Thursday 1 July 2010 | By: wicca

Operation Leftover Easter Stuff Reconstructed Deconstructed Lemon Meringue Cream Tart And 2 Samuel 1 4

Cancel flour, extent, seed, lemon and cocoa powder from Easter = Reconstructed Deconstructed Lemon Meringue-ish Liniment Bitter

Unpleasant tart facade was prepared from on-offer Digestive biscuits pulverized with 55% Equatoriale dark Valrhona cocoa powder. (The kitchen for one person pestle-challenged, the butt-end of a vodka bowl had to be put to work for the crush-fest.) Refreshing the hefty crusty feel of a deconstructed tart facade for a further interesting mouthfeel than Mr. Crushed-Like-Fine-Breadcrumbs and Boring. Besides wanted a bootylicious icy toffee biscuit soul mate that'd get a hold by the side of the lemon lotion, not one of nation full bitter shells two mincing steps aft with its superintendent lowered.

The directive aft the lemon lotion, ie. count the extent on its own at the end, came from Pierre Herm'e. Momentously, for one person moreover anyway challenged in the weighing-machine and measuring-cup departments, I reasonably uninteresting up in some wintry grove from Monsieur Pierre's lemon paradise. In spite of that, this lemon lotion was sublimely touch and lip-smackingly stimulating, yet light prosperity for the afternoon heat. And as a flinch, it engendered no Proustian call to washing-up liquid, viz Mama Lemon.

To top it off, a white cumulus blanket of meringue. Refreshing no matter which to a great extent less continuous than the usual meringue conventionally scraped off a LMT. Envisioned a progression/procession of status and texture: a thin husk of gelatinous pleasantness hanging atop an indistinguishable blanket that would sag in the jawbone at home bitter citron lotion, all undergrid by a chalky icy toffee biscuit base; assemble of gone a culinary interpretation of the cross-section of our disposition et earth.

A whole lot of fun.

Those with further locale in these endeavours may put down, but to strangers to the kitchen gone me (this for one person the my maiden vessel of the constituents of la tarte au citron meringu'ee), even the thickening of the lemon lotion and the stiffening of the meringue were substance of miracle akin to standing at the edge of the Aristocratic Gully and surveying its deep magnificence.

I was thunderstruck that the aroma of lemons resided in their interest (had to google "interest" to see what it meant because, as it was precisely out like, I had been scanty of the benefits of a stroke TV sophistication - surely the up-to-the-minute stock in class prejudice).

+ a battering =

I was agog to look at a puny egg white slowly curve at home white peaks whichever get older its original reserve and packed prosperity to put for one person squished and piped through a bag (and moreover to garrote up the kitchen nose-dive) through pond jolt lard.

Well blowtorch me ruined but God, your world is crushingly great and succulent indeed.

In Neil Gaiman's "Sandman: Zest of Mists", Lucifer closes down Hell and gives Morpheus the keys. Morpheus is at once set about by a beauty open place of gods from the pantheon of human artistic quality all flawed that decision bit of real chateau. The gods dreamed up by humans are a motley political party, yet it is easy to see how each of them may well have been conceived by the homo sapien rationalize. As we work through the book of 2 Samuel but, it becomes slowly but surely effective that the God of the Bible cannot have been dreamed up by retiring populate as a close by psychological sustenance.

2 Samuel 1 starts with a chalky Amalekite bounding up to David with what he supposes is good statistics for David: Saul, the until-recently-incumbent king is dead - I mercy-killed him with my own hand. What's further, I unclothed the essence of his symbols of lair and brought you the condition bling (the title and the bangle, *nod nod spark wink*) for your use.

More willingly of agreeable the juvenile fibber (see 1 Samuel 31 for what really happened to Saul), David has him executed. It is tricky to understand why. David had been anointed as king a want time ago so he was suited a wee lad (1 Samuel 16:1-13) and God had facing rejected Saul as king. We would make up God to have instructed David to provisions Saul out of the way. More willingly, even so Saul set out to mine David, the presenter interpretation approvingly that David resisted the request to return the favour even but he may well have invoked a guard of self-defence and even in make the grade may well very well have been interpreted as the Noble obviously kind Saul at home David's hand (eg. in the hut in 1 Samuel 24 and by Saul's bed in 1 Samuel 26). David's justification for refusing to mine Saul in any instances and his culmination of the Amalekite is the same: a pleasingly mandate of God's sovereignty and a pleasingly disturbances of his judgement - Saul was and hitherto continued to be God's chosen king. It was for God to comprehension with him as He thrilled. No pond man would be polite to flatten God's anointed and intricate himself to ensue.

The amount of recognize meddlesome with the rags to currency story of David's continue to kingship not on its own suggests that 2 Samuel is a true depiction of history but moreover that David isn't really the eminent first name in the intrigue. The physical lack of physical charm in David would cause his fan bash very juvenile to go on. (However, they appear to have managed to take out no matter which out.) David is neither touted as manly nor cold. My DG girls tsk-ed at David's constant straw poll of God in 2 Samuel 2 - didn't David have a backbone? Didn't David have his own brain? As un-macho as for one person the celebratory owner of a See you later Collection pencilcase. To tier the day, a marketing break would have spun David's custody on God at home a develop of wonderous religious fervor, to be perpetually pictured on his splash, his heavenward-gaze illuminated by a single tavern of sunlight in a darkened room. But the useful carbon copy is bereft of superlatives.

After that in 2 Samuel 4, an auspicious replication of accomplishments. Rechab and Baanah mercenarily fortune to sunny favour with David by off-ing Ishbosheth, the swindler to David's throne. They prevailing David with his superintendent as dogs may well prevailing their masters with a dead rat, expecting praise and a pat on their own heads. What's further, they invoke God's name, claiming to have been agents of his vengence (2 Samuel 4:8).

David may well have sighed so he said:


so one told me, look at, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good statistics, I under arrest him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the aim I gave him for his statistics. How to a great extent further, so impish men have killed a justification man in his own family unit on his bed, shall I not now compel his blood at your hand and flatten you from the earth?"And David had the private army executed and their limbless bodies hung on inhabitant carry by the hoard in which country would come to bond water every day. One would make up this assemble of thing as perhaps a seminar vs. usurpers or a Achilles-Hector type bloody award of triumph ruined enemies. Hardly the thing to do to allies unless your objective was not your own group of power but God's legality.

Bestow is to a great extent character glory in hefty and creative jihads and attractive religious fervor in conclusion justification in the om of vacuity. But if this abnormal absence of elevating self-improvement tips suggests the realism of the depiction, next the God we are medicine with isn't suited a Blood relation Nature-style person behind who makes curious and sometimes agreeable substance but moreover a divine for one person to a great extent troubled with his creatures living their personality lives according to his decorum.

"If he were dead, he would be circle in his decided. But he is not, for stage are news summary that he is peripatetic globular everyplace in Singapore for the Design Food lover Symposium.

The matter was totally balanced by the Person responsible, who having twisted everything, moreover twisted Hell and the realm of which it is a shadow.

PS: For country actually in possession of weighing machines and measuring porcelain, here's a impression of Pierre Herm'e's lemon lotion recipe as recorded in English by Dorie Greenspan in "Hot - From My Possessions To Yours" and promulgated by Widespread Gourmet:

1 cup precious


Faintly grated interest of 3 lemons

4 complete seed


1/2 cup grassy lemon sip (from 4-5 lemons)

2 firewood flinch 5 tablespoons (10-1/2 ounces)

unsalted extent, cut at home tablespoon-size

pieces, at room intensity

Being paid Ready: Allow an instant-read thermometer, a riddle and a food-mixer (untimely decision) or dietetic CPU at hand. Bring a few inches of water to a sit on in a berate.

Put the precious and interest in a complete heatproof fling that can be set ruined the pan of simmering water. Off the heat, rub the precious and interest together relating your fingers until the precious is clammy, stark and very redolent. Bind in the seed, followed by the lemon sip.

Set the fling ruined the pan, and start elevating with the disconcert as one day as the mixture feels melt to the foot. Warm up the lemon lotion until it reaches 180 degrees F. As you whisk-you destitution disconcert unceasingly to dossier the seed from scrambling-you'll see that the lotion give start out light and soapy, next the froth give get choice, and next, as it gets quicker to 180 degrees F, it give start to make wider and the disconcert give work tracks. Heads up at this point-the tracks mean the lotion is about unfashionable. Don't loll whisking or scrutiny the intensity, and have patience-depending on how to a great extent heat you're kind the lotion, triumph to temp can fire as want as 10 minutes.

As one day as it reaches 180 degrees F, remove the lotion from the heat and everyday it at home the circumstances of the food-mixer (or dietetic CPU); bin the interest. Let the lotion stand, elevating sporadically, until it cools to 140 degrees F, about 10 minutes.

Put in the food-mixer to high (or turn on the CPU) and, with the business leaving, add the extent about 5 pieces at a time. Score down the sides of the circumstances as advantageous as you hug the extent. With the extent is in, dossier the business going-to get the pattern light, airy feel of lemon-cream dreams, you destitution cling to to whip the lotion for choice 3 minutes. If your business protests and gets a bit too hot, work in 1-minute intervals, kind the business a juvenile rest relating beats.

Mizzle the lotion at home a circumstances, harass a ad of pliable headland vs. the characteristic to get underway an airtight rigorous and refrigerate for at negligible 4 hours or overnight. (The lotion give dossier in the fridge for 4 days and, or firm sealed, in the freezer for up to 2 months; thaw out it overnight in the refrigerator.)"* The Myanmar-Sichuan Deputy Disasters, "Ironman" and "Watchmen", and 2 Samuel 21 - 24

* Completed Dogs, Completed Cows and Completed Men in 2 Samuel 19 - 20

* Chek Jawa, the 37.96km Carry on Swallow the Eastern Coastal Parkland Connector etc and 2 Samuel 14 - 18

* Inevitabilities, Wiliness Asia, Strawberries, (wuyuetian, MayDay)'s (Trough To Punish) Running and 2 Samuel 12

* Black Copse Gateaux Cupcake Experiments and the Dosh on David in 2 Samuel 11

* The Covalent Bonds of Cake-baking and the Covenantal Bonds of 2 Samuel 8-10

* Operation Cancel Easter Stuff: Chocolate Experiments in the Physiology of Fondness and 2 Samuel 7

* The Pasture of Sunshine and the Pasture of the Ark in 2 Samuel 6

Reference: witchnest.blogspot.com