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Hey, don't cry

Egg salad with nearly hardboiled eggs, kewpie mayo, a little a green onion, a little a red onion, a little bit of relish, and as much pepper as you want on top an everything bagel, okay?

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Honey-Haunted Pumpkin Pie

"Harvey Hattington, perenially suspicious of the Blomberende-kind and their cuckoo-honey, nevertheless championed pumpkin pie made with cuckoo-honey as 'the Herald of Savour.'"

Recipe and notes under the cut!

Ingredients

The ingredients to make this pie in-game are a Soft Amber Pumpkin, dough, and spices. I couldn't find pumpkins that had the honey already in them, though, so we're using the pureed stuff from a can instead and adding the honey separately :p

Pie Crust

1 cup (two sticks or 227 grams) butter, cut into cubes, cold 

About ½ cup of ice water

10 oz (284 grams) flour

1 1/2 teaspoon salt

Pie weights (1 cup dried beans or rice work as well)

1 egg, beaten

Filling

1/4 cup (85 grams) honey

5 tbsp (70 grams) butter

1 15 oz can (425 grams) pumpkin puree

1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar

1/2 cup (95 grams) brown sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

3/4 cup (178 grams) heavy whipping cream

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp allspice

1 tsp cloves

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp salt

3 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Instructions

Making the Crust

In a food processor, add flour and butter and pulse until mixture resembles wet sand. Transfer to a large mixing bowl. 

If you aren’t using a food processor, add flour to a large mixing bowl. Cut butter into smaller cubes and combine with flour using a fork. Stop when butter chunks are about the size of a pea.

Add ice water to flour and butter mixture two spoonfuls at a time until the dough can hold its shape but is still slightly dry, around 16 spoons of water. This will vary depending on temperature and humidity in your area. Knead the dough into a single mass, cut in half, and wrap both pieces in plastic film. Form each into a disc and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

After chilling, preheat your oven to 400F (200C). Roll out the dough to about 1 inch wider than your pie pan of choice and transfer to the pan. Trim the dough so that it fits your pan, decorate the crust as desired, and poke holes into the dough with a fork. Cover with foil and add weights. 

Bake dough for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush the entire crust with an egg wash, and then bake again for another 10 minutes. Remove from oven again and set aside to cool.

Making the Filling

In a large saucepan, melt 5 tablespoons (70 grams) of butter on medium-low heat, stirring occasionally. Once the butter begins to bubble and sputter, continue cooking for another 5 minutes or until the milk solids turn brown and the mixture begins to smell sweet and nutty. Remove from heat and whisk in the honey immediately until the mixture is consistent. Set aside to cool.

In a saucepan, cook pumpkin puree over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. This will intensify the flavor of the pumpkin. Set aside to cool.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, whipping cream, salt, and vanilla extract until combined. Mix in cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger powder, allspice, cloves, and black pepper.

Once the honey mixture and pumpkin have cooled, gradually add them to the rest of the ingredients and whisk until smooth. 

Assembly

Preheat your oven to 400F (200C).

Pour about half of the filling mixture into the par-baked crust. Brush the outer portions of the crust with egg wash again and then place the pie dish on a baking sheet pan. Bring the sheet to the oven and then pour in the remainder of the filling. Place the entire baking sheet in the oven on the lowest rack possible.

Bake for 45 minutes or until the edges of the filling have set but the center is still wobbly. After baking, crack open the oven slightly to allow the pie to cool gradually. This will reduce cracks in the surface. After one hour, remove from the oven to cool for another two hours. 

(Optional) Draw a little ghostie on a piece of paper and attach it to a toothpick. Stick the ghostie decoration into the pie at an angle to make it cuter! It'll also look more like the art from the game :)

Notes

On Cuckoo-Honey: I used buckwheat honey for this recipe, but any type will work just as well! Buckwheat honey has a very earthy, sharp sort of flavor to it that I thought would suit Cuckoo-Honey’s additional Scale, Edge, and Knock. It’s not essential to the recipe, though! Use whatever honey you like best!

Par-baking the crust helps prevent sogginess once the filling’s added. The extra egg wash also helps keep the filling from seeping into the crust. 

Depending on the size of your pie pan, the filling might overflow. A deeper pie pan can help prevent this, as can making two smaller pies instead of a single larger one

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i want to be hugging a california quail rn. i want to give it little head scritches

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In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.

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There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance

Excuse me while I get sad .

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Tips of using plastic bags by 杨萍萍

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If that doesn't have potential for some fairytale nonsense, I don't know what does.

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Microsoft Word

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part 2 of the silly isat dunmeshi crossover, with angst and a recipe i made up in 2 minutes :)

Part 1 ✨

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Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary stop motion short by creator Patrick McHale and Aardman Animations

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Car Trunk vs Car Boot: A clear win for US English, trunk was already a thing in which you stored items, frequently for transport.

Crisps vs Chips: I gotta admit, the Brits have this one. They're thin slices of potato that have been made crispy. No chipping of any materials involved.

Car Park vs Parking Lot: Equally matched. What's a car park? A place to park cars. What's a parking lot? An otherwise empty lot where you can park.

Elevator vs Lift: Both equally fail to address that the damn thing also goes down.

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Mr. "Heart of the Cards" over here roasting a guy for not playing with a tournament competitive deck.