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[DailyToon01142005]

If you ever wanted to know...

1/2 cup water
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Scant 1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 large eggs (raw)
1 hard-boiled large egg
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 1/2 oz caviar (about 75 g; preferably sevruga or osetra)

Special equipment: a large pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 425°F. Butter a large baking sheet.

Bring water, butter, and salt to a boil in a 1 1/2- to 2 1/2-quart heavy saucepan over high heat, stirring. Reduce heat to moderate. Add flour all at once and cook, beating with a wooden spoon until mixture pulls away from side of pan, about 45 seconds. Remove from heat and cool slightly, then add 2 raw eggs 1 at a time, beating well with wooden spoon after each addition.

Transfer mixture to pastry bag and pipe 24 mounds (about 1 inch wide by 1 inch high) onto baking sheet, spacing them about 1 inch apart. With a finger dipped in water, lightly tap down points on mounds to make tops round. Bake profiteroles until puffed and golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from oven and pierce each profiterole once with a wooden pick. Turn off oven and return profiteroles to oven, letting them stand in residual heat 5 minutes more. Transfer to a rack to cool completely.

Horizontally cut off top third of each profiterole with a serrated knife and discard tops. Force boiled egg through a medium-mesh sieve into a small bowl and stir in parsley. Spoon a rounded 1/4 teaspoon caviar into each profiterole and sprinkle with a bit of egg mixture.

Cooks' note:
Profiteroles can be baked and cooled 1 day ahead, then kept in an airtight container at room temperature. Recrisp in a preheated 350°F oven, 5 minutes, before cutting and filling.

Makes 24 hors d'oeuvres.

[DailyToon01122005]

If you're in the mood

It is a practice with some of us who want garlic immediately handy for cooking, to peel and store it in oil. Garlic is a low acid vegetable, so it needs to be acidified to prevent the growth of micro-organisms and especially to prevent the formation of botulism toxin (caution: undesirable side-effect: DEATH!). Acid treatment also prolongs the quality of garlic and prevents browning. The method is as follows:

Cover peeled garlic cloves with vinegar and soak the cloves for 12 to 24 hours.

Drain off the vinegar. It can be reused as garlic-flavored vinegar.

Cover the garlic cloves with oil.

Refrigerate the jar of garlic and oil, and use it within 3 months.

TheStarSyndicate responds:

lmao.

[FBF Collection 1]

Okay

Here's what I thought:
Graphics: Meh, could be better, need more colors.
Style: FBF w00t!
Sound: VG techno, not that unique, okay though.
Violence: Slapstick, not important.
Interactivity: Nice menu I must say, just it was too slow.
Humor: Slapstick violence again, not important.
Humor: Meh.

My suggestions is spend more time on each frame and increase you fps rate. It seemed in a lot of parts that it was rushed.
I'm giving you the 5 cuz you deserve it. This looks like a lot of effort was put into it. I tip my hat to you.
5/5
-2RS-

[DailyToon01102005]

Okay son...

ARTICHOKE - FETA CHEESE SALAD  

1/3 c. olive oil
2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
4 tsp. lemon juice
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 lg. head leaf lettuce, Romaine or Bibb
1 (14-16 oz.) can artichoke hearts
1/4 c. crumbled Feta cheese

In a large bowl stir together oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar and pepper until well blended. Remove about 6 outer leaves from lettuce and set aside. Tear remaining lettuce into olive-oil mixture.

Drain artichoke hearts and cut each in half. Add to lettuce mixture with Feta cheese; toss well. Line large salad bowl with reserved lettuce leaves and spoon mixture into bowl. Makes 8 servings.

[project]

sweet!

Okay:
Graphics: Pretty good, sketchy, but good.
Style: FBF w00t!
Sound: Some good rock, got a bit boring after a while though.
Violence: Explosions and shit. Good stuff.
Interactivity: Cool loader and buttons.
Humor: Some slapstick violence, not much, doesn't matter.

Overall I liked it a lot, you get the 5.

[Hardcore]

Okay

Needs some work. For example, everyones trying to go for the whole madness type bodies with no arms cuz they either are too lazy to draw em or they don't know how to tween. I suggest arms. Also, instead of flipping the character like he's a 2D piece of paper, why not draw in frame by frame movements of him spin kicking? You get the 4/5. Good job.

D-e-W responds:

Interesting. It's not that I'm too lazy to draw arms or legs, its just that I like these kinds of charcters. Thanks for the tips though!

[The Matrix Retarded]

Nice

I like random humor. Good job.

DazFromTaz responds:

Thanks mate, glad you liked it!

[Sweet Mother of Vartan]

I'm speechless...

Wow, just wow. I've never seen anything more amazing in my entire life. So funny, so well animated, great character designs, just amazing! Great job! I cannot wait to see more films from you in the near future!
-2RS-

[You are dreaming.]

Wow...

That was pretty deep man. Good job.

PureCarnage responds:

Yeah it's deep if you haven't thought about it for the last 20 years like I have :P For me it's just a dip in the shallow end of the pool.

Thanks for the review.

[DailyToon01062005]

They just keep getting better and better.

Shall I return to the Dailytoon dictatorship once again?

TheStarSyndicate responds:

YES PLEASE