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This "American Honey Flight" from Violet.com is so fabulous that I feel inspired to have a breakfast honey tasting party!
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"Food porn is a sarcastic term for a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials, cooking shows or other visual media."
Decadent looking food photographs that produce great hunger and even lust in the viewer. The best food porn makes one want to eat one's computer or cookbook. Donna Hay makes exceptional food porn.
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Canneles, as defined by Chocolate & Zucchini:
"- 1/2 liter (2 cups) milk
- 30 g (3 tablespoons) salted butter, diced
- 1 vanilla pod (split), or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste
- 100 g (3/4 cup) all-purpose flour
- 200 g (1 cup) sugar
- 3 eggs
- 80 ml (1/3 cup) good-quality rumYields about 20 medium canelés.
Combine the milk, butter and vanilla in a medium saucepan, and bring to a boil. In the meantime, combine the flour and sugar in a medium mixing-bowl, and break the eggs in another, smaller bowl. When the milk mixture starts to boil, remove from heat and fish out the vanilla pod if using. Pour the eggs all at once into the flour mixture (don't stir yet), pour in the milk mixture, and whisk until well combined and a little frothy. Add in the rum and whisk again. Let cool to room temperature on the counter, then cover and refrigerate for at least 24 hours and up to 3 days.
The next day (or the day after that, or the day after that), preheat the oven to 250° C (480° F). Butter the canelé molds if they are made of copper (unnecessary if you're using silicon molds). Remove the batter from the fridge: it will have separated a bit, so whisk until well blended again. Pour into the prepared molds, filling them almost to the top. Put into the oven to bake for 20 minutes, then (without opening the oven door) lower the heat to 200° C (400° F) and bake for another 40 to 60 minutes (depending on your oven and how you like your canelés). The canelés are ready when the bottoms are a very dark brown.
Unmold onto a cooling rack (wait for about ten minutes first if you're using silicon molds or they will collapse a little) and let cool completely before eating."
A French pastry which is notoriously difficult to make correctly. Canneles are one of the most delicious and perfect foods ever created, and give those tragically allergic to chocolate a reason to keep living. A well made cannele is best eaten as soon as possible after being baked. The outside of the pastry will be a crunchy deliciously caramelized sugary treat, while the inside will be almost impossibly moist and vaguely cake-like. This dessert has a little known effect of acting as an apatite suppressant because after eating one the consumer is reluctant to let any other food pass his/her lips for fear of loosing the after taste of burnt sugar.
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"It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it "Jumping the Shark." From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same...
The aforementioned expression refers to the telltale sign of the demise of Happy Days, our favorite example, when Fonzie actually "jumped the shark." The rest is history.Jumping the shark applies not only to TV, but also music, film, even everyday life. "Did you see her boyfriend? She definitely jumped the shark." You get the idea."
To kill something by taking it so far that it becomes ridiculous, and thus no longer bearable.
In the most classic sense of the phrase, the Gilmore Girls jumped the shark when Rory stole a yatch, dropped out of college, moved in with her grandparents and joined the DAR.
In terms of trend, the Louis Vuitton logo bag jumped the shark when you saw a pack of twelve year-olds carrying matching ones as they stampeded past you into Hollister at a suburban mall.
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I'm playing around a little with my look. For those returning readers, do you like the old chic and charming or the new one better? Keep in mind, the new one is a rough draft and might require a little more tweaking!
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"Movement launched in Paris in 1924 by French poet André Breton with publication of his Manifesto of Surrealism. Breton was strongly influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud identified a deep layer of the human mind where memories and our most basic instincts are stored. He called this the unconscious, since most of the time we are not aware of it. The aim of Surrealism was to reveal the unconscious and reconcile it with rational life. The Surrealists did this in literarature as well as art. Surrealism also aimed at social and political revolution and for a time was affiliated to the Communist party. There was no single style of Surrealist art but two broad types can be seen. These are the oneiric (dream-like) work of Dalí, early Ernst, and Magritte, and the automatism of later Ernst and Miró. Freud believed that dreams revealed the workings of the unconscious, and his famous book The Interpretation of Dreams was central to Surrealism. Automatism was the Surrealist term for Freud's technique of free association, which he also used to reveal the unconscious mind of his patients. Surrealism had a huge influence on art, literature and the cinema as well as on social attitudes and behaviour."
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Fist of Rage, as defined by Urban Dictionary:
"To raise arm in air clench into a fist and shake sporadically.
The guy cut me off in his car and I proceeded to give him the Fist of Rage as a sign of disrespect."
To shake one's fist in the air, much like an angry old man in cartoons of yore. This is a signaling to those around you of your impotent anger, usually in response to some injustice that you recognize you are powerless to avenge. The Fist of Rage is often more satisfying if accompanied by a verbal outburst expressing your discontent.
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Dementor, as defined by wikipedia:
"Being blind, Dementors sense and feed on the positive emotions, happiness and good memories of human beings to move around, forcing them to relive their worst memories. The very presence of a Dementor makes the surrounding atmosphere grow cold and dark, and the effects are cumulative with the number of Dementors present. Those kept in the company of a Dementor for too long become depressed, and are often driven to insanity, which is the main source of Azkaban's well-deserved horrible reputation."
While this term was originally used to describe a fictional ghoul from Harry Potter, it can also be used to describe real persons who one dreads encountering day to day. It is especially applicable in situations were one knows that one will encounter the "Dementor" later in the day and the cloud of their future presence renders all time before that point unenjoyable. While in Harry Potter chocolate helps one recover from an encounter with a Dementor, in real life chocolate and alcohol are usually called for.
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