3 posts from January 2009

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{rant} Spotify vs reality

A little while ago a pretty revolutionary application showed up on the radar bigtime. Spotify became the meme of the season, promising streaming access to 95% of all music ever published. And their app was beautifully crafted, snappy and the best example I've ever seen of "everything goes to the cloud".. My two initial thoughts were.. 


a. man, they really pulled it of, they got the no-good, reactionary, downward spiraling record labels to think straight and realize that their dying business model needs rethinking, and 

b. this is to good to be true.

And b. it was..

You see, things might be changing, but change comes slowly. And Spotify just went a bit to far, to fast.. The busloads of lawyers on the record labels payroll need stuff to do, and stuff the've done. Now they're busy crippling the Spotify catalog making sure that the pirates yet again will have a field day. Until sanity, there will be piracy.  

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{Food} Scones with tangerine zest syrup and whisky marinated raisins

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Right. I felt an urge to make some scones today. But the though of making the same old ones I always do was not tempting. So I played around with a few taste combinations and came up with this rather intreresting taste paring. Now this not the final version at all, but a good start. Here is the recipe and instructions:


Tangerine zest syrup

1 dl orange juice
Zest of one Tangerine
50 g sugar

Boil and reduce to a syrup, about 50% reduction


Scotch marinated raisins

1 dl whisky
100 g raisins

Gently heat the whisky and add the raisins. Leave to infuse for 30 minutes

Combine the whisky, raisins and the syrup. Heat and let simmer gently for a minute or so.
Drain the raisins from the syrup and further reduce it until it's thick, sweet and sticky. 

Scones

200 g butter at room temperature
125 g sugar
625 g flour
10 g salt
25 g baking powder
100 g finely chopped hazelnuts
500 g buttermilk

Combine butter and sugar in a bowl. Stir in buttermilk and add the raisins.
In a second bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt and hazelnuts. Mix thoroughly. 
Add the dry ingredients to the wet and combine carefully. Do not overwork the dough.
Form 12 balls out of the dough.

Bake at 200 c until light golden. Take out of oven and coat/brush the scones with the syrup. Bake for a few more minutes.



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2009

Ok. I'm not big at new years resolutions. In fact I think they are stupid. Life changes when you decide it to change (that's if you are in control of the change), habits break when you break them. The turn of the calendar has no significance on this. All this said, I will try to do one thing this year... update my blog more than once a season :) So, now I'll just have to go dig up my voice and motivation from wherever I hid it..


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