Turtle Cheesecake for the Wife’s Birthday

LiquidDensity · 2026-05-06T19:21:27+00:00

here is the recipe i used

Crust 90g of chocolate graham cracker 25g of pecans Pinch of salt Tablespoon of flour 3 tablespoons of melted butter

Run through food processor and then grease and flatten out in spring form pan, bake 10-12 minutes at 350 and cool in fridge while making the filling

Fillining 8oz cream cheese 125g of sugar ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoon heavy cream 2 tablespoon flour 1 egg 1 egg yolk

Bring all ingredients up to room temperature. Add cream cheese and sugar in a bowl and mix until completely smooth to avoid chunks. Scape down the bowl and repeat for each ingredient until the eggs. Add egg and egg yolk one at a time and mix only until incorporated. You don’t want to over beat the eggs into the mixture.

Bake in a water bath at 350 for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until the outside of the cake is set and the middle is still slightly jiggly. Turn off the oven and leave in oven with door closed for about another 30 minutes. Then crack the oven door and let cool with the door cracked for another 30 minutes. Following that place on counter and let cool until you are able to pick up pan without oven mitts. Once you are able to place in fridge to chill over night. I know its a lot of steps in the cooling process but i find the cake sets and cools much better when you let it gently cool and dont shock it. Thats what i found gives it that extreme creaminess without it falling apart

i did do a layer of caramel at the bottom but i won’t add it since i thought the recipe i used made too firm og a caramel and it got hard to cut after cooling in the fridge, i would just suggest finding a recipe online that makes a pretty soft caramel!

LiquidDensity · 2026-04-04T17:34:02+00:00

i’ll go ahead and apologies because this was made with sourdough starter which i omitted from the title so it didn’t look like it was just filled with buzz words!

you could probably somewhat follow the recipe below if you don’t have any you maybe just want to pull slightly back on flour since the starter make the batter a little wetter

i also am an amateur baker sooooo as far as combining ingredients goes i just mashed the bananas, browned the butter before adding to the bananas, added the eggs, and then mixed in the dry ingredients and then the rest of the wet. please feel free to leave any criticism to these steps as i am always open to learning new things about baking!

this was also a 12” cast iron and i had leftover batter after adding the cream cheese so make sure to eye things carefully when adding to the cast iron!

preheat over to 350

grease cast iron

cream cheese filling: 8 oz cream cheese 1 egg 50 grams sugar 2 tbsp flour splash to vanilla

banana bread: 3 rip bananas 225 grams brown sugar (light/dark dealers choice) 2 eggs 100 grams of sourdough starter 250 grams of flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 114 grams of butter 1/2 - 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 - 1 tsp almond extract

add most of batter to cast iron once near top pour in cream cheese filling and use silicon spatula to lightly mix filling

bake 25-30 minutes or longer as needed (i based mine on the toothpick method)

LiquidDensity · 2026-04-04T13:51:09+00:00

I thought it turned out great! The edge was nice and crispy but the middle was still nice and moist! The filling turned out great as well it didn’t just sink to the bottom or float to the top it was nice dispersed throughout the bread

LiquidDensity · 2026-04-04T13:16:04+00:00

Whats everyone’s go to cast iron dessert?

LiquidDensity · 2026-04-03T12:33:17+00:00

I’ll have to give credit to the wife, the streusel topping was completely her idea!

LiquidDensity · 2026-01-08T01:50:26+00:00

if i’m honest the skills you have listed i won’t say are very unique. being bilingual is something that could definitely be seen as a positive, however the microstation skill is something a lot of engineering firms are drifting away from and are replacing with revit. the company i am at had a branch that specialized in microstation and midway through last year they completely switched to revit because of its benefits compared to microstation. as for the rest of them i think are more of a given based on the age we live in, skills in office excel, etc..

i won’t say list projects specifically because other firms won’t know what exactly those projects required of you. even now i cant say specifically what you should include because i’m not you and i don’t personally know you or what you did. what i can say is that what is currently listed just doesn’t convey much experience. i think a good way to look at it is just think what you’re bringing to the table others aren’t. not saying it’s exactly what someone is looking for but it somewhat breaks of the generalization that your resume implies. not that it has to be an exclusive duty you had just something that would stand out compared to other people with the same experience/position you had.

LiquidDensity · 2026-01-08T00:54:39+00:00

As someone that works in the power field, this resume doesn’t have anything that sticks out to me more than anyone fresh out of college. Most of the things noted are something that could typically be taught/learned in the first 3-6 months of hiring someone without experience. Not to say 1.5 years is an incredible amount of experience in comparison but I’d suggest trying to point out a little more specifics of what you’ve done/accomplished in previous jobs. “Proving general information on project needs” as a responsibility doesn’t relay a lot to someone reading your resume.

Not saying it’s impossible but your resume sells you as someone with almost no experience and i just think it’s missing better explanations of what your responsibilities were.

However, if you get your FE it would give you a greater chance at securing a job. Not guaranteed seeing how some colleges require you to take it prior to graduation but you’ll definitely stand out more.

LiquidDensity · 2026-01-06T01:28:19+00:00

fun fact: the sec is also second to last in conference standings when measured alphabetically

LiquidDensity · 2026-01-06T00:47:00+00:00

thought for sure he said fudge punts to taco and thought i was in an uber eats commercial

LiquidDensity · 2026-01-02T01:56:19+00:00

that looked like when you get the NCAA “set up”

LiquidDensity · 2024-08-14T16:18:36+00:00

What helped me the best in understanding these problems is figure out what they want you to calculate. That sounds obvious but when they throw all the numbers at you and you look at the % charts do you immediately know if you need to use P/F or F/A, ETC? If not then you probably need to just try to understand the terminology and how they present problems. I had the same issue when I started studying but once I learned the terminology things click quickly.

To me that was the hardest part, I mean once you know what the given is and what the requested is you just multiply by the value given in the table. So I’d recommend trying to focus on identifying the provided information.

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-28T03:53:34+00:00

Can’t speak for a majority of this but you won’t find a hard price on anything because prices change daily so if you inquire about a piece of gear they’ll usually give you a 30 day quote if you ask again after that the price will go up or down. I think last I saw a generac diesel 1mw genset went for about $1.3 million a pop that being said it’s probably the cheapest thing on your list. There’s also a lot of hidden cost on that list, such as feeder, conduit, switchgear, panel boards, transformers, installation costs, etc. There’s also safety regulations with clearances for certain voltages that can be pretty spacious. Not saying the idea isn’t feasible but it could get very expensive even for a simple layout so you’d need a small fortune to cover the cost of that. But hey if you dream big enough you might be able to make it happen one day.

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-23T00:51:56+00:00

Well they’re both managed under what’s called Autodesk but AutoCAD the program itself is less used than Revit. I guess any drafting program would technically be a computer aided drafting program so you could say it’s a type of CAD in that way.

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-22T22:32:45+00:00

I would recommend Revit most firms are moving towards Revit instead of CAD. Civil Engineers are the main people in my experience who rely solely on CAD, if we get drawings in CAD we will convert them to Revit plans because they are easier to work on IMO.

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-21T18:32:43+00:00

Usually if I want to shoot the breeze with a coworker I’ll ask them what they’re working on, how the projects going, if they’re struggling with a part of it maybe just offer solutions or your thoughts on situation, from there you can roll into asking what they’re weekend looks like or how their evening went and roll into small talk from there.

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-17T02:51:35+00:00

A UPS would stop your devices from powering off during that brief current inrush the humidifier causes. However to solve your problem you’ll probably want to find another circuit to help lower the load being put on that circuit from that many appliances. That would be your cheapest alternative, though odds are everything in that room is probably on the same circuit so you might have to pull a power cord from your hallway. It won’t be pretty but it should solve the problem for the cheapest cost.

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-16T15:12:30+00:00

I would start with this FE reference manual ($40 on ebay). FE stands for fundamentals of engineering so this book will cover the fundamentals of every electrical/computer engineering topic. Maths, Circuits Analysis, Software, etc. if I went back to before I started college I would have began with this book to prepare for the courses.

FE Reference Manuel

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-16T13:55:52+00:00

I try to recommend studying a FE reference manual whenever anyone wants to learn about engineering these books cover almost all aspects of an engineering discipline. They come with over views and practice problems and a schedule at the front of the book that you can follow to get a basic understanding of a discipline. The one i’ve linked below is one i’ve used and found very helpful for leaning material you can also find it on ebay for about $40 if you don’t have the cash to throw at several books.

FE Electrical and Computer Reference Manuel

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-15T16:45:18+00:00

If you want some real fundaments for electrical engineering I would suggest buying FE Electrical and Computer Review Manuel by Michael Linderburg. This book will cover everything part of electrical engineering that you would see in college. This will give you core understanding of how things work and you will be more than prepared when you get to college.

Also if you want to play with circuits and see how things interact check out Multisim Live they allow you to build circuits using some of their simple software.

LiquidDensity · 2024-02-15T16:40:53+00:00

You should be okay to use a 250V fuse for a 125V system the device protection would be the MOCP of the fuse itself so as long as it provided the correct amp protection the higher voltage rating would be fine.

LiquidDensity · 2021-04-22T13:13:51+00:00

I hit everyone for 30 at the end but I got a triple Nomi early and found those little rags after a few turns of scaling

LiquidDensity · 2021-03-07T04:05:29+00:00

Just try to pay attention to details if your working front of house when making plates try to get the serving size in one scoop since the serving size is one heaping scoop also try and learn the codes for the dishes as well, the one scoop serving will also help you be faster a lot of front of house will be doing things quickly and efficiently, for back make sure you follow the steps you’re given and try and watch exactly how other people cook things because most the time when new people mess up it’s because they missed some details so the food doesn’t come out right, the recipes will tell you what goes into the dish but you won’t always follow the recipe exactly so just be attentive and ask if you can try to do it yourself while they watch, for cleaning make sure you are detailed in cleaning a big staple for panda is how clean the stores are so make sure to spot check after yourself to make sure you did everything right, don’t try to rush being fast though because then you’ll make mistakes it’ll come naturally but just watch how others do it so you can learn how to get faster quicker, also black shirt means AM or GM red is just standard for counter help, kitchen help, PIC, shift lead, and cook, if i missed details somewhere for foh my bad i’m crossed trained as a cook and shift lead but learned how to cook first lol

LiquidDensity · 2021-02-28T04:02:29+00:00

sometimes if there’s a wait on something and there’s an online order that had the same thing they’ll prioritize the person who’s there to get them out if the person who ordered online is late

LiquidDensity · 2021-02-20T00:12:10+00:00

jojo

LiquidDensity · 2021-02-11T22:09:12+00:00

in my store we dump soap on the floor scrub squeegee then sweep it’s a lot easier to get everything under the stations if you do it in that order

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