#prep for my walk

[aoreyu]

We're climbing some new terrain this year. I want to have a solid boot on as I want to be able to take in a lot of the view yet know that my feet are okay. Good boots{hiking shoes} really are a part of the journey. You know, the last three pair of boots I tried on where either tight or too soft or had zero arch support. Keeping away form sprains and soreness and blistering of my feet is a full time job when I'm outdoors and moving about. Lucky for me, I have found some internal calm as one shop has been able to help me with a great pair of high cuff boots. As a matter of fact they also had a couple of items for my trail and path activities.

Made my visit easy. If you folks need to make your fits more classy [or for some classical}; you might have a gander for yourselves.

[theabigailthorn]

spent ages preparing to audition for a role I really really wanted and it's looking like (still unconfirmed) they might not even be holding auditions at all but have just given it to someone directly

which, meh, that sucks but that's the industry!

I'm just like now what? I spent a lot of my free time the last few months prepping and I genuinely don't know what to do with myself now!

[digitalfishwish]

Kit's Traybake Pancakes (cinnamon apple var.) - Updated!

Love eating pancakes but hate making them? This traybake pancake recipe may be for you! Making these gives me enough pancake squares for 6 days (5 if you eat two on the day you make them). They’re fluffy, reheat well, can either be eaten with or without maple syrup, and are very customizable! I recommend adding fruit and protein powder like I do in this recipe, making it a (slightly) healthier breakfast than just pure carbs.

(Updated) instructions under the cut!

Full disclosure, the base for this recipe was the mug pancake recipe from Emma’s Goodies, which you can watch here!

I made this mug pancake for years (except with tripled portions because I was using a very big mug) and it was super delicious! However, for just one mug pancake, it was a bit of a production and didn’t feel super worth it. Thusly, I have adapted the recipe to be made in a 13”x9” baking tray, which makes a whole lot of breakfast.

Recipe (serving size: 2 squares):

Base Ingredients:

12 tbsp. butter (I use salted, if you don’t have salted butter, add a small amount of kosher salt to your recipe)

9 tbsp. (1/2 cup+ 1 tbsp) granulated sugar

12 fl.oz. milk (I use skim, use whatever kind you like)

3 cups all-purpose flour

3 tsp. baking powder

Customizable Ingredients:

1 scoop protein powder (I use vanilla flavored whey)

1/4 cup of maple syrup (ideally not pancake syrup, they’re different)

1 apple (I use McIntosh or Honeycrisp)

A piping hot cup of apple tea with a heaping tablespoon of honey

Nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom to taste, for sprinkling on top

Base Instructions:

Heat oven to 375°F, take out a 13”x9” nonstick baking pan and spray bottom and sides with cooking spray (yes theoretically I know you don’t need to spray a nonstick pan but better safe than sorry).

If you choose to put apple chunks in, I recommend doing this step first. I personally like to let the chunks soak in my favorite loose leaf apple tea (non-sponsored plug)! Boil a cup of water and fill the tea infuser with tea. Add a heaping tablespoon of honey to the cup and stir until it dissolves. Then put them infuser in and steep the tea for three minutes, after which you should give the mug a final stir and pour it into a bowl. See “customizable instructions, steps 2-4” for how I recommend cutting the apple. After that, put the peeled apple chunks into the bowl of delicious tea and let them soak until it’s time to add them later on!

If you’re not putting apple in, do this step first. Put butter in a bowl and melt it in the microwave. I recommend microwaving for 1m20s.

Put butter in a stand mixer, preferably with the paddle attachment. While you heat the milk in the microwave* (40 seconds, I use a glass liquid measuring cup), add the granulated sugar to the mixer. Once the milk is heated, give it a real quick stir, and then add it and use one of the lower settings on your mixer.

(If you have customizable wet ingredients, add them now!)

Add the flour and baking powder, mix again on low setting until it forms a batter (a small amount of lumps is okay from what I’ve heard, you don’t want to overmix).

*You can’t put cold milk into hot butter, it will form little clumps and be gross

Customizable Instructions:

Add a 1/4 cup of maple syrup (as above, preferably before the flour, with the other wet ingredients), and also one scoop of your preferred protein powder. Mix on low setting until it’s incorporated.

Peel the apple wedges with a peeler (don't use the skin, you'll thank me later). If you have an apple cutter (the thing that looks like a wheel with handles), use that. If you don’t:

Take your apple and a large, sharp knife (be careful) and cut the apple in half vertically. Then place it down with the core side up, and cut each apple half like so: cut off the left side, avoiding the core, followed by the right. Then turn what’s left of the half apple on its side, and cut off the last piece at the back. Do the same for the other apple half, then chop the segments into whatever sized chunks you want.

Use as much of it as you want, but I myself use the whole apple. (If you don’t, eat whatever segments you don’t intend to use for a lil snack.) Then put apple chunks into mixer, and half the tea if you made it, and mix until incorporated. (Drink what tea remains, it’s even more delicious now that the fresh apple’s been in it!)

Baking Instructions:

Pour batter into greased baking tray, shake the pan until the batter is flattened and reaches all the corners (or use a spatula and spread it evenly by hand). Optional: Sprinkle the top with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom according to your tastes. I tend to have a heavy hand even if I don’t mean to, but it still comes out very tasty! (and smells great while baking!)

When the oven reaches temperature (if you preheated it at the beginning, it may have already been at temperature for a while) put the pan in and cook for 35 mins. Know your oven and if it tends to be hotter or colder*, adjust cook time as necessary.

When the timer goes off, test the center in several places with a toothpick. As long as it doesn’t come out goopy, you’re good! (crumbs on the toothpick is fine) I say test in several places because if you accidentally go through a piece of apple, your toothpick may come out slightly wet, but that doesn’t mean the pancakes aren’t done. If it's not done, cook in intervals of 5 minutes, testing each time the timer goes off.

Take pan out and use a butter knife or a pie serving spatula and poke around the edges of the pan to free the pancake traybake from the edges. Let cool for 10 minutes.

Cut into squares. I tend to cut 12 pieces, but you could go smaller or larger depending on how much you intend to eat at once.

*How do I know if my oven runs hot or cold, you may ask? If any recipe you make comes out raw and/or takes longer to cook than the instructions say, your oven is colder! If your food ends up burnt and/or takes less time to cook than the recipe instructions say, your oven is hotter!

Enjoy! I eat two squares at a time and it makes a good breakfast! For storing, put however much of it you can eat in 2-3 days in the fridge. Store the rest in the freezer.

For any customizing other than what I did, use whatever fruit, spices, syrups, and/or protein powders you want! Just be aware that more fruit in the batter means it may take longer to cook!

If you make them, either the same way I did here or differently, let me know how they came out!

OLD EDIT: After some experimentation, it seems like the pancakes come out more moist if baked for 35 minutes at 375°F! I also soak the apple pieces in a cup of “Apple Blood Tea” (find it on adagio teas, it’s super delish!) with honey at the beginning of the process, then add the ‘marinated’ apples and half a cup of the tea into the batter.

NEW EDIT 09/2024: I just changed the recipe whether it needed changing, since I realized that changing stuff behind the readmore didn’t transfer to previously reblogged posts 😫 I also added image descriptions.

[alphacrone]

oh six different to-do lists, we’re really in it now

[angiestown]

[shadesofblades]

a lost far traveler

[sodrippy]

EVERY DAY WITH THE COOKING

[joelletwo]

[ID from alt: natsuyuu matonato fanart of them post canon in a kitchen, with matoba saying a tumblr post. 1: matoba, using a cutting board with a careless and irritating-on-purpose smile, says "babygirl i am going to chop these vegetables so roughly." natori, who is literally just walking by, looks over in pause. 2: natori is now crowded behind him staring at the board in concern with one hand hovering over matoba's shoulder, labeled "thinking about stopping him." matoba looks at him still with a mildly instigative smile, labeled "knows natori is remembering past kitchen incidents," and says "does the diversity of shapes on display in these pieces of onion make you want me"]

in the literal two years it took me to draw this joke it never stopped being funny to me. because i have matobas sense of humor. and depth perception /_^

what else to say. i just literally love and never get tired of thinking about their day to day living together lol bc they would get so comfy familiar sweet and domestic but Never stop being annoying

[rad-roche]

oh my god i'm having thoughts. i'm having timeskip design thoughts

[corvid-language-library]

The worst of this week is done and today shouldn't be *too* bad but I can't get the early train home so I won't get home until 10 and then I have to get up early tomorrow because I'm working in the next city over and it's a 90-minute journey total and I'm covering irregular classes so I have to do all my prep today for those.

Then I get one whole day off before my next six-day work week.

This month is so ughhhh

[zhongrin]

i survived

[giggly-squiggily]

giiirl you're so real for the voice kink 😭 (the thunder bringer reprise during god games HOLLER)

also i came here to say fight little wolf was literally written for thorfinn and askeladd ('i' ll teach you all the lessons your daddy never could' - BE SO FR)

ily, i hope life will only get better for you each day and remember that when all else fails you're still awesome *finger guns*

🤣🤣🤣🤣 It’s so REAL! Just- AH GOD! (Girl don’t even get me started on that reprise the way I was ENTRAPPED-)

NO WAIT CAUSE SERIOUSLY- 😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭 It really does feel like that for them! Askeladd making an example out of Thorfinn and setting the stage for his character arc AHHH! Just- OH (now you got me thinking about Askeladd with that voice REY 🛐🛐🛐)

ILY too 💖 thank you friend! I genuinely appreciate it! Stay awesome yourself! *finger guns back* 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

[moeblob]

(points at Giacomo) I love him, your honor.

[fadeintolight]

i picked up a week's worth of clothes off the floor. it takes so much energy to be an adult like what’s next laundry??

[olivesjaw]

[captainshyguy]

across the sea