bits and pieces

[gfrancie]

I made ice cream and banana bread today. It was a properly lazy Sunday. I managed to give Senor Onion a bit of a trim. Cutting the hair of a wiggly two year old takes some serious patience. He kept wanting to watch me use the scissors. But it is done and he looks more grown-up. He was blessed with a thick head of hair and when it is this warm out, it becomes rather uncomfortable.

I am thinking of making a treacle sponge cake this week. I have a tin of golden syrup and a pudding mold -it is kismet. Or something.

The crows are continuing to wage their battle against the robins and their nest. The Stellar's Jays are getting into the act as well. I am not quite sure which side they are on. Maybe they are like the Russians during WWII and will switch when it is to their benefit or Hitler tries to invade... this analogy has derailed hasn't it?

I continue to look at art. We are getting closer to compromise. Hopefully.

I am slowly coming up with a name for a new ice cream I am making. Obviously I missed my calling for creating a line of geographically arcane and dorky ice cream name flavors.

Comments

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

Joshua has been eating a bowl of porridge every morning while he is here, and it is customary here to smother it in Golden Syrup, which he had never heard of. This has made me wonder if it is an English thing? Or is it American? It isn't all that common here but we always had big yellow tin of it in the house when I was a kid. I was surprised to see you mention it here.

[mockduck.livejournal.com]

I'm English. It's by no means unheard of here, though it's not a standard topping either. I know folk who put in a spoonful of jam, but most common of all is a dollop of honey (for sweetening purposes - you can also go down the salt route of course).

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I saw my nephew put golden syrup on his pancakes one day. I remember thinking it was odd that he didn't put maple syrup.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

It is a very English product. There have always been the occasional jar on the shelves in grocery stores where I grew up. I know it is put out by an English company. (the one my husband's Father worked for)
In America we tend to put things like brown sugar, maple syrup and maybe jam on our porridge.