Linkage...

So, there has been all sorts of awesomeness on the Intertubes this week...

A school under a bridge, which on one hand is super awesome, because hey, look what they're doing!, but in the other hand, it makes you super aware of how first world your problems are, because hey, look what they have to do...

There is all sorts of internet legislation in the air in the US, including CISPA - a REALLY bad idea - neatly summed up in this graphic... there is also this one, which would help to bridge the access gap by helping to make broadband more available to low-income brackets.

On the food front, there are several recipes I'm looking forward to trying out - hopefully soon... especially this Yogurt Panna Cotta with Walnuts and Honey...

Mirrormirror's Roasted Pumpkin and Coconut Soup with Thai Flavours inspired my own soup supper, which received a resounding approval from the test audience, and after some tweaking (read: figuring out how much of the ingredients my toss-it-in-a-pot method actually used to achieve the awesome), I will be posting a recipe here.

Tea posted on How to Poach an Egg - with some helpful tips if you're unsure, and some cool info even if you've done it a thousand times...



And continuing in the food related vein - The oldest Medieval cookbook was found in the UK - I can't wait until they get a facsimile out...

I know there's more, and probably more relevant stuff happening out there all the time, but these are the one that I spent a goodly portion of my time thinking about this week...

A Fall Festival Food

for my friends i finally was able to make supper this semester, i cooked soup in a pumpkin ...

cut the top off the pumpkin and clean the guts out...cut up about half a loaf of french bread and a little block of gruyere cheese into smallish cubes...place in the pumpkin along with a sprinkle of salt and some tarragon and garlic, probably about a teaspoon respectively... add a couple chunks of butter... pour about half to three-quarters cup chicken stock over the stuff already in the pumpkin... fill the pumpkin to about an inch bellow the opening with a combination of milk and half and half... put the cut-off top back on... bake at 400 for about two hours, give or take, (i wasn't paying really close attention to the exact time, but it was probably about that) on a cookie sheet of baking dish (with some sort of sides to prevent dripping, i used a 9x13 cake pan)... make sure you don't let the bottom of the pumpkin burn... stir it a couple of times while baking... take the pumpkin out of the oven stir it really well, make sure to scrape the sides a bit so that you get some chunks of the pumpkin mixed in... don't scrape to deep or your serving dish/pumpkin will get a very messy hole in the side or bottom... put the top of the pumpkin back on till you serve it, the pumpkin will provide some insulation, but serve it within about half an hour to forty-five minutes... the amounts of the ingredients will vary according to the size of the pumpkin...