Picked up baking last year since i move to my own place, I tried making Lemon Pound Cake and Hedgehog Slice last month
I've never heard of this Hedgehog Slice thing before, but I'm pretty sure I could eat that all in one go, or at the very least the big chunk on the left.
It's just layered cracker covered in chocolate, easy to make, and really good if you like chocolate.
Though i replace coconut oil with butter. And i've learned there's my local version of it called batik cake, using condensed milk and cocoa powder.
Those look delicious!
Lately I've been "going full ham" on trying new things.
My favorite one is that I started volunteering for the first time about a year ago. Been the best thing I've ever done for my mental health, I can't recommend it enough.
This sounds great! If you're comfortable answering, what kind of volunteering stuff have you been doing and how has it helped your mental health?
I assist teaching English to newcomers/refugees to Canada.
The biggest thing it did for me was get me out of the house (I work from home), and I've met so many amazing people - both the staff and the students. It's also just incredibly fulfilling to see students getting better with their English, and seeing how much it helps them in their lives - especially given how difficult their lives have often been given their circumstances.
I really struggled a lot with nihilism and meaninglessness before I started volunteering, and while my overall view of the world hasn't changed much, my life feels like it has "purpose" now, as cliche as that sounds.
Yesterday I tried steak tartare for the first time in my life. The first bite I wasn't sure, but by the third bite I was really enjoying it. At the end I was just eating it directly!
Glad I tried it. Never really sought it out before, my only touch point was the Mr. bean Sketch
It's been about 12 hours and I didn't get sick either, double plus good!
Fun fact - invented by Jules Verne.
TIL!
I began watching Star Wars The Acolyte. If I had to sum it up in one sentence, I'd say it feels like they're running out of material.
The tone is all off. It has that glossy Disney feel combined with a lot of very surface level wuxia influence, which is totally at odds with a mystery-detective kind of story.
I don't want it to have the same tone as Andor, but I wish it had looked at Andor as proof that it is possible to shake off that Disney gloss and make a Star Wars show with a truly distinct identity.
A part of what I would say disengages me is they interpret the possibilities too strictly now, in a way they take themselves too seriously. I grew up on Clone Wars and Rebels and it was nice for something to not fall under late night show tropes. Now everything they do is done for the heck of it.
It's just nothing special is it. It's not as bad as book of Boba Fet yet but we will see how it develops.
Ironically I think they could do so much with the idea of a galactic detective show, and they're missing out on these in the execution. Or better yet, a Star Wars medical drama, like Grey's Anatomy in space. They could showcase interspecies medical conditions, lightsaber wounds, and aspects of canon that don't fit anywhere else.
The Star Wars universe is a brilliant place to tell stories, unfortunately Disney doesn't seem interested in telling anything interesting.
I went from doing plumbing for 10 years to running my own business where I do all kinds of renovation projects so there's been plenty of things I've done for the first time recently and today I'm giving an estimate on yet another such job.
New things I've done during the past few months: installing kitchen cabinets and doors, applying wallpaper, fixing holes on a steel roof and cleaning a tile roof from moss and treating with solution intented to prevent new growth.
Gochujang
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gochujang
Next up, making a sauce with it.
1/4 cup red chili paste
3tbsp. water
2tbsp. toasted sesame oil
1tbsp sugar
try subbing rice vinegar for the water,
If you're into kimchi you should make kimchi pancake with it, it's super nice
Now you can make tteokbokki. Just pick up some frozen rice cakes, along with anything else you feel like throwing in, and it's super simple to make.
Tonight I started a miniature project with complex sculpting. I'm used to doing gap filling or adding texture to existing surfaces, but this is full on sculpting.
I decided to start with a setting where everything is grungy and mutated, which is more forgiving. So far I am sculpting cultists with horrible boils and tumors, hoods, cloaks, and the details of a witch.
That's awesome. Do you know what you went to sculpt before you start? Or do you kind of go with your feeling as it develops?
I knew what I wanted, but the details changed as I went. These are wargaming pieces. I knew I wanted gross cultists, so the weird skin growths were easy, I initially wanted something like tricorn hats but that turned into simple cloth with eyeholes draped over their heads.
The witch was the hardest. I'm converting a male Celtic warrior into a female witch in a completely different pose.
My sculpting is very rudimentary, but the aesthetic of this wargame is dirty and muddy, so I am hoping to cover my sculpting with layers of grimy paint.
In progress:
They look great! Definitely going to add a lot of nuance to your game
My old workout routine that I have been doing for about 15 years became untenable because of scheduling and physical limitations. I mourned that loss and nursed a sports injury for a month till I could finally start something new. I just started last week with an Apple fitness program that I tailored for myself and I am very happy with it.
Sports injuries are the worst!
Went for a walk for my mental health, took the rain big time 👌
Going for walks on rainy days is great. I do it almost every time it rains a lot. Enjoy!
A very small thing, but I tried using the hip thrust machine at the gym. It was fine, I probably won't be adding it to my routine.
Ooh, I also tried a no-touch car wash for the first time this year.
That's great. Floor hip raises in pelvic tiltzer great for overall health as well.
How'd you like the no-touch car wash?
Loved it, felt like being a kid again :D
I'm drinking the lime pepsi right now. That count?
Totally counts
Learned how to solve a rubiks cube. Put it off for 6 years. Highly recommend anyone to give it a try. Here's a short 10 minute video if you wanna give it a go.
I bought a kerosene weed burner for my farm. (Propane ones are more common in the US and perhaps elsewhere, but not really here). I have a bit of fear of it, which isn't unreasonable for a big, pressurized tank of hydrocarbons near an open flame. I haven't gotten it to work right yet and I'm not sure why, so I'm a bit on the fence about it. We'll see how it works out in the long term. I am afraid to store it without the tank empty so it's sitting outside instead of in my shop.
Full planche , calisthenics.
I never seriously train my lats, planche wasnt possible, until I get stronger and find it to be a challenge all the while building the lats.
Getting pretty close, not there yet, must eat well rest well.
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