most of this post isn't cupcake-related

Feb 12, 2017 22:42

happy (slightly late) birthday murielle! pretty fabulous idol writer. :D i hope it was a good one, ideally with cake ( Read more... )

very wet snow, baked goods, fun with the fam, fun with my sister, music, movies, snow, tony curran, psa, bigbang 2017, weekend wrapup, curling, shovel your sidewalk you lazy dick

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nomercles February 13 2017, 10:10:52 UTC
Heavy cream: if you have peaches or strawberries, or other fruits that generally go with phrases like "and cream", well, take it literally. It ends up being like fruit and ice cream, but less sweet. Also, you can put it into hot chocolate, Vietnamese coffee, and probably a twist on Thai iced tea but I haven't figured that out yet. And chai! It'll screw with your ratios a little bit, but only a little.

Congratulations on pie! I'm glad it was tasty!

What's a bonspiel?

I am not up for that documentary right now, but at some point, I shall watch it.

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tsuki_no_bara February 14 2017, 02:49:50 UTC
i'm not a fan of fruit in my cream, or cream on my fruit, but putting heavy cream in hot chocolate is BRILLIANT. homg.

i am now going to eat the last piece for dessert. :D there was exactly one piece left over so i took it home because my sister didn't want it.

a bonspiel is a curling tournament. they usually go all weekend and the ones we host are themed. i think the theme for last weekend's was cult movies. last year one of them was star wars themed, so there was a big at-at cutout on the wall of the shed where the ice is.

it's a very interesting and sweet documentary! and it's not that long.

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beeker121 February 13 2017, 15:07:49 UTC
Possible uses for left over heavy cream- put in hot chocolate, really rich scrambled eggs, make a veggie puree (we're having a butternut squash one later this week) and add for smoothness.

Seconding that LoEG is just awful. Have you read the comics it was based on? Such amazing potential, thrown so completely away.

I've been debating seeing Lion in the theaters. I usually try to see all the best picture nominees but I'm not as concerned with seeing all of them before the ceremony any more. Fences is next, as a recovering theater-person that one demands to be seen for me, but Lion was on my maybe list. Sounds like it's worth it?

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tsuki_no_bara February 14 2017, 01:57:14 UTC
scrambled eggs! i never would've thought of that. and nomercles mentioned hot chocolate too. yum. a lot of yum.

i never read the comics. i don't even think i knew there were comics until after the movie came out. i heard they were completely different and a lot better than the movie, and i'm not surprised.

go see lion! i mean, see fences first if it's a definite-see, but then you should watch lion. bring a kleenex.

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dear_tiger February 13 2017, 17:39:10 UTC
DUNKIRK \o/ Yes, you need to watch it. I need to watch it. It's a must-see. (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, though. More than once. Damn. I remember watching that thing once, and no, just no. Although I have seen at one point a number of highly questionable movies just for the actors.)

You should make whipped cream. Duh. And put it on your pie. Real, freshly made whipped cream is amazing.

Damp toilet paper, now, that's not cool.

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tsuki_no_bara February 14 2017, 01:52:36 UTC
it's not out yet! it's not coming out until the summer! ...is there more than one dunkirk?

league of extraordinary gentlemen definitely falls under the heading of "terrible movies i've see for the cute boys". see also: hot tub time machine (IT IS SO BAD. SO, SO BAD. AND SEBASTIAN STAN HAS TERRIBLE HAIR.) covenant (two hours of "salem does not look like that!" and sebstan chewing the scenery) (at least the boys are pretty and it's probably unintentionally slashy as hell) and devour, which my friend's dvd player refused to play.

i, uh, bought whipped cream in a can. it's so much easier and so much more portable than making it. also it's really good plain.

damp toilet paper is THE WORST. i think it's dried off by now, but still. eugh.

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countlibras February 13 2017, 19:08:19 UTC
i think anything underworld is probably quite bad. lol! (except the soundtrack to the first movie. that was fantastic.)

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tsuki_no_bara February 14 2017, 01:39:11 UTC
i've only seen the second one and bits of a couple others (i think #1 and #3), but yeah, i have to agree. they're not good.

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countlibras February 14 2017, 19:25:58 UTC
i think i've seen the first two but i can't seem to remember what the second one was about. lol!

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ephemera February 14 2017, 21:58:38 UTC
Hurray for baking success in both pie and cookie form! (cream and fruit, with or without jelly, would be my go-to....)

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tsuki_no_bara February 15 2017, 02:27:25 UTC
to be fair, chocolate chip cookies are pretty simple, altho we did have to scale the recipe up because we were feeding a lot of people.... and not all the cookie trays fit in the oven at the same time. but i may or may not have snacked on the occasional chocolate chip while i was mixing dough. ahem.

cream, fruit, and jelly? that's a new one. i am intrigued by the presence of jelly!

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