Messing around with recette du chef Pierre Jancou, proprietaire du restaurant Racines à Paris, parue dans Elle à table: 6 œufs 300g de chocolat noir 120g de beurre demi-sel 1 expresso très fort 80g de sucre en poudre cocoa nibs (merci Monsieur David Lebovitz!) Préchauffez le four à 200°C.Fait...

Cottage Cheese "Pancakes" 85g cottage cheese 1.5 large eggs 23.5g unbleached all-purpose flour 28.5g unsalted butter melted A week ago, it was Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Pancake Day, Shrove Tuesday, the day before the 40-day season of Lent during which Christians in the Dark Ages would pray, do penanc...

We bid a sad farewell to James (the epistle of). Much straightforward practical wisdom there and much to think about and work out in our lives. Now that manybooks are visible at a glance, have been reunited with the Puritans. They don't profess to be the complete word of God but there's much biblica...

  We only wish the baristas resembled this 80's lady, but I'm sure they're not quite so "vintage," shall we say... After months of controversy and protests, the simple coffee shop was finally allowed to open its doors this week in Vassalboro, Maine. The two-item* establish...

Oh my black soul! now art thou summonedBy sickness, death's herald, and champion;Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath doneTreason, and durst not turn to whence he is fled;Or like a thief, which till death's doom be read,Wisheth himself delivered from prison,But damned and haled to execution,Wi...

This week’s text in Galatians focuses on adoption, God’s adoption of sinners as His sons as a result of Jesus’ work of redemption for us.  J.I. Packer comments that you can’t really understand Christianity unless you understand adoption.  John Calvin says you aren’t r...

Seldom seest thou a man make haste to be rich, and thrive in religion. Christ's message to John holds true; the poor are most forward in receiving and following the Gospel. A thou lovest thy zeal,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

A reader sends along this equally creepysick piece from 2001 in which Righties go all orgasmic over... Donald Rumsfeld. One of the odder markers of a culture in decay (or, at any rate, an apostate Puritan culture in decay) is its weird inability to keep from sexualizing things that, ick, should *not...

All of us take money for the use of our body. Professors, factory workers, opera singers, sex workers, doctors, legislators — all do things with parts of their bodies for which others offer them a fee. Some people get good wages and some do not....

Puritans love disasters. No sooner has some calamity befallen mankind than some hair-shirted scold emerges from his priest hole and starts wagging his finger. The message is always the same: ‘You are being punished for your immoral lifestyle.’ Copyright © 2007This Feed is for personal non-c...