Another familiar face
Cooking is full of mysteries. I’m not going to fixate on the simple ones, like why does a soda cracker get soft if left on the counter, while a piece of bread gets hard. That’s too tough. I’d prefer to solve the easier ones, along the lines of determining the cooking time for a piece of chicken.
Steaks are symmetrical; flip through the X plane from time to time and you’ll end up with a piece of cooked protein. Chicken doesn’t follow that easy rule, and from time to time you have to overcook to assure “internal temperature”. This evening I experimented with stuffed chicken breasts, containing ham and cheese. Please note the modifier; experimented.
On another topic, there’s been a series of commercials airing on both languages of television around here, for iced tea and flavoured waters. What upset my bubble was that the girl looked, somehow, familiar.
Not “saw on the bus last week” familiar, or “used to go to school with” familiar. Simply something that said “Where, oh where?” Tonight, I closed the circle. First, here’s a link to one of the commercials… Sorry, but it’s gone already. Or maybe not; try here.
If you don’t know who I mean, then please move along quietly. As the policeman once said, “Nothing to see here”. No, really.
Anyhow, the actress is Marla McLean, and her link to the Island is that she played a lead role in the musical Anne And Gilbert, the first year it was staged in the ubiquitous Victoria Playhouse. She even managed to get her mark on the soundtrack. Given her origins in the Halifax/Sherbrooke area, she must have had a serious giggle going when she sang “You’re Island Through And Through“.
