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Twitter Week, 2010-08-02

August 1st, 2010

Families exposed…

July 24th, 2010

…for good reason: Hours ‘n’ hours of fun: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

I’m really sorry, but what you can find there is just to good to be true . Satisfy the Cartman in you!

Twitter Week, 2010-07-12

July 11th, 2010

Twitter Week, 2010-06-28

June 27th, 2010

Summer is here

June 21st, 2010

FINALLY THE SUMMER IS HERE!!!

…but it’s still cloudy

Twitter Week, 2010-06-21

June 20th, 2010

Twitter Week, 2010-05-31

May 30th, 2010

Jimmy Jump in Oslo

May 30th, 2010

This is just to good to be just mentioned as an aside on my recently introduced tumblr blog for stuff I’ve found:

http://mega-rick.tumblr.com/post/645456162/jimmy-jump-eurovision-song-contest-oslo-2010

to make it easy – here is what I’ve found:

Jimmy Jump! What a name! What a man! What an Idol! We should all worship him!

Bethmännchen – Recipe

May 28th, 2010
Bethmännchen by Alexander Klink via commons.wikimedia.org

Bethmännchen by Alexander Klink via commons.wikimedia.org

Here’s a recipe for some nice German marzipan “cookies”. They’re not cookies in a traditional sense, but were always served to me as cookies, so I don’t know how to categorise them.

Ingredients

  • 20g Flour
  • 50g Icing sugar
  • 50g dark chocolate
  • 100g almonds
  • 200g Marzipan paste
  • 1 egg

Cookware you’ll need

  • a bowl
  • a metal bowl and/or a pot to melt the chocolate
  • a mill
  • baking sheet with parchment paper

Ok now begin…

  1. Split half of the almonds in two and save them for later. Mill the other half of the almonds. Make sure you handle them without their skin, otherwise pour boiling water over them and peel the skin off first. Mix and knead the milled almonds with the marzipan paste.
  2. Seperate an egg and save the yolk. Mix the rest with the marzipan paste.
  3. Add flour and icing sugar to the paste and knead again.
  4. After the “dough” has the right texture – it’s quite sticky – you should be able to form small balls out of it.
  5. You can think about pre-heating the oven to 130 °C at this point.
  6. Place the small balls on the baking sheet with parchement paper and add three of the saved almond halfs to each ball (see pic)
  7. Use the yolk and add a wee bit of water. Brush the balls with this egg paint.
  8. Now place them in the oven for 10-15 min. Make sure they do not bbecome to dark, that happens very, very easy!
  9. Now let them cool down (they become more stable the more they cool down, so be patient!)
  10. Melt the chocolate (you know how to melt chocolate: either in a bowl over hot water for better quality or be lazy and melt it directly in a pot).
  11. Now dip the balls into the molten chocolate to cover their bottom in a thin layer of chocolate. Cool down again and your’re finished! …hehe: “balls”!*

My grandma baked them traditionally for christmas and I think that’s the time most people eat them. They might be too “heavy” for warm summer days. Well, I can’t agree and christmas comes for sure this year anyway! …HAHA: “BALLS”!!

Btw. the picture above lacks the chocolate bottom. I putted the picture there with the intention to show how the almonds shall be placed…add the chocolate, it’s better, trust me!…no worries, you just mentioned balls as a recipe!

* thankful comments by a friend of mine

Tumblr

May 26th, 2010

From now on I might use my Tumblr account to post some of my thoughts as well…it’s quite handy for stuff in between a regular post like those lines you’re looking at (without taking them as a proper example) and twitter 140 character shorts.

Here it is, my tumblr-url: http://mega-rick.tumblr.com/