#Recipes 4 Ways

[corrodedcoughin]

So I know celebrity rockstar Eddie with Just-Some-Guy Steve is popular, but what about the opposite?

Steve, who is a professional Basketball player, got scouted from where he played for his college team. The fan fave, the darling of the locals, and one of the best players on the team. Models for sportswear brands, has had interviews and talks at schools and the media loves him. He's handsome, and nice, and has publicly come out.

And then there's Eddie. His boyfriend since college. Just some guy who runs a music store. Started just as a minimum wage worker and then slowly worked his way up to running a small business himself. Sells guitars and drums and other instruments. Vinyl and cds and music merch. Hosts guitar lessons. Is happy playing music because he loves it, not for the fame and money.

Eddie goes to all his games (or as many as he can) and while he's not a sports guy and never will be he loves watching Steve play. Is only about 80% sure of the rules at best and that's good enough for Steve. And Steve who's not a metal fan, and will never be into DnD but will spend his free evenings helping Eddie plan a campaign or listening to this song Eddie's been trying to learn on the guitar.

Idk I just think it's fun to explore the opposite! Eddie getting excited any time he sees people wearing Steve's merch in public and people keep mistaking him for a hardcore fan because no one knows who he is and honestly he's fine with that. He is a big fan of Steve

he's a big fan of steve' MOMO THAT LAST LINE TOOK ME OUT!!!! OHH!!!!

Okay so as always i am IN LOVE with your ideas and where you take them and explore with the space.

Please can I have Eddie who doesn't completely GET sports but he DOES get collecting so he has one of those card books and collects basket ball trading cards. He has a full page of 'Steves' that he every proud of because he's drawn on some of them, giving him different outfits/hair/facial hair/speech bubbles, some include dragon hatcher steve, android steve, malibu barbie steve and pronstache steve (that one wasn't even drawn on, Steve was just trying something new and it got immortailised in a trading card much to Eddie's delight. His personal favourite is a Steve mid spin of the ball on his fingertip, the image of concentration and Eddie has yet to see a photo that highlights the muscle and bite-ability of Steve's arms quite as well as that one.

When Eddie and Steve are out for dinner and Eddie sees a little kid wearing a shirt with Steve's name on it he's quick to point it out to the delight of his boyfriend, both of them trying to figure out a way to subtly let the kid know that 'Harrington' is here.

Eddie who turns up to games with the kids and a foam finger because 'Steve come on its hilarious' but in reality he just loves obnoxiously supporting him. Steve kisses his finger tips and waves to Eddie before running to join the team in the changing rooms. Eddie who catches it and stuffs it in his pocket in the most dramatic way possible. Steve who laughs every time because he wouldn't have it any other way.

[uhhhhmanda]

Uhhhhmanda’s Infamous Nine-fingered Pumpkin Pie (rev. 11/27/19)

You’ll need a deep-dish pie pan for this. 9” wide and 2” deep.

Ingredients

Filling: 1-1/4 cups packed light brown sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon salt 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves 2 cups pumpkin puree (canned or from a pumpkin -- directions for that are below) 3 eggs 12 fl oz evaporated milk (not sweetened condensed and not fat free)

Crust: 1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter, straight from the fridge 1-1/4 cups all-purpose unbleached flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon sugar Icewater or chilled vodka

Whipped cream: 1 cup heavy whipping cream 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

If you’re starting with a pumpkin, cut it in half horizontally and scoop out the guts. CAREFULLY stab steam holes through the halves from the outside in. DON’T DO THIS WHILE HOLDING THE PUMPKIN. SET THE PUMPKIN ON A FIRM, LEVEL SURFACE AND USE A REALLY SHARP KNIFE AND TAKE YOUR FUCKING TIME. DON’T BE COCKY. *clears throat* Place halves cut side-down on a parchment-covered rimmed baking sheet and roast at 400 degrees F for 50 minutes. When cool, collect softened pumpkin flesh, mash with a potato masher or blend with a stick blender or food processor.

Whisk together dry ingredients for crust and cut in chilled butter using your preferred method. I use a food processor. Add icewater or chilled vodka as necessary (about a tablespoon at a time) until the dough comes together. Knead as little as possible so that your hands don’t melt the butter. Roll crust out into a circle approximately 10” in diameter and place it in the pie pan. Gently press in place. If you have the skills, go ahead and decorate the edges.

Whisk together all wet ingredients for filling. Whisk together dry ingredients for filling. Then add dry to wet and combine thoroughly. Pour filling into crust.

Cover entire pie with aluminum foil, loosely. You may wish to grease the underside of the foil or spray it with cooking spray. You don’t want it touching the filling or it will adhere and pull away bits of the cooked filling. Bake at 375 degrees F for 60-65 minutes or until the center is set. You can check this with a toothpick, but anything you insert in the filling with create crevices, so I prefer to shake the pan and see if the center of the filling jiggles. When it’s set it won’t jiggle. Let cool at least 2 hours before serving.

Add sugar and vanilla to whipping cream and beat until stiff peaks form.

[johnny-chaos]

i really really like how benrey has the most awareness/control but he's also just. spacey and incoherent as fuck. I forgot the second half of this post sorry guys

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

collection of fun things found at the thrift store today

[puppppppppy]

footnotes arent enough I need you to talk to me like im fucking Amelia Bedelia

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

Who is out here measuring eggs into cups? I can't work with that.

[teenagefeeling]

i have one of rosanna pansino's cookbooks and this morning i made some red velvet brownies from it. they don't look very red tbh but they do smell amazing, ro does not miss when it comes to combining a fuck ton of sugar, flour, butter, and chocolate together

[cherry-shipping]

aaaooughhh. cook for me fictional other. fictional other. cook for me

[frogeyedape]

Is it soggy in the middle?

A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

[fullcravings]

Mini Muffins - 4 Different Ways

[daughterofsarenrae]

I've now done 12 of the 24 goals u have to do for 100% in totk

[s0fter-sin]

everyone i know keeps telling me i’m crazy so

[bangjiazheng]

Banana "Ice Cream" 4 Ways

[lonelydipshit]

Ok 1) vegetable is a culinary term, whereas fruit (in the sense of thing that grows from flower/bud and contains seed) is a botany/biology term, which is where a lot of the confusion with the tomato thing comes from. This also is how mushrooms snuck into being vegan, they’re under the culinary term vegetable and since vegans eat vegetables they’re fine. Grains is also a culinary/cultural term which explains its inconsistent definitions as well

Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

[alittleemo]

women everywhere want me for my despicable and dubious baked goods

[phantomrose96]

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.