Sapori di Natale
December 28th, 2009Shiny Women
December 28th, 2009Roma
December 28th, 2009the new press
December 21st, 2009Sneeuw
December 20th, 2009Fish Lasagna
December 20th, 2009Another Mr Miss delicacy, Salmon & Shrimp lasagna… Easy!
I sneaked into his kitchen and did some spying….
Boil salmon in a little stock (here we used the water from cooking green beens) and cut into little pieces.
Get 200 gr of shrimp out of fridge and dice some mozzarella into little cubes.
Make a bechamel sauce. Slice 2 courgettes and fry gently with some garlic, olive oil and a squeeze of lemon.
Put a little bechamel at the bottom of an oven dish and spread a few sheets of lasagne (if your using dry lasagna then soak for 1mn in boiling water, if fresh, then it’s not necessary). Start building the lasagna: a layer of courgette and mozzarella + bechamel, salmon and shrimp, then a layer of lasagna. You need to put a good amount of bechamel otherwise it’ll be too dry, if you want a lighter version with not too much bechamel, you can add some soya cream to the layers.
Finish with some grated cheese and cook for 20 – 30mn in hot oven, check the cooking is ok then grill to finish nicely.
Avatar is Goa!
December 19th, 2009
Went to see Avatar at 3D cinema, and it’s WOW…. a goa trance party!
It’s set in a tropical forest, with UV fluo plants and specimens floating around, cyber animals and UV body painted tribe people with dread locks…. all this with a “peace and eco” feel, a bit of yoga thrown in (Jake learns to master a dragon and has to concentrate on the body parts and merge with the animal) and lot’s of shamanic buddhism.
The story line is of course, a bit predictable, with a “white man” infiltrating alien culture, getting accepted and turning against his own to save them, thus leading “the others” from the inside instead of from the outside.
But it’s delightful for the eyes, the animation is awesome and you get totally dragged into it…
A shame they didn’t hire Aphex Twin, DJ Tsuyoshi and Zakir Hussein for the sound track, because it’s f*** awful!
(it’s that terrible new age stuff with indian flute and tribal singing + strings, that you can hear in beauty centers and zen shops, yeurk!)