Monday, December 19th, 2005
This is my wife Catherine’s recipe for Christmas Pudding. Her grandmother gave it to her, and it’s been in her family for at least 100 years. She was looking for Christmas recipes online tonight and couldn’t find very many for Christmas Pudding. We thought it would be a nice thing to make available for people wanting to make a traditional holiday dessert.
Ingredients
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Raisins
1 cup Dates
1 cup Currants
1 cup Margarine* (scant — just under 1 cup)
1 cup Shredded Carrot
1 cup Grated Potato
1 1/4 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 pinch Salt
* Traditionally Suet would have been used instead of Margarine
Directions
- Mix all the ingredients together in large bowl
- Cover the bowl with tinfoil
- Steam for 3 hours**
** To steam the pudding, you can use a large pot with a small amount of water in the bottom. We use an inverted pyrex bowl in the bottom of the pot to keep the bowl with the pudding above the level of the water. Make sure you continue to carefully add small amounts of water to the pot so that it doesn’t boil dry.
Serve with a Brown Sugar Sauce or Custard. Merry Christmas!
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
Ali G — no not him, this guy—was one of the artists involved in yesterday’s identity theft fiasco. The thieves were trying to pass off his comic as their own creation—but they were just linking to the image files on his server. After looking at his website stats Ali realize something weird was going on and mentioned it to DJ Coffman, who in turn let the rest of us know about it. Today’s HousD comic makes light of the entire strange incident.
My brother Kevin Robertson has also started posting comics. He’s added them to his blog and they’re about whatever happens to be going on in current events. The first two involve Cronulla and the Sydney Race Riots riots and Brokeback Mountain — so it’s probably safe to say he’s going to cover a lot of different things. I lent him my copy of Webcomics : Tools and Techniques for Digital Cartooning a couple of weeks ago and have been giving him some tips on running his blog, so it’s great to see his stuff online so soon.
And while I’m posting about current events, I should mention that the contact form has once again returned to the site. If you were wondering how to email me, now you can.
Tags: designmeme, Family, web, webcomic
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
My mother-in-law Sheila has a new website at MooAlley.com. The site has information about her recently published book Somebody Move the Cat! (ISBN 1-896922-27-9) as well as the other writing projects she’s working on. The site takes its name from the laneway near her house which is frequented by cows from the neighbour’s farm.
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
My brother Kevin has started a blog. Stop by and say hello.
It’s been a while since I’ve checked out Blogger, and they’ve added some new features. Social networking seems to be the current hot web topic, and thanks to Blogger’s acquisition by Google, the profiles for registered users demonstrate a nice method for linking people with similar interests together.
Tags: blog, Family
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Liam Hugh Robertson was born on Tuesday, November 23rd (3 days early) at 5:46 p.m. at the Guelph General Hospital weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces. Mom, Dad and Liam all doing very well.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2004
Today would have been my Dad’s 54th birthday. It’s been almost 5 months now, and there’s so many things I wish he could have seen. The summer. Our new house. The ultrasound pictures of the baby. I know those things would have made him happy.
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