Cooking for the In-Laws

Blogged by Mathieu as Bread,Diary,Kitchen — Mathieu Mon 24 Mar 2008 10:16

The In-Laws were here this weekend, at least the Queen Mother and the Sister (mitt husband) were. So we cooked and baked for them.

Made Cinnamon Raisin Swirl bread and Mantovan Olive Oil bread. Pineapple Upside Down Cake and Lemon Meringue Pie. Two chickens, butterflied and with a fresh thyme, lemon zest, garlic, pepper rub applied sub-cutaneously, and a whole city ham cooked with a mustard, brown sugar, beer and armagnac crust served with a Gratin Dauphinois.

How shall I put it… we have left-overs, but not nearly as much as I thought we would!

Yo-Yo Ma @ NJPAC

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Tue 11 Mar 2008 7:32

Monday night, saw/heard (from the nose-bleeds) Yo-Yo Ma perform three of JSB’s Cello Suiten (Suite #3 in C Major, Suite #2 in D Minor and Suite #6 in D Major) at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. My favourite piece of music by one of my favorite cello players!

The tickets were a Christmas present from the Princess. (Thanks!)

Saturday Dinner: Ossobuco, Couscous and Ginger-Poached Pears

Blogged by Mathieu as Kitchen — Mathieu Sat 8 Mar 2008 19:10

Took out the Le Creuset cookware and made some Ossobuco for dinner tonite. Smells heavenly in the house now! We’re serving it with some Couscous (‘semoule‘, not the whole shebang, for the Francophones out there) and a 2005 CasalVegri Valpolicella. Dessert will consist of some pears poached in simple syrup with fresh ginger and lemon peel…

I suspect we’ll keep both recipes for future events with guests.

Sony Reader: First Impressions, or the One Paragraph Review

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Fri 7 Mar 2008 9:12

The one word review is: ‘wow’. The two word review is: ‘seriously, wow’. Deriving the three and four word reviews from the samples provided is left as an exercise to the reader(sic). As everyone who has used one notes, the screen is amazing. When you hold it at an angle, there is no change in contrast, so that it looks fake, like on a mock-up of a PDA in a store worried about kleptomaniacs. It is clear, crisp, a pleasure to read. The device is beautiful, and the open-source replacement software does the job perfectly, converting every ebook I’ve thrown at it, including MS .lit files, and downloading the Washington Post in a special format which makes it easy to read on a screen the 8th of a newspaper. It charges over USB (no power brick!) It displays images in lovely 16-levels B&W, and I’m told it plays MP3s, ostensibly for audiobooks.

Now I just need to come up with a graphical design for laser-etching that wide, empty back-plate… because this baby is staying.

Sony Reader To Be Delivered Today

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Thu 6 Mar 2008 9:00

According to the FedEx site, that is.

UPDATE: It’s here!

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