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livingdebToday the fine folks at La Madeleine sent me an interesting e-mail from which I learned:
* The La Madeleine nearest me (Lamar and 38th-ish) is closing down this Sunday. And here I thought they had plenty of guaranteed business being located just outside the hospital. La Madeleine food is always good, but after eating hospital food for a stretch? Yummm.
* La Madeleine now has a "Chocolate Cherry Melt" which reminds me of those whipped-cream-on-a-bun things I loved from Belgium only it looks like the buns are made from bread with dried cherries and chocolate chips and the filling is probably milk chocolate hazelnut ganache (perhaps aka Nutella).
* La Madeleine has provided a recipe for milk chocolate hazelnut ganache, which is great because you can easily turn it into dark chocolate hazelnut ganache, but which I am unlikely to ever make because it looks time-consuming, has some weirdo ingredients, and requires cleaning out a food processor full of Nutella afterwards. Ugh.
* This weekend is the Austin Chocolate Festival at which you can taste this new Chocolate Cherry Melt.
That festival looks a bit pricey to me ($21.65 for the cheaper day), so I probably won't go. Even though you can get $5 from the folks at Oil Is Dumb ("Get paid to live greener") if you show evidence of having arrived by bus or bicycle. (The evidence would be a bus transfer ticket or your bicycle.) I would actually be more likely to just walk, though it looks to be ugly walking distance from my house.
I'd never heard of Oil is Dumb, but if you're right on the edge of doing things a little greener and can be talked into stepping over the line with silly-small amounts of money, you might want to check out their monthly challenges called "no-brainers." This month's challenge is to check the air pressure on your car's tires and, if it isn't ideal, to make it so. If you accept this challenge and provide evidence, they'll give you $5. Some of the challenges are worth $10.
And from there I learned about another organization called I Live Here I Give Here where you can look up non-profit organizations doing work in Austin.
What a bunch of lovable weirdos. I love this town, even if they are closing down the best, most convenient, most central, and easternmost branch of La Madeleine.
* The La Madeleine nearest me (Lamar and 38th-ish) is closing down this Sunday. And here I thought they had plenty of guaranteed business being located just outside the hospital. La Madeleine food is always good, but after eating hospital food for a stretch? Yummm.
* La Madeleine now has a "Chocolate Cherry Melt" which reminds me of those whipped-cream-on-a-bun things I loved from Belgium only it looks like the buns are made from bread with dried cherries and chocolate chips and the filling is probably milk chocolate hazelnut ganache (perhaps aka Nutella).
* La Madeleine has provided a recipe for milk chocolate hazelnut ganache, which is great because you can easily turn it into dark chocolate hazelnut ganache, but which I am unlikely to ever make because it looks time-consuming, has some weirdo ingredients, and requires cleaning out a food processor full of Nutella afterwards. Ugh.
* This weekend is the Austin Chocolate Festival at which you can taste this new Chocolate Cherry Melt.
That festival looks a bit pricey to me ($21.65 for the cheaper day), so I probably won't go. Even though you can get $5 from the folks at Oil Is Dumb ("Get paid to live greener") if you show evidence of having arrived by bus or bicycle. (The evidence would be a bus transfer ticket or your bicycle.) I would actually be more likely to just walk, though it looks to be ugly walking distance from my house.
I'd never heard of Oil is Dumb, but if you're right on the edge of doing things a little greener and can be talked into stepping over the line with silly-small amounts of money, you might want to check out their monthly challenges called "no-brainers." This month's challenge is to check the air pressure on your car's tires and, if it isn't ideal, to make it so. If you accept this challenge and provide evidence, they'll give you $5. Some of the challenges are worth $10.
And from there I learned about another organization called I Live Here I Give Here where you can look up non-profit organizations doing work in Austin.
What a bunch of lovable weirdos. I love this town, even if they are closing down the best, most convenient, most central, and easternmost branch of La Madeleine.
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on 2009-09-17 03:38 pm (UTC)