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charisstoma) wrote2013-11-27 10:31 am
charisstoma) wrote2013-11-27 10:31 am
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Clementine Cake
Clementine Cake
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/clementine-cake-2559
Plus many more at http://www.nigella.com/recipes/christmas-pudding
Ingredients
13 oz clementines (approx. 3 medium-sized ones)
6 large eggs
1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
2 ¼ cups almond meal
1 teaspoon baking powder
Method
Put the clementines in a pan with some cold water, bring to the boil and cook for 2 hours.
Drain and, when cool, cut each clementine in half and remove the pips.
Dump the clementines - skins, pith, fruit and all - and give a quick blitz in a food processor (or by hand, of course).
Preheat the oven to gas mark 5/190ºC/375ºF. Butter and line a 21cm / 8 inch Springform tin.
You can then add all the other ingredients to the food processor and mix. Or, you can beat the eggs by hand adding the sugar, almonds and baking powder, mixing well, then finally adding the pulped oranges.
Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and bake for an hour, when a skewer will come out clean; you'll probably have to cover with foil or greaseproof after about 40 minutes to stop the top burning.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool, on a rack, but in the tin. When the cake's cold, you can take it out of the tin. I think this is better a day after it's made, but I don't complain about eating it at any time.
Can also make this with an equal weight of oranges, and with lemons, in which case increase the sugar to 250g / 2¼ cups and slightly anglicise it, too, by adding a glaze made of icing sugar mixed to a paste with lemon juice and a little water.
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/clementine-cake-2559
Plus many more at http://www.nigella.com/recipes/christmas-pudding
Ingredients
13 oz clementines (approx. 3 medium-sized ones)
6 large eggs
1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
2 ¼ cups almond meal
1 teaspoon baking powder
Method
Put the clementines in a pan with some cold water, bring to the boil and cook for 2 hours.
Drain and, when cool, cut each clementine in half and remove the pips.
Dump the clementines - skins, pith, fruit and all - and give a quick blitz in a food processor (or by hand, of course).
Preheat the oven to gas mark 5/190ºC/375ºF. Butter and line a 21cm / 8 inch Springform tin.
You can then add all the other ingredients to the food processor and mix. Or, you can beat the eggs by hand adding the sugar, almonds and baking powder, mixing well, then finally adding the pulped oranges.
Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and bake for an hour, when a skewer will come out clean; you'll probably have to cover with foil or greaseproof after about 40 minutes to stop the top burning.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool, on a rack, but in the tin. When the cake's cold, you can take it out of the tin. I think this is better a day after it's made, but I don't complain about eating it at any time.
Can also make this with an equal weight of oranges, and with lemons, in which case increase the sugar to 250g / 2¼ cups and slightly anglicise it, too, by adding a glaze made of icing sugar mixed to a paste with lemon juice and a little water.
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Got a lovely looking chocolate clementine pudding recipe for Christmas - never made a steam pud before! Looking forawrd to it *licks lips*
Supposed to be starting a 'eat healthy' kick - you're NOT helping :p
But at least I've now found a dress for Sat *relief* none of the shops seem to have fancy dresses this year. Black, the odd foil wrap look and thats it, all jumpers :/ typical. Girl whose b.day it is is going for the skank look (bad meep! bad!) so nothing formal, but still...
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For Christmas I buy a couple bags of clementines and put them in the teachers' lounge or the office. Each school is different. I don't waste money on cards or small gifts for everyone. Who has time or money for that. There are 100+ people in one school alone and I have 2 schools.
I keep a bag for home too while I can find them. Love clementines. Wouldn't have thought of combining them with chocolate. *grins*
Black dresses are nice because you can dress them up with accessories. Bright scarf around your neck or shawl (quick knit a sparkly one) and you got it made.... Jumpers? definition : sweater or tunic. Sweater dress *SMILES* Pin on a holiday or sparkly pin or use that pin to pin on a shawl/wide long scarf draped around your shoulders.
They were just saying on the news that people weren't going to be purchasing as much this Christmas holiday. Retailers are going to be scrambling for what dollars are out there. I think that I might almost be done with mine unless I discover something that someone HAS to HAVE. Then again my kids both have birthdays in March.
Sweet meep. *grins* Not bad meep. So a skank look is tight blue jeans and equally tight sweater with heavy makeup? That doesn't go with needing a dress for this. It's winter for season's sakes, slacks and sweater. Forget that barelegged look that will have you looking like a smurf.
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LOVE Clementines. They go well in cookies, cake, chocolate, on their own...
The pud has a whole clementine in the middle of it - looks interesting, I'll type it up for you....or find a link ;)
Sweater dresses - I tried one on and it made me look like a sack of spuds :( meeps are not slimline creatures.
My black dress is a long one, way to formal/dressy. LOL that classes as skanky, this is skanky as in bright red, not much of it and body hugging, accompanied by over the knee boots. o.0 ...I'm soooo old ^__*
She wants THIS which she might actually get away with; the other she showed me had no back and the skirt was a strip over ones arse. I was glad to hear it didn't fit because it definitely sent out a strong message.
Yes she's 23 and duper skinny but this is for a night in our town - four pubs, one sort-of nightclub (upstairs of a pub), so you're not talking big night out. I'd be comfortable (and not out of place) going in jeans and a fancy top! but I now own a front-knotted purple dress, yes my arse does look big in it, but then my arse is big :p LOL its fairly slimming and can be dressed up. It'll do.
Can you tell I'm dreading this? LOL she's just come onto nights and I agreed to go before finding none of the others could make it, two of the men are supposedly going - HOPE so, but kinda doubt it. I'm only planning to be there an hour or two.
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I find that I like black for clothing. It hides so much. Prominent posteriors. *sighs* I'm of a physically, shall I say.., generous nature as well.
Should you bring Mr. Meep along or should you have him call you to come home at the end of that hour or two?
Do you have to work tomorrow? That's a great excuse. Use it.
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Yep black is always good. The only ones around look funerally or officey though.
Curvacious - only more so in some areas than I'd wish ;)
Debating dragging him with, or having him turn up after two hours barring an emergency phone call sooner than that. I'm so anti-social! I get on fine with her in work but I'm not one to go out soley to get rat-arsed (aka drunk). Resigned to being the old boring fart in the corner ;) which is why I hope the guys are going to turn up.
Night out is Sat - I'm working until 6am-3, then working the Sunday night and not having a day off until a week Thurday due to shitty bank days (next week = torture) so I genuinely don't want to stay out late regardless.
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Enjoy!
Happy Chanukah!
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Almond meal you ask...
Almond meal, almond flour or ground almond is made from ground sweet almonds. Almond flour is usually made with blanched almonds (no skin), whereas almond meal can be made both with whole or blanched almonds. The consistency is more like corn meal than wheat flour.
http://glutenfreecooking.about.com/od/glutenfreeingredient1/ht/makealmondmeal.htm
Homemade almond meal is so easy to make. In less than 5 minutes you can have fresh almond meal, at a fraction of the cost of ready-made products. Be sure to refrigerate (or wrap, label and freeze) any unused almond meal because it can become rancid after being ground and exposed to oxygen and light.
Place 1/2 cup blanched or unblanched almonds in a clean electric coffee bean grinder.
Put the lid on the coffee bean grinder and pulse several times until a medium-fine textured meal forms. Don't over-grind or you will make almond butter!
Put ground almond meal in a clean flour sifter. Sift almond meal. Place any large particles of almonds back in coffee bean grinder and pulse again. Sift reremaining almond meal.
That's it. Use any nut to make fresh, delicious nut meals using this simple technique.
Tips:
Do not over-grind the almonds or you will end up with almond butter!
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/products/p/almondmeal.htm
Half a cup of ground almonds contains about 10 grams of carbohydrate, 6 of which are fiber, for a net carb count of 4 grams of carbohydrate. That half cup also contains 10 grams of protein, 23 grams of fat, and 273 calories.
Can I Make My Own Almond Flour?:
Yes, you can make it in a blender or food processor, though care must be taken not to go too far, or you will have almond butter! Use fairly small amounts, and pulse until it's meal.
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hmm now all I need is an electric coffee grinder and a flour sifter...
almond butter? hmmm interesting.
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*snort* Mr. Meep is going to be suspicious if his coffee tastes like almonds.
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Interestingly almond extract is made from the bitter almond but it goes through a process to wash out the cyanide.
Equally interesting the way that cyanide works and the reason that cyanide victims probably turn blue in murder mysteries is per the link, that the cyanide competes with oxygen for the hemoglobin in your blood and wins. So cyanide is much like carbon monoxide.
The article advocates using imitation almond extract since there's no cyanide to begin with in the preparation and the almond flavor is more intense than the 'natural' version.
But then one of my professors in university liked to pontificate, natural is not always best. Deadly Nightshade is natural, Foxglove is natural, Caster Beans are natural, Arsenic is natural.
http://abouquetfrommendel.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/why-natural-isnt-always-better-almond-extract-and-cyanide/
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Interesting. Ahh old cosy mysteries with their cyanide murders between tea and tennis :D
Hmm This professor, is he in jail now? Seems to be listing possibilities there!
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The taste of nuts.... so my mind supplies the licking of those wrinkled furry musky globes and wonders 'why and how' in the coffee maker.?? Does not compute. Meep loves Mr. Meep and Mr Meep would surely have noticed if somethings important had been ground up in the night.
Now if the coffee was unusually salty or bitter ....
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