{"id":1215,"date":"2006-08-27T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T23:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2006-08-27T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T23:22:54","slug":"taking-one-for-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Taking one for the team"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the funniest political protest song<\/a> I’ve heard in the last godawful six years. Big tip of my hat to Blue Gal<\/a>. I also understand from Blue Gal’s post today that tomorrow is Blog Katrina Day<\/a>. Hope I can think of something worthwhile to say.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back at Chez Walnut, I made some o’ this<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

CR\u00c3\u02c6ME SAINT-HONOR\u00c3\u2030 OR CR\u00c3\u02c6ME CHIBOUST<\/strong><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

Cr\u00c3\u00a8me Saint-Honor\u00c3\u00a9<\/em> is a cr\u00c3\u00a8me p\u00c3\u00a2tissi\u00c3\u00a8re<\/a> lightened with stiffly beaten egg whites or whipped cream. A.k.a.<\/em> Chiboust cream \u00e2\u20ac\u201d cr\u00c3\u00a8me Chiboust<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this mixture can be flavoured with vanilla, chocolate, praline<\/a>, liqueur, grated orange zest etc<\/em>. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s pretty effing amazing how much of this stuff you end up with if you start with five measly eggs. Five eggs . . . that’s like a two-person omelet, for the love of everything unhealthy. I’m going to use it to make a trifle, along with some pound cake, raspberries, and fruit preserves. Nonalcoholic trifle so the boy will eat it, too.<\/p>\n

I also made some yummy chopped chicken liver. Although I mentioned this aaaages ago<\/a>, I never gave a proper recipe. Anyone interested?<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Decent writing weekend, by the way — about 7000 words thus far. I’d like to get one last 1000-word scene written, but I’m getting a bit pooped.<\/p>\n

I’m at 80K words on this NiP and I suspect I need another 10 or 15K words to wrap things up nicely. A little long for a first novel, but I should be able to edit out some of the drier medical passages.<\/p>\n

Still not happy with titles. I like Sloppy Firsts<\/em>, but that’s been done<\/a>. Technical Virgins<\/em> hasn’t been nabbed yet for fiction, as best I can tell, but it doesn’t have the same sense of fun as Sloppy Firsts<\/em>. And it’s important to convey the fun.<\/p>\n

Off to check mail . . .<\/p>\n

D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the funniest political protest song I’ve heard in the last godawful six years. Big tip of my hat to Blue Gal. I also understand from Blue Gal’s post today that tomorrow is Blog Katrina Day. Hope I can think of something worthwhile to say. *** Meanwhile, back at Chez Walnut, I made some… Continue Reading Taking one for the team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-political-rants","category-writers-life","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}