FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
Quark cheesecake on puffy yeast dough base
Version #2 is already near perfect, it will only get better from here. in the future.
Spring is here, friends are coming, life is ok.
Christmas mood: midnight baking, kids helping, everybody having fun, sneaky snacking, pot licking, jokes, quarrels. Good stuff. Let Christmas begin! #baking #cakeposting @hob
Sponge cake filled with berries. Summer delicacy. Life is good today. @hob #cakeposting
The same poppy seed cake recipe as couple of months ago, except this time in the form of a tulband/bábovka. Successful integration test for a little birthday party in 2 weeks. @hob #cakeposting
war porn, tank explosion, turret throw
https://nitter.net/ChrisO_wiki/status/1524448245539393539#m
I don’t like posting this sort of stuff, somebody died there. But technically speaking, this is a clear shot of a crazy Russian tank explosion throwing its turret to a record altitude.
Some of the funnier memes on the quality of planning in this war: https://nitter.net/WarintheFuture/status/1520587634396983296#m
Another poppy seed cake. Sort of a classic this one. Yet, one of my favourites.
How Silent Assent Made Bucha Possible
https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/04/06/how-silent-assent-made-bucha-possible-pub-86822
But in the end, I decided that for me, it was not a question of what good it would do, but of my personal responsibility.
– Larisa Bogoraz, 1968
This is brave stuff: a clip from Russian Channel 1 tonight
https://nitter.net/christogrozev/status/1503446891014537222#m
Check the video in the link!
Pithivier-style meat pie
My first, somewhat improvised, incursion into the meat pie territory.
Very tasty. I did not have huge expectations for the first attempt, but it worked out surprisingly well. Worth further exploration of this recipe style.
Meat pies to cheer up cold and sleazy winter days!
Inspired by the recipe in The Guardian:
3-layered apple pie, edition #2
The first attempt was fine and tasted well, but there were several things which needed improvement. Primarily the size of the recipe.
So I applied some bugfixes and made the edition #2. Half ingredients, better juicier taste, a bit of a sharper touch of lemon, just fine now. I don’t even know what’s to be improved still.
3-layered apple pie
- first attempt
- worked out fine, tastes great, not too sweat with just a bit of cinnamon
- to remember for the next iteration: all the pastry and apple layers should have been a bit thinner - the recipe is obviously for a larger tin, but eyeballing the dough I was a bit afraid it would dry out - unwarranted
@piggo with the regular #breadposting inspired me to start irregular #cakeposting instead. Let’s see what mileage I get.
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
***
This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
