I’m late to the party by a few years, and I don’t usually play visual novels. But 999 got some rave reviews, acclaimed as one of the best DS games, so I figured I’d give it a try. And it was worth it.
Side-By-Side Cookie Photo
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 – This is one of those rare moments where I have cookies from two batches side by side. I baked cookies on Sunday to bring to work. And then when I baked more cookies on Tuesday for Sizzleworks graduation, I still had leftover cookies from Sunday’s batch. So I took a side-by-side photo to compare.
The cookies in the bag are from Sunday’s batch, where I substituted 100g milk instead of 2 eggs. The cookies on the napkin are a Tuesday’s batch, hybrid recipe where I used 1 egg and 1 Tbsp milk. It’s hard to tell in the photo, but the hybrid recipe cookies are slightly larger with browner edges. (Otherwise, they look almost identical, as you can see in the photo.) As it turns out, counter-intuitively, the less egg or milk (what I call “moisture”) you put in a cookie, the less it holds together, and the more the edges spread out and burn.
So how did the cookies themselves come out? As it turns out, you can definitely swap out eggs for milk in a cookie, as long as it’s at least 100g milk (roughly half a cup). And hybrid recipes of 1 egg and 1 Tbsp milk help you make nice, dense, chewy cookies but still have fine-grain control over the moisture content, so you don’t end up with unworkable dough. But more on that in my upcoming book.
Eggs Benedict
Saturday, January 11, 2014 – After my whole “Merry Eggs-mas and Happy Hollandaise” pun card, I decided it was time to learn how to make my own eggs benedict. Plus, I learned how to make both Hollandaise sauce and poached eggs in cooking class, so eggs benedict was a natural extension.
New Years Dinner with the Family 2014
Like I said in my New Years Resolutions, I was going to start cooking for the family every time I visit them. This starts now. (Actually, it started last July.) After sending the menu to my mother, we settled on the tomato pesto fettuccine with seared steak.
New Years Retrospective and Resolutions 2014
So I’ve been making New Years Resolutions since 2011. Every year, I make new resolutions, and every year, I keep doing more and more awesome things. (As in, I’m doing more things, and the things I’m doing are more awesome.) And every year, I promise to do even more awesome things the next year, and those promises are what drive my New Years Resolutions.