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Skriven 2010-05-28 09:36:00 av Dave Drum (41084.cooking)
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo (41028.cooking)
Ärende: Taking the bus
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-=> Michael Loo wrote to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Nice bus route. Sounds almost like a charter foodie tour!

 ML> The Washington Metro is interesting. If you have a MetroCard,
 ML> you get free bus transfers over a 3-hour span. Except that -
 ML> through design or a programming error, I'm not sure which -
 ML> once you transfer, the 3-hour clock resets, so you can get
 ML> transfers off the transfer and ride all day for one fare
 ML> ($1.45 I think), just so you never let more than 3 hours
 ML> pass between bus trips. If I were on a MPP - massively piggy
 ML> promenade - I'd do something like Dulles - Rosslyn (Mighty
 ML> Mo @ the Marriott) - Georgetown (various things including
 ML> either Old Glory or the Bistro Francais) - up Wisconsin
 ML> Avenue (Old Europe or the BBQ place near it or Bistro Lepic)
 ML> - Friendship Heights (Sushi Ko) - Silver Spring (Crisfield
 ML> or Harry's steak place) - Wheaton (Hollywood East) -
 ML> Friendship Heights (Indique Heights) - Bethesda (vomitorium).

Listening to National Pubic Radio yesterday afternoon as I was making my rounds
of the various stores to which I deliver auto parts there was an "All Tech
Considered" (I think) story about some new cell phone apps that use the
bus/streetcar/tube schedules for the city in which you are travelling and the
GPS feature built into the new generation phones to tell you when the next
bus/whatever is due ... "#38 bus outbound in 3 minutes" lets you know if there
is time to grab a java, finish your brewski, whatever.

Boston, New York and Washington public transport systems are all in the mix for
this. Chicago, Gay Bay and Cleveland are being "worked on". As I listened to
the story I was thinking "This is right up Michael's street".

Of course to take advantage of it you'd have to ditch your Kyocera and Virgin
Mobile in favour of a different provider and either an I-phone or a Droid. But,
it was pretty neat.
 
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Cell Phone Cake
 Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Candies
      Yield: 15

      1    Box Betty Crocker SuperMoist
           - white cake mix
           Tray or cardboard; 18" x 16"
           - covered
  1 1/2    Containers (1 lb ea) Betty
           - Crocker® Rich & Creamy
           - white frosting
           Pink paste or gel food color
           Decorating bag with tips
     12    White candy-coated chewing
           - gum squares (Chiclets)
  3 1/5 oz Pkg marshmallow flowers
      3    Oval licorice candies
      1    Candy straw
		
  Heat oven to 350øF (325øF for dark or nonstick pan). Spray
  bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with baking spray with flour.
  Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan,
  using water, oil and egg whites. Cool 10 minutes; remove
  from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

  Cut 1 1/4-inch strip from each long side of cake. Trim each
  corner of cake to round off, making cell phone shape.
  (Discard pieces trimmed from cake or reserve for another
  use.) On tray, place cake. Freeze 1 hour.

  Divide 1 container of white frosting in half (about 3/4 cup
  each). Stir food color into half of frosting to tint pink.
  Spread pink frosting over bottom half of cake. Spread white
  frosting over top half of cake.

  From 1/2 container of frosting, reserve about 2 tablespoons
  white frosting. Tint about 1/4 cup of the frosting pink.
  Onto center of white-frosted half of cake, spread some of
  the pink frosting in square shape for message screen. Place
  remaining pink frosting in decorating bag with writing tip.
  Pipe pink frosting along edge of white-frosted cake. Arrange
  gum on cake for number buttons; pipe on numbers with pink
  frosting.

  With reserved white frosting, pipe desired message on
  message screen. Add marshmallow flowers and licorice
  candies. Add candy straw for antenna.

  High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Follow High Altitude
  directions on cake mix box for 13x9-inch pan.

  Kitchen Tips: Look for paste or gel food color in cake
  decorating departments of craft stores.

  Instead of using a decorating bag and tip, place the
  frosting in a resealable food-storage plastic bag, cut a
  tiny hole in one corner and use to pipe the frosting. Use
  different bags for different colors.

  From: http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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ENJOY!!!

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