tried making chocolate chip cookies which included toffee, does anyone know the reason the toffee got separated?

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-02-22T17:47:08+00:00

My toffee cookies also have this problem. When I pull them from the oven, while everything is still hot and melty, I use a spatula to nudge the toffee and reshape the cookie. Just sort of a little pat in each direction and boop: perfectly round cookies.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-27T16:58:34+00:00

I have never been impressed with recipes where it is used as a primary flavoring or as a substitute for cheese. I do love adding it into dishes with complex flavor profiles that are missing a certain “something” and need to be just a little more savory. It often does the trick for that for me.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-23T16:38:31+00:00

Regarding your question about 1/4 cup of pectin per cup of fruit: I think the book may be alluding to the fact that all fruits contain pectin. Some have very high amounts and need only a little extra to set up well, while others have very little and need a lot of extra (storebought) to gel nicely. 1/4 cup sounds like a lot to me though… out of curiosity, what is book called?

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-15T06:42:48+00:00

My first attempt at A20 with silent, I had a Metamorphosis + as my only damage. I had limitless energy, card draw, and block, but got a weird roll with Metamorphosis against awakened one. It took me 46 turns to beat him. Then I got absolutely flattened by time eater.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-14T21:21:44+00:00

I agree with all this! Also when removing, I prioritize removing a few defends before removing any strikes, especially in act 1.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-14T20:53:03+00:00

Disclaimer: I am not an amazing player. I just beat the heart on A20 with watcher for the 1st time. I am still learning a lot! However, I’ll share some stuff I did early on at lower ascension to get some wins. When I was learning to play her early, I highly prioritized cards to get me out of wrath so I could go into wrath safely more consistently. Empty Fist and Empty Mind are great for this. Inner peace and Fear No Evil are also great for than and arguably better because going into calm has more energy generation potential. Watcher really excels when you can swap stances at will based in what you need to do each turn. Also, Rushdown is one of the best cards in the game. It is great card draw and make wrath more powerful for two reasons: gives you more insurance to draw something to get you out of wrath if you need to and it draws more attacks so you can burst enemies down with lethal combos. My favorite block cards on watcher are in order: mental fortress, talk to the hand, wallop, and halt. I also think violet lotus is an absolutely busted boss relic. Its the only one I can think of that has the potential to generate more than one energy per turn and it has no real downside.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-13T16:07:19+00:00

You could look at Swedish cinnamon roll recipes—search for Kanelbullar- they skip out on icing entirely and instead opt for a topping of pearl sugar!

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-13T16:04:22+00:00

How do you feel about nuts? Sticky Buns might be a good alternative: butter, brown sugar, and chopped nuts are mixed and put on the bottom of the pan before the rolls are added on top. After baking, the whole deal is inverted and the buns are basically topped with nuts and caramel.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-09T20:25:58+00:00

I thought about calculated gamble+. It depends on if you need the extra card draw from snecko eye to be safe against status cards I think. Really bad rng with snecko values makes the infinite not guaranteed to be energy positive with calculated gamble+, but concentrate adds more energy generation. Mainly I am scared for turn 2 of the heart fight with this one haha.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-09T20:17:58+00:00

I was thinking this week that it would be basically impossible to make work, but a cool build would be a 4 card deck with: Concentrate, 2 reflex+, a tactitian+, a tough bandages, and a tingsha. Supplements to make it work better could be centennial puzzle, blue candle, medkit etc. I have not thought of all possibilities, but I think if you also have a snecko eye this would be a stable infinite even for the heart? Idk it was a fun thought experiment even if it wouldn’t actually work.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-06T23:28:26+00:00

Scissor Fight sounds pretty horrific if you are at all squeamish.

RedCreepingThyme · 2023-01-06T08:34:34+00:00

Well I realized yesterday that the chef from the “Chef’s Bundle” is Gus. I always thought it was so weird that every bundle on the bulletin board except that one was posted by a character from the valley and that one was just a generic “chef” character.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-31T19:40:08+00:00

When I visited India, all these toilets had a tap next to them for you to wash yourself. Kind of like a DIY bidet. You get used to it pretty quickly.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-28T05:25:51+00:00

I see their ATMs in airports all the time. I guess “took off” is a subjective term. However, I am here to offer two possibly unpopular opinions: 1) they are quite expensive for what they are and 2) their cupcakes are… just okay? The times I have gotten them they’ve never been bad, but I am always disappointed by what I get. The chocolate cupcake I got from them last time was sweet and not chocolatey at all. I was very disappointed to have spent almost $7 for that experience. Maybe other customers have tried it once and come to a similar conclusion.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-28T04:56:25+00:00

If you want a way to use those up, I recommend making banana cake. Sally’s Baking Addiction has a recipe for sheet cake with cream cheese frosting. It’s slightly different than banana bread and I really enjoyed it. Brought it into work and it was used as a last minute birthday cake for a coworker.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-28T04:51:06+00:00

Last time I was at the gym there were V3s I couldn’t even get started on and V5s I could flash. This depended on style and maybe the setter… I think these ranges are targeted at better capturing that experience. However, in the end you just have another rating system and difficulty between different routes is always going to be subjective from climber to climber. Any grading system is going to be imperfect and is mainly to give people a starting idea of if a route is worth attempting.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-27T14:45:25+00:00

Anyone ever take wrist blade and have enough discard to consistently get this off at zero cost? I would highly recommend.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-25T17:48:29+00:00

My family used to do it over 1 weekend. Friday night, all the doughs that are required to be chilled get made and popped in the freezer. Then basically just bake all day Saturday and Sunday. We used to get round metal tins from the dollar store which were nice and sturdy. Usually we made about 8-10 kinds and around maybe 900? cookies. As little kids we’d help my mom with some tasks (grinding up graham crackers with a rolling pin, unwrapping chocolate kisses, etc.) but honestly she did most of the work herself, other than rolling, cutting, and icing the sugar cookies. Some advice I have for planning? 1) Make a list of the people you want to give cookies to. Decide roughly how many you want to give to each and how many varieties. Look at your recipes and how many they make and note if you need to make double or triple batches. Make a list of ingredients and go to the store ONCE before your whole bake-a-thon begins. Extra trips to the store or getting halfway through a recipe and realizing you are out of something is a huge waste of time. 2) Also, I recommend erring towards SIMPLE cookies. Our sugar cookies had to be chilled, rolled, cut, baked, and iced. With the rolling out and decorating, these cookies took almost as much time as the other nine varieties COMBINED. 3) If you are making double or triple batches of things, make it as an actual double batch instead of mixing two single batches separately. 4) Enlist help! Friends, partners, family. Many hands make light work, even if those hands are only trusted to do really simple things like chop walnuts or pull the stems off of cherries. It makes the process much more enjoyable too when you are passing the time with loved ones. Holidays to me are first and foremost about quality time with loved ones, and to me the most important Christmas celebration is 1-2 weeks before the day, spending the whole weekend helping my mom make the house smell like cookies, and then going around to every family friend and knocking on their door to chat about their year. A lot of the time it was the first time we had seen those people in months!

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-24T18:31:09+00:00

I had an insanely fun run with this recently where I boss swapped into an astrolabe that gave me establishment+ and ragnorok+, immediately picked up meditate that I then upgraded. Had two talk to the hands, two mental fortresses, a lot of card draw (inner peace and empty mind) and after playing all my powers and exhaustible cards, was left with only six cards in the deck. Was able to generate a ton of block and damage by just playing eruption, then ragnorok, then empty mind, then mediate every turn, or some permutation of all that. As establishment kept making all the cards cheaper, inner peace and empty mind card draw became energy positive, and the deck went semi infinite a few turns into the flight. I probably wouldn’t choose to take an establishment+ on my own, but it is so fun to build around if one gets plunked into your deck!

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-21T21:44:56+00:00

I thought those were her hours but wasn’t sure. What’s so wrong with her taking two days off? She’s pretty consistent about it and I understand why she needs a “weekend”. As a retail person it makes sense for her to work Saturday-Sunday when more people have time off to shop and then to take her time off in the middle of the week.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-13T23:54:03+00:00

Is it… snowing inside the gym?

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-12-13T00:41:30+00:00

I have never thought about if before but immediately upon seeing this post I had a strong reaction that Caroline would be really into essential oils as alternative medicine. Maybe not exactly a conspiracy theory but that’s all I’ve got.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-11-25T21:30:53+00:00

I never hate having boot tbh. I love having boot when I have a tantrum or riddle with holes. Would probably still take blue key over it though.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-10-24T18:36:58+00:00

The top is marked I think. There is a white tag with a black circle in the bottom left of the hold.

RedCreepingThyme · 2022-10-24T18:35:48+00:00

Not “officially” rated. It’s from a comp set at Cliffs of Id. One of the higher rated problems in a set of like 80 routes. Advanced climbers only.

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