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Thursday, June 24, 2010
OH. MY. GOD. the kitchen goddesses of agaration are punishing me. or should i say, meticulousness. but anyways. im currently being punished for my manyfold sins in the realm of agaration. and since there is a horror sitting in my still-hot oven. okay, so heres what i did to sort of deserve to get:
ive been on this mini streak where mini agarations paid off recently. so i wasnt overly concerned about the first few i made. like. they needed meyer lemons. i had regular. no problem really.
hmm. not enough butter, too lazy to buy some more. lets halve the pie crust. except that i did it in a very round-off-ing kinda way. okaaay... but pie crust aint that unforgiving, right? worst case scenario is you get a real hard (still edible?) thingy. im not exactly making perfect pie crusts my new project here.
and thenn.... the horror. i forgot to halve the amount of water needed. I KNOW water is a very anal thing in a pie crust. and errr. frankly ive no idea what i was doing at the time. and then i freaked out cos it wouldnt really stick together in a ball. yeahh, i know its supposed to just barely stick together. but this was the barest of barelys. i was thinking omgomgomg, was it cos i made the butter bits too large? or cos i used a fork instead of a proper pastry dough thingy? or should i have used my hands straight from the start? or was it just the stupid water. and so i tried not to think of all of these potential disasters and put it in the fridge to chill.
and then. when it came out, it refused to roll out nicely. and the amounts of flour i used in the process were so astronomical, i freaked out even more. is it supposed to be like that???!?!?!? cos when you do bread youre really really not supposed to add too much flour. damn. this is getting really bad. i tried to transfer it to the dish with the folding into quarters method. and it refused to unstick. OMG. WTH IS HAPPENING. okay, quit looking at me like that. i mean, i know youre supposed to do it gently. so they dont stick together. and i did that alright? gently. but it refused to unfold nicely. and so after multiple rolling efforts (no, i still dont know what went wrong, will somebody tell me? haha, aside from the many mentioned agarations?) i just stuck it in the dish, and pressed it flat in it. *gasp*
and no, my unforgivable misdeeds dont stop there. i ran out of butter for the filling. i ran out of eggs for the filling. i was so enthusiastic about getting the wonderful flakiness that i forgot to flavour the pastry. and by the time i remembered, it was already chilling in the fridge. and the sugar. i was refilling the sugar container and there was just that bit left that wouldnt fit. and so i added to the lemons. on hindsight, its approx. 1/4 cup of it? not so good, eh. and worst of all, the dish was too small for all of it. and it overflowed in the oven, causing quite a bit of smoke. and alot of black gunk ive gotta clean up on the oven floor. but by then i was to pek cek that wth. that things not gonna come out of the oven till its done. so there. even if it causes someones fire alarm to ring.
oh i got it. its the pie. PIE. my nemesis. oh no you dont get away with it, you damn... pie. because i remember the last time i tried a pie, it was disaster. well no, not really.. the pie itself was AWESOME. really, beautiful. the once-in-a-dunno-how-many-time thingy that youre like omgomgomg hurryup get out of the oven and cool down quick because I WANNA TRY YOU NOWWWW!!!! and you know its gonna taste superb. aaaand. *drumroll* i dropped the whole damn pie ( all 24cm of it) on the damn floor. and that was the end of that. i kinda went on a hiatus for awhile after that.
and now im gonna watch glee. because anything is better than thinking about what to do about the cleanup waiting for me.
PS. later update. omg. it doesnt look half bad! and i stole a chunk of pastry. crumbly as ever. damn. if only i paid a little less attn to that and a bit more to everything else.
PPS. ohh miee gawddd. dont my hands still smell wonderful.
5:38 pm
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
omg. what i would give to be steven klein. alejandro is so good.
8:40 pm
Monday, June 21, 2010
imperceptibly getting better.
9:05 pm
Friday, June 11, 2010
huhh. fuck?
i know youre hurting, and youre angry. i guess ill just disappear for real this time. im sorry, even though i suppose its not worth very much.
i wish you luck and i wish it true thats the best i can do for you
cos youll probably find love in someone new i have to let go yeah it hard to do
so if i ever see you on the street ill pretend that i didnt see and turn my no use in small talk anyway
cos if i look into your eyes then ill have to say goodbye and thatll break my heart so i wont even start i wont even start
9:21 pm
Thursday, June 10, 2010
its not that i thought you were the happy one. its just that i tried keeping myself together hoping that in doing so i could keep you together.
2:35 pm
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
wake me up from this private hell.
3:50 am
Sunday, June 06, 2010
what do you do with these urges. hmmm...
11:20 am
Saturday, June 05, 2010
argh, the pills siren song. fuck off.
8:53 pm
gail.
loves anything new
gets caught up in causes, events, loves
but doesn't do anything about them.
professes to be a supporter of the green movement
but leaves the lights on
disapproves of mcdonalds
but eats there anyways.
godwise, the jury's still out.
schoolwise, fass rocks my socks
but why do i have like a ton of work to do?
familywise, i guess theyre/its great
we just need to figure out what to do around each other?
freindswise, hey you guys are awesome.
blogwise, realises that the profile section is crappy
but doesn't know how else to fill up the space.