Elusive.
Yes.
That's what we are.
Always feel free to build on my Head Canons and Ficlets, I ask only that you reblog me so I can go read them. :D
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Sourdough Danish Pastries Tutorial Sets {You must click link for FULL tutorial/recipe}
Oh god, I want to make these.
Can has working oven now?
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Student living got you down?
Check out these 18 amazing snacks that you can make in a cup in the microwave! Cheap and easy these are the perfect snacks!
Ohhhh, I gotta try some of these!
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motherfucking recipes: RECIPE MASTERPOST →
ILL EDIT THIS SHIT AND ADD MORE AS I MAKE MORE RECIPES
MEAL
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Oh GOD. Tag your porn. There are DIETERS on this site!
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Popsicle option!
beautifulpicturesofhealthyfood:
Frozen Mango, Kiwi, and Raspberry Pops- a delicious and healthy popsicle made from fresh fruit purees!…RECIPE
Pretty!
Okay. I need more food porn along these lines.
I AM SO MAKING THESE. But with a nice flavor in the middle. Something not mango. Because bleah, mango.
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Mycroft Pancakes
It’s Saturday! Do you know what that means?
That’s right; it’s pancakes time.
Today I made pancakes with the Mycroft Blend by Cara McGee over at areyoutryingtodeduceme. If you haven’t had it before, it’s a chai blend with notes of vanilla and chocolate. It’s very much like a spice cake in taste and smell, and it’s wonderful.
Enough talk though; the recipe.
Mycroft Pancakes
2 tsp. Mycroft Blend
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup milk
2 TBS. cocoa powder
2 1/2 TBS. sugar
2 cups pancake mix (I used Bisquick, but whatever brand you prefer is fine or you can mix your own dry ingredients.)
2 eggs
Butter for cooking
Directions:
Boil your 1/2 cup of water. While waiting, put your Mycroft blend into an infuser ball/french press/whatever you use for steeping. Just make sure the tea will have plenty of room to expand! Once boiling, add water to tea and steep for ten minutes.
Yes, ten. We’re cooking here, we want it to be strong.
Alright, while your tea steeps, go ahead and mix your dry ingredients. Combine your cocoa powder, sugar, and pancake mix in a large bowl. Use a whisk to get any large clumps out. (Some little clumps are okay; they will smooth out later) While waiting, you might as well starting heating up a pan or griddle as well for cooking. Medium heat, please.
Done with that? Good! If you move as slowly as I do, then your tea is done by this time. Add the tea to your dry ingredients. Throw in the milk as well. Mix. Provided your batter isn’t ridiculously hot now from the inclusion of the tea, crack your eggs in, and mix.
Fantastic, your batter is done! It’s time to put that pan or griddle to use now. Add a pat of butter to your pan and spread that shit around. That’s going to make your pancakes delicious. The size of pancakes is up to you; I like to make mine half dollar size, because A. they’re cute. and B. you can pretend you’re a giant while you eat them. Don’t debate on size for too long though; we wouldn’t want that butter to burn! Add your batter to your hot pan, flipping once you start to see bubbles in the pancakes. Give them another couple minutes to brown the other side, and they’re done!
Voila! Mycroft Pancakes!
Enjoy with a nice hot cup of Mycroft blend for a ridiculously delicious morning.
GOOD LORD
Mmmmmm Making these this week. Yes, yes I am.
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SHERLOCK’S SPICY SUGAR COOKIES
Just in case people aren’t already sick of me posting about baking, here are some super yummy cookies.
Ingredients
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups white sugar
1 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon finely ground black pepper (I know, I know. Just do it.)
1 cup unsalted butter (infused with tea)
8 tsp loose tea leaves
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extractInfusin’ Da Butter
- Put butter in saucepan and melt completely.
- Add tea leaves.
- Heat on low for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let stand for 5 more minutes.
- Press leaves through a fine sieve and drain as much butter as you can.
Bakin’ Da Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate bowl combine sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, allspice and black pepper. Remove 1/4 cup of the sugar-spice mixture and set aside for rolling the cookies.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar-spice mixture until fully mixed.
- Beat in egg and vanilla extract.
- Slowly blend in dry ingredients until combined.
- Roll dough into little balls and then into the left over sugar-spice mixture. Place dough balls on prepared baking sheet about 1 1/2 inches apart.
- Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Let stand on baking sheet two minutes before removing to cool.
- Give them to someone else to eat. Eating’s boring.
Oh my god- I want to try these.
They sound brilliant.
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Samael & Lilith: Making skin-lightening cream... →
I tan ridiculously easily, and my skin doesn’t ever fade back to my original skin tone for aaaaaaages. I still have a tan from a good 3 years ago (the last time I actually set out to get an tan, that is…)
The recipe I use for home-made skin lightening cream may not work on all skin types, but it has been working quite well on my skin. All the ingredients are natural and good for your skin. There are no chemicals, such as peroxide or ammonia, and you could probably find everything you need in your kitchen!
1/2 cup plain organic yogurt
2 finely ground almonds
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. honey
1 pinch ground turmeric
Use the cream before you go to bed, as lemon juice reacts badly with sunlight. And I know you might think turmeric is an odd ingredient as it stains things really easily, but it’s actually one of nature’s best bleaching ingredients, along with almonds and lemon juice.
Just reblogging myself… Might be useful for some of you :)
Signal boosting, I have a lot of fine scars on my arm I didn’t know about till I got this heavy tan from burning so much this last few months, the funky white spattering is driving me nuts so I’ll probably be making some this week to start using- if anyone else is having trouble with being over tanned this seems like it’d be gentle enough to use without all the harsh chemicals of the over the counter stuff.
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...dream weaver....: Chocolate Mug Cake for TWO →
Prep time + cook time = 5 MINUTES extra 3 mins for newbies
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons flour
5 tablespoons sugar (u can decrease # of tbs if adding choc. chips or ice-cream)
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
Pinch of salt
1 egg (lightly beaten)
3 tablespoons milk or water
3 tablespoons melted butter/oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips plus extra for sprinkling (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
You could make this in a bowl and then pour the batter into microwave-proof dishes/mugs or you can halve the ingredients into each mug (should fill half way in the mug)
*NOTE: When cooking the batter does rise, so keep an eye out.
Method:
Serves 2
1. Mix dry ingredients together in the mugs or bowl
2. Add the rest of the remaining ingredients. Mix until combined.
3. Microwave one mug at a time on medium-high for one minute and an extra 30secs if needed. (It should be cooked but moist and gooey in the middle.)
4. Get a fork or spoon and DIG IN :)
Eat on its own or add a scoop of ice-cream on top of the cake
If you want to be fancy you could:
-remove the cake from the mug, serve on a plate with a scoop of ice cream and decorate with pieces of your favourite fruits
-dust with icing sugar
-drizzle chocolate sauce and sprinkle crushed nuts
Use your imagination, you could add many goodies :)
p.s This is finger-licking good and super super easy, like making coffee :)
Both the mug cakes I made last night got demolished so quickly that I didn’t get a chance to take a photo of it. I found a picture that looked almost identical to mine to show you, minus the ice cream I served with my cakes.
Enjoy
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Trying recipes, 1 at a time: Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies →
BROWNIE INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter
2-oz dark chocolate, chopped
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2/3 cup flour
1/4 tsp saltCHEESECAKE INGREDIENTS
8-oz cream cheese, room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 large egg
1/2 tsp…
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Red Velvet Chocolate Cake Balls
Click through (or here) for recipe! :)
Omnomnomnom. SO at weigh in last night/this morning, down to 281 lbs! WHOO HOO! down already from a size 46 pants to a loose size 42, and a 3xl to a 1xl shirt.
Yes I am one of those horribly overweight folks. Lemme alone. It took a couple years of depression to balloon quite this large. I used to hover at a nice Large/XL and a size 16-18 US womens. Was that way for a decade before the Ex situation got fusking depressing as hell. Then the last year since the breakup from hell.
——ANYWHO. My goal is to be healthier than I was in Highschool as a 12-14 when I was my fittest.
It’s a long way to go but I am damn proud of myself for this much progress in getting back down to my goal. All 5 of my followers? Sorry for the porn. but all 10 auto posts for today are nothing but auto-posting food porn. :D
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Veggie Life: Cranberry-Orange Scones →
My mom made these a few times, and at some point I asked her to send me the recipe. I always make the same healthy substitutions and aside from the butter there aren’t a lot of unhealthy elements in them.
Based on this recipe.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup greek yogurt
- 1 egg or 2 egg whites
- 3 cups flour (I use 2/3 whole wheat, 1/3 regular)
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp grated orange peel (save the orange to make a glaze if you want)
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Beat egg into yogurt. Sift together flour, baking powder, soda and salt into a large bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter or fork. Add cranberries, sugar and orange peel. Toss to coat. Add yogurt mixture. Stir with a fork until a soft dough forms. I had to use my hands a little bit to get the last bits of flour mixed in. Turn out onto a floured board and knead it 5 or 6 turns.
Form dough into 2 balls and pat them out. Cut each into 8 wedges. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until a light golden brown. Let cool on a rack for at least 1 hour before serving. Makes 16 scones.
Optional orange glaze- cut the orange in half and squeeze it into a bowl. Slowly whisk in powdered sugar until you form a glaze. Drizzle over the cooled scones.
Really easy, not too sweet, and kind of impressive looking (scones are just so much fancier than muffins!) They’re hardy enough to travel well so they’re easy to give away if you’re the type of person who likes to give baked goods as gifts.
OMNOMNOMNOM
Close enough to my recepie I decided to driveby spam you all. <3
When witching about the horrors of the CBS knockoff we can enjoy civilized Tea with scones and milky tea. <3 I can’t stay mad when I have scones. It’s like staying mad while eating fine dark chocolates.