#a food tumblr blog posted this recipe like five years ago

[coffiocake]

I have been more than platonically in love with this one eggnog bread recipe for a solid demidecade. Following its simple instructions produces a transcendentally delicious cake every goddamn time. Behold:

(pic is from girl vs dough 's Eggnog Bread with Spiced Rum Glaze page, linked above, because I once again forgot to take a picture of the one I baked yesterday and it's half-eaten already)

I have made this quick bread at least once every year since 2018 and it has proven nigh impossible to fuck up or render worse than merely holy-mother-of-god-that's-tasty. But for some unfathomable reason, the last and only reviewer to rate this recipe gave it 3 stars out of 5.

This is, objectively, Incorrect.

In an eggnog-fueled outrage yesterday, I rated the Correct Bare Minimum (5 stars) and wrote a review that compared the experience of eating this bread to Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Teresa." I then lamented that the recipe hadn't been chiseled into stone like the Code of Hammurabi (yet). It occurred to me only after submitting this totally objective assessment for moderation that my effusive enthusiasm, while entirely justified, could be... tonally misinterpreted by the very serious professional pastry chef who runs the site... which in turn means that my rating might never get factored into the average, and thus this divine product of her epicurean genius might still languish in three-star hell until someone else acknowledges its ambrosia-drizzled magnificence...

Since I may have chosen the path of righteous defeat on HER site, I'm recommending the eggnog bread recipe HERE so maybe just one other person will dare to attempt this devastatingly scrumptious and super easy quick bread despite its single lackluster review. You deserve nice things and this recipe is proof one needn't make deals with the devil to live deliciously.

(Note: One does, however, need to make this quick bread during the two months in which eggnog is available, or suffer the Pyrrhic victory of cooking their own nog just to pour it into cake batter. Godspeed either way.)

[xennariel]

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 10 people

I was tagged by @ladywiltshire and I’m pretty sure like three other people, but I can’t remember. I’m so sorry, but thank you for tagging me! <3

Tagging: uhhhh @canadiangold @magewardensurana @rizascupcakes @rizahawkaye @lynchbrothers @queenxolivier @sapphiredragonprincess @queenwinry @thesilentwatcher @psycho-alchemist and anyone else that wants to do this!

# following: 294 (I was positive I was following 298. Looks like Tumblr decided to make me unfollow people again. ><)

# of followers: 935 (I got close to 940, but I I’ve been losing 2-3 followers a week for a while and have been remained pretty stagnant for months.)

average hours of sleep: 4-6 lately

lucky number: 6 and 16

instruments: Alto saxophone. I haven’t touched it in several years though.

what are you wearing: Camo pajama pants and colorful long sleeve shirt that looks like it’s all sewn together haphazardly.

dream job: Author, marine biologist, freelance artist, youtuber

dream trip: Someplace foresty that’s secluded, maybe with a lake or river, a nice cabin, lots of places to hike. Washington state fits the bill pretty well.

birthday: January 31

height: 5′2″

gender/pronouns: She/her, but honestly it doesn’t bother me when people refer to me with other pronouns. I get called “man, dude, he, bro” on World of Warcraft all the time and I never bother correcting people.

other blogs: TOO MANY LOL @grim-aria (the blog for my book) @mustangtaisa (my FMA fanfic blog) @starcaller-xennariel (my World of Warcraft blog) @royaihalloween (Royai Halloween Week!) @megamiart (my art blog) @fall-eternal (my fall/autumn/Halloween blog) @true-king-noctis (FFXV blog) @zombienux (Mad Max: Fury Road and Warm Bodies blog) @de-cipher (Gravity Falls blog that I don’t use much anymore) @helpwhatdoimakefordinner (recipe blog) @simroyai (blog for screenshots of my Royai sims) @zombiexennariel (my horror/gore/creepy shit blog)

Plus blogs all saving urls of the names of my characters from my book. lol

nicknames: Burnie, Ettenaej, Nickles, Megami, Xen

star sign: Aquarius

time: 4:19 pm

favorite bands: Volbeat, Five Finger Death Punch, Apocalyptica, Within Temptation, Lindsey Stirling, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Breaking Benjamin, Billie Joel, and a bunch more I can’t think of right now. I’m too tired. My brain isn’t cooperating.

favorite artist: Mallory Dyer (pu-sama/pupukachoo on DA), Bob Ross, Hiromu Arakawa, Kouta Hirano, Shouoto Aya, Watase Yuu

favorite tumblr artist: I honestly can’t choose! But here’s some shout outs to all the amazing artists I can think of off the top of my head: @reddragonroyale (my long time good friend. He’s awesome, go check him out!), @thesilentwatcher @theysangastheyslew @ladywiltshire @faebelina @bubblesteaart @cams-draws @junejenssen @shijaeger @mellorad @boilingheart and I know I’m forgetting a bunch of people

song stuck in your head: Anduin’s theme from World of Warcraft

last movie you watched: I don’t even remember. I’m not a movie person. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 I think.

last show you watched: Again, don’t really watch tv. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood probably.

why did you make your blog: Because I���d heard a lot of people were joining Tumblr (this was like back at least 6 years ago or so), and I was looking for a new diary/blogging site after Open Diary and Livejournal died out, but I had no idea how to use it so after two posts I gave up and completely forgot it existed until late 2015. I came back to it because I was looking to join fandom again after being gone for so long from it and I wanted to talk to other people that loved Mad Max: Fury Road as much as I did.

what do you post: Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/Brotherhood and mostly Royai), my writing, my OCs, random shit about my life, sometimes stuff from my other fandoms (World of Warcraft, Hellsing, Warm Bodies, The Slayers) and anything I might find interesting or relatable.

last thing you googled: I don’t remember. I think the Violet Spellwing mount from World of Warcraft because damn it’s a beautiful mount that I’ll probably never get because no one is carrying people for it like they did for the moose and my gear is too shit to do heroic Argus right now because I hadn’t played WoW regularly in almost a year. I spent 2017 writing instead of playing WoW, which was good for me, but now I’m so far behind on everything in the game. I’m really sad that I’ll probably not get the mount. =/

ao3: Right here!

do you ever get asks: LOL

how did you get the idea for your url: It’s the name of my main OC from my book!

favorite food: I love food so much, but I’ll have to say chicken tikka masala. Sushi is fabulous too though.

last book you read: The Burning World by @isaacmarionsbigwords It’s the sequel to Warm Bodies and it’s amazing and you all should read it! I read that last year when it came out though so it’s been a while. I have The Raven Cycle on my bookshelf and I need to read that so that’ll be next on my list.

top 3 fictional universes: World of Warcraft, The Slayers, Lord of the Rings

[peterjonesparker]

30 questions (sorry to repost but tumblr didn’t flipping TAG ANYONE)

tagged by @aqhrodites​ and @spideyxchelle, both of whom i love and worship while we all chill in spideychelle hell.

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 people.

Nickname(s): none really. but my step brother sometimes calls me sare bear? Gender: cisgendered woman Sign: aquarius Height: 5′5-ish Time: 11:14 pm Birthday: january 31st Favourite bands: mmmm, i’m into brockhampton, primary, phony ppl, and donnie trumpet & the social experiment (even though they only got one album). i’m always gonna love hall & oates, the eagles, steely dan. foster the people, portugal. the man, alt-j, and the neighbourhood will also always have a special place in my heart and i’ll always listen to their albums when they have new ones. Favourite solo artists: oh god. uh…i really like xavier omär, kamau, ravyn lenae, noname, natalia lafourcade, jorja smith, and khalid. and oMG ms. lauryn hill!! of course!! Song stuck in my head: oh goodness. uhh, i kept listening to lavender by kamau on repeat the other day. kept making me feel shit. but in a good way, ya know? the song feels very grand and important and massive. Last movie i watched: star wars: the last jedi! with my dad and sister. it was for my dad’s birthday. i really enjoyed it! Last show i watched: i watched the very last episode of the mindy project with my sister earlier today. When did i create this blog: five years and some months ago. What do i post: oh goodness. uh…??? idk? memes, sometimes. things i find beautiful. pretty people. marvel stuff more recently. sometimes star wars stuff. idk man i go all over the place with this blog, you know. What did i last google: “lavender kamau genius” because i was like damn, what’s the song actually about? the result. it was actually a really beautiful rumination about his father’s ideas on agape (unconditional) love and its inherent origins in self-love. and about lavender’s origins as something that washes and how when he thought of his father’s ideas on agape love he felt cleansed and washed. Do i get asks: sometimes! i’m not always the best at responding so i apologize for that, but i appreciate all the ones i do receive :) Why did i choose this url: because peter parker is head over heels in love with michelle jones and is gonna be doodling “peter jones parker” all over his physics notebook during their senior year. Average hours of sleep: it varies greatly depending on what week of school i’m in or if i’m home. but usually around seven or eight. Lucky number: maybe seven? Instruments: nah. tried learning the drums as a kid but never got very far. What i am wearing: a halloween t-shirt and shorts my mom got me from saint john (the island). Dream job: oof. i have no idea what i want to do with my life. i just want to do something meaningful that i enjoy and am passionate about. i just want to do something that i enjoy doing so that when it gets tough and when i need to grind out and do the stuff i don’t enjoy in life at least i’ll know i’m doing it for this thing i love and care about and want to do well in. idk man. i don’t know anything. Favourite food: my mom makes this really good slow cook chicken recipe and i’ve just always called it chicken and rice. but it’s also called grandma’s chicken because my grandma used to make it? also chocolate. i love chocolate. Last book i read: mmm, i’m reading when dimple met rishi right now? 3 favorite fandoms: uh…hmmm. well, spideychelle is great. i love the spideychelle fandom. we are small and not always active but there is so much talent and generally just a lot of love. the spideychelle fandom will also just always hold a special place in my heart because it’s the only fandom in which i speak ahaha. or at least contribute. so yeah. but i also like the skam fandom and the brooklyn nine nine fandom.

let’s see if i can get to twenty people: @accioharry, @suplosers, @iamacolor, @redpanthers, @parker-is-full-of-shit, @softieparker, @promiseeleven, @spideychelle-romanogers, @spideychelleforever, @onomatopoeiaaa, @jewishtaika, @eddiespatronum, @duhmj, @captainscanuck, and @anyone who wants to do this. i’m sorry i was too tired to tag 20 people :’(

[coopdigitalnewsletter]

24 Sep 2019: Competing with Amazon Go. Climate strikes.

[Not sure why Tumblr wouldn’t post the last few newsletters - hopefully this one will.]

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Competing with Amazon Go

Trigo makes Amazon-Go-like systems for supermarkets and retailers - they use computer vision, 3D mapping, loads of machine learning etc, and it means supermarkets can get rid of their checkouts. They raised some money and the interesting bit of the press release is probably this:

“Trigo's system allows shoppers to personalize their in-store experience by giving them the option upon arriving at the store to either "opt in" by identifying themselves via a loyalty program, effectively allowing the retailer to gain insights on their purchases; or "opt out" by choosing not to check-in and having an "unidentified experience". Shoppers will still enjoy the same benefits of the checkout-free experience either way.”

Elsewhere in checkoutless stores and smart grocery, smart shopping trolley co Caper has also raised more money and says it “is planning to work with sizable North American grocery chains and roll out more than 1,000 Caper carts over the next year”.

Also, Caper “has increased basket sizes by 10% and obtained high customer satisfaction ratings among its users”. That’s interesting because Amazon Go basket sizes are smaller than the average convenience store.

Other startups in the space include Zippin, Grabango, and Standard Cognition.

Climate strikes and action

Climate change is real, and not enough is being done about it, yet. Climate change isn’t an event coming over the horizon. It is here: it’s the era everyone lives in now. All of your lives - and your children’s lives, and their children’s lives - are going to take place in a world and a time of climate change. It’s going to be the background context for, well, everything. It’s not too late to avoid the worst outcomes, so there’s lots to fight for. That is why it’s accurate to call it a climate emergency. Last week, there were many climate strikes around the world. There were (are) also parallel efforts to make digital climate strikes. Strikes are always a controversial topic. This newsletter does not encourage you to down tools. It wants you to pick up tools, and make changes.

Blocking some contactless payments

One in every five contactless payments will be blocked due to new rules - the new “Strong Customer Authentication” European financial regulation means cardholders will have to re-authenticate their cards in a cash machine every so often if they want to keep making contactless payments. But these measures won’t affect payments made via Apple Pay or Google Pay because they already have a second security factor: a face or fingerprint credential.

Future of work

The Uber law: California passed a law that would give employment rights to many workers in the gig economy. Uber say that oh no that won’t apply to them.

The Next Hot Job: Pretending to Be a Robot - ie remote-piloting things that look as if they’re autonomous.

“The three things which people hate most about being managed by algorithms: constant surveillance, limited transparency, and a lingering sense of dehumanisation” - from a survey of Uber drivers, via Exponential View, a good newsletter.

BEIS committee MPs say that the UK doesn’t have enough robots: “The real danger for the UK economy and for future jobs growth is not that we have too many robots in the workplace but that we have too few.” 

Big Tech regulation

There are a lot of stories in this newsletter about the Big Tech companies. Obviously they do big and impactful things, but it’s also partly that since the early 2000s they’ve better understood that as technology lowers the barriers to entry they’re at risk of new, nimbler competition. So they need to create new barriers by innovating lots, buying companies, pursuing customer growth instead of profit, trying mad ideas and so on (all of which is good newsletter material). They’ve done it so successfully that eventually, it looks like the market isn’t very effective at providing competition and curbing excesses. 

That’s usually when regulators start looking. Fifty US attorneys general have signed on to an antitrust investigation into Google. They’ll be looking at the search and advertising business (initially?). Congress’s House Judiciary Committee is demanding internal documents from Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple and has asked other companies whether they have complaints about big tech. The FTC and the Dept of Justice in the US are looking at the big four, as is the EU.

Politics and data: weaponising GOV.UK?

“Cabinet Office to turn [GOV.UK] into a platform for ‘targeted and personalised information’ to be gathered in the run-up to Brexit”. 

UK watchdog eyeing PM Boris Johnson’s Facebook ads data grab - Facebook micro-targeting continues apace. The Information Commissioner’s Office: “This is something we are aware of and we are making enquiries”.

Other news

Local surveillance for your neighbourhood: “if a burglar strikes, they can check and see which cars were spotted in the area around the time of the crime, and pass that footage on to police”. But also “private citizens are unlikely to receive the same training, or be subject to the same oversight, as public employees. A neighborhood administrator could easily search local Flock records to track a spouse’s whereabouts.”

Measuring distance in battery life: "People no longer think about their destination being 10 km away or 10 stops on the tube. They think about it being 50 per cent of their battery away".

��Curve is a banking app that allows you to collate all of your bank cards onto one smart card. Think a wallet which is not a wallet, but is also kept in your wallet.” - the FT isn’t impressed with Curve’s lack of financial disclosure in its recent, very successful, crowdfunding.

Neobank Monzo now has 3m customers. 

Zohr “is more of a logistics company that also happens to sell and install [car] tires”. 

AI whisky. They say: “the AI can generate more than 70 million recipes that it predicts will be popular and of the highest quality”. Their tech partner says: “Algorithms don’t have senses...”

Previous newsletters: 

Most opened newsletter in the last month: personal carbon offsetting. Most clicked story: Introducing Co-op groceries on demand.

News 1 year ago: does Facebook encourage anti-refugee attacks? 

News 2 years ago: “I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet”

Co-op Digital news and events

Public events:

Northern Azure user group meetup - Tue 24 Sep 6pm at Federation House.

Federation Community Showcase National Inclusion Week - Thu 26 Sep 12pm at Federation House.

Pods Up North , an event for podcasters - Sat 23 Nov 9am at Federation House.

Mind the Product - MTP Engage - Fri 7 Feb 2020 - you can get early bird tickets now.

Internal events:

Funeralcare show & tell - Tue 24 Sep 1pm at Angel Square 12th floor breakout.

Sign In/Offers/Wed show & tell - Wed 25 Sep 2pm at Fed House 6th floor auditorium.

Co-operate how & tell - Wed 25 Sep 3pm at Fed House 6th floor kitchen.

Data management - Thu 26 Sep 2.30pm at Angel Square 13th floor breakout area.

Membership show & tell - Fri 27 Sep 3pm at Fed House 6th floor kitchen.

Food ecommerce show & tell - Mon 30 Sep 10.15am at Fed House 5th floor.

Delivery community of practice meetup - Mon 30 Sep 1.30pm at Fed House.

More events at Federation House - and you can contact the events team at  federation.events@coopdigital.co.uk. And TechNW has a useful calendar of events happening in the North West. 

Thank you for reading

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[addaspoonfullofsugar]

I just hit a crazy amount of followers and I can’t even believe it’s real. I know i’m not as active here as I used to be, but you guys are still here and it baffles me that this food blog I started over five years ago is still around and people still like it. 

I opened up about this one other time I think, but soon after I started tumblr I was diagnosed with Lupus, and it spiraled into a really bad headspace for me that involved depression and eating issues and self image problems. For a while, this blog was kind of toxic for me because I was being hypocritical to myself, posting yummy recipes for other people and not enjoying any of that stuff myself. Over time, I got better slowly and this blog helped to heal me. I still struggle with mental health and it’s been a really difficult battle but doing this blog, just posting things that make people happy, helped make me see that I should allow myself that too. The past year has been pretty good to me and although i’m not as present here as I used to be, I see you guys and I see the little things you add when you reblog recipes and it makes me smile.

I just wanted to say thanks for sticking around. I hope i’ve helped some online chefs get some web traffic. I hope maybe i’ve helped a few people that had similar issues to me. This blog, as well as my other, more personal ones are a constant reminder of who i’ve become and where i’ve been. 

so thanks for 43,000 followers! Feel free to message me with requests, or if you just need to chat to someone or vent. 

[somethingsimilartosnow]

back on my bullshit

hello tumblr

wow my online diary coming to a full circle here! Haven’t posted on this page since maybe I was ... 20? Well, hello, here I am, now 24, and life has HAPPENED. I just am so in need of a place to write down my thoughts, my feelings, my life happenings, so it’s not just all scrambled up in my head to spew at my therapist every other Tuesday. So therefore, we turn to the beautiful world of tumblr and my ~secret blog~. I once thought this was so edgy and risky and what if anyone found this (even though I wanted everyone to find it at one point technically) and now I just need a table to vomit my emotions all over!

Anywho - today I’m here to talk about, not Tyler, not Rob (DEFINITELY not Rob, but maybe I will write all about him when I’m ready to, just for my record keeping), but a man named Dillon. Now I met Dillon about 2/2.5 weeks ago on a dating app (gotta love hinge lol - yes past self, you did have to resort to online dating for a time at least!!! will keep ya updated as to how THAT goes) and we met up at Crooked Can on a beautiful, sweaty summer evening. 

Now I should preface - the harmonious timing of everything falling into place whence meeting Dillon is just uncanny. We had exchanged some quick back and forth messages via this ‘app’ and he said he’d be back from Boston in about a week, and he’d text me when he returned to set up a time to meet. Pretty forward considering we had pretty much only talked about pineapple definitely belonging on pizza how he didn’t understand what I do for work. So I thought ‘uh ok!’ and didn’t stress. At this time, I was still so hung up on ROB (stupid! rob!) that I didn’t really think about Dillon much. Then occured That Fateful Night(TM) with Rob, at the Guest House, with a Hummingbird (this is my play on the game Clue! It’s funny - future me will think I’m a smug comedic genius). INSERT STORY ABOUT THAT FATEFUL NIGHT HERE - coming in a post soon maybe idk lol. OKAY ANYWAYS. Saturday morning, I woke up, went to Star Wars land - I have a cool job - and messaged Rob, being mature and wanting to talk things through. Several housed passed, no response, several more hours, no response, and next thing I knew it was Sunday morning and I had never heard from him. My heart clenched into a writhing ball of stress anxiety over the unknown - what did this man now think of me? What did I do wrong? What’s wrong with me? No, no, no - WHAT’S WRONG WITH HIM? But you know who I did receive a message from that same Saturday? You guessed it - Dillon. 

Yes, this is still a story about Dillon and not about Rob, that’s where we pick up at the Crooked Can the following Thursday evening.

Having pretty much laid my anxieties about Rob aside, I was preparing to unfriend, unfollow, and detach myself from him that coming weekend. In the mean time, I primped and puffed myself to go meet this man, who I knew virtually nothing about except that he worked in marketing. I made myself a drink, drove to the bar, and 4 hours later, was fairly surprised. ‘Not usually the type of guy I go for, but very nice and obviously a good person,’ I thought to myself. In reality, I couldn’t believe I had gone on a second successful first date in a matter of months! Me! A dating girl! What is going on! So we exchanged some pleasantries as we walked to our cars, he hugged me and we parted ways. 

Cut to about a week later, we both are looking forward to seeing eachother again and decide to grab some food, head to a rooftop bar, and just hang out. It’s easy with Dillon. I don’t stand waiting for him and wonder if he’ll like me that time or if he will freakout and want to leave. I don’t have heart-writhing-and-wrenching anxiety leading up to seeing him. It’s simply fun and exciting. (OMG HES SO CUTE TOO AND LIKE STRONG??? HE HAS MUSCLES??? I am HARDLY ATHLETIC so idk what is happening!!!!!!) So here we are back in downtown Winter Garden, munching away chatting eachother’s ears off, and just having a good ol’ time. He was suggesting I come running with him and his close friend/almost roommate that weekend (lol um no? no, running with a cute athletic boy is a recipe for embarrassment - and I already just naturally embarrass myself anyways so lets not put myself in a situation to force even more of that um thanks byeyeyye). I was busy that day luckily, but I invited him to come and see a 90′s cover band with my work friends and I at the House of Blues - next day. A little bold to suggest he’d want to see me two nights in a row, and I suppose even more bold just throwing it out there that I’d want to see him two nights in a row. I mean, we’ve only known eachother for a week, let’s not be crazy! He says ‘you know, I’m watching the UFC fight with my friend,’ and my heart softens a little and I understand he’s busy, has his own life, etc. etc. Then he says, ‘But let me see if he’d want to do that instead.’

CUT TO - INT. HOUSE OF BLUES BALCONY.

We’re dancing! We’re vibing! And we’re having such a great time! He is kind and sweet, he’s holding my hand and has his hand on my back and everything is beautiful. I have my left hand on his right shoulder, and my chin is resting on top of my hand. He says something snappy looking right at my eyes, and I’m looking at his and he quickly glances at my lips.

God, I love kissing. I love it almost more than any other physical thing. I love learning how other people kiss, I love that scratchy feeling of a man’s face at the end of the day all prickly against my skin. I love feeling their jaw and their tongue and their body against mine. I love the tension of it - what happens next? How far do we go tonight? How much can I make you want me? All of this relates to later so please consider this a footnote (1).

House of Blues is great - and I can tell I’m going to see him again. As we’re walking to get our uber, I say to him something silly about the stars and the universe and everything in life coming together and “intersecting” I say.

“Intersecting?” He repeats.

“Intersecting.”

“Intersexing? Rachael!” 

I curl my lower lip over my teeth and say, “That...is NOT what I said.” Boldly, I decide to say to him, “You have something on the mind, Dillon?”

He giggles and takes a pause, “Oh I’ve got a lot on my mind. Most of them are about you, some of them aren’t.” The tension hangs in the air like a bioluminescent force stringing us together as we’re walking in front of the group. “Mainly how you didn’t take me to Star Wars!” He exclaims, cutting the tension with a knife, and we’re back where we started.

So that’s Saturday, we kiss goodnight and he drives him and his friend home. And here’s the good news, I do hear from him again.

Not being able to drink beer, as I inevitably get sick every single time I consume it for some godforsaken reason!, I tell him he must come to my house, retrieve the drink, and help me clear out my fridge. (holy crap this post is long, sorry future self, especially if it all goes south after i post this lol yikes crispies) So here we are again, on a Thursday evening, almost exactly two weeks from the day we first met (actually, exactly two weeks) and I am yet again primping and puffing myself to see him. This is yesterday btw!!!

I couldn’t believe how far I had moved from Rob - completely cutting him out and him doing the same to me caused incredible healing for my heart. I have to tread lightly though, because I now know how I react to things in relationships and how strongly they can affect me. That’s why I have my intuition, though. She guides me through all of the struggles in my life. Maybe it’s the holy spirit. Can’t confirm - will do more research and get back to you.

He arrives, and we eat dinner. Well, I really hardly eat anything because I’m talking so much or so intently listening to him talk that I essentially forgot the plate of food was right in front of me. He offers to do the dishes - which is very kind. I refuse, though, and vow to myself that I must do them tomorrow. I should probably also note that I had two drinks prior to him coming because I wanted to be loose and relaxed and have fun! In my own home. We’re hoping this doesn’t tumble out of control. Hahaha! Anyways!!!

First and foremost following dinner, he teaches me how to bat, weird. But funny, I hit out of the park and we high five and settle on the couch. We ramble and go on and on about the cars we drive, or the work we do, or the music we listen to. He loves Mumford and Sons, and he puts on the Lumineers as the score to our conversation. We watch some silly comedy shows that we tell eachother about, and I am giggle central (three drinks in at this point I guess?). I goto the restroom, and decide there while staring into my bathroom mirror, I have to ask him about the dating world and what he does and why he does it.

 Dating is tricky - people are under no obligation to be with you and you alone. And with someone like Dillon, he is so outgoing and extroverted that I could only assume he’s fairly um, unmonogamous? Spelling? He spent 4 years in a bad relationship where the girl ended up as a lesbian at the end of it, so I can only imagine he just wants everything to lay low for a few years in terms of commitment and really tying yourself to someone. 

So I flounce out of the bathroom and plop myself on the couch, my legs twisted up and I’m curled into a ball - which I still am surprised I can do with the size of my legs, but I suppose it makes me feel small in a comforting way. “So, I’m going to ask you a more serious question, and it’s kind of weird and I don’t want you to freak out,” I say.

“Ask away.” (Um this is all conjecture bc I’m a little tipsy at this moment so - not while typing this, I mean at the time I brought this up last night)

Essentially, I asked him (I could never be an author, my tenses are all mixed up) if he dates monogamously, what his vibe is right now with it all, if he is into me I guess?

This is going to get a little more mish mashed and less narrated because I kind of just need to write all of this part down to get it on the table and survey it all. I’ll let you know when we’re getting back to the fun narrated part. 

He said he usually dates around, he can’t really commit to anything right now. His life is very busy and hectic and whatever, but that he is really enjoying hanging out with me. He said “You know, it’s not for like the sex or the attention, it’s to know people and meet people and make connections.” He kept saying, “I just don’t want you to get hurt, I don’t want you to get hurt,” and I kept saying “Okay, listen, I know myself, I know my boundaries, I know where to draw my own lines.” At one point he even said “It’s so sexy how well you know yourself.” THAT GOT MEEEEE. He said the last girl he dated, their 5 year plans really didn’t line up - she wanted to be married expecting children in two years (she was older - 28), and Dillon, being a 24 year old, young, attractive man was obviously not about that! He knew he has to end it because it wasn’t lining up. I said to him that I think it’s perfectly fair for him to date around, it’s perfectly fine for him to say all of this, and I didn’t say this, but I really was not at all surprised that he said any of this. Like I said, it’s fitting with who he is and his character. I guess I get nervous that he kept saying “I don’t want to hurt you,” or “I don’t want you to get hurt.” As though he feels he will inevitably do so or? Unsure. That’s what Rob kept saying on That Fateful Night(TM), which is why I feel a little triggered by it I guess. So the next question I asked, and I prefaced with “Just because I’m curious, and I want to know where you’re at, are you currently seeing anyone else?” He took a pause. “No, I’m not right now. I don’t know, when I met you something just clicked.” My heart fluttered. “You’re very different than the type of girls I usually date, but I like that.” I reassured him - you are no arrogant artsy jerk who’s going to just up and ghost me - so I also am in the same boat. I said to him that that’s kind of the beauty of it, and meeting new people that are so different than you and connecting with them is so wonderful. He said that his friend said something like “Wow, so you’re seeing this girl two nights in a row?” and he kind of was like “Uh, oh yeah I guess so!” kind of insinuating that there’s something special and different happening here. He said, “I’m enjoying myself, you’re enjoying yourself, obviously this is going well, let’s just take it slow.” I agreed, but uhhh you know. I’m trying to make out with him a little obviously and so somehow it got brought up, and I said, “I mean, we can just have fun, make out a little, right?” And he smiled, “Yeah, we can do that.”

Ok and I think this is where I’m going to try and be narrative again! Dang, am I a novelist chica?

I leaned in and kissed him, his scratchy face pressing into mine. It’s slow and intimate at first - and we fully know what we’re getting into. His mouth is minty and refreshing (almost like...he ALSO was wanting to makeout....hmmmmmmm.....) and he’s kissing me so wonderfully and I love the way his lips feel against mine. My right leg gently slides over his lap and his arms are wrapping around my waist and I go up. His hands move over my belt loops and around my hips and to my stomach, and mine are holding his jaw to mine and I don’t want him to ever let go. We look at each other and he’s smiling at me. I bite my lower lip. And then he says THE MOST DIRECT THING A MAN HAS MAYBE EVER SAID TO ME “I do want to have sex with you...” OH MY GOD?! “Ok, so what are we going to do?” I respond. He kisses me again, “We’re going to wait. I’m going to see you again.” “Okay,” I say and lean in and start kissing him again. I may at one point have said “I want to rip all of your clothes off,” but uhhhh we’ll deal with that another time hehe. I pull back and look at him, and startled he yells, “WOO okay time to go before anything else happens!” I get off of him and he puts his arm over his head, his eyes large and shocked. Quickly, he stands up, adjusts his shirt, pushes his hair back and says (again OH MY GOD) “Gonna walk downstairs with a boner!” OH MY GOD?!!! 

“Sorry...” I say, obviously not sorry, obviously very satisfied with myself. “Okay, I’ve gotta go, I will see you. I need to leave now.”

We kiss goodbye, and then I holler at him down the stairs to come grab the beer his friend left at my place. He comes up and takes it, leans in and kisses me again, and down the stairs he goes.

And that’s it. That’s where we are now. Here I am this morning, letting the Lumineers serenade my creative work flow as I try to calm myself down from the um, excitement of last night. I need to be careful, and I need to protect myself. I am saying I can protect myself and I need to make sure that’s true. I’m not going to stop living my life the way I always do. Tonight, I’m seeing Erin, tomorrow, I’m getting brunch with my girlfriends and then going to game night at Kayla’s apartment, and Sunday, I’m going to church. This is my life and he is a fun addition that I’m so excited about. Oh my god!

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Down the line again

After an unexpected procrastination hiatus, I’m going to give blogging another go again. What better way to start than dwelling on those goals I said I’d stick to.

1.       It’s pretty easy to see that I haven’t kept up with this one – the last time I blogged on here was October 15th. I haven’t really got a good excuse, but I found that writing is useful to me to get my thoughts out and track them, so I’m going to try and get back on this wagon. I want to be able to look back on my progress over the year, so I’m going to make more of an effort to keep this updated for myself.

2.       I haven’t read a full book yet, but I have started on The Great Indoors by Ben Highmore. I’m very into interior design and homeware, so it’s a good starting point. I need to make more of an effort to finish it, so let’s make this my own smaller goal – I’ll post something proper about it on this blog by 5th December at the very latest.

3.       I haven’t got involved in community things specifically – I’ve done a bit of shopping in charity shops, but nothing that gets me directly into the community. I want to do a big food shop soon and donate stuff to the food bank, but I’d also like to do something more hands on. There’s a community theatre down the road from my flat, and I’d love to paint scenery or something for them, but I’ve not got round to contacting them yet. I’m getting more involved at work, in a way – I’ve been talking to people more and I’m doing the Secret Santa, and someone even came to me for programming advice on Friday. While I’m hoping to connect to more people in real life, I’ve been posting a bit more on Reddit recently, especially in AskWomen and AskUK. I’m also doing the Secret Santa over there because I really enjoyed shopping for someone last year and they sent me a really sweet thank you message.

4.       I’ve seen my old friends Robert and Ryan a few times since I last posted, at random events and hanging out in pubs. I’ve also voice-chatted with Daniel to talk about D&D. I’ve never played it before but we’re starting a campaign on Monday. I flaked for a while, but I’m so glad that Daniel was patient with me and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll be playing with Jamie, Felix and Ryan – Daniel is the DM. I’m playing a half-drow sorceress based on Daniel’s suggestions.

5.       Haven’t done cooked for anyone but James and I yet, but I’d still really like to!

6.       We went to the cat café in Manchester when we were visiting James’ brother, which was nice. The cats were a bit more active than the last time we went. We’re going back to James’ hometown next weekend, so we’ll probably visit the cat shelter. We both want to get a pet but we know that we need to make sure our flat is cat-proofed and that we get permission from the landlord before we get one, and make sure that we’ve got money saved up for any big vet bills.

7.       It turns out that my payments for council tax weren’t going through properly, so this has been a rough month financially because I had to pay the whole bill for six months in one go. I’ve still got £1500 more in my bank account than I had at my lowest point in the summer, though, so I will be able to recover. I’ve also got my pension sorted through work, so some of my savings will be going into a retirement investment account that I can’t touch for about thirty-five years. I need to set something better up for my own personal savings, maybe getting a high-interest current account and passing money between my main and my secondary current account via a standing order to ensure that my money is liquid. I’ve not been able to pick up any shifts back at uni since five weeks ago so I can’t count on that income totally, but I did do a few hours of overtime at my day job. I’ve been filling out YouGov surveys so I should hit the payout threshold for that in a couple of months.

8.       Our trip to Ireland is very soon now! Also his cousin is getting married in France next summer and his parents have invited me along for the week before. I’m excited to travel with James and hopefully see a lot of the world together. I’d like to go to America and Canada at some point, but I still want to go inter-railing – I’m not sure how much Brexit will ruin my chances of that, though.

9.       I haven’t started a handmade recipe book yet, but I’ve been looking for the perfect book to do it in. I’d like something with removable recipe cards, so maybe a photo album or a file of index cards would be good. James’ mum gave me a recipe notebook but I’d like to be able to reorder things as I need to. I know that makes me sound bratty, but I’m quite particular about the way I do things (or maybe I’m just lazy and making excuses).

10.   No new fun facts, but I’ll keep you posted!

11.   I’m “ill ill” for the first time in a year or so at the moment – lots of phlegm and losing my voice. From a more long-term view, I went to see the GP about my mental health, and he seems to think that it’s something along the lines of OCD or anxiety, maybe both. He prescribed me some beta-blockers to take when I know I’m going to be anxious, and they make things a little bit easier – I’ve found that they’re really good for when worrying about something is stopping me from sleeping, but not so much on the social side of things. I’ve not been to speak about my physical health yet, but I’m not noticing symptoms as much lately. I’ve been overweight for most of my life, and ended up buying a scale sometime in October. Since then, I’ve lost 7 pounds (actually, I lost some of it and gained it back again, and then lost some more – but I’m 7 pounds lighter now than when I started). I’m hoping to reach a healthy weight in 2019.

12.   I haven’t spoken to any of my siblings yet. I’ve been trying to sort some sort of family dinner or something out via my parents, but they’re not very cooperative. I’m spending Christmas with James’ family, and I’m excited for that.

13.   I’m still watercolouring, and I can see improvements in my work from week to week. I need to practice more and I’m hoping to send my Reddit giftee something I’ve painted along with a commercial gift. I’d also like to make something for James, and something for his parents. I’m continuing learning HTML and CSS – I’ve used it to tweak an application at work and entered a little site I made in a hackathon. I’d like to get around to using the skills I’ve built to make my Tumblr a bit more personal.

14.   I figured out most of it, and then James figured out how to get the radiator in the bedroom to work. We don’t have it on much – a couple of hours in the evening, if at all – but it’s nice to know that we’ve got it when we need it.

15.   I haven’t done this yet, but I might try doing Veganuary or something. We’re still eating very little meat, except for when we go to restaurants.

16.   We’re going to see Come From Away soon, watch this space…

17.   Getting my five-a-day hasn’t always been successful – I think if I track it a bit more I’d become better at it. James and I eat a lot of vegetables compared to my parents, but we’re not always on track to five-a-day and I’d like to get better at this and become healthier.

18.   I haven’t been to the market in a while because we’ve been pretty busy for a few weekends (and I was pretty ill yesterday). We need to get around to buying from that bakery soon still. I’ve picked some homewares and clothes up from the charity shops, so that’s something at least.

19.   In an effort to reduce my plastic consumption, I have bought a mooncup, but couldn’t quite get the hang of putting it in comfortably on my last period. When the next one comes around, I’ll give it another go and hopefully have more success. I try to buy loose vegetables where I can and such.

20.   I bought some chocolate hearts with sweet messages on to hide in his jacket pocket, but he ended up finding them before I did it and assumed they were just part of the regular chocolate supply for the week, and ate them... oh well, I guess they got to the intended recipient! Even though we live together, I want to post him a love letter or something to make him smile. I make his lunch when he’s rushing around some mornings and he’s always very appreciative.

21.   The only step I’ve really made career-wise has been competing in a hackathon (with James, who’s never programmed before – we won a prize for being the best newcomer project!). We’d like to do more of them in the future. I got to interact with a lot of other computer geeks and do a little HTML side-project and complete a site under time pressure, so I’ve got a few more skills I can highlight on a CV. I taught James a bit of HTML, and it would be nice to do something more with that. I might get involved in some community GitHub projects or something to sharpen my skills. I think my medium-term plan is to find a job as a programmer in the transport industry, because they seem to have jobs for XSLT developers and have nice benefits like free travel for employees and their partners, which would definitely help with the seeing the world side of things.

22.   I’m still badly organised, no real progress here. I know that my boss doesn’t really mind, but I think my goal for the next fortnight is being early for work every day without needing to get a taxi.

Some things have been successful so far, and some haven’t, but I want to motivate myself to get these things done. Let’s do this.

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Everyone's Eaten Ramen, But Have You Tried Naruto's Ramen???

Happy Anniversary to me! It's my two year food-blog anniversary, and my one year Crunchyroll anniversary. I'm not normally one for celebrating, but I have a commentor who has been dying for me to do a video tutorial of my Naruto ramen recipe, and since that recipe was the very first thing I ever covered, I thought it would be fun to go back and take a look at the iconic dish and evaluate my recipe to see what I would change, knowing what I know now, compared to what I knew then. 

  Some basics- Ramen is delicious. Surely you know this. I have never made ramen before that truly reminded me of what I could get in Japan. With my new recipe, written out below, I think I have achieved something similar to what I can get in Japan. I was really, really happy with the majority of the changes I made, and really recommend you try making this at home so that you can have a great ramen experience. Naruto's ramen is a good place to start, because it is good, but a pretty typical bowl of ramen. Naruto's favorite ramen is miso based with extra chasu, or pork. Ramen broth comes served in one of three ways- miso, salt, or soy sauce based. You may also see soup classed as tonkotsu, which refers to the pork stock base most commonly used in ramen. It's a bit confusing, because miso, salt, and soy sauce soups are all just variations of pork broth. So, most ramen soup (but not all) is pork broth seasoned with one of those three things. I'm sure there are people who see ramen as falling into one of those four distinct categories, but we're going to focus on the miso based soup today. 

    Which brings me to the first mistake I made as a youthful food blogger. The broth. I made my own stock, sure, but I used chicken bones as the base for the flavor instead of pork. This was because I 1) didn't know where to get pork bones and 2) Wanted to use some of the chicken stock for my second recipe (Transforming Furikake Gohan from Food Wars!), but I think this was a mistake. Chicken broth can absolutely be used as a base for a ramen, but it's not the most common base you see in Japan, and I really doubt Naruto was going around eating abnormal ramen. It would be much more expected to see him eating a soup with a pork base, rather than a chicken base so the first thing I changed about this recipe were the bones I used, and the additional flavorings for the broth. Because I made a chicken broth the first time, I used some more traditional seasonings- cabbage, leeks, etc. I wanted to pare this down and make the base a litte more one-note to really let the pork flavor shine through, so I simply seasoned the base with ginger. I also added in more miso, and, for good measure and better flavor payoff, used awase miso, which is a mix of brown and white miso. This deepens the flavor and the color, and produces a better, hearty result in the overall broth. 

  The second mistake I made with my first attempt at this recipe was making an egg that was far too hardboiled. A good ramen egg has a yolk that is soft, jammy, and a litlte liquidy in the middle. I am not a pro at making eggs by any means, so when I first attempted this, I failed miserably. However, this was an easy mistake to rectify. I changed the cooking time and method slightly to produce the best results, and was so happy with how it turned out- if there's one kind of egg I like, it is the ramen egg. I was in heaven. 

  I thought I could improve upon my chasu pork recipe, but I actually was not super enthused with how this version turned out. I thought it would be good to simplify flavors and reduce liquid quantities so that there wouldn't be as much waste, but I liked the version I made two years ago and regret not making it again. I have listed the recipe I used this time around below, but I really feel it didn't do a good enough job of seasoning the pork, and there wasn't quite enough liquid to really get a good braise going. If you do this, I recommend you use my first recipe, unless you don't really care. In that case, the one below is definitely a bit simpler! 

  The third and final mistake I made with my original recipe was not getting the iconic swirly naruto fishcake. It seriously ups this dish from a 5/10 on the overall quality/beauty/eatability scale to a 10/10, A++, would eat again. It's such a classic look, not finding the right fishcake just doesn't clearly make it Naruto's ramen. If you really want to convince yourself you're eating what Naruto would eat, go for the traditional naruto, even if that means searching through four Asian supermarkets. 

    In any case, here's to another year of anime cooking! Revisiting this recipe was really fun- I know so much more about Japanese cooking now, and I'm a lot more confident with it, so it feels good to go back and clean up my old recipe so that you guys can try to make something really good! 

   Watch the video below for more details on how to make this dish!

        Ingredients for Miso Ramen:

  Broth + Noodles:

1-2 pounds pork bones

4 liters of water

1 inch of fresh ginger

1 3inch strip of kombu

2 1/2 Tbsp sake

1 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce

1/2 Tsp sugar

8 Tbsp miso

1/4 Tsp chili bean paste (optional)

Fresh ramen noodles, or fresh Chinese egg noodles. 

   Chasu Pork:

1 Pound slab pork belly (not cut into strips, like bacon)

Salt

1 inch fresh ginger

2/3 cup water

1/3 cup sake

1/3 cup soy sauce

3 Tbsp sugar

  Soft Boiled Ramen Eggs:

6 eggs (count on 1 egg per bowl- cook eggs accordingly!)

1/3 cup soy sauce

1/3 cup mirin

1 cup water

  Additional Toppings:

Green onions

Naruto (fish cake)

Menma (preserved bamboo shoots)

  To Make Miso Ramen:

  A note- get the broth started, and make the chasu and the eggs while you're waiting for the broth to fully cook. You can make up the broth, pork, and eggs the night before, and then assemble on the day of.

  1. Start with the broth. Throw bones, ginger, and water into a stock pot. Begin to boil. As it boils, strain off any scum that floats to the top. Reduce to a simmer, and let simmer about 6 hours. Replace water as needed, so that it is always at the same level and bones are covered. When it is ready, strain the broth to remove the ginger, bones, and any debris in the broth. 

  2. Throw kombu into the pot with the strained broth, and bring back up to a simmer. Let simmer about 15 minutes. Remove kombu, and add in sake, soy sauce, and sugar. Stir well, and then take a ladle full of broth, and mix it into the miso to thin it out. Add in parts, tasting as you go, until you're happy with the saltiness of your broth. 

  3. Finally, add in the chili paste to the broth as desired. The purpose is to add a little complexity and give it a slight kick, but add at your own discretion. Set aside in the fridge overnight, or set aside while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. 

  4. While the broth is cooking, soft boil the eggs. Bring a pan of water to a boil. Pierce the fat end of the eggs with a pin to allow the air bubble in the egg to be pushed out as the egg cooks. Add in the eggs to the boiling water, and let the water simmer for seven minutes (do not let it come back to a full boil!). I do this by dropping the eggs in and leaving them alone- the temperature of the eggs will reduce the heat of the water enough. But control your heating apparatus as you see fit. After seven minutes, remove from water and immediately deposit into an ice water bath.

  5. When eggs have cooled, gently (GENTLY) peel the eggs. The white will be delicate, so go slowly and carefully! 

  6. Mix up the liquids in a bag or bowl, and pop the eggs inside. Allow to sit in the fridge for 1-2 hours at least, overnight for best effect.

  7. Let's work on the Chasu! Salt the entirety of your slab of pork belly. Roll up, and use a skewer or butcher's twine to secure the roll. 

  8. Heat a neutral oil (like vegetable) over high heat in a pan. When hot, brown the pork roll, about 4-5 minutes each side, and 1-2 minutes on the edges of the roll. When ready, remove from pan, and wipe the pan out. Put in the liquids, the sugar, and the ginger, and place the pork back in the pan. Bring up to a simmer. Cover with a foil lid to promote even distribution of cooking. 

  9. Flip once, halfway through cooking, which should take about 45 minutes to an hour. It is ready when the sauce is thickened and you can see the bottom of the pan when you push the pork around. When the sauce begins to bubble up, and the pork has a nice shiny coating, it's ready. Remove from pan, with sauce, and set aside or store in fridge until you are ready to use.

  Before moving onto the next step, bear in mind that the broth, eggs, and pork should all be ready to use after their copious cooking/ marinating times.

  10. Prepare toppings. Slice the green onions finely, slice the naruto, get out the menma (they usually come prepared in a jar or tin), slice eggs in half, and slice the pork so that you get thin slices of swirled pork. 

  11. Put a pot of water on to boil. When boiling, place fresh ramen noodles into a strainer, and deposit into the water. Allow to cook about 90 seconds, or until noodles are bouncy. Immediately remove from the water with the strainer, and put in serving bowl.

  12. Ladle broth over the noodles, and then top with the toppings as you see fit! For the proper Naruto ramen, you need five slices of chasu, a handful of chopped green onions, some slices of naruto, menma, and one half of a soft boiled egg. 

  13. And now it's done! Enjoy! 

    I hope you enjoyed this post! Check in next week for another recipe. To check out more anime food recipes, visit my blog. If you have any questions or comments, leave them below! I recently got a Twitter, so you can follow me at @yumpenguinsnack if you would like, and DEFINITELY feel free to send me food requests! My tumblr is yumpenguinsnacks.tumblr.com. Find me on Youtube for more video tutorials! Enjoy the food, and if you decide to recreate this dish, show me pics! :D

  In case you missed it, check out our last dish: Cooking with Anime- Mini Soufflé Omelette from "Food Wars!". What other famous anime dishes would you like to see Emily make on COOKING WITH ANIME?

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