Two great tastes that taste great together

One of the motives behind msmemory's and my perambulations around Cape Cod yesterday was to confirm the horrifying news: Coach and Four, her favorite source of fudge, has apparently gone out of business. *Sigh*. So over lunch, we agreed that it's time for us to learn how to make fudge. After sufficient experiments, we can hopefully figure out how to make it just right for her; besides, it gives me a new foodstuff to experiment with.

Which brings us to my boss. She's wandering around today with a can she just got from a Little Tiny Distillery in Scotland, full of Scotch Fudge. I'm just finishing a tiny square of it now, and it's luscious: enough Scotch flavor to really come through without being completely overpowering.

So I now have a fun project for sometime. First, figure out how to make basic chocolate fudge. Then, start playing with the alternatives and adulterants. Scotch fudge clearly works, which implies that there are lots of liquid flavorings worth playing with. I mean, the Espresso fudge is probably worth the project all by itself...

Two great tastes that taste great together

One of the motives behind msmemory's and my perambulations around Cape Cod yesterday was to confirm the horrifying news: Coach and Four, her favorite source of fudge, has apparently gone out of business. *Sigh*. So over lunch, we agreed that it's time for us to learn how to make fudge. After sufficient experiments, we can hopefully figure out how to make it just right for her; besides, it gives me a new foodstuff to experiment with.

Which brings us to my boss. She's wandering around today with a can she just got from a Little Tiny Distillery in Scotland, full of Scotch Fudge. I'm just finishing a tiny square of it now, and it's luscious: enough Scotch flavor to really come through without being completely overpowering.

So I now have a fun project for sometime. First, figure out how to make basic chocolate fudge. Then, start playing with the alternatives and adulterants. Scotch fudge clearly works, which implies that there are lots of liquid flavorings worth playing with. I mean, the Espresso fudge is probably worth the project all by itself...

Sometimes it pays to be good...

Just to follow up from a previous note: some time back, a newish member of Carolingia pressed into my hands a ripped copy of a CD labeled simply "La Notte". It was fun, but try as I might, I couldn't figure out how to get a legal copy. This irked me: when it's something I intend to listen to repeatedly, I greatly prefer to pay for it.

Well, as it happens, last week I stumbled onto the email address of Paul "the Hurdy-Gurdy Guy" Ash, and asked him about availability. Turns out that he still has copies for sale himself. I wrote him and ordered it, and today I got in the mail a real-and-for-true copy of La Notte Dei Cavalieri. And as a special bonus, he included a preprint copy of his forthcoming CD, Karpathos! Sweet! It's always nice when doing the ethical thing pays dividends...

Sometimes it pays to be good...

Just to follow up from a previous note: some time back, a newish member of Carolingia pressed into my hands a ripped copy of a CD labeled simply "La Notte". It was fun, but try as I might, I couldn't figure out how to get a legal copy. This irked me: when it's something I intend to listen to repeatedly, I greatly prefer to pay for it.

Well, as it happens, last week I stumbled onto the email address of Paul "the Hurdy-Gurdy Guy" Ash, and asked him about availability. Turns out that he still has copies for sale himself. I wrote him and ordered it, and today I got in the mail a real-and-for-true copy of La Notte Dei Cavalieri. And as a special bonus, he included a preprint copy of his forthcoming CD, Karpathos! Sweet! It's always nice when doing the ethical thing pays dividends...