Kitchen #confidential

[JonW]

& we tend to forget that we actually see the world upside down & in reverse (the same as looking though a view camera). Our brain does a great job flipping everything around.

[revengeofmonty]

Renders looking nice. Sorry, been away doing lots of meeting amongst other things. Have had no time for Lwave as of late alas.

[meshpig]

"meeting" like you went to Prague this time in search of a mysterious woman at an art opening ? (Leave it out guv...) or "meetings" as in perpetually tied up at wurk?

- Food tip for the day: poach your peeled green apples in last night's vino and reduce it to a sauce. No need to add sugar...

Blind git has been poaching this all week too and reckons he isn't going around in circles. Like I miss the white canvas and the birth of the Novel as it were, the few drops of blood in the snow sometime in the C16.

[meshpig]

Oops, one too many glasses for a Sunday night... The significance of the "drops of blood" in the snow comes from Mallory I think, where the Novel was born, the snow being the "white canvas" which didn't exist formerly because like the concept of Fog, or a Sunset it wasn't considered visible as such it was merely what did the obscuring up until the early C18.

Given that painting and film deploy a white screen, which in psychology you can compare to the infant looking for the nipple on the infinite map of the breast, interlacing and digital imagery by comparison have no "unconscious" if you think of the shutter buzz of a 35 mm projector where every second frame is black=0.

Dunno, food for thought?

[revengeofmonty]

Drops of blood on snow sounds like something from Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber'. Pretty sure it's the one where the king screws the corpse.

Lots of noise on those renders, but the lighting is coming along. As for breasts, nipples, projectors and white screens, one of my art teachers used to start with black paper, then draw with a white pencil. His work was amazing.

[meshpig]

Angela Carter... the corny UK 70's type femocrat? Only ever read her essays. Thanks dude...

- what, like when you fall asleep or kip during the day you don't see the proprioceptive "white" plane of infinite coming at you? Breast feeding, sorry Angela.

Haven't figured the 100's and 1000's yet.

[revengeofmonty]

'the corny UK 70's type femocrat?' LOL. 'The Bloody Chamber' is awesome, you should check it out.

[meshpig]

I would except haven't read a book since the mid 90's. Not the same person I was thinking of... and still 40 freakin degrees @ 18:45. Eek!

[meshpig]

Ah, wrong again...

http://dannyreviews.com/h/Sadeian_Woman.html

Was Angela Carter.

- At about the same time was living with a rather obnoxious Sydney writer
( ... now living in the UK thankfully) who was on the same heard it all before Marquis de Sade, academic revival/grunge lit bestseller thing.

- I say "femocrat" because at best novelists these days are as civil servants are to Industry.

[meshpig]

Arrogant coming from someone who hasn't read a novel in 15 years hey... but look at it this way. Looking and reading are the same thing.

- Though I'd argue if you lose your hearing you're totally cactus

[revengeofmonty]

lol.

So then.

Another progress render? (This week's recipe will be Hungarian Goulash)

[meshpig]

What, like no render no recipe? ... No render no dinny Goulash!!

Working on it...

Think I'm pretty much on the home stretch.

[meshpig]

Ah, I forgot you're heading into Winter...

http://www.grouprecipes.com/13538/po...-bourride.html

This is something like Hoi-Nan Chicken where you have the steamed chook cut in half lengthways and served with a chicken consomme garnished with chicken livers, and a bowl of rice. Minced ginger and chili softened in oil as accouterment except it's French.

The recipe link gives you the idea but it's a little homey. A "Bourride" is an old fashioned soup which resembles a stew... so that accounts for the connection with the southern Chinese equivalent but the recipe there makes it more like a stew.

So, to make it more than just a stew one small chook. Corn fed if you can handle the fat and cut it down the middle on the y axis so you have 2 halves each with a wing, thigh and breast.

Following on, instead of rice; croutons ( slices of "baguette" dried slowly in the oven until crisp) and instead of chili and ginger; the breadcrumb Aioli liaison into the soup and the boiled potatoes in a chili mayo which also has some poached peppers ( using the same stock) cooled and incorporated which makes it less fatty 'cos the veg gives it consistency.

So, the chicken halves get braised in the oven covered with the same leek, garlic, dry w wine, peeled seeded and chopped tomato, orange zest, stock, saffron, caraway seed, bayleaf (forget the thyme) ... when done you remove the chicken and beat the aioli liaison into the liqour.

Cut the perfectly braised chicken along the z axis just behind the wing or leave it as a whole half. Serve the zesty soup in a separate bowl the croutons and chili mayo on the side just as with Hoi-Nan chicken .

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vKaH1rJgfb...l407%2B012.jpg

[meshpig]

... home stretch? Nah, armed with new techniques going sideways. Working from an image presents more of a problem since it has less info than what I can see clear in my mind, as it were.

[revengeofmonty]

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