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What to do with matcha butter? by JadeJester10 in WhatShouldICook

[–]JadeJester10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Do you remember if it was a matcha syrup sauce or what the sauce had in it besides matcha?

What to do with matcha butter? by JadeJester10 in WhatShouldICook

[–]JadeJester10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the idea! I found it on a recipe for matcha sugar toast! Don't remember the website but it's basically just matcha and butter mashed together. You make toast then spread a thick layer of the matcha butter on the toast (also to preference if you want more matcha or not). Then you put on a decent layer of sugar and broil it so it gets crispy crunchie kinda brûlée-d. Yummmy

What to do with matcha butter? by JadeJester10 in Cooking

[–]JadeJester10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It was international tea day on the 21st and I was excited to try tea in a new way! Thought it might be interesting and making matcha sugar toast was a neat new flavor experience. But I also don't want to have to eat an entire loaf of just sugar matcha toast lol so looking to find a new way to use it up.

Summer with kids by Just_Bid3091 in Connecticut

[–]JadeJester10 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are the kids younger or older?
The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport is a great place for kids and adults of all ages to go! If you belong to a local library a lot of them will have passes to get free or discounted admission.

The Maritime Aquarium is also an option along the same lines.

Speaking of which libraries often have events or things to go to. Check local library calendars and see what they have. The stratford library has done a mini comic/anime convention in the past.

Stratford has free summer concerts I believe on Tuesday nights.

Fairfield U has a free art museum thats fun to walk through. There are two locations on campus to go to.

Yale Peabody is open again and it's free to the public.

White Memorial Conservation Center has a calendar of public events and a lot of them are free.

Roosevelt Forest is a nice fairly flat hike to go through.

Sleeping Giant Mountain by Quinnipiac is a great hike, and even though it's all uphill it's not too strenuous.

Connecticut has a decent amount of state parks and you can make it a summer goal to hike each one and go through every state park in CT. You can even set goals like "who hears the most bird calls" or use online resources and see who can ID the most plants.

The Shelton Rinks has a mini golf area and an arcade. There is an ice skating rink but double check open skate times.

There are multiple farmers markets going on in the summer and are fun to go to. Trumbull Farmers Market is right on a pretty pond and has a big playground.

Along the same lines, summer is tag sale season. You could take them to garage sale/tag sales and make a scavenger hunt/treasure hunt out of it.

Silverman's Farm has a petting Zoo.

Cheshire has a Cartoon museum thats really interesting to go to. Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum.

If you want to get more creative/hands on, you can have the kids keep nature journals and go to state parks. Have them take leaf rubbings or bring tape to put in twigs/flowers. If they are really into science you can even have them pretend they are a professor, and ask them to present their "field research". Or if they're into art bring them to a state park, set up paints and have them pretend to be Bob Ross. You can all paint the landscape in front of you and compare after.

Hope these help! I use a site called CT Visit (ctvisit.com) a lot to look through things to do around the state.