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Post by BSJ on Apr 12, 2019 22:32:44 GMT
You did a great job. What is this thing you call water? Is this a mixer?
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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 12, 2019 22:42:49 GMT
Haha... when you are shoveling snow, melt some and that's water. Hey, given that we are on the subject, I wanted to ask you if you had heard of Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, and in such case if they are well-known characters in the US.
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Post by BSJ on Apr 12, 2019 22:55:23 GMT
Thanks for the tip
Oh, yes, Butch and Sundance! Very well known. Films, books and documentaries. What first springs to mind is the movie about them starring Redford and Newman. They are legends. Neat they were a little part of your story.
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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 13, 2019 0:23:41 GMT
Aha, good to know. They are very well known here, but I wasn't sure how much of it was due to them having spent time in Chubut and how much was their previous fame in the US.
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Post by Timeblue on May 1, 2019 8:37:38 GMT
I'll be singing the theme song of BCATSK a bit later today when the heavens open.....
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Post by Timeblue on May 4, 2019 21:57:57 GMT
Two weeks till jollies and still can't get the blasted pigeon to fly straight...
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Post by unomusette on May 4, 2019 22:06:22 GMT
I give up, is it a riddle?
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Post by Timeblue on May 4, 2019 23:04:24 GMT
Two weeks till I fly and getting the documents sorted to leave this forum is proving a fruitless task due to the ineptitude of said pigeon...
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Post by orioles70 on May 5, 2019 0:05:23 GMT
on The Great British Baking Show tonight, they did a segment on Welsh baking and after showing a tea and currant bread, they mentioned that there was another version, called Torte Negra, that was the same recipe carried to Patagonia by Welsh immigrants - they showed a short clip of a Patagonia bakery
I immediately thought of Helmut's trip. And sure enough, he even visited a Welsh bakery ...
<< We had come to Trevelin for the Welsh experience, so we headed to Nain Maggie (named after Maggie Freeman-Jones, a woman who was very important in the town many decades ago), one of the tea houses, to experience a Patagonic-Welsh breakfast. >>
p.s. - the best thing about this show is that it always inspires Mrs. Orioles to get up and bake something - a batch of brownies are going in the oven as I type this
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Post by Timeblue on May 11, 2019 22:11:59 GMT
We spent our wedding anniversary in Rome last year and these pics take me right back. We loved the city and our hotel was just 2 minutes from the Hard Rock Café, where we enjoyed a meal on one of the nights. If we go to a place that has a HRC I always get a shirt (got about 6/7 now) Rome is Beautiful,interesting,manic and romantic, and I'd love to visit again sometime soon...
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Post by Buttler on May 12, 2019 9:09:57 GMT
We loved the city and our hotel was just 2 minutes from the Hard Rock Café, where we enjoyed a meal on one of the nights.
Take a look to my avatar...
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Post by Timeblue on May 12, 2019 9:44:20 GMT
We loved the city and our hotel was just 2 minutes from the Hard Rock Café, where we enjoyed a meal on one of the nights.
Take a look to my avatar... Yeah I know, that's why I said it! I thought " that place looks familiar" when I saw your avatar...
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Post by Helmut83 on May 12, 2019 18:57:54 GMT
on The Great British Baking Show tonight, they did a segment on Welsh baking and after showing a tea and currant bread, they mentioned that there was another version, called Torte Negra, that was the same recipe carried to Patagonia by Welsh immigrants - they showed a short clip of a Patagonia bakery I immediately thought of Helmut's trip. And sure enough, he even visited a Welsh bakery ... << We had come to Trevelin for the Welsh experience, so we headed to Nain Maggie (named after Maggie Freeman-Jones, a woman who was very important in the town many decades ago), one of the tea houses, to experience a Patagonic-Welsh breakfast. >> p.s. - the best thing about this show is that it always inspires Mrs. Orioles to get up and bake something - a batch of brownies are going in the oven as I type this Ah! For a minute I thought you had dared to give the Patagonian torta negra a try! That would have been a nice culinary challenge... Like you, I have also read that the Patagonian torta negra was a variation of the Welsh bara brith. However, I have tasted both puddings in their places of origin -in Wales and in Chubut- and to me they looked and tasted exactly the same. And I was used to the taste of it because I've been eating my grandmother's "torta galesa" -hers was exactly the same too- since I was a kid so I suppose that if one of them had been any different I would have noticed. So I'm not so convinced there are two varieties, until proven otherwise I tend to think there's just one. Maybe promoting the Patagonian bara brith as different is a marketing strategy? Did the brownies come out good?
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Post by orioles70 on May 13, 2019 11:56:13 GMT
The brownies were excellent, Helmut83. Usually we just use a box of Ghirardelli mix which makes for a tasty and consistent outcome. But after watching the amateur pastry chefs, Mrs Orioles used only scratch ingredients. The cocoa flavor is more noticeable and the texture is a bit different. Yes, I am a chocolate connoisseur.
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Post by Helmut83 on May 13, 2019 18:05:28 GMT
I can see that! Sounds like those are no average brownies.
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