Crepes Suzette

I’ve been meaning to post this for ages: this Crepes Suzette recipe, courtesy of my mom:

For the pancakes blend 3 eggs w 2/3 c unsifted all purpose flour.  Add 1 c milk and mix until smooth.  This will make a thin pancake. If the batter seems too thick you could a little more milk or water.
 
For the suzette sauce:
Melt 1/4 c butter in a saucepan and add 6 tbsp sugar.  Stir and cook til bubbling but not brown.
 
Add 1 1/2 tsp grated orange peel, 1/2 tsp grated lemon peel, 1/3 c orange juice and 1 tbsp lemon juice to the butter and sugar mixture and bring to a rolling boil.  Add the crepes to the sauce one at a time and fold into a triangles once they have taken up some sauce.  (I don’t measure the peel, I just grate some into the sauce until I think I have enough for good flavour.)
 
For the flambe set aflame 1/4 cup warmed cointreau orother orange-flavoured liqueur and pour it over the crepes.  Shake the pan until the flames die down and simmer the crepes a few minutes more before serving. 
 

Coming Soon – Be Glad For The Song Has No End, a festival of Artists’ Music at Wysing

The festival includes live music from Martin Creed and His Band, Bob and Roberta Smith’s Apathy Band, Long Meg, Juneau Projects, Kaffe Matthews, Sue Tompkins, Owl Project, Die Kunst, Grubby Mitts, Joanna Robertson, Sam Belinfante, The Errorists, Saydance, Babygrand, Johnny Parry, Ricky Leach, Aleksander Kolkowski, Rude Pravo and many others.  DJ sets include Mark Leckey, Junior Aspirin Records, Mark Dean, and the Wire Sound-System.

The cinema space has films and videos by Nico Vascellari, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Matt Stokes, Rob Bidder, Luke Fowler, Ed Atkins, Benedict Drew, Archie Bronson Outfit, and a live soundtrack by David Blandy.  Events around the grounds include Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether’s Reverse Karaoke, Mark Essen’s Record Exchange, An Endless Supply festival program and publication distribution, and an UBUWeb sound-system.

The event is supported by Arts Council East, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, The Wire and Resonance 104.4FM, with recordings and interviews from the festival to be broadcast on the station during September.

Festival Ticket only £15. Tickets with coach from Cambridge and London available. Camping also available.

Visit the Wysing Website for links to tickets!

Grubby Mitts Performing on the Roof of the Hayward Gallery

Grubby Mitts on the roof of the Hayward / outside the Dan Graham Pavilion. Sat 17th.

Lecture on Nesting

Hoops! on the way back from Ely

Hoops is one of the decent pubs around Wysing where they have a chicken coop in the garden. Jeremy told us it might get wild there during the weekends, but somehow I can’t imagine.

Irrelevant P.S. Bedwyr, I photoshoped you to reduce the redness on your face.

Whenever I miss my county I watch this video

When I was in Mexico City, I was telling to my friend how I missed Turkey. She sent me this video and said ‘Asli, think twice darling, ’cause this is what you miss’.

There is a guy claiming he could fly and he demonstrates how.

Two events in one day

On Saturday Wysing hosted 2 parties; tea party for Emily’s Birthday and Anne-Mie’s farewell party.

Window room transformed into a dance floor after 12am. My favorite dancer was Jeremy (9 out of 10) after 10 bottles of bier.

Ely 6 out of 10

I was disappointed to find out that Ely gets it’s name from the word Eel. It’s surprising that with this simplistic method of naming places that we don’t have cities called Froggy and Doggie.

The Gaol/museum we visited was small but with some highlights notably an enourmous wooden rifle, sans explanation tag,  hanging from the roof and an old ventriloquist’s dummy who looked really familiar but I couldn’t place him – someone I’ve exhibited with in the past I think.

 

There was also a mocked up prison cell with mannequins and audio. The voices of the actors sounded so polite and middle class that the idea of them being locked up and tortured somehow seemed even more horrific than if they had got the accents right. One of the poor buggers had a three-spike metal collar around his wax neck

Outside the cathedral I saw some kids in huge jeans scowling. Such a strange place for them to hang I thought and then realised they were on a college trip. Trying to seem ‘street’ is difficult when you arrive somewhere by coach.

Ely it seems is the home of huge coffees

this latte was big enough to make a man with a horse sized head feel stupid while drinking it.

The drive back to Wysing was ruined by the paranoid hangover driving of a few Cambridgeshire drivers. People seem to drive very fast here.

Ely Museum

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Eels, eels, eels. A few of us went to Ely – the town formerly surrounded by bogs and eels -  to visit the museum and cathedral. It was fun to see the rather… er, quirky exhibits – like a life-sized prison diorama, complete with a recorded soundtrack of the prisoners’ laments. Apparently, there were a lot of wicker-headed Elyans in olden times…

Moth Collection

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After leaving the window open at the farmhouse for some evening air, we found a brilliant group of moths waiting for us in the morning.