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Get Ready
Preheat the oven to 350F/180C. Line an 8in/20cm square tine with baking paper. Soften the butter and bring eggs to room temp.
Mixing and Baking
1. Cream butter until smooth, add the sugar gradually and beat til mixture is light and fluffy.
2. Add the eggs one at a time, beating for at least a minute after each addition.
3. Sift flour and baking powder together and add to the mixture alternately with the milk and vanilla.
4. Scoop into prepped tin and bake for about 20 minutes or until golden. Cool on a rack.
5. Store airtight and cut into squares the next day. Some cooks suggest putting squares of cake into the freezer before dipping them to make the process easier.
Finishing
1. First, make the chocolate syrup. Bring everything to a boil stirring, then leave to cool before using. This makes a lot of syrup but it keeps well in a jar in the fridge.
2. Put the desiccated coconut in a heap in the centre of a piece of waxed paper.
3. Spear each piece of cake on a long fork and dip it into the syrup completely, then shake off the excess and roll it in the coconut. Pick up the paper by the edges and roll the cake around to get an even coating. Set aside on a wire rack to dry.
4. About an hour before serving them, slice the cakes almost through on the diagonal, the spoon or pipe whipped cream into the opening. A dot of red jam on a Chocolate Lamington is fairly essential.
crushedGday everyone, I have nearly completed the arduous task of moving in to Excalibur Close, on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, Australia. Hopefully this explains my internet absenteeism, as I have had limited time and access to the net and have been spending ridiculous amounts of time shopping for furniture dividing my time at IKEA (4th trip this month was completed yesterday, and FINALLY we have the room divider grrr), the Belrose SupaCenter (yes, it's spelled that way) which is like a mega homewares complex, and random places in the CBD and inner west.
This weekend has been council cleanup, and my inner packrat/insufferable hoarder ego has been unleashed. Well, not so much, but council cleanup is where everyone dumps 3sq meters of crap out on the nature strip in front of their homes, and puts stuff out free for the taking. Scott's been all, "I know all the hot spots for council cleanup, Lisa!" and then later "that really makes me sound like a cheap cunt, doesn't it?" (yes, yes it does dear). But we have actually found some pretty sweet stuff... Not that we were out there looking for furniture or anything, but people throw out LOADS of plants that they don't realize are completely alive still, (such as orchids) and we found a succulent MOTHERLOAD in front of one house, probably about $200 worth of plants, all flourishing -- they were selling the home and I suppose just chucking everything out and ripping out the backyard? So all up we did really well, acquiring dendritic and various epiphytic orchids, succulents, a couple of large jasmine vines, an assortment of culinary herbs, and a few native species as well as many, many sweet pots - teracotta, earthenware, etc. In some sense, I see council cleanup as awesome - it's social recycling. (And, it rules to get free stuff from around here because everyone is v. well off on the Upper North Shore).
Australia has treated me well so far, except for a horrorshow at Hornsby Hospital. (If you travel to Sydney, do not ever, EVER go to this piece of shit excuse of a medical facility.) My abscessed tooth ruptured and I had severe cellulitis and decay in the muscles above my gum and then cellulitis in my upper and lower jaw, requiring emergency oral surgery at 3 AM. It was so traumatic that I'm going to have to save the story and write about it in a different entry, I don't have the time or energy to fully rant in that manner yet today.
The jacarandas are in full bloom, and the coral trees and agapanthus are also shining brilliantly throughout the city. Late spring/ early summer is the best time to be in Sydney, the weather is about 75 - 85F every day with bright blue skies unlike anywhere else in the world, there are heaps of art festivals, outdoor cinema by moonlight in the parks, and everything is lush and green and alive. So so unlike Colorado!!!
Eleven days until my birthday (the 12th), when I turn 27. My twenties are screaming by, what's the go with that?
anxiousI have decided tonight to post a poem called What Can We Do? by Charles Bukowski who is one of my favourite poet/authors of all-time. He's largely affiliated with the Beat Generation (more common beats you've probably heard of would be Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, William S. Burroughs) but unlike them, he had no need for flowered language. Bukowski said what he meant and shot straight from the hip. No glamor, no arrogance, just brutal fucking honesty. So here it is:
what can we do?
at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
some understanding and, at times, acts of
courage
but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn't
have too much.
it is like a large animal deep in sleep and
almost nothing can awaken it.
when activated it's best at brutality,
selfishness, unjust judgments, murder.
what can we do with it, this Humanity?
nothing.
avoid the thing as much as possible.
treat it as you would anything poisonous, vicious
and mindless.
but be careful. it has enacted laws to protect
itself from you.
it can kill you without cause.
and to escape it you must be subtle.
few escape.
it's up to you to figure a plan.
I have met nobody who has escaped.
I have met some of the great and
famous but they have not escaped
for they are only great and famous within
Humanity.
I have not escaped
but I have not failed in trying again and
again.
before my death I hope to obtain my
life.
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Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which exists independently of what may appear to others as visual realities. Western had been underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. It allowed the progressive thinking artists to show a different side to the world around them. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a 'new kind of art' which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. Abstract artists created art that was diverse and reflected the social and intellectual turmoil in all areas of Western culture.
People that chose abstract art as their preferred artform tend to be visionsaries. They see things in the world around them and in people that others may miss because they look beyond what is visual only with the eye. They rely on their inner thoughts and feelings in dealing with the world around them instead of on what they are told they should think and feel. They feel freed from the tendancy to be bound by traditional thought and experiences. They look more toward their own ideas and experiences than what they are told by their religious upbringing or from scientific evidence. They tend to like to prove theories themselves instead of relying on the insight or ideas of others. They are not bound by common and mundane, but like to travel and have new experiences. They value intelligence, but they also enjoy a challenge. They can be rather argumentative when they are being forced or feel as if they are being forced to conform.
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