What a day!

I watched lotsa TV today. The newly acquired "Primeval" DVDs demanded to be watched - Season 2 yesterday and Season 3 today, basically.

You know, I thought I'd hate the series after they killed off Nick Cutter. Guess what - I did not. I actually liked Danny Quinn and how they worked on getting him into the team gradually. I was a bit sad to see Jenny go, but I liked Sarah and Captain Beckett, even though they were clearly chosen to raise the prettiness factor.

The ever-popular government conspiracy was bleh, and I really, really found obsessed!omnipotent!Helen Cutter boring to the tears. I was whooping when she finally got killed. Not because she was evil but because she was stupid and boring.

My 3rd season favourite was the episode about the king and the dragon. That was cute, and Sarah's visit in the past well done.

I was also at the dentist's today - groan - and wrote some Merlin stuff by hand. Typing up comes tomorrow. Jaw aches from the aenesthetic shot, and I'm tired.

Baking disasters and other funny things

I was baking today. Yeah, surprising, innit? I tried out the gingerbread cookie recipe I wanted to bake with the kids before Xmas. Guess what? We won't be baking it. I could not get the dough to a consistence that would have enable me to roll it out in the first place. Of course, what can you expect from a recipe that requires 4 tablespoons of butter? Not melted butter, mind you, just regular butter. Now, how on Earth am I supposed to measure butter with a tablespoon? (A colleague of mine suggested using a bomb, but that was too radical for my taste.)

Clearly, I couldn't get the amounts right. The dough fell apart like Hungarian economy, and let me tell you, that's a spectacular fall! So I made little buttons and baked them, and then painted them with eggwhite and rolled them in coloured sugar. Even so, they are slighlty bitter. 3 teaspoons of ginger were too much. I never listen to the recipe again.

OTOH, I also baked the honeycake house from the Dr.Oetker package, and it turned out great. Even the sugar icing from the tube worked. It's a lovely little thing, my Knusperhäuschen, Mum is happy with it.

Other than that, I wrote a lot of Merlin stuff (4 pages of Chapter 11) and watched some TV. "Richterin Barbara Salesch" und "Panda, Gorilla & Co". I need to nurture my German a bit, too.