Dance musings...

So, dance practice tonight had Argeers and Lo Spagnoletto (yes, google will correct your spelling to the latter if you are slightly off).

Argeers was interesting (a new one for me) - things worked well once we got the first verse, but it took a while til then timing wise. If I say washing machine agitation and shopping trolleys you may get some mental images of some of what was involved - there was a great deal of laughing. Didn't see any logical patterns in it, so really didn't sink in well. But will be fun to do it again.

Lo Spagnoletto I thought I knew from SG, but obviously some of the details has fallen out the cracks in the past 4 years. It didn't help that the local version here is slightly different - trying to track down which version they are working off - I vaguely remember the printout(s) C had (2 versions), but googling hasn't helped for the locally used one. The difference in emphasizing fioretti over spezzati, vs spezzati over fioretti I can sort of see why (footnotes and no definition etc for "fioretti spezzati"), but more confused over the difference in Figure 5 (down the page here is the version I am familiar with). It does appear mainly to be directional with less odds of collision. A transcript of the original Negri instructions is here, but since my (16th C) Italian is nonexistant...
Just curious to know where the differences originate from.
In any case, a good dance to be re-acquainted with.

Unfortunately only about 3, maybe 4 practices here to go (and a Revel and a Ball) and I don't know the state of dance practices in Darton...

Hmmm, getting a bit late... Liked the Torchwood episode this week though.

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Getting close to dinner and getting distracted with thoughts of yum char and dim sim. But sigh, have the left over orange chicken* from the past few nights to use up. Then brainwave and started googling steamed bun recipes - yum char and using up leftovers. Looks like will start with this recipe with the leftover filling. There may be reports later if the dough or the dirty dish stack doesn't eat me.

This of course doesn't help the slightly immediately hungry feeling due to yeast rising times (some snack time) but should be an interesting experiment.

*I have a recipe for orange chicken around somewhere but it hasn't been seen for a while. This consisted of marinating diced chicken thigh in soy, sweet chilli sauce, ginger and garlic, coating in corn flour and stir frying (with onion) before adding the juice from 2 enormous oranges to create an orange gluggy mess that didn't taste bad. Which is I remember correctly bears no resemblence to the original recipe bar the use of chicken and orange juice.

And on the subject of cooking, wouldn't mind trying to replicate the Byron Bay brand sticky date and ginger cookies. Suspect a soft ginger cookie recipe (possibly like this) with added dates (and possibly rolled oats from the ones I say at the cafe last night). Will skip the extra crystalized ginger and walnuts.

Edit: 8:40pm and the first 2 are out of the steamer and worked. White and fluffy. Filling isn't so great but since started with a mediocre filling that isn't suprising. Will have to try again with better filling. Also need a larger steamer as can do 2 a a time in the current one and there are 24 in total... Apparently they freeze well though.