26 March, 2010

Random Hair Theory of Chocolate Ganache

How long is the flight to Beijing? 22 hours? Probably something ridiculous like that. I'm sure there's a whole debate over which direction you fly changes the hourage and all that. Read Einstein peeps, time is relative. Is is morning or night when you get there? Well, that's what time it is then. I think E's theory is more of a fact. Five minutes to a 5 year old is REALLY long, but to a 30 year old it's much less and I imagine to an 80 year old, it's fleeting. Why? Because percentage-wise 5 minutes is a greater amount of a 5 year old's life than to an 80 year old.

Well, I'm going... you know, to Beijing... at some point. Actually it doesn't have to be Beijing, I'm not picky, I'm sure I'd dig Shanghai as well

Sometime I need to cut my hairs. My hair has now reached the length where it gets stuck in my armpits while I'm trying to do things and pulls. Merf. I will say long hair isn't that bad around babies. They seem to like to grab chubby handfuls and just sort of hang on (tiny monkeys) but if it's long enough mini-peeps can also yank on it and it doesn't hurt. It's the slightly longer than shoulder length hair that's the worst with babies. There's your fyi for today.

Where did the phrase 'wild hair up his ass' come from? Do short haired people ever even HAVE this problem? Get back to me...

The clay figure I was working on has been demolished and recycled. I've given in and will opt for proper procedure as opposed to being frustrated. I was pretty much done roughing out the figure but starting over is the beauty of clay. I did make 2 cute little boxes. They look like seed pods. Yes. Cute. Now, shut it.

Random: fistulated* cows gross me right the fuck out. I'm sure the cows have no idea, no pain and it's safe blah blah blah. All I can imagine are alien experiments on me and I don't want a porthole in my side. I wonder if they eat the cows when their race has run. For that matter, do aliens eat people when they're done? Guess it would depend on if they're vegetarians.
huh.

Anyway, a while back (in relative terms) I said I would post this ganache recipe, so here 'tis:

Chocolate Ganache (aka Frosting)
16 oz semi-sweet chocolate
1 cup heavy cream
2Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp light corn syrup
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
dash of salt

We Heats It, Precious
1. over low heat, bring cream, sugar and corn syrup to almost a boil
2.Remove from heat, pour over chocolate and whisk until melted and combined
3. Cut butter into small pieces and whisk in until all butter is melted and ganache is smooth and glossy
4. Dump it over a cake for a glossy finish or stick it in fridge and use it like frosting later

*insert tiny dry heave noise here

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