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Devilled prawns with notepaper bread recipe - Telegraph.co.uk
I wouldn’t mind giving the notepaper bread a try but since I don’t have a pasta machine and my only recollection of ever helping to make fresh pasta comes from spending time visiting a junior school, possibly even infant school, friend’s family I’m not sure I’d be able to manage it even if I had one. Said friend was Neapolitan and his mother made her own pasta, regarding the sort of stuff she could get in the supermarkets with the same distain that the family showed for anything other than Italian coffee. It was also due to this friend, or rather one of his uncles, that I actually managed to get a passing grade in French which I hated and paid no attention to whatsoever in class. One long evening of French conversation practice which I finally couldn’t get away from and somehow I managed to retain enough of it to get by in the oral exam.
I’ve still been on an audio book drive of late and while I’ve now finished Frankenstein I’m probably still too annoyed by it to write up anything like a coherent review as yet so in the meantime I turned to a reading of Dune. Sadly, hilariously, the reader had decided to do the voices so only a few minutes in I was rather put off by his impression of Gaius Helen Mohiam. Trying to push that aside I listened on only to be confronted by his version of the Bene Gesserit Voice, after which I wound up laughing so hard that I actually had tears in my eyes. If the reading I have is going to involve different voices for all the characters topped off with the most ludicrous impression of all every time anybody uses The Voice then there’s no way I’m going to be able to listen to it. I dread to think what any of the Harkonnens are going to sound like.
Devilled prawns with notepaper bread recipe - Telegraph.co.uk
I wouldn’t mind giving the notepaper bread a try but since I don’t have a pasta machine and my only recollection of ever helping to make fresh pasta comes from spending time visiting a junior school, possibly even infant school, friend’s family I’m not sure I’d be able to manage it even if I had one. Said friend was Neapolitan and his mother made her own pasta, regarding the sort of stuff she could get in the supermarkets with the same distain that the family showed for anything other than Italian coffee. It was also due to this friend, or rather one of his uncles, that I actually managed to get a passing grade in French which I hated and paid no attention to whatsoever in class. One long evening of French conversation practice which I finally couldn’t get away from and somehow I managed to retain enough of it to get by in the oral exam.
I’ve still been on an audio book drive of late and while I’ve now finished Frankenstein I’m probably still too annoyed by it to write up anything like a coherent review as yet so in the meantime I turned to a reading of Dune. Sadly, hilariously, the reader had decided to do the voices so only a few minutes in I was rather put off by his impression of Gaius Helen Mohiam. Trying to push that aside I listened on only to be confronted by his version of the Bene Gesserit Voice, after which I wound up laughing so hard that I actually had tears in my eyes. If the reading I have is going to involve different voices for all the characters topped off with the most ludicrous impression of all every time anybody uses The Voice then there’s no way I’m going to be able to listen to it. I dread to think what any of the Harkonnens are going to sound like.
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Date: 2010-01-31 01:37 pm (UTC)