anonrerising | Love is in the Air (again)

Remember, no politics, etc

looking for people's favorite baking recipes that include chai spices, e.g chai cookies, chai-spiced tartlets, etc. basically i have ground cardamom that id like to use up and an air fryer that could see more use

https://foodffs.tumblr.com/

This is one of my fav food/recipe tumblrs- they have everything tagged well, so you can dig through and find just about everything!

https://www.sugarandsoul.co/vanilla-chai-shortbread-cookies-recipe/

it's been a hot minute since i made these but they're very tasty!

fluffy melt-in-your-mouth cookies recipe:

grab a nice big bowl
add your wet ingredients: 2 eggs + 1 cup butter + 1.5 cups sugar + dash of vanilla extract
mash it all together until no butterchunks remain.

get a second nice big bowl.
add your dry ingredients: 3 cups flour of your choice + 1 tsp baking powder + 0.5 tsp salt + your cardamom (1 to 2 tbsp for gentle spice, could be good to add some cinnamon as well)
mix it together real goodlike.

bit by bit, stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. usually i also add some kind of chocolate chips - my favorite is dark chocolate but you might also consider butterscotch or white chocolate, depending on your preferences. tbh i measure most things with my eyeballs rather than adhering to the perfect science of baking, but maybe 2 cups of candy bits. this is also to your preference. i want the chips in every bite because the cookies come out very airy & i like my baked goods either a lil moist or dipped in an accompanying beverage.

you will know that the wet & dry ingredients have been properly combined when your dough behaves like it WANTS to be in one solid shape together. if it's too sticky, you can keep adding flour until you're closer to the texture you want.

next, shape your dough into little cookie pucks (flat, vaguely circular, smaller than the palm of your hand) and chill them. usually i lay them on sheets of baking paper small enough to seal in a plastic zipbag, and stack em three sheets high in the bag to chill in the fridge overnight (if you store them unsealed, they will taste like the fridge). the urge to bake them immediately will be strong. i understand. but you want them to chill. because your ingredients need time to get to know each other & realize that they are cookies now.

when you're ready to bake, you'll want your oven at 350 degrees. i don't know how ovenbaking instruction transfers over into the air fryer, but i think mine usually stay in the hot oven for 12 to 15 minutes. they might not get very dark or expand much. i like to take mine out when the top still looks wet. the longer you leave them, the drier they will be - though this could be preferable if you intend to enjoy them with tea. by the time the top starts to looks properly golden brown, your bottoms might be overdone.

i make them every week in different flavors :)

DA

Absolutely saving this, thank you!

Do we have any good pet-game youtube channel recommendations? I know of PSJulie (who is top tier, well researched and levelheaded) and Rattle (more drama based and only covers horse games).
Or podcasts, I guess. I'm looking for background chatter for chores.

Is this a pet-games only request? Or are any other games acceptable?

Hopefully pet games, but since it's a tiny niche, sure. Other games are fine too.

Closest I have is Jrose11, who tries to beat Pokemon games with a single pokemon - I like it as a background podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@Jrose11/videos

If you like JRose, MahDryBread is a channel who does similar single pokemon challenges plus some other games. And there's Johnstone, who does bigger dex challenges usually.

AYRT
Didn't know about Johnstone, will check them out, thanks, but I knew about MahDryBread and I don't particularly like their narration tone/play style

Re: YT Creators

(Anonymous) - 2024-02-18 20:31 (UTC) - Expand

They cover other topics too, but I've really been enjoying Li Speaks and Izzzyzzz, both on youtube

OP
Thanks for the suggestions (to everyone else too). I'm already subbed to most but Li Speaks was new to me, thanks

I'm normally not into this kind of thing, but I really like SianaCrossing.

She mainly does ACNH but dabbles in other games. She's really sweet, and I love watching her villager hunts.

you might also enjoy this:

https://lparchive.org/Girl-Games/

She plays through various online games aimed at girls and talks about them with various guests

sa

it's more critical than anything but I found her perspective fascinating and she talks from a place of great empathy for how the target audience engages with this "genre" of online games

Yesterday in the Times Connections game, one of the answers was "kinds of blue: baby, navy, sky, tiffany" and my Mum was wondering how I got Tiffany.

...

I didn't tell her it was from the FR Tomo's Trivia, but it totally was. 🤣

God I love the connections game; the times games actually rock, and I'd play spelling bee more if i didn'th ave to make an account.

but yeah man, good on you using your FR knowledge for other things. your brain is huge and your muscles are so cool.

Honestly, I kind of want an account but I really can't justify it.

Thanks. I'm sure yours are just as epic and awesome! :D

Re: Times Connections

(Anonymous) - 2024-04-02 20:25 (UTC) - Expand

I hope everyone had a fun time viewing today's eclipse earlier :) I love the wonders of nature

Saw good pictures, but in my area it didn't even get properly dark, and we should have had 97%. Guessing the clouds did it.

The clouds cooperated just right for me to enjoy totality, I'm pleased as heck! Can't wait for the next one.

https://imgur.com/a/HMqvQoC

Either I'm a dumbass or imgur is, but somehow it didn't upload my favorite pics, where I managed to use the clouds blowing past to my advantage. Lemme try again

https://imgur.com/a/lba97Kz

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) - 2024-04-10 03:11 (UTC) - Expand

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) - 2024-04-10 22:36 (UTC) - Expand

Yes it was amazing! we had a lot of clouds but there was just enough sky at the right time to get a good chunk of totality. Got to see the solar prominence!

(And because this is anon meme I can also say that we met up with my LDR and the adult fun times were practically as special as the eclipse itself. Made some good memories.)