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Venice carnival 2009... Sensation again ( see my post about Venice carnival 2008)! I dont't really believe that recycle last year theme has been a great idea. However I appreciate more than last year the "official" performers in Piazza San Marco, they were great and really original! I specially liked Dario Fo ( blog in Ita ) in "Mistero buffo", The dream engine company in "Heliosphere" and Cie Baladeu'x in "Bal à Balles Musette".
On the contrary I saw less "spontaneus" performers, and that is sad, because I love when you are walking around and you meet randomly some percormance so you stop for a while, and then re-start to walk searching for a new show or a new masker able to surprise you!
This year I also notice a lot of "home made" maskers expecially at night time when young peolpe are more, some people are really really inventive!!! I love so much this side of Venice carnival!!!
I take a lot of pictures, they aren't so good, but I must show you these costumes!!!

VENICE CARNIVAL 2009
"Lady Spring"	A "garden" in Piazza San Marco!
	Image 01 , Image 02
"Reflex mask"	"Green San Marco's lion"!
"Hot air balloon man"	self-made Barbamamma !
I like them because their masks are proper to their age. On the contrary often old women wore masks too showy... it's a bit out of place...	They remind me "Alice in wonderland"!
	01 , 02 , 03 , 04 , 05 , VIDEO (36 sec)
Gli invasati. It means at same time "crazy" and "into the pot" :P They were performers masked as big plant with legs and arms, ahah they were funny!	Heliosphere . "An acrobat suspended beneath an helium balloon..."
	01 , filtered
Piazza San Marco	...blacklight...
	VIDEO (21 sec)
De Chirico tribute?	Co. Baladeu'x in "Bal Musette at Balls

VENICE CARNIVAL 2009 - Nighttime
"Excuseme? Where's Rialto? (Sorry for flash!)	All colors!
Pacman!	Clown band had played at saturday night
Blown bodybuilding man	"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Animal farm by George Orwell
Spongy rubber tree	Ahahah! A lot of abatjours!
Melinda aplle or "It's me! Linda!"	"Yawn, let me take a snooze!"
Scarecrow	Big spongy rubber Pan di stelle ! (again... sorry for flash!)
Huge Post-it !	Red globule!!!
Mirror-Man!	"I'm water!"
Huge Magic Tree

MY COSTUMES
Theys recycled Carnival theme ... I recycled my last year costume! : P	Purpose, I made a new costume aussi! It's a Magritte reference, In Particular famous historical paint: "This is not a pipe" . In this case, it's really me, not "only" an image ... goal, like Eraclito Said, at Same Time "I am and I am not me "!... More ... This Is Not Me, What You Want to to see about me, In Other Words it's me, your eyes and filtered by Your Thoughts! : P

° Please credit me if you show.
° Please don't alter.
° Please don't hotlink.
° I'll be very happy if you leave a comment : ).

[Cross posted: carnival_venice (2009_03_17)]

LINK:
° Venice carnival official site .

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Other Christmas cookies with vanilla sugar cube

When I made these cookies I was a bit 'in a hurry and did all the photos of the procedure, but they are simple so do not need a super-detailed description! ;) At first I thought of making glass cookies, but I had no trouble crushing the candy and then I did not like so much the flavor of the biscuit together with that "fake" fruit candy, so I've made a few just for decoration, because in fact they are beautiful! And then I gave them all to something more gourmet biscuits covered with white chocolate and coconut! Mmmm yummy!

For biscuits glass I followed indications of this blog .


GLASS COOKIES

PREP TIME: about 2 hours (including the sides of the pastry).

INGREDIENTS:

pastry: my recipe here, in this case instead of the lemon peel I put the orange peel , has come very good!
hard candies and colored a lot ', I can not quantify, but since it takes a lot of ground.

PROCEEDINGS Chop the candy

° intermittently creating small crystals. This is the crucial step that I failed, I got candy powder and then melted in the oven was too soon and in time they are baked cookies (5 minutes) has started to boil the caramel and it came wrong ... so I redid all the sweets made with a hammer in a towel ... an infinite not advise you to do, because even then I was all stuck to the canvas! In addition, I warn you that I was a bit 'spoiled the food processor because the candy stripes have slammed all plastic .... In short, these cookies are beautiful, but I do not think I'll just make them! (


° After the rested pastry, roll it thin enough and make the shapes of the cookies, filling the hole with a nice little 'crystal candy.
If you want, do a small hole at the top and then put the wire for hanging.

° Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees for 5 minutes, or just the edges of cookies begin to color.


° A once baked, not move the cookies from the baking sheet until they are completely cooled, otherwise the caramel will ruin!

° Here they are ready:


° are good, but the taste is strange because there is the taste "hot" cookie and a "fake" candy ... In short, beautiful, but not very good (at least for me, my mom and my sister liked them)

RESULT:



The snow-covered trees are even more simple and are very good !


ALBERELLI SNOW

PREP TIME: from 2 to 4 hours, depending on how melt the chocolate (including the sides of the pastry).

INGREDIENTS:


· to make the pastry, let it rest, then roll it out and make cookies with cookie-cutter Christmas tree, bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 5 minutes, or however when the spikes will start to caolorare.

° To melt the chocolate before it breaks into small pieces, then you can follow two routes:
- the easiest way but not "professional" and that melt in microwave or over hot water without taking the temperature of the chocolate. It works, but takes longer to solidify on the biscuit.
- Or via the "professional" and that is: put the thermometer in the saucepan, melt the chocolate in a double boiler over medium heat (not boil) until the chocolate reaches 45 degrees, turn off the heat, pour most of the chocolate in a bowl and place the pan under water. Stir the chocolate plate to cool faster, until it reaches the 26-27 °, at this point add a few spoonfuls of the hot in order to raise the temperature to 28 °. It 's all explained perfectly in this discussion , look especially "Measuring the temperature" and "temperature" ...


° A once melted chocolate as favorite sull'alberello spread it and sprinkle with desiccated coconut before it cools.

RESULT:

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I finally managed to fix photos of the recipes that I did in this period, it would be useful to them before Christmas but I did not have time! Inspired by recipes that I had put in previous post I made several culinary gifts, which I think makes the experiment more with less effort and cost is just that: the home-made sugar lumps! You can color, flavor and trying ice molds less "classic" can be made in different shapes!

I can not find the link of the blog where I saw that you could do the lumps in the house, there used the small flower-shaped molds: molds for butter (do not know what they are!), I used the normal ice molds. [EDIT: I found the link! Here it is: chocolate cinnamon sugars.]
But the idea of color sugar I got it from here .



sugar cube VANILLA

PREP TIME:

° 10 min for approximately prepare sugar.
° 2 days (maybe just one day if placed on a radiator) off.


INGREDIENTS:


Sugar
Food coloring
vanilla flavor (or whatever you prefer)
Water

MATERIALS:
Stencils for ice.

PROCEEDINGS


° If, like me, you have the dye powder, diluitene a bit 'with a few drops of water.


° Pour a few drops of coloring and flavoring vanilla sugar and mix well with a spoon so that the color becomes uniform if it serves to add color or white sugar to adjust the color.


° Add very little water to wet sugar at a time, stirring with a spoon until the lumps are formed.


· Press very fine sugar in the molds and put on a radiator to dry a full day.
I start I had left to air dry after a day but the lumps crumbled because they were still wet ... so I figured it would take something would help them to dry. So all my lumps have "rested" 2 days, but I think putting them directly on the heater you can save time!


° Turn out a lump, make sure it is dry, then unmold by inverting all the stencil.
In those blue shows the difference between the base and the tip wiped dry air through contact with the heat.


RESULT: