FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.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._
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> -- 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:
* https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/feb/16/how-to-make-the-perfect-cheese-and-potato-pithivier-recipe-felicity-cloake
* http://casarosada-algarve.blogspot.com/2022/01/cheese-leek-and-celeriac-pithivier.html
### 3-layered apple pie, edition #2
The [first attempt](https://qoto.org/@FailForward/107628311117783248) 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
