#making food

[sarasakyfreesoul]

As I saved his life, he is following me everywhere. Most of all, he likes to wait for me while I prepare something in the kitchen 😂 He is my best company. 🖤

[cryptidliraz]

So like… I’m not the only one within our younger (13-26) generation that wants to just be a housewife, right? Stay at home mom anyone?

I don’t want a job???? I’ll gladly clean the house and make my husband dinner thanks, I could and would be content with my husband living that life. I’m not the only one, right?

[servingcuntry]

beelining to the kitchen because i'm shaky and can't talk without stuttering and sweaty asf which means my blood sugars low or my ibs is doing something weird or because i literally forgot that i haven't eaten in 17 hours

WAIT HELP I HAVEN'T EATEN IN 17 HOURS?

i'm okay, making a quick meal <3 jesus christ

[claudevonfireemblem]

Lap cat

[mlsa34]

Hello lovelys, Hope ya'll have an amazing day/night. I just finished eating! I had some

cucumbers

chicken (spicy)

Potatoes (cut into cupes with sum oil and other Seasoning)

It was soo so good, what should i try next? What did you eat today?

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #310 (Part 2)

Okay!! I'm back!! Here we go...!!!

So, before I could start baking a cake, I had to wash the dishes from breakfast. So I did!

...And then I sat down for a second, and Hoshi promptly decided that I am a bed:

...As you know, it was illegal for me to move until he was all done. So I sat around for some happy cuddle time, which is just as well, since I probably could have used a break by then in any case.

J's favorite cake is a tres leches cake. It's a very spongy cake which is then soaked in a mixture of evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and heavy cream. It's obscenely delicious. And even, better, it's ridiculously versatile! You can flavor it with chocolate, with matcha, with banana, with coconut... pretty much whatever you can think of!! Heck, you could even probably flavor it with-

......!!!!!!!

Oooooh. You know what? Actually, I think I'll keep that particular idea to myself until the solstice; it'll be a surprise for you for your birthday!!!! Oooooh, I think you're gonna love it!!!! Just you wait...!!!! 🤩🤭😁

...Anyway!!! So you start with 60 grams of flour. We weigh our flour instead of relying on cups, because flour is super squishable; you can get wildly different volumes of flour with the same damn measuring cup because it compresses with pressure. So just save yourself the headache and weigh it.

To that, you'll add 3/4ths of a teaspoon of baking powder (I think about 6 grams...?) and 1/8th of a teaspoon (I think about 1 gram...?) of salt. I dunno if your world has measuring spoons; most of the rest of my world uses the metric system like sane people, and I'm not sure why my country hasn't gotten with the program. So my country still uses pounds and ounces and cups and teaspoons and tablespoons, and it's VERY annoying. But that's what we have, so... yeah.

Anyway, set the bowl of powdered ingredients to the side for now. We have to separate the yolks from 3 eggs. I like to use my slotted spoon for that, like this:

We're gonna put the egg whites to the side for now, and stick the yolks into our handy-dandy stand mixer (because I cannot whisk things that fast; maybe you could...???), along with 3/8ths of a cup of sugar (or 82.5 grams).

You'll whisk it on high until everything is combined and it gets pale yellow, and a little fluffy from air getting whisked in. Like this:

You'll add 2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons (or 40 grams) of milk to the beaten egg yolks and sugar, as well as half a teaspoon (or about 2.5 milliliters) of vanilla extract (or vanilla paste, if you like that better). Mix it up, and then sift your flour/baking powder/salt mixture, and slowly incorporate it into the yolk mixture.

Once the flour mixture and the egg yolk mixture are combined, it should look like this:

From here, you'll need to transfer it into another bowl. And this is another great thing about a rice cooker; you can use the bowl that comes with it for ANYTHING, because it can hold a lot of stuff!

...As for the stand mixer bowl, you're gonna hafta wash that, because we gotta whisk those egg whites we left to the side with some sugar until they make stiff peaks. But egg whites won't do the chemistry properly while we're whisking it if there's ANYTHING in the bowl with them other than sugar, and I know from experience that simply rinsing out the bowl with water isn't enough to get rid of any residual egg yolk. You HAVE to wash the bowl, and the whisk, too, with dish soap; hand soap will either leave some kind of moisturizing residue, or it won't be strong enough to get rid of all the food residue.

Soap for hands is different from soap for dishes!! Dish soap is too harsh to use regularly on hands!! Hand soap isn't strong enough to do a good job of cleaning dishes!! The chemistry and purposes of these soaps are different!! Don't forget!!

Here's our egg whites before whisking; you'll whisk it on high until it starts to get foamy. Egg whites do a chemistry thing when air is incorporated into them quickly. I'm not sure how the mechanics work; I used to know, but I forgot. I'm sure you can find out how it works if you're interested, though!

Here it is at firm peaks; you can tell because inside the bowl, the pointy bit is kinda (but not fully!) flopped over when you take the whisk out; this is the part where I added the sugar:

Here it is at stiff peaks; you can tell because the pointy bit in the bowl doesn't flop over at all:

...This might just barely be a bit overbeaten, actually. But that's all right. It'll do.

So now we have a cake batter in two parts. We have to combine it into a single cake batter, but WITHOUT popping the delicate bubbles in our whisked egg whites. So we (gently!!!) plop our egg white foam into our egg yolk mixture:

The idea is to slowly fold the egg yolk mixture over the egg white mixture, and keep doing that until everything is combined. But you have to do it very gently, or else the foamy bubbles in our egg whites will collapse, and it won't be airy or foamy anymore - it'll go all flat.

...I'm not very good at this part. This requires a level of precision that I typically struggle with. Most of my previous attempts at making this cake have fallen flat because I either overmixed it or mixed it too quickly, or mixed it too roughly.

...I'm a little nervous. But the only way out is through...

....!!!! Oh!!! Oh!!!!!! Sephiroth!!! I think it worked this time!!!! LOOK!!!

Ooooooh, that's so exciting!!!!! I've not had it turn out this well before!!! Oh my gosh!!!!

...Anyway!!! So I used an 8 inch by 8 inch (or 20 centimeters by 20 centimeters) cake pan. I lined it with parchment paper, because I know from experience that it doesn't matter how much butter you coat the pan in; this cake sticks to everything.

We pour in the cake batter, and we put it in the oven at 350 degrees F (or about 176.7 degrees C) for 30 minutes!

We can use the parchment paper to take it right out of the pan, and let it cool! Look how beautifully it turned out!!!

In the meantime, we'll mix together 1 can of evaporated milk, 1 can of sweetened condensed milk, and 1/4th cup (or about 59 milliliters) of heavy cream!

Putting in the heavy cream is very easy; you just dump it in there and it's fine. Evaporated milk is easy, too; you just dump it right in. But sweetened condensed milk is very goopy and very sticky; you'll need to use a tool, preferably a silicone one, to get it all out of the can:

...This is our "three milks". Tres leches is Spanish for "three milks". We have heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, and evaporated milk - these are all milk products. So, figuratively, that's three "milks".

Now for the cake; we'll turn it upside down and stab it full of holes with a toothpick! You can't see the holes very well in this picture, but I promise you, I did stab it full of holes:

We stab it full of holes because we're going to let the cake absorb our "three milk" mixture. We're gonna slowly pour it into the cake pan with the stabbed cake.

...Yes, Sephiroth, I know it seems like a lot, but we're going to pour all of the milk mixture into the cake. All of it. It'll all get absorbed, trust me. It'll be okay, I promise! Let's go...!!! 🤩🤩🤩

...We do it a little at a time and wait for it to absorb, so it doesn't spill over the sides of our cake pan.

...And just like that, it's all done! Nice job!

...But we're not done yet!!! We gotta make the whipped cream frosting!!!

I'm using 1 cup (or about 236.6 milliliters) of heavy cream and 1.5 tablespoons (or about 18.75 grams) of sugar.

We'll whisk it on high speed...

...Beautiful.

And then we put it on our cake!!! But first... do you want to lick the whisk? Everyone should get to do that at least once, if they want to:

Okay!!! So now we cover our cake in the whipped cream, and then we cut it into slices!!!

Here's how it looks after taking a few slices out of the pan...

I made myself some tea to go with it!

It's a pale yellow when it brews, and it smells exactly like lemon cake! We had a little bit of whipped cream leftover; can you guess what I used it for? Hahaha...

...I wish I could give this to you:

...There are so many delightful things I wish I could give to you, but... all I can do is write these silly little letters... 🙁 I'm really sorry about that... 😞

...Well. Maybe by the time you get up out of that crater, you'll have read enough of my letters to know how to do some nice things for yourself. If you ever make yourself a tres leches cake someday, you'll have to show me, all right? Promise me, okay?

...I guess that's it for today. It's going on 1am, and I did lots of things today, so I should probably stop writing now so that I can go to bed.

I love you. Please stay safe out there so that someday, you can make a tasty breakfast and bake a delicious cake with someone who cares deeply for you.

I'll write again tomorrow. I hope you'll look forward to it.

Your friend, Lumine

[sophealy]

គេងស្តាប់ស្នូរសម្លេងទឹកភ្លៀង Rain,Weather

[monards]

thinking too hard about how nobody in the hexenzirkel could ever properly empathize with rhine I’m SICK

[bitterpngs]

i’m just sitting here in bed thinking about how i should go eat something bc i only ate once today but i do not have the energy :|

[ordonianhero]

Cuccoo sandwich

(Spicy ranch dressing, chicken tender, pickles, tomatoes, lettuce. Sourdough bread loaf)

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[starry-eyes-love]

Come on down, breakfast is cooking 🍳

💙✨

[grouchydairy]

making food

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

[willabee]

uncertain about turkey