a movable feast: August 2006

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

animated

Finally created an account in Photobucket that will enable me to post some of my animations.
This one is called Dali's world.
It is an animated quaternion fractal with a landscape background. I still have to upload some animated textiles. Have to find out a way to get rid of the artifacts-hate them.
Yes,compared to weaving this is instant gratification!

neki desu

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

and then some food

I took the advantage of being in Porto to buy some piripiri that superb Portuguese ultra spicy sauce which goes well with almost everything.
There's no excuse now for not making one of our favorite Portuguese recipes -codfish souffle.
1 lb unsalted codfish
1/8 teasp.paprika
1/8 teasp. 1/2 cu. milk
1/4 teasp. piripiri
1tbs lemon juice
1/2cup dried breadcrumbs
3 egg yolks
3 egg whites stiffly beaten
chopped coriander

Flake and mash the fish into a smooth paste.season with paprika piripiri and lemon juice.
Blend breadcrumbs with milk and cook for 5 min. med heat.
Retire from fire and blend the seasoned fish, beat the egg yolks and add.
Beat thewhites until stiff and fold them into the mixture .
Butter a soufflé dish and spoon in the mixture. Set in the soufflé dish in a large pan with hot water and place it in a pre heated oven at
350ºf.bake around 30 minutes until the top is firm,well risen and golden .
Serve hot with a choped cilantro sprinkled on top and a spicy tomato sauce.
This dish goes well with a chilled white vinho verde or a Rueda from Spain

Here's another super favorite a very interesting combination of pork and clams,
porco alentejano
Bon appetit!

neki desu

Sunday, August 20, 2006

oh porto! vila nova de gaia

This was a personal myth of mine,crossing ponte Luiz 1 and walking over to Gaia to visit the port wine lodges. This August in the midst of a heat wave it came true, albeit the fact that my favorite port company,Niepoort does not accept visits.
All the built up anticipation and I had to content myself with hugging their advert pole.There were a few unexpected bonuses such as the discovery of a brand and a sign.
It said something like Good that you're finally here, port wine has been waiting for you for 200 years.That,to any port drinker brings tears to one's eyes. This copy I got straight since for a Spanish speaker Portuguese is vile, full of false cognates.