And Other Lunchtime Miscellany
We bought bread. Wednesdays are grocery day. It also happened to be bread day, which is whatever day we’re about to run out of bread and I make more. It was also bake a birthday cake for The Laird day. I didn’t feel like making bread and cake. I asked the Grocery Fairy to get bread, too.
I must say that not having to slice bread is convenient – and much less messy. One doesn’t have to wipe crumbs off the cutting board and counter every time one wants bread.
As for the cake, it tasted great. The Laird likes German Chocolate. I couldn’t find my printed recipe, so I looked it up in The Joy of Cooking. Fun historical note: The recipe has nothing to do with Deutschland. “German” is the name of a guy who founded a chocolate company that made, surprise, German Chocolate. The chocolate company is long gone, but his name is immortalized by the cake that became popular because of his chocolate. Except it’s not because everyone thinks the recipe is from Germany.
As you can see, I need layer stacking practice. What you can’t see is that the other side is only half frosted. In case you don’t know, the frosting is a custard with coconut (native to Germany, don’t you know) and pecans. Pecans, even chopped, are chunky. The frosting doesn’t spread well (at least for amateurs such as myself). I ran out.
Everyone happily agreed when I said that I needed more cake stacking and frosting experience. External validation is nice.
While eating my sandwich made with pre-sliced bread, I read two interesting posts.
The question of when lynching is justified is remarkably similar to my “when is OK to feed people to the dungeon?” question.
The idea that constraints enhance freedom dovetails nicely with my loathing of the Cultivator genre and leads away from pure might-makes-right. However, I think there’s a nasty category error in that one. The same word, “freedom”, is used to mean two different things. The distinction is lost because of that. What she’s actually saying, and what I also believe, is that constraints on freedom can (depending on what they are) increase the odds of a positive outcome, which is not nearly as pithy.
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