Early this year I went to a camp that has something like
80% of the shoreline of a lake, but people keep putting
motorboats in opposite and roaring up close to the shore on
the camp's part, cutting inside the buoys that are used to
demarcate the swimming areas. Troublesome bastards, and if
there had been firearms on the premises I'd be in jail now.
Just as well there hadn't been, then... Doesn't the camp have any
recourse legally...?
None, zero, nada. If some joyrider took off a kid's
arm, there would be liability, but short of that, no.
Nuisance, noise pollution, and wakes swamping swimmers
and canoes, one has to tolerate all.
We could solve world hunger and poverty by only a
modest redistribution of resources and could probably
accommodate an even greater population using readily
available food resources without using marginal things
like zebra mussels. Water and unpolluted air, those are
different issues and likely even less vulnerable to
progress.
Indeed... and also, indeed...
If people could think beyond their personal comfort
a bit, inroads might be made in these issues as well.
Many of my friends, even the liberal ones, see nothing
wrong with keeping their lights ablaze all waking hours,
running the dishwasher daily even if it's nowhere near
full, driving a quarter mile to the store. Even if it's
a Prius, there is adverse environmental effect.
Have to give a lot of credit to the organ builders... :)
Indeed. Have you seen mediaeval organs? They're quite
simple beasts, and the development of complex systems
during the Renaissance and Baroque is impressive
testimony to instrument maker ingenuity.
I've seen pictures of the mediaeval ones.... and for a while had the opportunity of playing on a fairly simple organ, a Hook and Hook
one-manual tracker organ that some of us at our church had helped an
organ builder rebuild... Even that was impressive testimony as to how
even a simple organ could do very much more than one would have
thought.... ;)
In the long run, an organ was cheaper and easier to
maintain than an instrumental ensemble!
a little more time with friends around... worked out well...
Glad; send my sympathies.
I will. I should be seeing her on Sunday...
TIA.
complained, and so I unwrapped my own headset and
plugged it into my jack, and it was fine. so then I got
the flight attendant involved, who figured it out
immediately.
Good for the flight attendant... but that probably isn't a particularly uncommon occurance, sad to say... :)
That's likely, and many of the staff are less
addled than the passengers.
---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
Title: Lobster Tart
Categories: Fish/sea
Yield: 4 servings
---------------------------------THE
PASTRY---------------------------------
8 oz Flour 3 oz Cold butter
3 oz Cold lard 3 tb Ice-cold water (or
more)
--------------------------------THE FILLING--------------------------------
1 Live lobster * 1/2 pt Milk
5 Eggs ** 1/2 pt Single cream
*Note: the lobster should be good and lively. A "cripple" - that is, one
with only one claw for which you should pay less - will do fine for this
dish. ** Leave out one of the egg whites, it is not needed for this
recipe.
Make the pastry first. Sieve the flour with the salt into a roomy bowl.
Chop the lard and butter into the flour with a sharp knife. Finish
rubbing
in the fat to flour with the tips of your fingers. Work in enough
ice-cold
water to give you a ball of soft (but not sticky) dough. Cover with
cling-film and leave the dough to rest in a cool place for half an hour
or
so. Bring a panful of salted water to the boil - enough to swim the
lobster. Kill the lobster (or have you fishmonger do so) with a knife
slipped in behind its head. Or plunge the creature in the boiling water
and hold it under with a wooden spoon (lobsters do drown).
Cook the lobster for 3-4 minutes - just long enough to turn the shell
scarlet and make the lobster easier to skin. Drain it, sever the head
and
cut in half, taking care to save the greenish black brain (rather like
liquid seaweed). This will turn anything into which it is stirred
wonderful sunny scarlet as it cooks. Reserve the brain for making
lobster
butter. Otherwise it can go into the tart filling.
Remove the lobster meat from the body, claws and head (leave out the dark
intestine which runs right down the body - and the stomach at the top of
the head). Slice the body meat into medallions. Leave the claw meat
whole.
Bake the tart-case blind (lined with foil weighted with dried beans
instead
of filling) in a medium oven, 375 F (190 C) gas mark 5, for 10 minutes.
Beat the milk, cream and eggs together and season. Pour the mixture into
the cooled tart tin. Arrange the lobster pieces over all. Bake at 400 F
(200 C) gas mark 6 for 30 minutes, until the egg-filling is set.
Source: Elisabeth Luard in "Country Living" (British), February 1989.
Typed
for you by Karen Mintzias
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