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Can you tell us more about your novel?
Who needs baking when you can make Stove Brownies, Fiction?
Arsenic Yellow
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i have to give you my pumpkin cookie recipe
it's so good. Also my italian wedding cake recipe (i use double the pineapple, coconut and pecans) I wish I had time to bake more. I really enjoy it.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Sure... why not?
Let's go, 2014.
Let's go, 2014.
You're a pretty girl GAF
The Librarian
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To participate or to not participate? That is the question.
Wanderlust comes out in January, and if there's any reason to rock the Soph, it's that.
Wanderlust comes out in January, and if there's any reason to rock the Soph, it's that.
Dr.Palutena
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Things I wanna do in 2014 (I won't call them resolutions until I come up with more specific goals) :
1) (Re)learn Spanish
2) Become better at managing money
3) Find a Job or something to do that's meaningful
4) ???
1) (Re)learn Spanish
2) Become better at managing money
3) Find a Job or something to do that's meaningful
4) ???
HAPPY NEW YEAR REAL-GAF.
My new year's resolution is to complete all my CBT and kick my depression/anxiety that has taken over my life for the past four months.
That's pretty common for most cooks, so don't fret!
My new year's resolution is to complete all my CBT and kick my depression/anxiety that has taken over my life for the past four months.
That's pretty common for most cooks, so don't fret!
O.DOGG
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If by smiling you mean grimacing at less than 100% capacity
Well, one step at a time
The one I'm working on, which I intend to make a series about five books long, is a low fantasy story about three people, two of whom start out as friends, who grew up in the same village losing everything. It's how they deal with that loss individually and as a group and the consequences of the moves they make in the immediate and distant future.
The overarching story I want to tell is about the life and personal growth of these three characters through major changes in the world they live in over the course of about 60 years. The story I want to tell in this current and first book is, at least at the beginning, your standard adventure tale that deals with the idea of the value of winning and losing. What victory can cost you and defeat can gain.
This is about the point where I'd usually go into a long spiel about the world I'm trying to build, but I've been learning not to do that.
MY resolution is to write more.
I really love writing, but I just need to get better at it, which means I need to do it more.
And read more.
Well it sounds like something I'd like to read, if that makes any difference.
I really love writing, but I just need to get better at it, which means I need to do it more.
And read more.
Well it sounds like something I'd like to read, if that makes any difference.
WhereAreMahDragonz
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This'll have to do until I can take something less hipsterish tomorrow.
friskykillface
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added #4 for you
I also need to relearn spanish, its a shame i forgot all of it and i am latino :/ the hell
ClassyPenguin
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Gurl I will teach you The Baking.
That's one big ball.
H.Protagonist
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2014 Goals/Resolutions:
- Write/publish a second book
- Visit a new country
- Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
- Improve my fitness (workout at least 3 days a week)
- Build a cat house
Of course you should.
It's very ethereal. I like it.
- Write/publish a second book
- Visit a new country
- Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
- Improve my fitness (workout at least 3 days a week)
- Build a cat house
Of course you should.
It's very ethereal. I like it.
Professor Beef
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My new years resolution is to try and finally take steps towards my dream job.
The picture is even all tilted!
Aw shitNEW YEAR NEW ME
The picture is even all tilted!
added #4 for you
I also need to relearn spanish, its a shame i forgot all of it and i am latino :/ the hell
Despite me living in Pittsburgh for the last 5 years I still know a lot of the Spanglish that I grew up with in New Mexico.
I'd like to take a proper course though... my work wouldn't pay for it though, we don't sell anything to Mexico or Spain.
ClassyPenguin
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Survive the Australian wilderness isn't on the list? Or did you already conquer it?
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I love baking, and I'm pretty good at it, too. My cupcakes have reached legendary status around here. I actually didn't bake much of anything in 2013, though. I guess I'll make baking more stuff into my New Years resolution?
That said,
That said,
This looks amazing, but wouldn't that be cumbersome to actually eat?Gurl I will teach you The Baking.
How did you make this, tell me the secrets
Thank you. I'll try not to disappoint.
User 100115
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Apparently the precise instructions. I tend to freemode it when I am cooking which is something that causes random explosions when I am baking.
i have to give you my pumpkin cookie recipe
I wish I had time to bake more. I really enjoy it.
Ohhh yes do so.
OMG THAT IS BEAUTIFUL
H.Protagonist
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I have to leave Australia in just a few weeks, so if I can make it 'til then, I'm home free for another few months.
Your VISA process is awful. ;_;
It wasn't bad! There was a cardboard round in the middle so you eat the top first.
You bake your cake, give it a crumb coat and then put it in the freezer. Then you can carve it and ice it
I will teach you
ClassyPenguin
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There are hemisphere pans you can buy. Dunno if that's what she used.
Nah, it was flat rounds, stacked and carved.
The engineer in me wants to make it using layers now, lol. Not sure if it will hold up.
Yay I wasn't too far off the mark.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Huh, that's pretty cool. I'm totally making a pokeball cake that looks like this, at some point.It wasn't bad! There was a cardboard round in the middle so you eat the top first.
You bake your cake, give it a crumb coat and then put it in the freezer. Then you can carve it and ice it
Baking is actually the opposite concept of cooking, it's actually better to think of baking as science/chemistry/math, because that's what you are actually doing. If you can get down the math parts, the actual act of putting together a cake is muffin.
I would actually bake more often, except small kitchen, bleh.
I like to think of baking as applied chemistry. The principles are the same!
It'll hold up if you freeze it first! I'm pretty sure I used some dowels too.
Couple layers on the bottom, put some wooden dowels in the bottom layers, then a cardboard on those layers/dowels. Then put moar cake on top.
Crumb coat, freeze. Then carve.Kitsunebaby
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Yeah, baking is when I let my obsessive compulsive side take over, while trying to reign in my creative side. It's all about following those little details or the chemistry is off.
I really like cooking blogs (especially for baking) since the instructions are a little more in depth and the writers will typically say when something goes wrong and how you can fix it. I've been meaning to start my own blog since I cook and bake so often.
Yup, it pretty much is, I agree.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
You definitely should. I know a lot of friends I could pass your blog to. They're voracious about reading stuff like that.
Hmm, I wonder if there's an alternative to freezing. I suppose not, since it would fall apart from its own weight otherwise.
H.Protagonist
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phoenix296
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Pretty new to gaf and a lurker. Think I'll hide behind my anime avatar this year. :3
Freezing is for carving. Don't have to freeze otherwise unless you want your icing to be white with no crumbs. If you carve without freezing though, you're basically carving fluff.
And cakes can be quite a few layers without any help. I think I've had a five or six layer cake before and it had no support.
Well, a lot of fun of forming new recipes is to experiment, otherwise we wouldn't have stuff like You Tube Chocolates on Apple Cider Cupcakes.
Also, now I'm ready to go for Real Pic January. Yay.
NEW YEAR NEW ME
More like old pic lol. I've seen that pic too many times for my own good. ;p
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