RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 2 hours ago:
Ooh, fancy foreign butter. Many thanks.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 5 hours ago:
I thought a bunch of cheese on my mini pizza hadn’t melted yet. Turned out to be pineapple.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 8 hours ago:
If you could pick me up a block of butter that would be great. Mine mysteriously dissapeared while I was doing all that baking
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 9 hours ago:
I have nasturtiums rambling around under the raspberries for that reason. Although the raspberries seem to have a lot of other bugs this year - which the currawongs are enjoying.
I’ve been enjoying watching the young currawong, it’s still a bit uncoordinated in its attempts to snare bugs. It is also quite fascinated by the kinetic sculpture - it spent a bit of time pulling at it to make the whole thing move.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 9 hours ago:
I will be far away from the cricket, but the second problem is a concern. Oh well, at least I get public holiday penalty rates. And I just talk to the firefighters, I don’t have to go out there and fight the fires myself. I’m pretty sure my heat tolerance is so low I’d die of heat exhaustion just putting on the turnout gear.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 10 hours ago:
40 near me 😭
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 11 hours ago:
I just saw the forecast for Boxing Day. Oh Dear.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 13 hours ago:
Much as I like my penalty rates I do miss those times when Christmas meant time off and a proper break from work/school. Squeezing a family Christmas dinner into my normal two days off just doesn’t have the same feel.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 23 hours ago:
I remember after the heatwave before Black Saturday there was a day in the high 30s and I was really happy to have finally have some cool weather.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 23 hours ago:
Life’s like that.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 23 hours ago:
Prior experience of handing around things at work and fielding constant questions about what everything is. Making a leaflet will save me lots of time.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 23 hours ago:
I used the photo of my biscuits to make a little labelled handout, with what each one is and which ones are vegan/wheat/dairy/gluten free. It looks very spiffy if I do say so myself.
The gift bags I printed out are going to be way too small, so I’m going to attach the Christmas pictures to a brown paper bag instead and add a couple of decorations.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 23 hours ago:
I just ate four for dessert 🙂
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
I thought I’d lost Miss Meow this afternoon, but she was just in my wardrobe snoozing on my socks. Escaping the baking chaos.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
It’s the first time I’ve used it! I bought a Tefal Snackmaker years ago, which is like a jaffle iron with changeable plates. It’s taken me this long to get around to actually making anything with these plates. They look pretty fancy though, I might have to try the chocolate version next.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
The air conditioner has done a great job in making sure I keep my cool.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
Biscuits complete!
I am giving a bag with one of each type of biscuit to my family, plus a tub full for my Mum and a tub for each of the two teams I am with at work. Plus a smaller container for me.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
I am starting to run out of room in my kitchen, there are biscuits everywhere! Just one more batch to go & I’ll be finished baking and can start on dividing up & packaging. I did end up doing an extra batch too, as I realised there is nothing vegan friendly, so I made some oat & date biscuits that are vegan and wheat free. I also learned that in Australia you can’t claim something is gluten free if it has oats because some people with Coeliacs Disease react to them, so wheat free is generally used instead.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
I didn’t save the pfeffenusse recipe I used last time and I don’t think this one is as good - the other ones were a bit softer and spread, these ones are hard round balls. I realised too late that I emailed someone the recipe last time, so have managed to find it for next time at least.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
I’ve just put the oven on to preheat for the pfeffenusse - day 2 of biscuit baking begins!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 1 day ago:
Four out of eight biscuit batches have been made. Dough for two more chilling in the fridge for baking tomorrow.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 2 days ago:
Wow. That looks awesome.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 2 days ago:
I spent the morning browsing biscuit packaging ideas and printing some bags. So I didn’t actually start on biscuits until after lunch. I have made the cranberry coconut oatmeal biscuits & have the pfeffenusse dough chilling in the fridge.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 2 days ago:
I have decided to bake some biscuits for Christmas. I have narrowed my selection down to 8, lets see how many I end up doing! The current shortlist is:
- pfeffenusse
- Scottish shortbread
- coconut macaroons
- cranberry-coconut oatmeal
- embossed lemon shortbread
- Pizzelle (wafers)
- Chocolate Brownie Cookies
- "Oma’s biscuits" - another shortbread variation
I’m focusing on recipes that are not too complicated to make, keep fairly well, with at least a few that can be dunked in a cup of tea. I’ll give a few as gift boxes and take some to work, with the bulk of them to be a gift to my Mum - she has been making her own biscuits for years, but recently has started to find the effort a bit much, so I’d like to fill her biscuit jar with home made biscuits for a while.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 2 days ago:
I was just about to check my email for the estimated time for my grocery delivery today when they delivered it. Faboulous timing, they most often deliver around 11am for this time window. Mr Woof Is not happy about someone encroaching on our territory though.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚆🚇🚥 Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 3 days ago:
🎉 🥳 🎊
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚆🚇🚥 Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 3 days ago:
I suspect it is putting all of it’s life energy into these chillies before it dies. I did give it some fertilizer & extra water, but it is in a brutally exposed spot, in full sun right next to the footpath. I only planted it because it was an extra seedling and I figured I’d give it a chance - I guess it’s taking it’s chance and doing everything it can with it.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚆🚇🚥 Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 3 days ago:
I have a jalepeno that miraculously managed to survive the winter after being planted in a terribly harsh, dry spot last year. It is about the size of those plants, and currently has two chiles on it!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ♥️💜💙💚💛🩵🩷🩶 Tuesday, 17 December, 2024 4 days ago:
I don’t have a break and am working on the public holidays. Which means lots of penalty rates lining my pocket 😍💰
