{"id":534,"date":"2008-10-05T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T13:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=534"},"modified":"2008-10-05T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T13:50:14","slug":"recipe-for-a-stormy-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Recipe for a stormy Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself, as I do, trapped indoors by snow driven before the icy claws of a 100km\/h wind, you might be concerned that idleness could force you into a downward spiral ending only in the numbed emptiness of ennui.\u00c2\u00a0 Several options exist to salvage your soiled soul: apply yourself constructively to clearing the backlog of paperwork requiring urgent attention; spend the time writing research or memoirs; or procrastination in the form of idle experimentation.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly, the latter is the only sensible option.\u00c2\u00a0 With pleasure, then, may I present the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>5-Minute Chocolate Cake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(aka &#8216;Cake in the Call Room&#8217; or &#8216;On-Call Cake&#8217; for the medical audience, or a &#8216;Marie Munchie&#8217; for the history buffs&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Equipment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One large coffee mug<\/li>\n<li>One tablespoon<\/li>\n<li>One microwave oven<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reagents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cake flour, four tablespoons<\/li>\n<li>Sugar, four tablespoons<\/li>\n<li>Cocoa, two tablespoons<\/li>\n<li>Oil (cooking preferred over crude), one tablespoon<\/li>\n<li>Egg, one large (fresh eggs are preferred, but if you live on an Antarctic base one laid 11 months ago is perfectly acceptable)<\/li>\n<li>Milk, five tablespoons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Method:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Combine reagents in coffee mug.\u00c2\u00a0 Mix thoroughly.<\/li>\n<li>Place mug in microwave and nuke for 3 minutes on high power.<\/li>\n<li>Remove mug, allow to cool slightly to prevent embarrassing burns.<\/li>\n<li>Consume cake, to envy of all cakeless colleagues!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/oncallcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-535\" title=\"oncallcake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/oncallcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/oncallcake.jpg 443w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/oncallcake-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I envisage that one could even make the batter at home and bring it to work in a small container.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Soon microwave ovens in staff tea-rooms the world over will be pinging the good news of another dose of deliciously unhealthy carbohydrates.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to one of my team-mates for sending me the original (now altered recipe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself, as I do, trapped indoors by snow driven before the icy claws of a 100km\/h wind, you might be concerned that idleness could force you into a downward spiral ending only in the numbed emptiness of ennui.\u00c2\u00a0 Several options exist to salvage your soiled soul: apply yourself constructively to clearing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}