MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi Jacki
Yeah I remember that brownie cooking video Mona and Lisa did. I think it was the first Christmas Advent they did that. The MLT Club was new, and up until that point I only knew of Mona and Lisa from the youtube music videos and social media posts, and the new MLT Club introduced us all to these two amazing people. And in that video we learned, hey Mona and Lisa can cook too among the many other things they are good at. We got to know the other side of them. It was so much fun and enjoyable getting to know them better.
Hmmm MLT album or song inspired recipe. One that comes to mind is one of my favourite songs on Orange, Sweet Lorraine, and Quiche Lorraine a brunch dish I enjoy. Now I am not much of a cook, and I never made Quiche Lorraine before, so I will have to cheat a little and provide a recipe I found on the internet.
Recipe:
Quiche Lorraine is a French dish that was introduced to the US in the 1950’s. Quiche Lorraine is THE reason why America fell in love with quiche. It is the gold standard for quiche; essentially a savory tart with an egg, cheese and bacon custard baked in a pie crust.
How to Pre-Bake the Crust:
For this classic quiche, you’ll need a refrigerated pie crust. You can use a single chilled disk of homemade pie crust or a store-bought pie crust for an even easier quiche. To pre-bake or ‘blind bake’ the pie crust:
Roll the pie crust, transfer to the quiche mold and press in with your fingers. Place in the freezer. Then, remove and poke with a fork. Line with parchment or foil and fill with pie weights.
Remove from the fridge and bake for about 40 minutes or until the crust is lightly golden in color. Then remove the foil with the pie weights and set the quiche base aside.
How to Make the Quiche Lorraine Filling:
To prep the classic quiche filling first you need to render the fat from the chopped bacon by cooking it over medium-high heat in a large skillet, stirring often, then remove bacon with a slotted spoon to a bowl.
Add the diced onions to the bacon grease and cook on medium heat, stirring often until the onions are well caramelized. Remove the onions with a slotted spoon and add them to the bacon. Discard the bacon fat or save for use in another recipe.
Whip up the eggs in a large bowl, then add the rest of the ingredients and whisk together.
If using a tart pan with removable bottom set it into a rimmed baking sheet. Brush the inside with egg white then pour filling into the prebaked quiche base and bake for about 55 minutes or until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before serving.
Sprinkle with parsley, cut into wedges and serve. Or cool, then refrigerate until ready to serve.
What Can I Serve With Quiche Lorraine?
A basic quiche is typically served with a side of green salad. This makes it the perfect brunch menu item as the quiche is both filling and delicious, and the greens balance out the rich breakfast tart wonderfully.
Breakfast potatoes are another favorite around here. Make them the night before and reheat them in the air fryer to save some time in the morning.
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Hi Jurgen
Some great music from Singapore. It’s amazing the pop culture you can find in a country like Singapore and other places if you dig a little deeper. Singapore is one of the places in Asia I would like to visit one day.
When I visited Korea in 1995 and then subsequently in 2006 etc, I was blown away by the music and pop culture there. It was like a music mecca, and it’s very easy to get pulled in. Here is the sampling of the energy and passion at one of the music concerts there.
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Hi Jurgen
That is interesting about the old German script of your grand parents that no one now can read. I think modern day cursive will be like that as they are not teaching it in many schools these days. Many of my old journals are written in cursive, and no one will be able to read it in the future, but just as well, some of it would be embarrassing anyway.
Beethoven wrote a lot of letters in his life time and a lot of it gave insight into his life that scholars found. There is the famous Immortal Beloved love letter he wrote that was never sent. It is believed to be addressed to Julie Guicciardi a noble woman who became his piano student for a while that he fell in love with, but never worked out. The other famous letter is Hellingstadt letter of despair when he started to become deaf that he wrote to his brother.
Vincent Van Gogh wrote nearly 2000 letters to his siblings, mostly to his brother Theo. These letters serve almost like a diary, as Vincent confided in his brother a lot. These letters reveal a lot about Vincent’s life and creativity. In some letters he did artistic sketches, and some were written in French too.
The first letter to the left is Beethoven’s Immortal beloved letter page 1, and the second letter is one of Vincent Van Gogh’s letter to his brother Theo.
As pointed out by Bud, apparently John Lennon wrote 2 books that he published in the early/mid 1960s and a 3rd he wrote but never finished. Perhaps writing all those songs distracted him from his book writing. 😁 The books contained poems and short stories filled with his sense of humour and wit. I never knew that side of him. He read the whole Sherlock Holmes stories and wrote his own parody on it. Here is an interesting excerpt about John Lennon the writer from Wikipedia:
While some of John Lennon’s first book, In His Own Write, had been written years earlier, he mostly wrote A Spaniard in the Works over the course of 1964.[5] Beatles road manager Neil Aspinall recalled Lennon writing some of the book in Paris in January 1964[6] – predating the 23 March 1964 publication of In His Own Write[7] – and bandmate George Harrison recalled Lennon writing while the two holidayed with their partners, Pattie Boyd and Cynthia Lennon, in Tahiti in May 1964. Harrison, Boyd and Cynthia contributed lines, with Lennon sometimes inquiring of them for words that would work better in a particular sentence.[8] During the same holiday, Lennon occupied himself by reading the books left on their private boat, including a complete set of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Recognising the formula the stories employed, he spent three weeks writing a parody.[9]
When most of the book was complete, the publisher, Jonathan Cape, requested more material from Lennon. To encourage him, they sent an Italian dictionary, which Lennon read through and found “a howl on its own”. Despite further publisher requests that some material be removed or changed, Lennon argued for everything to be kept so as to maintain the work’s spontaneity.[4]By the way, I’ve been journaling in my MLT Notebook since Dec 26th, and I’m already 70% through the notebook. It is so awesome writing in the MLT notebook, love the form factor and high quality of the paper. I don’t know what it is, but it encourage a lot of creativity to write.
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Hi Tim
Great find! I never knew there was a song with that title too. 🤗
Back in the 80s when I worked for a couple years in Toronto in a hydro, the cafeteria in the work place served Quiche Lorraine as one of their main dishes that was really good, so I had that often, so that’s why I thought of it in relation to the MLT song Sweet Lorraine.
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Yeah Chicago in their later music in the 80s showed us they can sing great too. The vocals in songs like “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” are superb. They are an amazing all around supergroup. I recall back in the 70s/early 80s based on their record sales and popularity were in the top 5 of the greatest bands in the world. Beatles, Beach Boys, The Who, Rolling Stones, Chicago. Others like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd etc have since eclipsed them, but they are a super group to have been up there with the best of them in their hey day.
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That’s brilliant David! John Lennon would be envious. I forgot about your parody. I will have to have some Quiche Lorraine while listening to Sweet Lorraine.
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John Lennon talks about his writing and his second book. Fascinating.
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John’s poetry and humour.
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David, I am quite fascinated by this other side of John Lennon. Such a multi faceted artist: writer, poet, satirist, drawing artist, musician, song writer and much more. He was a writer before he picked up a guitar.
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Hi Bud
Wow!!! “25 or 6 to 4” never sounded so amazing! That is one killer performance indeed, just layers upon layers of brilliant improvisation on the guitars and brass instruments. I can’t remember seeing guitar work and brass instruments on stage together in such a dynamic performance before.
Here is a nice performance by Chicago of their other big great hits, “Saturday In The Park”, and “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is”. Chicago had some great guitar work and brass instrumentation. I really enjoyed listening to my brothers Chicago IX Greatest Hits album. Every single song on it is awesome.
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Hi Chris
That’s great to hear, more power to Taylor Swift for standing up to the music industry big wigs.
I don’t know enough about Taylor Swift to say she is a good artist or not, her music and most modern pop artists in the last 2 decades have not really been on my radar. She must have merit as a singer and artist to have risen to the top.
I remember waking to Taylor Swifts version of Little Drummer Boy Christmas morning in stark contrast to MLTs, and remembering it was such a pale version that I could not get excited about, as well as a bunch of other current pop artists Christmas renditions, and feeling MLT with their amazing talent should be on the radio instead . The world is missing out big time.
MLT is leaps and bounds better than the current crop of mediocre artists dominating the mainstream and charts, it is an injustice to music.
Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Bud
That is such a delightful version, and I think so fitting, sung by a child. This song I think pulls at the inner child inside, when the world can be harsh, it reminds you are a wonderful and beautiful creation, and nothing can change that. I always feel that when I hear this.
Another one in the same realm sung by a child that give the song a special magic is this one, by Atlantic Canada’s Aselin Debison.
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Hi Bud
Thanks for sharing that. That Lennon book sounds like an interesting read. Will have to look it up and see if I can get one. I think it’s awesome they have the original handwritten compositions of great people like Beethoven and Mozart and others. When it is handwritten by them physically, I think a part of them is in those pages, and that’s what make it special. Just like original signed autographs. I have an old check with my mom’s handwritten signature that is very special, and my dad’s old business card with his handwriting on it. Items I will always cherish, because it was written by their hand.
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Hi Daryl
I think you make a good point, there is a common thread amongst the great music legends and their attraction to handwriting things down on paper that fosters their creativity in the process.
Back in 1989 I started my career in my new job at a telephone company. My older sister gifted me a congratulatory gold filled Cross ballpoint pen for completing telcom school and getting my new job. I worked in a telecom plant office where I had to climb up on to wiring racks where we connected different equipment to complete a data circuit for customer’s. Each tech usually had a screwdriver, wire punch down tool, a clipboard/notepad and a pencil. Well I needed to be different and did my writing down with that fancy gold pen. I don’t know what it was, it just made it feel more special to do my job climbing those bays/racks, slowing down to carefully write something with this nice pen, taking care not to damage or lose it. Maybe this extra attention to detail and care, made me slow down and do things right and not be sloppy in my job. 30 years later on my last day in 2020 at the same job/company, I still had that gold Cross pen (well the 3rd iteration as I lost it a couple times over the decades, but replaced it each time with an identical one). It accompanied me for 30 years, that tradition, and always reminded me along the way in my job what excellence is, as these fine pens are made of the highest craftsmanship and attention to detail. That’s why I guess I like special pens and using them.
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Hi Jurgen
Wow that is just great, thank you for posting these.
I am really impressed and even moved that Beethoven kept portraits of his influences, Bach, Handel, Hayden, Mozart, Gluck on his wall. Creativity most certainly doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but from sources of Beethoven’s inspiration. He took all his inspiration and created something original and new, all his own, that changed music forever, elevating it to the stature of the other arts, and even eclipsing them, and influencing all musicians, composers and artists that would come after him for all time. He is the greatest Maestro of all time! What a treasure trove to have Beethoven’s journal, and to witness his thoughts. Would be so wonderful to have a full translated version of Beethoven’s journal.
Bach was an amazing penman, and in his early days he did fantastic anigrams and beautiful transcriptions and hand written art. Seeing his handwriting sample from his journal, I can’t make out a word of it being in German, but his script is so beautiful, with near perfect slant and consistency throughout. Just looking at his handwriting, it’s like his music, so beautiful, symmetric, patterned perfection.
While on the topic of Bach, I will leave you with what is considered Bach’s greatest solo violin piece, a monumental work. I like this and MLTs instrumental strings section in Why? Both so magnificent!