Autumn

The weather has been much better in autumn than in summer this year: steady temperature, regular sunshine with no shower intervals.
Heart-warming is the autumnal color. It wraps up the world in a fabulous fruitfulness, upon which the afternoon sunshine gives highlight.

I have started feeling nostalgic before any departure that has to be taken.

Gateau de Legumes (Vegetable Cake/Bread)

A curious name it is for this salty bread of bacon. The word 'legumes' provoked my imagination of lettuce, mushroom,carrot, pea, etc., but none of them is in the recipe. Perhaps, it proved that my imagination is still highly charged with Asian dietary. Instead, olives, bacon, dried tomato, and cheese are added.

A good side-dish for dinner or for a quick lunch!

For me, baking is more like a punctuation mark that signals intervals between works. It always helps me recuperate energy for next stage. There are occasions on which I do baking amongst endless works, and curiously those products have never been satisfactory. Something un-nameable is always missing in the flavor. The recipe is the same one, and I am quite a careful cook when it comes to baking. I follow word by word, literally, on the recipe even if I have done it for hundreds of times. No kidding.

Perhaps it's the absent-mindedness that makes the difference, a whole-hearted willingness is missing.

Today's read
Funny and ironic enough is that when I was checking out this news, the advertisement of a brand new release by Saab was hovering over the headline on the web page, was partially blocking the vision, and stubbornly denied any attempt to close it.

'Melting ice cap brings diamond hunters and hopes of independence to Greenland'---the Guardian Online

'But rather than putting her faith in mineral wealth, Mrs Hammond believes that her country's best prospect of buying its independence lies in hydro-electricity. The vast lakes and melting ice cap provide enormous potential for electricity free from fossil fuel and the Greenland government is negotiating with Alcoa, an aluminium company, to built the world's second largest smelter. No contract has been signed but the minister hopes this project will provide 3,500 much-needed jobs.

It was ironic, she says, that climate change had melted the ice sufficiently for prospectors to move in, and that might in turn give the nation its independence. A referendum in Denmark had shown a majority in favour of granting Greenland home rule. "We hope it will happen soon."

But Professor Minik Rosing, of the University of Copenhagen, who was born in Greenland, believes it would be a disaster if his country had a big oil find and used the revenue to buy independence. "As everybody gets more desperate for that commodity you do not want to be a very, very small, very independent country, very far from anywhere else. Much better to stay with the friend you know."

A major mineral find could be catastrophic, he said. "With such a small population we could be overwhelmed by people coming to work here. We should be cautious of suddenly finding ourselves in the minority."

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