Disney Waffles 4 eggs, separated 1 - 2 tablespoons sugar 1 cup milk ¼ cup (half a stick) of butter or margarine, melted, cooled to room temp 1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt Beat egg yolks and sugar until yolks are thick and sunny colored. Add milk, butter, and vanilla extract. Stir until combined.
Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix to until just incorporated. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold egg whites into the batter.
Green Tea Ice Cream 1.5 cups whole milk 3/4 cup sugar 5 egg yolks 2 tbsp matcha, scant 1.5 cup cream opt. kinako "toasted soybean powder" or Madeleines
Warm milk and sugar until dissolved. Temper eggs with milk mixture and heat again till it thickens - about 170 degrees or passed the spoon test. Strain. Stir in cream and cool overnight. Churn and freeze overnight. Serve scoops dusted with kinako or madeleines.
I am eating a lot of this ice cream - very smooth smooth with a nice density, malty, and not too milky or eggy. The ice cream base ratio is adapted from David Lebovitz's vanilla ice cream.
Malted Ice Cream 1 cup whole milk 1/2 to 2/3 cup sugar 1/4 cup barley malt powder 1/3 cup wheat malt powder 1 tsp vanilla extract 5 egg yolks, beaten 2 cups cream gingersnap cookies Warm whole milk, sugar, malt powder, and vanilla. Temper eggs with milk mixture and heat again till it thickens - about 170 degrees. For some reason our temperature hit 200 but the mixture didn't curdle nor did it really thicken to the point of coating the back of a spoon with the line drawn down. Strain. Stir in cream and cool overnight. Serve with gingersnap cookies.
In reference to the ongoing Hugo Brou-Ha-Ha (to which I've refrained from commenting), the cultural ancronymosity surrounding it, and the greater controversy to which it rightfully belongs, I throw my hands up at the pseudo political catch-22. Because, regardless of my gender, or political leanings, or small obsessions, I do not self-identify with m/any parties in "the war" except the one which is deeply personal - namely, an abiding relationship with the body of science fiction, fantasy, games, and literature at large that has profoundly shaped who I am as an individual. I have never needed the genre to reflect me, despite many contradictions or exclusions, because I came to expect fiction that explored the contemporaneous hard questions beyond me, to push the boundaries of what we can and should expect from our future, to delve into places that are impossible or simply incredible - to both remonstrate and demonstrate. Yes, at the same time, to escape, entertain, to exhilarate. And also, Yes, to communicate in a such a textual barrage of marvelous craft and language so as to convince me that there are different ways of looking at things whether I agree with them or not. Science fiction, in short, liberated me, and to find myself at this moment inadvertently in bed with some backward imperative to categorize, weaponize, attenuate, and defile is just, in a word, shitty.
