Two good finds

[vilakins]

I went out to take some books back to the library and get some lunch and a coffee at the same time, and realised on my way that I'd left without a book to read over lunch. A bad habit, they say, but I don't care; I like a book if I'm eating alone. So I had a quick browse at the library (which was full of kids, it being school holidays which I also hadn't realised) and found Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall, themselves Trekkies. There was a vid advertising this a while back and it looked like a lot of fun. Zombies aren't usually my thing, but at a Star Trek con and with added humour? They definitely are.

After lunch (and two chapters in, all chapter having BTW Star Trek episode names) I went to Farro to pick up eggs, bread, and yogurt--and they had imported Italian cannoli shells. You can't usually get those here so I grabbed a packet. All I have to do is make a lovely ricotta filling. I became addicted to those things in Sicily and the last ones I ate were in Melbourne some years ago. I'm meant to be eating more healthily but YUM!

Comments

[watervole]

Sounds like a fun book. I look forward to your comments when you finish it.

[vilakins]

I'm about halfway through and it's making me laugh out loud with the geeky and black humour! Great trekky stuff!

[theyarnproject.livejournal.com]

I would love to go to Sicily. Oh, what I wouldn't do...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was wonderful! I had two weeks there when I lived in Germany. :-D

[theyarnproject.livejournal.com]

I wish I could just go, and travel.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've done quite a bit but I long to do more. I'm stuck down here at the arse-end of the world and unlikely to ever again unless I get a job or win something.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

A bad habit, they say,

What on Earth is bad about it?! Who are these "they" who say this, that I may re-educate them with a hardback against the skull? :)

And Night of the Living Trekkies is fun.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[laughs] You're welcome to! I meant all those annoying people who try to make us feel guilty about anything whatsoever to do with food. They say that we digest food better and think we've eaten enough sooner if we, you know, concentrate on the process of eating. Me, I like conversation, TV, or a book to go with my meals; adds to the pleasure. I don't take any notice of those so-called experts anyway since they all contradict each other and change their minds at the drop of a hat.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Bah. I say, dinner is a nice thing to do while you read. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You have your priorities right!

I'm about to have a cup to tea with the trekkies.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I loved that book. :-p

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And I'm loving it!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Pasta is healthy and I'm sure you can find a healthy stuffing if you try. I always have a paperback in my bag if I plan to eat alone in a cafe, apart from enjoying a good lunch with my read I find it helps to discourage the strange people who insist on sitting opposite me and talking to me when I don 't have my nose in a book.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cannoli are a dessert or a sweet! You stuff them with ricotta or a custardy filling (which Greg would prefer).

I meant to put my current book in my bag but hey, it worked out well as the trekkies book is making me laugh out loud with the geeky and black humour.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

ps try leak and apple gently fried until soft with the minimum of fat in a thick cheese sauce made with low fat cheese and skimmed milk

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

In canneloni maybe, but not sweet cannoli!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

My bad, I read cannoli as canneloni. How about a strudel filling with a very little custard.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That was why I provided a link. :-)

But I love the traditional ricotta filling! I suspect it's the outsides that are the bad thing anyway, being sweet and deep fried. they are however very small, only the length of my thumb, and they'll last till October so we'll just have one or two each at a time and I won't make much filling.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I had to laugh reading about that so called "bad habit" : we have it all in our family and we do it always:-) Only my granny used to say the same warning abour it.
Ah, StarTrek, I still love my TOS fanzines.
Cannoli? We call a very similar sweet pastry "kremrole", it may be connected.
Good things, enjoy!!!:-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

This comes from Sicily but there's nothing new under the sun, they say. They're crisp tubes with sweet ricotta filling. Yum! [looks up kremrole] Ah, they're cream rolls and we have them here! I don't think they ever put cream in cannoli but Greg loves brandy snap rolls filled with cream. (Too rich for me.)

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of Night of the living trekkies :0)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's a lot of fun, and full of geeky fannishness!