2009/11/28 22:41
Phyllis was taught as a kid that red and pink should not be worn together.If this is common knowledge in the English-speaking world, I'll warrant a guess that the designer of these cupboards wasn't from here.However, if the designer was Danish, the colour scheme becomes understandable:In Danish, the cupboard on the left is mørkeblå "dark blue" and lyseblå "light blue"...
2009/11/25 17:42
As the recent statistics showed, I blog about many topics and in many languages.I'm sure many of my readers know and expect this (perhaps they even like it?), but I imagine it might be frustrating for some.I presume you might be interested in my thoughts on British politics without wanting to read about child language development in Danish.From my own...
2009/11/30 18:18
In southern Germany, Brezeln are a beloved type of bread.
Being half Swabian myself (and the great-grandson of Stuttgart’s best Brezel baker), of course I miss them, and I would love to be able to bake them myself.
I’ve sometimes baked some with Miriam (my sister), boiling them in a mixture of natron and water, and although the taste was OK, they didn’t get the proper dark-brown colour.
However, I’ve now found a recipe that looks like it might be just what I’ve been looking for.
It tells you to soak the unbaked Brezeln in a strong caustic soda solution, and it says you can either get this at a pharmacy or a baker’s shop. (“36 % Natronlauge bekommt man aus der Apotheke oder vom netten Bäcker, der einen etwas abfüllt.”)
However, when I googled caustic soda, all the shops that sell it in the UK (such as Boots) seem to be selling it as a drain cleaner, and I have my doubts it’s really food-grade caustic soda.
If I’m willing to buy 10 metric tonnes, I can get it, but I’m not sure I can eat that many Brezeln. 
Any ideas?
2009/11/27 23:22
José Manuel Barroso unveiled his new team today.Of course, the European Parliament will need to approve the new commission before they can take office, but I doubt there is anything or anybody so scandalously bad that they won't.That said, I'm not too impressed in general. Here are the ones I have some issues with:Joaquín ALMUNIA: Competition. Will he really be able to stand up to big business as past competition commissioners have done? I hope so, but he doesn't seem...
2009/11/26 8:00
This is possibly really well known, but I haven't seen it mentioned often, and I've forgotten how I learnt it.So I thought other might perhaps benefit from this.First of all, you might know that if you right-click on a bookmark in the Bookmarks menu, you can bring up Properties in a window.The Keyword field there will allow you to go...
2009/11/23 18:19
When we bought our house two years ago, we started planting a lot of stuff and generally doing up the garden.One of the first trees we planted was a crab apple of the cultivar John Downie, which we chose because...
2009/11/23 0:58
I haven't analysed my tag usage since August 2007, so it must be time to have another look at this.The situation is quite different when we look at the topics that I blog about (the graph on the left –...
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