Chef Morena: sorvete de café

25 june 2013

Fiz esse sorvete de café delicioso inspirada numa receita da marvilhosa Nigella Lawson. Ela diz que fazer esse sorvete é tão fácil que fica com vergonha de dar a receita, do livro Nigellissima; mas eu a encontrei online, no site dela.

Ingredientes

600 ml double cream [pode ser creme de leite comum, e pode ser menos que 600ml]                                                             

1 lata de leite condensado

½ xícara de café beeem forte [fiz com café instantâneo, ficou com gosto de espresso]    

1 ½ colher de sopa de essência de baunilha [não faz parte da receita dela]

Nota: ela simplesmente adiciona 2 colheres sopa de pó para café espresso; e usa 2 colheres  sopa de licor de café, que eu dispensei.

Modo de fazer

Bata todos os ingredientes juntos na batedeira. Fica a consistência de um café bem cremoso, aerado e bonito. Dá para encher um recipiente plástico de sorvete e mais um pouco em outro recipiente. Deixe congelar por pelo menos seis horas.

Achei uma delícia esse sorvete. Use sua imaginação para trocar o café por outros sabores, inclusive frutas.

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Nigella esteve nos jornais nas últimas duas semanas por conta de fotos com o marido, Michael Saatchi, tentando sufocá-la durante um jantar em Londres. São várias fotos, incluindo ela chorando. Não ficou nem um pingo lindo nem engraçado para ele, que alegou depois que era só uma brincadeira. Ele recebeu advertência da polícia, mas acho que seria bacana esse cabra folgado ter uma conversa com a delegada Wilma.

Tanta, mas tanta coisa é tão insuportavelmente abusiva! E ainda há muita permissividade e silêncio. A notícia despertou manifestações de muita gente, com Nigella sendo considerada vítima de violência doméstica. Alguns comentários que li no jornal The Guardian e vi na tv:

- “Isso é assunto deles. Ninguém deve se meter”.

- “Quem diz que é assunto deles deve ser homem”.

- “Meu ex-marido francês tinha umas explosões [de gritar] em público”.

- “A pessoa que tirou as fotos deveria ter feito alguma coisa”.

- “Quem tirou as fotos deveria doar o dinheiro que ganhou para organizações que ajudam a mulher”

E por aí vai. Ela saiu, e levou os filhos junto, do apartamento onde vive com Saatchi, em Londres. Ele falou que pediu para ela sair de lá até o problema passar. Que ela fique bem, muito bem, juntamente com os filhos, e saiba se defender, sempre que for preciso.

tea for two

29 oct 2012

yesterday, Sunday 28 october, we went to Eastleigh because i had reserved a winter coat at a shop in the local shopping centre. when we were finished with shopping it was about 3.40pm.
the grey, rainy, and cold winterlike afternoon suggested tea. we then were headed for 'ginger two for tea', a cosy tea room in Winchester. they make good food and serve a variety of teas and coffees. i had english tea, mike had cappuccino. we shared a slice of a scrumptious coffee and walnut cake. shared calories = shared guilt. oh was it great. after that we drove back home to prepare our sunday roast and enjoy the rest of the day indoors.

english breakfast

19 mar 2012

after fasting for over twelve hours for a blood test i had this morning i thought i needed some good fuel for the long day ahead. hash browns, sausage, baked beans, and mushrooms. now i am already back at the office, having a nice cup of coffee with coffee mate. getting ready!!!

wishing us all a great week :-)

tea for two

12 mar 2011

i met with diana at trago lounge this afternoon for some coffee and chatting. as usual, we talked very long about both academic and personal life. . . then we went shopping in portswood road. diana is a great company for shopping and a friend i like very much. these days she almost never shows up at the office as she prefers to work from home. i think if you manage to be productive from home it is always a better option.

on the road: portsmouth

23 jan 2011

today we went to Portsmouth. nice trip, beautiful city. we visit the old part of the city and then walk around going to the gun wharf. impressive view of the ferries the botas the shops the sea. despite the cold temperature of 7degrees Mike and I had ice cream because i was craving it. lots of offers in the shops. i bought myself a jumper. Porsmouth is a very charming place.

after much walking around and doing some shopping we sat at the 'waterfront cafe' to appreciate the view of the boats at sea from inside the cafe while treating ourselves to something nice. Mike had cappuccino and coffee cake and I had latte and teacake. it was a very nice and relaxing programme. on our way back we passed by Southsea. I liked the sea front. it must be very nice there in the summer.


Portsmouth 23 jan 2011



cafe feliz M&S

12 jan 2011

i got back here in the UK from Brazil last night to find an invite from hilra to have our luxurious breakfast today at Marks & Spencer. yes, of course. all in all we met sometime before 10am and said bye bye around 3pm. we had the always good food, chatted there sitting and ignoring that maybe other customers needed the sofas to sit and have their breakfast, browsed around the shop, bought food, and walked to the bus stop. the content of the conversation is highly confidential and protected information. i doubt wikileaks will ever have access to it.

ah, am very happy to be back in the UK and to what life holds for me here.

great coffee, great price

20 may 2010

i love the coffee from this machine. it is hot, creamy, and very very cheap: only 20p per cup. it is located on building 54 highgield campus, the mathematics and something else (physics?) building. i teach there on thursday mornings and always treat myself to a cuppa before going up to 8th floor to work. it is a warm start up indeed. sometimes i wonder why it is so cheap, because the coffee is very nice, but the plastic cup might be one of the reasons why. we always have better thermal cups for the take away drinks here. one of my friends complained about it the other day. i have no complaints on this matter. the gain is bigger.

by the way, i see on the walls of this building offers for scholarship for post grad courses related to physics and mathematics (i think). i mean, when it comes to rare intelligence yes, they do need people and offer opportunities with funding, which is great.

agota's soothing breakfast

2 may 2010

i woke up quite early - about 9am - and read the material i had on me. ying, our chinese friend, just came back from data collection. she brought her husband and her child along this time to live here with her for the time of her phd. her husband will start a phd somewhere soon, too. i did not go down to speak with yang because i really wanted to do some reading, great reading, by the way.

agota brought me coffee in the bedroom and received ying and her family. diana went down, too. after they were gone agora prepared a super breakfast for us three. veggie omelette, toast, and fresh coffee. we talked lots again. when diana and i left the house to go to hartley library it was past 1pm.

i stayed at hartley until almost 7pm, and got a little done. it was a very nice weekend, but i need to work. of course there was a pause for coffee at lattes cafe with ahmed and diana. maybe i am registering these to have the truth before my eyes. i do need to focus more on my studies. anyway, i do focus on it, during the week and everyday, during the day. hilra suggested i try and put all duties for the day so that i don't have to cancel the social life, which is not really that hectic, to be honest. she is so right and this wise piece of advice has come in good time.

the moves of the day

27 Oct 2009

at Lattes Cafe Bar with Hilra and Highfield Campus in Autumn 2009

Today i came to Highfield campus to teach an Academic English class on Management building. After that i came by Hilra's building (Education) to do something with her about my blog. We went up in this super secure lift which only the cool people can ride, such as Hilra and whoever is lucky enough to follow her, like myself today, as you need an ID to make the machine work.

Then we went for our agreed upon nice coffee at Lattes Cafe Bar, the staff club. We had our calories for the whole week (I had a chocolate muffin with coffee and Hilra had this unbelievably caloric fruit cake with coffee) in one single sit and talked about life. . . It is usually inspiring to talk with Hilra, and the conversation always goes on and on and on and on from one topic to the other in a very interesting flow that does not require clear cohesive devices to be coherent. What makes the whole bit coherent is our understanding and the freedom to speak up freely, which we certainly do.

It is amazing how we can find pleasure out of dealing with pain to an extent. It is really a puzzle to me sometimes that we choose to be around the ones with whom we can exactly talk about what worries us rather than just spending time with people to laugh only. . . My meetings with Hilra have been opportunities to explore thoughts, experiences, (im)possibilities and whatever the topic of the day is. Sometimes our conversation is so seriously around concrete worries, not only about ourselves, but also about others who relate to us, and it is so nice, so nice. And we say bye bye with the feeling that we still have this something else to say about whatever. hehehe

Well, today I had to bear with a new feature my friend Hilra is starting to display, which is a sort of neologism, well, not exactly neologism, but more like 'hibridism' in the sense that she, after having been living here for more than five years now does sometimes mix Portuguese with English. We clearly speak only one language at a time, which may in the end be another sort of symptom :-) but the point is we two try to keep being the naturally good Portuguese speakers that we are. My friend, however, is now with this little problem, so funny! She said she feels the need to buy two dictionaries to help her out on this issue, both of them starting with the letter O: Oxford dictionary (for English, of course) and Orélio dictionary (for Portuguese support, obviously).

Anyway, the main point of this post is to emphasize my rationale that no matter how busy you are, if you want to, you can manage to find a moment to spend with a friend and help and be helped in all ways. This Tuesday has been (it's 5.55pm now) a very busy day for me. Still, we had agreed to meet for a coffee today and the new things I had to add to my day to do as well, which represented round trips from highfield to avenue throughout the day, were not important enough for me to cancel our meeting. I am happy because these breaks during the day are so invigorating and should be part of life. It is like being responsible in a more harmonic way.

I feel so tired right now because I came to Highfield to teach 9 - 10:45 in the morning, spoke with Hilra from 11am to 1pm, walked back to avenue campus, grabbed a slice of pizza to eat, taught an EAS class 2 - 3.30pm, met with Chris Sinclair, walked back to highfield for an appointment here at 4.30. I am now free and waiting until the buses are not too packed with people. I need to buy fruits, but am not in the mood to go to supermarkets and queue up and carry heavy bags home.

I have to write an email to this one person to talk about something really bad that is going on now and is having an undesired implication on my personal life. I should stop torturing myself and just go ahead and write the email. duh!!!

Kalina Morena

bus stop at the Avenue, and Highfield Campus in colourful  Autumn 2009