Take a break...
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coz i am boredOriginally posted by breytonhartge:so why are you reading charles dickens again??
i am supposed to touch on my finance notes, but i am procrastinating -
study lah, you don't want to spend another year repeating your finals right??Originally posted by laurence82:coz i am bored
i am supposed to touch on my finance notes, but i am procrastinating -
choy!Originally posted by breytonhartge:study lah, you don't want to spend another year repeating your finals right??
i wont fail lar
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not when it is properly done through the correct channels.... but we pay for it though... the box of 4 egg yolk mooncakes set me back $52AUD.Originally posted by laurence82:i tot they quite strict on imported foodstuff? -
Interesting.... you buy mooncakes????Originally posted by breytonhartge:not when it is properly done through the correct channels.... but we pay for it though... the box of 4 egg yolk mooncakes set me back $52AUD. -
so? does not mean I am celebrating the festival.... just eating the food, which is still clean for me to do.Originally posted by Chin Eng:Interesting.... you buy mooncakes???? -
and I will be praying for you that you don't!Originally posted by laurence82:choy!
i wont fail lar -
yup, I eat easter eggs too, does not mean that I celebrate easter. I also go to church during easter sunday but that does not mean that I celebrate easter.Originally posted by breytonhartge:so? does not mean I am celebrating the festival.... just eating the food, which is still clean for me to do.
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*kick unker, talk already like no talk, I also eat eggs and go church on sunday...Originally posted by Chin Eng:yup, I eat easter eggs too, does not mean that I celebrate easter. I also go to church during easter sunday but that does not mean that I celebrate easter.
(haha, how does my singlisg sound? can pass?) -
well, I last checked, mooncake got pork oil. Not very kosher. of course, it is entirely possible that there are plenty of kosher mooncake in Aussieland.
then again, maybe it goes back to where to draw the line and who draws the line..... anyway a corrupted, "pagan" loving christian like myself got no problem lah... well, maybe with the exception of the sugar -
sugar?Originally posted by Chin Eng:well, I last checked, mooncake got pork oil. Not very kosher. of course, it is entirely possible that there are plenty of kosher mooncake in Aussieland.
then again, maybe it goes back to where to draw the line and who draws the line..... anyway a corrupted, "pagan" loving christian like myself got no problem lah... well, maybe with the exception of the sugar
was at nee ann city (where takashimaya is) last night, they have mooncakes for diabetic (which is the one I will normally get for my father-in-law), low in sugar.
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oh no, mooncake do use pork oil, but i am not sure if its all mooncakes or in great quantity
although there are obvious ones, like this mooncake laden with lard another forumer like to buy
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For you guys info, Mid Autumn Festival, Hari Raya and Deepavali will be coming up in October
Last time used to go with my Muslims friends to Geylang Serai and break fast with them. The spread of food there is wonderful..yum yum
WOnder if i shall try the fried lobsters and crabs -
actually I don't eat too many mooncakes lah.... even as a diabetic it's quite ok. once slice (1/8 or 1/4) each time.Originally posted by vince69:sugar?
was at nee ann city (where takashimaya is) last night, they have mooncakes for diabetic (which is the one I will normally get for my father-in-law), low in sugar.
personally, i absolute hate all these festivities.... got to buy for too many people... liao lui!
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go JB buy?Originally posted by Chin Eng:actually I don't eat too many mooncakes lah.... even as a diabetic it's quite ok. once slice (1/8 or 1/4) each time.
personally, i absolute hate all these festivities.... got to buy for too many people... liao lui!
my friends flocking to JB buy
one gal keep telling me
Seasons mooncake in JB so cheeepppp
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and last time I checked on the ingredients list, i did not see any lard or pork oil being used... the ones I buy are made from natural ingredients, and they use peanut oil FYI. So it is still biblically acceptable and clean. I still have not crossed the line. The whole thing about eating biblically clean food is so that we are HOLY and for no other reason. If you want to be a child of Yahweh, you have to be HOLY. I am undergoing this change as I learn more, it is a process, but only you can start it. Make no mistake, the dietary laws that were in place during the OT are still in place today for anyone who wants to follow Yahweh.Originally posted by Chin Eng:well, I last checked, mooncake got pork oil. Not very kosher. of course, it is entirely possible that there are plenty of kosher mooncake in Aussieland.
then again, maybe it goes back to where to draw the line and who draws the line..... anyway a corrupted, "pagan" loving christian like myself got no problem lah... well, maybe with the exception of the sugar -
come to think of it, easter and the mid autumn festival have totally different origins.Originally posted by Chin Eng:yup, I eat easter eggs too, does not mean that I celebrate easter. I also go to church during easter sunday but that does not mean that I celebrate easter.
easter originated in pagan worship and has very significant spiritual implications.
the mooncake festival only resulted because in the 14th century, the Han chinese wanted to overthrow the Yuan dynasty founded by the mongols so they devised this festival that they supposedly celebrated so that they could pass messages in these mooncakes. Nothing spiritual about that. The shapes of the moon cake reflect the fullness of the moon at the middle of the month. Nothing untoward there.
these two events are totally different, there is no spiritual significance in the celebration of the midautumn festival, where there is much significance in celebrating Yeshua's ressurection as easter. The correct terminology here is still passover. Last time I read your opinions on the subject, you did say you celebrated easter... -
errr... Brey,Originally posted by breytonhartge:the fact that you are in church on easter sunday says a lot. last I read, I did not recall you ever stating you did not celebrate easter, you always said you did... easter is still wrong.
think most of us here (myself included) also like this... hmm... I am in church every sunday.
here is my general time schedule...
Monday - Friday = Work
Saturday = Rest/Family time
Sunday = Ministry time
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I am reminded of the origin of croissants
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Being in church on sunday is fine as long as you do not call it the sabbath. Shabbat is meant to be kept from sundown friday to sundown saturday. If you want to go to church everyday during the week that is fine as well, but do not pretend to make Sunday Yahweh's day of rest or to call it the Lord's day. It is clearly not.Originally posted by vince69:errr... Brey,
think most of us here (myself included) also like this... hmm... I am in church every sunday.
here is my general time schedule...
Monday - Friday = Work
Saturday = Rest/Family time
Sunday = Ministry time
(probably why I seldom come online on weekends)
The point that I am alluding to here is that why then would CE go to church on easter sunday? To attend an easter sunday service... I am not condemning you but you have to ask yourself, whether if Yeshua came back would be pleased? By having an easter sunday service, the church then associates itself with all the pagan symbolism behind the celebration of easter, thereby creating a form of idolatry. -
what are the origin of croissants?Originally posted by laurence82:I am reminded of the origin of croissants -
Croissants
The origin of the croissant is one of the great food legends of all time. The Larousse Gastronomique offers this explanation regarding the origin of the croissant:
"Croissant...This delicious pastry originated in Budapest in 1686, when the Turks were besieging the city. To reach the centre of the town, they dug underground passages. Bakers, working during the night, heard the noise made by the Turks and gave the alarm. The assailants were repulsed and the bakers who had saved the city were granted the privilege of making a special pastry which had to take the form of a crescent in memory of the emblem on the Ottoman flag."
---Larousse Gastronomique, Jenifer Harvey Lang, editor [Crown:New York] 1988 (p. 338 )
It's an interesting story. Is it true? Alan Davidson, noted food historian, expresses his doubts:
"Culinary mythology--origin of the croissant
According to one of a group of similar legends, which vary only in detail, a baker of the 17th century, working through the night at a time when his city (either Vienna in 1683 or Budapest in 1686) was under siege by the Turks, heard faint underground rumbling sounds which, on investigation, proved to be caused by a Turkish attempt to invade the city by tunnelling under the walls. The tunnel was blown up. The baker asked no reward other than the exclusive right to bake crescent-shaped pastries commemorating the incident, the crescent being the sympol of Islam. He was duly rewarded in this way, and the croissant was born. The story seems to owe its origin, or at least its wide diffusion, to Alfred Gottschalk, who wrote about the croissant for the first edition of the Larousse Gastronomique [1938] and there gave the legend in the Turkish attack on Budapest in 1686 version; but on the history of food, opted for the 'siege of Vienna in 1683' version."
---Oxford Comapion to Food, Alan Davidson [Oxford Companion to Food:Oxford] 1999 (p. 232)
While the history of pastry dates back to ancient times, the history of the croissant [as we know it today], seems to be a relatively new invention. Part of the problem may be how one defines "croissant." Food history sources confirm that crescent-shaped pastries were baked in Vienna during the 17th century and that they migrated to France soon thereafter. They recount, but do not confirm/deny the story of the brave bakers who supposedly created the first croissants. This is what Mr. Davidson has to say:
"...croissant in its present form does not have a long history...The earliest French reference to the croissant seems to be in Payen's book "Des substances alimentaires," published in 1853. He cites, among the "Pains dit de fantasie ou de luxe," not only English 'muffins' but 'les croissants'. The term appears again, ten years later, in the great Littre dictionary [1863] where it is defined as 'a little crescent-shaped bread or cake'. Thirteen years later, Husson in "Les Consommations de Paris" [1875] includes 'croissants for coffee' in a list of 'ordinary' (as opposed to 'fine') pastry goods. Yet no trace of a recipe for croissants can be found earlier than that given by Favre in his Dictionnaire universel de cuisine [c. 1905], and his recipe bears no resemblance to the modern puff pastry concoction; it is rather an oriental pastry made of pounded almonds and sugar. Only in 1906, in Colombie's Nouvelle Encyclopedie culinaire, did a true croissant, and its development into a national symbol of France, is a 20th-century history."
---Oxford Companion to Food (p. 228 )
A mid-19th century French recipe for croissants:
Almond Paste Crescents
Blanch, peel, and pound 10 oz. of almonds; add 10 oz. of pounded sugar, and moisten, to a stiffish paste, with some white of egg; Sprinkle a pasteboard with fine sugar; roll the paste on it to a 1/4-inch thinckness, and cut it out, with a 1 1/2-inch round cutter, into crescent-shaped pieces, 3/4 inch wide; Bake the crescents in a slack oven; and, when cold, glaze them with some Glace Royale, flavoured with Kirschenwasser; strew some coarsely sifted sugar on the top, and dry them in the oven for two minutes."
---The Royal Cookery Book, Jules Gouffe, translated and adapted for English use by Alphone Gouffe [Sampson Low, Sone & Marson:London] 1869 (p. 548 )
The lesson here is never completely trust the first source you use when researching history, even if it is a standard reference volume. Sometimes it takes a little work to separate the legends from the fact -
yah, its about driving out the Turkish
Dont know whether they are all true, but they make nice stories
Just had curry chicken, feel so sleepy -
having chicken chop with fish head curry later...Originally posted by laurence82:yah, its about driving out the Turkish
Dont know whether they are all true, but they make nice stories
Just had curry chicken, feel so sleepy -
weird combiOriginally posted by breytonhartge:having chicken chop with fish head curry later...
for curry, i simply like having rice with it