{"id":372,"date":"2007-01-12T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themovingcastle.com\/journal\/?p=372"},"modified":"2007-01-12T11:13:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T18:13:39","slug":"life-in-the-flan-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themovingcastle.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Life In The Flan Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kevinmaddoginman\/355032708\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/147\/355032708_b75b424cc9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Something's Wrong With The Caramel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Spain, I wrote a poem called &#8220;La vida en la flanera&#8221; or &#8220;Life in the Flan Pan.&#8221;  I sumbitted it for a contest for Americans writing poetry in Spanish, and I didn&#8217;t win.  The guy who did win wrote a poem called &#8220;La Bonita Espana&#8221; (Beautiful Spain) or something like that and though it was not avant garde in the least he won the sweatshirt.  <\/p>\n<p>The moral is obviously:  people who wear sweatshirts write bad literature.  <\/p>\n<p>All of this is immaterial.  In Spain, we ate flan from the grocery store.  And that was fine.  Because homemade flan tastes like bland, tough eggs, and is gross.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless sometimes I attempt to make it, especially on Thursdays when we speak Spanish in the house. <\/p>\n<p>I never know at what stage something is going to go wrong with the things I cook.  Needless to say, flan has never gone right in my kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it is that instead of caramel, I succeeded in making hard candy, which in addition to being nearly impossible to remove from the pan, tasted burnt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I lived in Spain, I wrote a poem called &#8220;La vida en la flanera&#8221; or &#8220;Life in the Flan Pan.&#8221; I sumbitted it for a contest for Americans writing poetry in Spanish, and I didn&#8217;t win. 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