#margerine sticks

[robbybirdy]

Genshin Baking Therapy - Matcha Power Cookies

Hello, every birdy. Nice to see all of you. I can’t wait to share this recipe with you. 

Now onto the character and the recipe.

The Character - Yelan. 

Yelan is a character that I like the look of, but I don’t think I am every going to get her. She would be great with Yoiymiya or even Dehya but I just dont think that I would get her. When I first say her I thought she reminded me of Yor Forger from Spy x Family. Just the vibes she was giving off in the Chasm. 

The Recipe - Matcha Powder Cookies.

My sister has always loved green tea. One day we found matcha tea, and we knew that it would be on the shelf for a very long time if we didn’t grab it. And she was like “Robyn, can you make me some Matcha cookies?” 

As many of you know I don’t back down from a baking challenge. I do my research. I usually try and find a recipe that won’t break that bank. So I found this recipe, and it was the simplest recipe that I could find. And say that with all sincerity. When it comes to baking I love simple recipes that I don’t have to rewrite just to understand it. And yes I have done that before. 

About 30 minutes before you are about to bake place your butter/margerine and eggs on the counter so it can get to room temperature. Trust me, you want to do this step. I know that in the past I might have told you that this step is not that important. Oh but it is. If you don’t do this step you are going to have to mix a lot longer. And the consistency just isn’t there. 

The first thing that you are going to do is preheat your oven to 350 degrees. You can either line the baking sheet with parchment paper or you can spray it with non-stick spray. 

The ingredients that you will are:

1 Stick unsalted butter which is ½ cup (also if you don’t have butter, you can always use margarine. And I will give you a little hint, I only use margarine. And I haven’t heard any complaints yet.)

1 cup of sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

⅛ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt 

2 room temperature eggs 

3 tbsp matcha (if I made this recipe again I probably would reduce the amount. Always look at the notes bakers have on their blogs. They are usually helpful. I read them afterwards and I am just look ��OOOH that is why xyz failed.” So always read the notes.)

And then for the rolling of the cookies you are going to need 

¼ cup granulated sugar

½ cup powdered sugar 

And if you want an additional 1 teaspoon of matcha

You are going to cream together your stick  of butter with  sugar. To this mixture you are going to add in your baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Add in the eggs and mix until it all comes together. I like adding in my eggs one at a time so that I know what is going on with the texture. 

Now you are going to want to sift the matcha into the flour and pour it into mixing bowl. Sowly mixing so that all of the ingredients are incorporated. And so you don’t have a major green mess you have to clean up. 

If you want the extra teaspoon of matcha add it to a plate of powdered sugar and set it to the side. 

Using a cookie scoop, or two normal teaspoon spoons scoop the balls into about 1 and ½ tablespoon balls of dough. This measurement relative. Just go with how you are feeling. But let me remind of something important. Matcha has caffeine. 

Roll the balls in the granulated sugar and then the match and powdered sugar. 

Place them on the baking sheet and bake the for about 11 minutes, or so the recipe says. I am sorry, it is nothing against the recipe author or anything. But when making cookies I always start with 8 minutes, and add time if needed. Because like my mom has said for many years and I am starting to say “ You can always add time you can’t take it away.”

If you like green tea, these cookies are for you. If you had a Shrek themed party you had to make something for real quick this recipe would be perfect. Also you have to remember that Matcha is tea. And it has caffeine! DO NOT EAT THIS AFTER DINNER! I speak fro experience. My gosh, having seven people not being able to sleep because of something you made feels bad. 

The results of these cookies is a little half and half. Some people liked them and some of us didn’t like it. It all depends on your thoughts on green tea and the flavor. 

Do you like seeing the list of measurements in the post like this? Or doesn’t it make the post longer? Let me know your feedback. 

I hope that you liked this recipe.  Feel free to check it out for yourself. See you in the next post. Thank you.

[clementine-treat]

food log // 27 jan

black coffee // 2 kcal

fiber oatmeal with banana & chocolate protein powder, pomegranate seeds, bilberries and chia seeds // 248 kcal

bean lasagne, cucumber, orange, rye bread and margerine // ~450 kcal

a hazelnut & nougat protein shake // 188 kcal

carrot sticks // 71 kcal

mifu and mixed wok vegetables // 261 kcal

mixed greens and mini plum tomatoes // 22 kcal

total ~1240 kcal, ~96g protein, ~25g fiber

tdee 2020, 11 347 steps, 15 zone minutes

deficit ~780 kcal

fasted 15h

i maybe didn't need that much protein powder in my oatmeal but i'm on my period so chocolate cravings are intense rn

definitely basing next month's restriction goal based on deficit since i clearly can't stay under an intake limit 🤡 that way i'll be atleast able to still end the day on track even if i eat more than i should

[sutzrainbow]

Chocolate Mangers - My Family’s Christmas Treat

Okay, so this is our Christmas traditional treat/snack, and they are absolutely f’ing delicious. However, since being diagnosed as a Type 1 diabetic, I’ve seriously had to watch my sugar intake and I’m wary of eating these. So, because my fun has been ruined, I’m going to share the recipe with all of you!

At first this looks straightforward: just a chocolate rice crispie treat with an icing baby Jesus instead of eggs. Ohhhhh no, dear friends. My fam’s recipe is far superior. You know how if you melt chocolate over rice crispies, it just hardens and then shatters the second you bite into it, sending chocolate shards and rice crispies everywhere? These don’t do that, and I’ll give you one reason: Golden Syrup. The Lyles stuff, straight from the tin. It gums everything together so instead of shattering, it squishes.

Right, that’s enough of me gushing over the brilliance of these. Let me tell you how to make ‘em!

Recipe:

Ingredients:

Shredded Wheat (for authentic-looking straw)

Cocoa Powder - at least 2 tablespoonsfull. We used to use drinking chocolate but if you want it to be a bit less sickly, stick to unsweetened cocoa. The sweetness is provided by the syrup.

Golden Syrup - at least 4 large serving spoonsfull. Sometimes if we’re making a lot of mangers we use up to half a can. This stuff is vital.

2 heaped tablespoons of Margerine (I assume butter would be fine too, but I’ve never tried. Use butter if you want to make these even more naughty)

For Baby Jesus:

Marzipan or Jelly Babies or Smarties or Chocolate Buttons 

Icing sugar

Milk or water

I don’t actually have exact measurements for any of this stuff. We just eyeball it and it usually comes out fine. This makes at least 20 mangers, but can be more or less, depending on how big you make them.

Method:

First, the boring bit: crushing the Shredded Wheat. We usually take out the individual paper sleeves and smash at them with a rolling pin. Then we use the paper packaging to protect our fingers as we crumble them. No, you can’t cheat and use a blender or food processor. You will end up with sawdust. Keep some extra on hand. You will likely need so much more than you think you do.

Don’t forget to set out some little cake cups in advance. We usually put ours on a tray for easy transportation and turning. I’ve never tried with silicone cups but I assume they would be fine too.

Find a big saucepan or pot and put it on the stove on medium heat. We’ve got an old casserole pot we usually use. Something with a thicc bottom that will keep things warm and malleable and reduce the chance of burning the Golden Syrup.

Melt the margerine in the pot, then add the two spoonfuls of cocoa powder. Stir until combined.

Add at least two heaped serving spoons of Golden Syrup. Stir that in until everything is nice and warm and liquid. You should have a dark, chocolatey treacle in the bottom of the pan.

Now you can pour in your crushed Shredded Wheat and start stirring. Keep going until everything is covered. This takes a lot of work and your arm will feel like it’s going to fall off but trust me it’s worth it. If you need more mixture to cover the straw, add more Golden Syrup. If you need more straw, crush and add more Shredded Wheat. You will not need more margerine or chocolate powder. Trust me. Do not make that mistake. You will end up with lumpy, powdery mangers.

Once you’re satisfied that all the ingredients have got to know each other, turn the heat down very low: just low enough to keep the chocolate melted. But you’ll still have to work fast! It helps if there’s two of you for this job, so this is an excellent group activity. 

Take at least a spoonful of the shredded wheat-syrup-chocolate mixture and press it into your cupcake cup, making sure there’s a little dip in the middle. This is where you’ll put Baby Jesus later. Don’t worry about being neat; this is a manger.

Keep going until you have no mixture left. It’s quite usual to get a small ‘runty’ manger at the end of it. Eat that for a reward!

Immediately put your cooking pot in the sink and fill with warm soapy water. Otherwise the remnants of the mixture will stick and be a pain to get off.

Leave your mangers to cool. Once they are safely cool, you can make Baby Jesus! The swaddling clothes are icing, of course. Make your icing very thick, otherwise it will simply run through your manger and look like a broken egg.

For the head of Baby Jesus, your options are open. Our usual method is to roll a ball of marzipan in the dark cocoa powder to get it a medium brown colour (because Jesus wasn’t white, people). I actually don’t like marzipan, so occasionally I’ve used Smarties or chocolate buttons. If you really want, you could use Jelly Babies, but you’d have to put them on first before the icing. Put faces on the heads if you really want to freak people out, either with icing or a cocktail stick.

And that’s it! We also used this recipe at Easter, replacing Baby Jesus with eggs for nests. Enjoy these little bundles of delish. But be warned, they’re murder on your teeth and obviously diabetics, consume with care.

[greater-than-the-sword]

Twas baketime, and the shiny scones

Did turn and tumble in the microwave

All twisty were the sugarcones,

But the biscuit batter we could not save.

Beware the batter botch, my son,

The butter drought, the slather lack!

Beware the margerine and shun

The sticking cookie rack!

He took his butter stick in hand...

Woman who lives 80 miles from town forgets to get stocked up on butter; existential scream still echoing down the cosmic halls.

[self-righteous-god]

The Team! just caught up on DNDND, a dinner party roleplaying podcast so heres the gang, including juno!

[oops-all-muppets]

A live action DnDnDpod but everyone except for Zabbas Kinlin is played by a muppet

[verashalurks]

I know this is like dying but I’ve waited so long to post this cuz I wanted to get as much as I can but since I haven’t seen another alternate m*leven ship name in forever, I’ve decided to post all the alternate m*leven ship names I’ve seen.

milkvan

macarena

mumble

miley cyrus

melvin 

milkshake

mitochondria 

Keke waka 

milkdud

Misaligned Fallopian Tubes

machine gun

milkcurd

mildew

milkman

moonshine

menstruation

midleven 

Macroeconomice

microwave

Macadamia nut

monkeyvenom

masturbation

mythology

Minotaur

malware

malnutrition

Minecraft mobs

moon landing conspiracy

margerine

murmers

milkyway 

mcchicken

monsoon

melted marshmallows

mango

maroon 5

Of Mice and Men

Madagascar

Marty McFly

melville

Milk of Magnesia 

Milkwaukee

Milkchocchip

M-1 Rifles

Meerkats

Mlvn

M&Ms

McDonalds

McVans

Milehighclubs

Mitskivans

Mychemicalromance

Monsterhighs

Millennials

Malnourished Skin

Mona Lisa

Mushroom Raviolis

MK-16

Mascara

Monoclonal Antibodies

Mamma mia

Mealworm

messenger

mentoses

milkweed

microbe

mimetite 

morsels

mozzarella sticks

milkchicken

minestrone

macaroni

Methamphetamine

Markiplier

milkbag 

machine gun kelly

zoo wee mamas

Milevensies

molotov

mismatches

mandalorian

mildred

magdalena bay

milulu

Milkmaids

minimum wages

mailman

malt vinegars

moshimonsters

mids

mocha monsters

Marley and Me

Mitosis

three musketeers

milkshit

Miranda Sings

motorola

mobility exercises

Malnourished Foreskin

miscellaneous

McNuggets

microfungus

minnie mouse

millipede

milkmonsters

monkey ooh ooh ah ah

martians

milquetoast

Manicure

milkbone 

Meryl Streep

macadamias

Maple Syrup

mildew

multivitamins

mascarpone

mikeisdefinitelyisdefinitelyahetrosexual

magnesium

magician

mickey mouse clubhouse

Macaulay Culkin

Molotov Cocktail

meatball choppers

milky cereal cup

monkey see monkey do’s

meth lab

millyrocks

Milklovers

midvans

mac and cheese

mindflayer

Marvin martians

malteesers

minivan

MilkTit

milk and cookies

milklords

Tickle Me Elmos

minnions

mad mothers

mariposa

Milkbag

mitskivan 

Mucinex

mixed signals

Milkytitty

mighty morphin power rangers

🥛🚚

Milkvillains

Mosquito bites

Mug cakes

Moldy milks

micropenis

maggots

Machupichu

mephistopheles

malted milk

musculoskeletal

Mcdonald's happy meals

moose mooses

macaroni n cheese

maternity leave

moustache mountain

mocha cake a la goldilocks

Mcstuffins

Mcmuffin

Nickleback

MonkeyBall

mistletoes

moo moo

microphone

master of puppets

middleman

Monster of Men

Melted Cream Cheese

milkythooth's

meltdowns

mosh pits

Mikinam 

Megatron Titty

MontyPhyton

malaria

michigans

malibubarbie

Mockingbird

Machine Gunner

Milkbone

Milftits

Mcflurry

mangos

metric system

milkydudes

milk cartons

milklevel

Milan champions league

mcladdles

mustard

malfunctioning minotaurs

moaning myrtle

meep city

mount vesuvius

millyrocker

mango salsa 

milkspill

Mitochondrial Disease

m'leven

michigan

Machine Gunner

Maybelline

Mascot

Moldy Mozzarellas

malt powder

machine gun kelly

Manila papers

Merlin’s Beard

mackerel

Moldymilk

mariachi

mein kampf

melevenene

Miku

mediocre meat loaf

Mambo Jambos

Microscope 

my little pony

Menstrual cup

Mothman 

Megamind

Msg

Marvins 

Mesopotamias

Meralco

misanthropic villains

Mishawaka

Moldy bread

Marsupials

Marvin

Melon rinds

Moondance

Moldy macaroni

Magical miscarriages

Mauled maggots

Machine gunners

Moscova

Mondays

Momento Morí

mitochondrion

Megatron

Misused toilet

meeting micky mouse

melatonin deficiency

Minions

Milkovitch

Manly-man

McLovin It

Mexico

milkytruck

molars

Married Salamanders

mister mustard

Mario Kart

Mouse rat

marshal mathers

militia

milebin

Mewtoo

Margaritas

Mick Jagger

Elr 

Milkwaffers

Milkweven

Mud Stain

Mileperson

milerescent

Milanese

Manatee Turd

Magistrate

Mario run

Mint-chip icecream

Milkwaffers

Microsoft

miléveune

Mesothelioma

Moomoos

matchstick

malteser

morallysus

Macronutrient 

Miel

Milanese

milkies

Microsoft11

mineral water

multiplier

Mario Kart Wii

mild salsa

Minnesota

motorcycle

Minecart

Maltodextrin

muffin mans

Midlife crisis

Mortadella

Matcha

Microdickvan

Mac & cheese

Middle aged vans

Super Mario 64

Metamorphosis

Malcom in the middle

Magic Mike

711

Marijuana

mozzarella

Microbial virus

MySpace

Materasso Eminflex

microsoft software protection platform

Micheal Jackson

Mistyped

Miscarriage

Magnetic dipole

Marble Countertop

Michelin star

Milkkawaii

Mathematics

Microgodzilla

Milkchunk

milktruck

malooban

Masachussets Institute of Technology

Mango Juice

Mary had a little lamb

Menthols

Mark of Athenas

mendocino

milwankas

[rjalker]

Rice Crispy treats recipe from the back of a bag of Great Value mini marshmallows:

1/4 cup (half a stick) great value butter or margerine

1 10oz package (6 cups) mini marshmallows

6 cups crisp rice cereal

Spray the bottom of a large 13x9 pan with non-stick cooking spray

In large sauce pan, melt butter over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.

Add cereal and stir to coat well. Press mixture into greased pan. Cool. Cut into shapes.

[balkanradfem]

Survival recipes!

Here's what you can do if you have little other than just flour, salt, sugar, oil and cocoa powder, and maybe some beans. Beans are important because after you cook them for an hour, you will be left with bean water, which is called "aquafaba" and is used in recipes as egg replacement.

Flour pudding:

you need: water, few spoons of flour, salt, sugar, cocoa powder and a stove.

More than half of water is put to boil (i use maybe half a litre altogether?) and some is put on the side in a bowl, left cold. Put few spoons of sugar, pinch of salt, and half a spoon of cocoa powder (or how much you like!) in the cold water, then add in flour slowly, while mixing it like you would mix a pancake mix. You want a pancake mixture consistency as well, not too dense because once you mix it in the hot water, it's going to get crazy dense! When you don't have any more lumps of flour in your mixture, wait until water is boiling and mix in your pudding mix. Stir and cook it for few minutes at most, be careful because it sticks to the bottom! If you have any fancy sweet spices like cinnamon and vanilla you can add them but I was okay without. Once this feels like pudding, it's done! Okay so it doesn't taste exacty like store-bought pudding, and its better if you add ton of sugar, but I have to say, this is insanely sating. This eradicates hunger. I do not get hungry right after eating this. I love it.

Tortilla pancakes

You need: flour, salt, oil, pancake pan.

Put flour in a bowl, add salt as much as you would for a bread (lets say 400g flour, one teaspoon salt? i think. you can add more, they never get too salty.) Add up from 2 tablespoons of oil, I wouldn't go lower than 2, but you can go higher, it will actually taste better with more oil! But if you don't want to spend much oil or make this too unhealthy, 2 tablespons will do. Add water and mix until you get a soft dough, it works with a tougher dough as well, but they're really soft and pleasant to eat if your dough is soft. Put a pancake pan to heat on the fire, but do not add oil to it. This is done without oiling or greasing the pan at all. Take a handful of dough and spread it on the counter, (sprinkle flour on the counter first so it doesn't stick, and you can use a clean bottle  or something to spread it if you don't have tools). It's okay if your dough isn't perfectly thin, unless you're using this as a wrap. Move the thin dough to the heated pan, and it's enough to let it cook for a minute for each side. (like pancakes)

This is actually one thing I found incredibly tasty, and great replacement for bread! When I'm too tired to make bread, I can still make tortillas because it takes 5 minutes once you figure it out. You can also just sprinkle some oil and salt on top and eat it just like that.

Beans (or chickpeas or similar legume works)

Best way to stay good on protein levels is to cook a lot of beans, store them in tupperware in your fridge, and make different thing out of them every day. They last for a week in fridge. You can keep aquafaba frozen for a month, in fridge it will last a week in a closed container. This will be used for cake dough, pancakes, and little pasta things that go into soup, you could also make pasta with it, but I haven't tried! If you own an electric whisk you can beat it into a cream, mix with sugar, cocoa powder or any sweetener and have a great cake topping.

Now if you need ideas for how to eat beans so they still taste good after few days, you can try these:

Salad: mix with oil, salt, vinegar and sweet peppers powder (optional), add onions and garlic if possible. (you can add foraged greens like dandelion greens in it.)

Baked beans: put them in a hot pan with oil, salt, you're done in 10 minutes, extra great if you also do it together with potatoes.

Bean patties: mash your beans and add salt, little bit of flour and bread crumbs, garlic or onion (optional), if you have any herbs and spices like basil, paprika, rosemary, you can add those in but they will be great with salt alone if not. Make little patties with your fingers and you can roll them in bread crumbs, then cook in pan on oil until they're dark and crispy. I don't think anyone can get tired of eating those, they're delicious. Also good with rice.

Aquafaba pancakes

This is honestly just a pancake recipe and aquafaba is a replacement for eggs. The ingredients are flour, salt, sugar, water (you can use milk of course, if you have any), and aquafaba, but be careful to not put more aquafaba than water! They will stick to the pan sooo much if you do! The best mix is achieved by letting the pancake mixture rest in fridge for a bit, then it wont be so sticky and everything will mix better. But who has time for that. You make your pancake mix and enjoy making a huge mess over your stove. If you want, you can do this without aquafaba, pancakes taste extremely similar with only flour, water, sugar and salt, but with aquafaba you get a little extra protein, much nicer consistency, and that awesome brown spots pancakes have. No-aquafaba pancakes look very light yellow and pale-ish, and are slightly less sating.

Aquafaba cake dough

You need: flour, sugar (as much as you want), salt (half teaspoon), baking powder, oil or cooking margerine (or both) aquafaba, cocoa powder, any extra spice is great but optional (like cinnamon, vanilla, lemon juice)

I use equal amount of water and aquafaba for this, to get extremely fluffy and nicely risen dough. you could use less, or even use just aquafaba but if you do that, it will fall apart so much, it will get a bit harder to eat (very soft tho)! For oil and margerine, it works with any amount, it's just less sating if you add few tablespoons, and much more sating if you add more. I go with 150g of margerine usually.

Mix aquafaba, water (or milk if you got it), sugar, salt, spices if you got any, melted margerine or oil, and cocoa all together, then you can add baking powder and flour, and mix in more flour until you get nice creamy consistency, it doesn't have to get super dense, but you want it denser than your pancake mix. I usually mix it by hand whisk but electrical works too. Put it into oven at 150°C for about half hour, then check if it's all risen and dry. Now here's a trick, if you make a bit of coffee and sprinkle it on top of dough when it's done, it will taste so much better. If you have any citrus fruit like orange, spraying the dough with orange juice works amazing too! If you're super fancy and can add melted chocolate on top you got yourself a chocolate cake. Both coffee and orange juice go well with chocolate, but don't do both on one dough. You can also eat it without anything as it's still sweet and fluffy.

Now these are not extra amazing tasting things, but resources to use in times of crisis, depression, poverty, exhaustion. Each of them is fast to make and takes minimal resources and will keep you from being hungry. Hope you can use these for fun though :)

[foolsdiamond]

just ate 2 boiled potatoes w half a stick of margerine, a handful of shredded cheese, a pinch of salt and a dash of black papper.  clearly living life to its fullest.

[sweetcactojuice]

aimsey here is my mother's recipe I wrote it out from memory it's been in my notes app a while recipe under the break

Disclaimer I only know how to make this by measuring in ounces, sorry

Notes:

- This is a 4 egg recipe (serves 20-24 as a traybake) but can be scaled up and down with the proportions:

1 egg

2oz self raising flour

2oz margarine

2oz caster sugar

1/4 tsp lemon extract

- can be made gluten free with Freee gluten free self raising flour + 1/4 teaspoon xantham gum (for 8oz flour)

- you really need an electric hand mixer to get the batter light and fluffy

- if you don't have lemon extract you can use the zest of the two lemons

Ingredients:

Cake mix

4 eggs

8oz self raising flour

8oz margerine

8oz caster sugar

1 teaspoon lemon extract

"Drizzle"

Granulated sugar

juice of two lemons

Instructions:

1) in a large mixing bowl, beat together the margarine and caster sugar with an electric mixer until pale in colour and light and fluffy

2) Beat the eggs in a separate jug

3) Add in part of the beaten egg and beat

4) Beat in part of the flour

5) repeat this, alternating egg and flour until all is incorporated into the batter

6) briefly beat the lemon extract into the finished batter until incorporated, don't over-mix

7) transfer batter into a baking tin lined with parchment paper

8) bake at 170°C fan for 20 - 22 minutes or until light golden (adjust of gas oven)

9) test with a cocktail stick, if it comes out clean the cake is done

10) let cool either in the tin or on a cooling rack

10) to make the drizzle, juice two lemons and strain the juice through a sieve into a bowl

11) add in loads of granulated sugar, like more than you think. Mix it in really well and keep adding sugar until it's thick but still runny enough to pour over the cake (you just have to eyeball it good luck)

12) use a cocktail stick to poke loads of holes all the way through the cooled cake

13) pour the lemon sugar mix over the cake and leave to set (lemon juice sinks in and a great crunchy sugar top is left)

something about lemon drizzle cake makes me want to get my ankles out and frolic through a meadow

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

So what's there to say about hot mulled apple cider and pumpkin cookies?

Plenty. Especially on a rather cool and almost tangy sort of fall evening amongst the Artificial Waters of Artificial Lake Delton, the sort bound to call for a high school football game on Friday night.

And you can certainly credit Crazy Claws for being behind this sort of an evening, with a little help from Huckleberry Hound and his darling Clementine in baking up some serious pumpkin cookies--and no, not the sugar cookies as look like jack-o-lanterns, but to the following receipt:

Preheat oven to 400° F/200° C/Gas Mark 6.

Combine thoroughly and set aside:

1½ cups packed brown sugar ½ cup butter, margerine or shortening 2 eggs OR ½ cup liquid egg 1¾ cups canned pumpkin

Blend together:

2¾ cups all-purpose flour 1 tbsp. baking powder* 1 tsp. ground cinnamon ½ tsp. each salt* and ground nutmeg ¼ tsp. ground ginger 1 cup each raisins and chopped pecans

*Omit when using self-rising flour

Add these to the pumpkin mixture, stirring until well-blended. Add the raisins and pecans.

Drop by rounded teaspoons unto an ungreased cookie sheet; bake 12 to 15 minutes until lightly browned. If desired, ice the cookies when cool with a thin butter icing.

Enough for about six dozen.

Not to mention heating up a kettle of some serious old-school apple cider. The unfiltered kind, which sees some pulp settle at the bottom of the bottle, hence requiring some shaking beforehand to get the pulp mixed in. Oh, and did I mention the stick cinnamon for to add its own festive autumnal sort of note to the warmed cider?

But at least the kitchen of Crazy Claws' retreat had its own distinctive sort of aroma, and a spicy sort at that, from the pumpkin cookies baking away in the stove ... and a slight crispness autumnal from some the fall night air slipping its way into the cabin through open windows.

All in all ... how did the exercise turn out?

With a rather brilliant-looking night sky thanks to the full moon, the whole managed to come out rather interesting. And who could have resisted some serious pumpkin cookies that evening? Not even the likes of Phenery Pooch, who we otherwise know as the somewhat inept Hong Kong Phooey and was otherwise doing some biking around the Wisconsin Berkshires, slipping through the Dells to take in some fall colour in the bargain. At least Phenery wasn't getting all too bombastic in the martial arts, even admitting that the hot apple cider tasted "rather wonderful."

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[silvaurum]

getting urge to dip this meat stick in margerine and eat it like a big glob of frosting, thankfully have not done that yet, but boy is this fat craving insistent. “go eat some lard” we don’t have lard and no, but thanks for the input “go eat butter” no... “make buttercream... then eat” n... no...

[overpoweredoriginalposter]

“Hey neighbor, can I borrow a stick of butter?”

“Sorry, don’t have butter. Is margerine ok?”

im in quarantine so no ones allowed to interact with me but theres something objectively hilarious about hearing a knock at the door and when you go to open it this is all you see

[mellielearnstocook]

Beef Stew

Roughly followed this recipe for the beef steps & timing, but didn’t measure anything.

Thank you to my cousin Emily for some good tips! Specifically (a) that I shouldnt skip a tomato-based (acidic) addition but could easily substitute ketchup if I didn't have any tomato paste/sauce, and (b) to make sure I floured the beef before searing for a thicker stew.

Veggies/starches - sweet potato,  halved small potatoes, celery, carrot, parsnip, onions (fried with minced garlic).

Flavourings - celery salt, seasoned salt, and pepper (plus flour) on the beef before searing; a can of concentrated chicken broth, ketchup, and hoisin sauce (because without wine or anything else more traditional on hand, I wanted a bit of extra flavour).

Cooked in a crock pot for ~7.5 hours, added some cornstarch and margerine at the end to thicken/ for flavour.

Overall needed some extra salt but otherwise delicious! I’m happy to finally add a wholly new dish/skill to this blog :) (after a while of sticking with my existing skills)

I had way too many veggies to fit in the crock pot but I already chopped them, so I’ll need to find a way to use those up in the next few days. Maybe a chili with some beans I have on hand, maybe an orange soup with red lentils. In the meantime I’ll eat my delicious stew & freeze whatever I don’t finish. 

[kunwiginjanu]

Bruce’s Vegan Cottage Pie.

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, bruce’s vegan cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bruce’s Vegan Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Bruce’s Vegan Cottage Pie is something which I've loved my entire life. They're fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bruce’s vegan cottage pie using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Bruce’s Vegan Cottage Pie:

{Prepare 1 of onion.

{Make ready 2 sticks of celery.

{Make ready 2 of carrots.

{Prepare of Chilli flakes if you want.

{Get 4 cloves of garlic.

{Prepare 1 of parsnip.

{Get 2 of bay leaves.

{Take 1 of leek.

{Take of Salt and pepper.

{Get of Peas.

{Take of Sweetcorn.

{Prepare Sachet of Cottage Pie mix (or Bisto+garlic powder+thyme+teaspoon tomato paste).

{Make ready of Few glugs of port or red wine.

{Get of the mash.

{Make ready of Potatoes.

{Make ready of Margerine.

{Take of Soy cream.

{Make ready 1 of sprinkle of thyme.

Steps to make Bruce’s Vegan Cottage Pie:

Finely chop the celery, onion and one carrot, and soften in a cooking oil of your choice for a few minutes, in a big sauce pan. After a minute, add the also finely chopped garlic and some chilli flakes if you like..

Chop up a bunch of other vegetables, not necessarily what I listed. Whatever you want or have to hand..

Add all of the things into the pan, and heat up some water for potato cooking while this cooks..

Chop up your potatoes and add them to the hot water. Pop a lid on that and cook all the things on let’s say a medium heat until the potatoes are cooked..

Strain the potatoes, then add some margerine, thyme, salt and cream if you’re feeling indulgent. MASH..

Put the insidey mix in a bowl, top with the mash and some yeast flakes to top if you want. There ya go..

So that is going to wrap it up with this special food bruce’s vegan cottage pie recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am confident you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don't forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!