.
Among other things, this affords us the opportunity to host a painting contest for players and fans of Dust Tactics and Dust Warfare.
At the FFG World Championship Weekend, your Dust armies can pull triple-duty – in the fast-paced board game battles of Dust Tactics, in the gritty tabletop miniatures action of Dust Warfare, and in the Dust Painting Contest!
Les Shorey's Best Painted Walker from our 2011 Dust Tactics painting contest
Entires will be accepted from Friday at 3 PM through Saturday at 11 AM. Awards will be announced Saturday at 12 PM.
The Details:
- There will be two categories: squad and walker
- Contestants may enter one or both categories
- Squad entries should contain a complete squad as per the Dust Tactics or Dust Warfare rules. Entries may include an attached hero.
- Contestants may use any miniatures from Dust Tactics and its expansions and include no pieces from other companies' miniatures. Contestants may modify miniatures with their own custom sculpting or modeling.
Our panel of judges will select a winner based on technique, style, neatness, general aesthetic, and faithfulness to the theme of brutal combat in the most inhospitable regions of an alternate 1940s reality.
Video Coverage of Select Events
Hosting the FFG World Championship Weekend at our headquarters also allows us to put our games – and players – on a larger stage than ever before.
This year, our Worlds finalists will take center stage in front of a global audience. We will have live, streaming coverage of select matches throughout the weekend, and we'll have additional video coverage of all our championship events. This year, when you're the best in the world, others will know.
This also means that fans unable to attend will be able to live vicariously through their friends via the internet. It's not as good as being here in person, but it's the next best thing. And it's all a part of our efforts to make the FFG World Championship Weekend as strong, fun, and exciting an event as we possibly can!
Don't miss out on the fun, games, and camaraderie of the FFG World Championship Weekend. Register now!
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There are many paths to freedom, not all are peaceful
On topic. I don't like this match at all as I have stated many times. However at WW, where weight is not missed, I have less aversion to it. I still think that St. Pierre cannot handle the striking that Silva has however that could be negated by size loss. I have to think that Silva would have to lose muscle mass to make 170 so that will (I think) decrease his power overall. An advantage that a supremely condidioned St. Pierre could use.
Overall I still do not wish to see this fight as there is this fella called Big Rig that should be fighting St. Pierre for the title right now and if Georges beats Diaz and Big Rig beats Condit then to me there can be no match other than St. Pierre vs Big Rig.
FW-Hominick, Weichel
LW-Stout, Cerrone, Jim Miller
WW-GSP, Fitch, Goulet, Rory
HW-Carwin, Barry, Russow
RRR=the Rhonda Rousey Resistance
classic - "this is the dumbest thing Ive ever heard. thats like me having a picture of Hitler posted, and saying "I dont believe in his politics, but I like to hear him talk" W.Silva>C.Norris
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They say April showers bring May flowers, but this year nearly 600,000 kids are counting on good-hearted Americans to become foster parents and help them blossom. Across the nation, the need for foster homes is rapidly increasing as more and more children need temporary or permanent alternatives because of abuse, neglect, or other family crises. More than 600,000 children nationwide currently need foster homes, but the number of foster homes falls short of meeting the need. A supportive, caring foster family can give them a sanctuary where they can be safe, can heal from their emotional scars, and can experience a sense of home and family they may never have had before. The face of foster care is changing, with older children, youngsters with disabilities, and kids who not only need a loving home but help to overcome crises such as abuse.
"The shortage of foster homes across the nation leaves more and more children deprived of the tender loving care that every child needs and deserves," said Dr. Lorrie Henderson, KidsPeace Acting President. "If more Americans get involved we can all make sure that every child who needs a second chance at happiness can get one."
National Foster Care Awareness Month seeks to raise awareness about the magnitude of the issue and the urgent and sustaining needs of children and older youth in foster care and their families; Issue a national call to action that motivates, inspires and facilitates many more Americans to come forward and help change a lifetime for a young person in foster care; and, develop a positive framework for maintaining visibility and interest in the foster care issue to support the year-round efforts of the National Foster Care Month Partner organizations and other child welfare agencies. National Foster Care Month also gives provides an opportunity for acknowledging the thousands of dedicated foster families and other caring individuals and organizations who are already supporting these young people.


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Weekly Schedule* Mornings 5:00 am Zazen (sitting meditation) 5:40 Kinhin (walking meditation) 5:50 Zazen 6:30 Service 7:00 Soji (temple cleaning)
Afternoons 5:00 pm Zazen 5:50 Service Wednesday Morning During the growing season only 5:00 am Zazen (sitting meditation) 5:40 Refuges 5:50 Change into work clothes and work in the garden or fields until 7 am Contact office for more information. Wednesday Evening During farming season—May through September 7:15 pm Lecture/Dharma event During practice periods-October through April 7:30 pm Lecture/Dharma event Contact office for more information. *Though the meditation hall (zendo) is usually open daily for meditation, the schedule varies at times; for example, following sesshins there is an interim, during which the first period of meditation is at 5:50 am. Also, the evening sitting is offered on days that vary according to the season. Please call our office (see below) for the current schedule. Sunday Morning Schedule Same as weekdays, until 8:15 am Zazen Meditation Instruction** 9:15 Zazen 10:00 Public lecture: Dharma talk (hearing assistance available) 11:15 Tea 11:45 Discussion with lecturer 12:15 Lunch: $15 donation requested*** The Sunday morning program is open to all; prior registration is not required. A $5-10 donation is requested in support of the temple. A special children's program is held on the first Sunday of every month. **Doors close for the meditation instruction at 8:15 am, so if this is your first visit to Green Gulch please plan to arrive 10-15 minutes early. ***Our only public lunch is on Sunday, for those who attend the dharma talk. We are unable to provide meals for the public at any other time during the week. General Notes
To contact the Green Gulch Farm office, call 415.383.3134 or come by in person during office hours.


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In 1918 A-Treat was started three generations ago in a three-car garage in downtown Allentown (PA) by Joseph and Jack Egizio. The business moved to its present location in east Allentown in 1932 where it has produced delicious A-Treat sodas for near and distant customers for the past 75 years. 90 years of operation is quite a testimony to the quality of A-Treat beverages. A-Treat sodas are still produced with the same care and attention to quality that Joe and John practiced when A-Treat beverages were first produced in 1918.
Since their introduction in 1918 A-Treat brand soft drinks have gained a reputation for superior quality and flavor. We are especially proud of this reputation since we generally do not use the "stock" extracts offered by the various flavor houses but produce our own flavoring material from basic essential oils or procure our flavoring material from outside sources produced according to our specifications. A-Treat Cola, Ginger Ale, and Orange have been perennial favorites. A few years ago an article in Lehigh Valley Magazine (Allentown, PA) named A-Treat Cream Soda as one of the "100 Best Things About The Lehigh Valley". A-Treat Birch Beer, a unique flavor peculiar to the region, is a popular item that is a top request of those customers who have moved away and order soda by mail. Our diet soda line with all the different flavors is popular with those that are weight conscious or sugar intolerant. But the popularity of our sodas is not restricted to those just mentioned. All of our sodas have found eager customers in whatever market they have been introduced. With over 25 different flavors available, customers have no problem finding a favorite A-Treat flavor. Pick your favorite A-Treat flavor and enjoy!
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In the past BSI has provided data processing systems for A-Treat, and now maintains this web site for our mutual benefit.