{"id":20294,"date":"2024-08-04T23:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20294"},"modified":"2024-08-09T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T10:25:12","slug":"pineapple-upside-down-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20294","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple Upside-down Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20295\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cakeIMG_20240804_182800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cakeIMG_20240804_182800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cakeIMG_20240804_182800-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>This cake suffered a bit from the cook forgetting the eggs and the accompanying mushroom stroggers was started far too early and came out somewhat overcooked. Luckily they were both edible. We had 2 quizzes to catch up on and scored 8.5 on one and 9 on the other. Oh dear.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Unwanted Dead<\/em>* by Chris Lloyd, French noir (appropriately), set in the immediate aftermath of the Nazis entering Paris in 1940. CL has an astonishing new take on the detective protagonist: he has inner demons, a failed marriage, drink and drug problems and an estranged child. How do they come up with these ideas? (OK, I&#8217;m being a bit unfair here &#8212; it&#8217;s actually rather good, well-written and involving, even though our hero does get battered a lot. Certainly worth seeking out the next two books.)<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Resolution<\/em>* by Irvine Welsh. The ex-detective protagonist has a serious drink problem , shedloads of inner demons and wreaks apocalyptic vengance on three men who assaulted him in childhood even though in the course of his revenge he gets stabbed, thrown from a height and buried in quick-setting concrete. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cake suffered a bit from the cook forgetting the eggs and the accompanying mushroom stroggers was started far too early and came out somewhat overcooked. Luckily they were both edible. We had 2 quizzes to catch up on and scored 8.5 on one and 9 on the other. Oh dear. A1 is reading The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pineapple Upside-down Cake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[19,20,22,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20307,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions\/20307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}