Archive for 2010
Mar 7th, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
A soufflé is a light, fluffy, baked cake made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a savory main dish or sweetened as a dessert. The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb souffler which means “to blow up” or more loosely “puff up” — an apt description of what happens to this combination of custard and egg whites.
Posted in Cirque du Souffle |
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Tags: Amaretto, Cirque du Souffle, Eggs, Souffle, Yolk
Mar 7th, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
A soufflé is a light, fluffy, baked cake made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a savory main dish or sweetened as a dessert. The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb souffler which means “to blow up” or more loosely “puff up” — an apt description of what happens to this combination of custard and egg whites.
Posted in Cirque du Souffle |
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Tags: Cirque du Souffle, Eggs, Souffle, Squash, Yolk
Mar 6th, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
Describing the American singer-songwriter Tom Waits is not an easy task. I am thrown between calling him controversial, bizarre, or brilliant (Lady Gaga move aside…). And I still haven’t decided whether or not I like his music. I believe, it may be an acquired taste.
Posted in It's all about music... |
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Tags: Blues, Jazz, Music, Singer, Songwriter, Tom Waits
Mar 6th, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
I just discussed an article printed in the local newspaper, The Recorder, with my wife. She had kept it for me to read and was interested in my opinion about it. Before I share my – utterly unimportant – opinion, let me quote from the article (March 3, 2010) titled A Conservative’s Lament by Ben Clarke.
Posted in Life in New England, Political Comments |
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Tags: Ben Clarke, Conservatives, Franklin County, Greenfield, Liberals, Massachusetts, Washington D.C.
Mar 4th, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
Well, this yet another adventure tour through the fairyland of musical history. For many, many years I do have a CD containing the greatest hits of Ralph Mc Tell, and, besides his most famous song, Streets of London, there was one song that caught my attention, and that song was Hesitation Blues.
Posted in It's all about music... |
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Tags: Guitar, Hesitation Blues, Music, Ralph McTell
Mar 3rd, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
Former Northern Ireland First Minister Ian Paisley will not seek re-election in the forthcoming general election. The 83-year-old founder and ex-leader of the Democratic Unionist Party is to relinquish the North Antrim seat he first won in 1970. Mr Paisley announced his decision to stand down in his local constituency paper, the Ballymena Guardian. Famed for his firebrand oratory, Mr Paisley was a founding member of the Free Presbyterian Church in Ireland in 1951. His evangelical theology heavily influenced his political views and throughout the Troubles he forthrightly denounced Catholicism and the papacy.
Posted in Political Comments, The Bleeding Hills |
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Tags: First MInister, Ian Paisley, Irish Troubles, Irish War, Northern Ireland, Violence in Northern Ireland
Mar 2nd, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
Plug Your Book reveals the most effective and least expensive tools to promote your titles and to increase your exposure. It’s the best book on online marketing I have ever read, and I read quite a few in the course of my consulting practice with small presses.
Posted in Book Reviews, Writing & Publishing |
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Tags: Book, Literature Marketing, Marketing, Steve Weber
Mar 1st, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
The more intelligent people are, the more they are willing to engage into something new. Conservatives and religious people, in turn, do have a lower intelligence quotient. Psychologists believe, the phenomena can be explained through an evolution-biological view.
Posted in Neurotica |
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Tags: Conservatives, Darwin, Evolution, Intelligence, IQ, Lefties, Liberals
Mar 1st, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
Well, as a passionate bread eater I prefer my hearty German rye-sourdough bread filled with wheat and rye grains, but every now and then I bake something to satisfy the common American taste for soft wheat-based bread. I received raving comments about the Parker House Rolls I made yesterday, and I have to admit I enjoyed them thoroughly, too.
Posted in Cooking & Baking |
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Tags: Boston, Bread, Cooking & Baking, New England, Parker House Rolls, Yankee Magazine
Feb 28th, 2010 |
By Wilfried F. Voss
We have had snow falling for the last three days, and at the moment there is no end in sight. The 150 feet long driveway had already been plowed, but the guy who does that for us had to plow around the big branch that broke from one of our huge oak trees. That tree made it now to the top of our to-be-cut list for the summer.
Posted in Life in New England |
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Tags: Boston Red Sox, Francona, Snow, Snowman, Winter, Youkilis