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Daily project Round 5

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FrostyFogg · 13/02/2024 07:27

Just starting a new one. All welcome!

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Peridot1 · 12/07/2024 09:17

Hi all. Missed the thread for a few days for some reason.

Jam definitely first unless clotted cream. And I too have never heard of too many scones. But I accept your explanation @CountingCrones. They sound delicious. I have never attempted to make scones. But I do like them a lot.

Cant remember when I last posted. But the weekend was spent vacuuming, mopping and damp dusting downstairs. Repeatedly. The electricians had been on Friday and didn’t cover anything and all of downstairs was covered in dust. I spent three days sneezing.

DS is now home for good. So I spent yesterday doing the washing he brought back. Bedding, towels and clothes. Today doing his duvet (already done and on the line), mattress protector and last lot of clothes.

I was planning on doing some things in the garden today but it’s a bit dull and cold so might not. I’m definitely a fair weather gardener!

I need to do a brain dump list as things seem to be getting out of control a bit. Not helped by the fact the house is in a bit of chaos as work being done. And the joiner is crap at communication and annoying both DH and I so it’s all feeling more stressful than it should be. Really regret choosing him but it’s too late now.

Anyway. Thank God for wine.

CountingCrones · 12/07/2024 11:45

Cookie dough made, ready to be divided up into white chocolate, milk chocolate and sprinkles batches. Having young children as neighbours and knowing their parents have far too much to do than faff around baking cookies, I do try and them a small batch each when I bake for my lot.

Kitchen tidied, second load of washing pegs out, kitchen bins cleaned. So much else I ought to do but to hell with it.

No cooking needed as it’s Dungeons And Dragons movie and takeaway night.

That’s a lot of cookie dough.

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SingleThreadJoiner · 12/07/2024 14:56

Welcome home @Peridot1 -DS! And so aggravating when dust sheets are not used!

I'm a foreigner too so this is probably beyond the pale, but is it so wrong to put jam on one half, cream on the other, and then smoosh them together?!

Today H & I are doing a lot of flitting about the house tidying it to get ready for the forthcoming four guests (two in guest bedroom, two on sofa bed in sitting room) - trying to throw out a few bits and pieces as part of the process, and he's done some good work cleaning out expired food from dark corners of the pantry and the fridge!

I made smug pasta - can that be a thing? - for lunch, frying a courgette and an onion, and mixing it with very small bits of smoked cheese and pasta in the frying pan. It was excellent!

In the next few days I need to organise the teachers' class presents, having now collected - I think - all the money people were willing to contribute 😅

Mumtobabyhavoc · 12/07/2024 17:00

We need to have a chat, Counting. 🤦‍♀️

Frostandfrogs · 13/07/2024 14:09

I am a jam and cream smoosher as per @SingleThreadJoiner though my preference is for a really good cheese scone 😋
@Peridot1 I take my hat off to you. I would not cope with builders and brick dust!

My heart is full having had DS here and I've seen everyone this week 💕 A little too much Blippi yesterday with littlest coming for tea. You can have too much of a good thing! (Manic kids TV I mean, not small people) Grandad and I are having a peaceful afternoon today as DS has been dropped at Gatwick and is on his way home.

Smug pasta sounds delicious, and so does all the cake!

@Aria999 and @RunningKatie I might have a handle on the washing and floor mopping now but I was looking at a 25 year old photo album and in every scene there is an overflowing laundry basket or a sticky child/child paw prints so please don't think I have the smug! Lots of smiles and various dress up costumes, homemade masks and the like, and those are what count.

I think I'll have a little potter in the garden later.

Mumtobabyhavoc · 13/07/2024 18:23

I might have to dig out my scone recipes and give it a go now. 😋
Puttered last night in "everything closet" and sorted another shelf having bought 4 small plastic bins with snap on lids to keep little hands out. It was quite a relief to throw out old lotiobs etc and organize bins: lotions, first aid, eyes, teeth. 😂
Managed to wash and hang up two loads laundry as well.
This morning I washed sheets as soon as i got up. Heading out to soccer then will see what i can accomplish during afternoon naps. 😊

CountingCrones · 13/07/2024 19:16

@Mumtobabyhavoc - saved you the bother of looking it up! @Peridot1 , have a go:

500g plain flour, 5 tsp baking powder (or 3 1/2 tsp bicarb, 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar), 50g sugar, 75g butter all rubbed together (or blitzed in a food processor). Add 300ml milk (or buttermilk, or 50ml yogurt and 250g milk) and stir with a knife until it only just comes together. Pat dough out on a well floured surface into a roughly even thickness. Using a shimmy, side-to-side mothoin rather than a twist*, cut into circles and brush with beaten egg. Bake at 220 degrees C for 12 minutes.

Scone dough hates to be handled, the lazier you are the better the scones. No beating, barely any stirring, no kneading, no rolling out and you get great scones.

*If you twist when you cut out your scones you are squeezing the top and bottom of the dough together which stops them rising so much.

In a past job I used to teach scone making and supply hundreds of them to festivals and events.

If you like scones quite often, batch prepare double the mix BEFORE the milk, portion up in the freezer into 4, and label with ADD 150ML MILK so that your stupid self doesn't accidentally put a full batch's milk in a half batch's dry ingredients like a moron.

Today was a lazy day. Mostly I built lego and chatted. I loke days like this.

Mumtobabyhavoc · 13/07/2024 22:55

Counting, Thanks for the recipe. The reason I stopped making scones is because they always burned on the bottom. I had to play around too much with temp because practically every recipe had a higher baking temp. I've checked my oven with a thermometer and oven is accurate. 🤷‍♀️
So, 350f needs to be the temp, from what I recall , to get best results. The trauma of baking failure on this front is deep. 😔

Aria999 · 14/07/2024 01:46

@CountingCrones do you play D&D?

CountingCrones · 14/07/2024 01:57

Aria999 · 14/07/2024 01:46

@CountingCrones do you play D&D?

I did when I was younger, why do you ask? DH did too, and our sons both play weekly.

Aria999 · 14/07/2024 02:01

@CountingCrones DH and I play, with each other and / or DS.

I thought the movie was quite fun.

CountingCrones · 14/07/2024 02:09

Aria999 · 14/07/2024 02:01

@CountingCrones DH and I play, with each other and / or DS.

I thought the movie was quite fun.

We all loved it. It’s a lot of fun. I’m impressed at your multigenerational D&D - DS1 keeps trying to get us to play. Who’s DM in your house?

My joints are keeping me awake so Sunday’s productivity is in doubt.

Aria999 · 14/07/2024 02:42

DH is our DM. We had a small group in Los Angeles (just two friends who saw our bookshelf and expressed interest) but haven't found anyone here yet other than family.

Sorry to hear you have joint pain, that sucks 😔

Peridot1 · 14/07/2024 08:48

Thanks for the recipe @CountingCrones. I may try some time. But I know I would just end up eating them all. Although I could give some to neighbour. He bakes us sourdough frequently.

I am under instructions from DS to make Irish brown soda bread. May try that today. He brought me some from Dublin. And then proceeded to eat most of it.

I don’t normally do much on Sundays but today am planning on changing my bed. And maybe making bread……

Happy Sunday all.

CountingCrones · 14/07/2024 09:06

@Peridot1 - a very handy thing about scones is that they freeze and defrost well! I make a batch for my dad when I visit and he pulls one out of the freezer whenever he fancies one.

Soda bread sounds a great plan for a Sunday.

It’s rainy as 12° here, so I don’t fancy my garden chores much. I’m sure it will be football here this evening, maybe making snacks will join the list.

@Aria999 , where do you live now?

RunningKatie · 14/07/2024 19:46

I have missed so much food chat.
So, my input is - cheese scones - best things ever, especially warm.
Fruit scones - jam then cream, I cannot get on board with trying to spread jam onto anything that is not solid.
I love a visit to a National Trust cafe to try their different scones, I think there's a cookbook, I might DH to get it for me.

Last week of term!!!! I still need a plan of who is where when and with what, but we are getting there. Then 6.5 weeks where the dc can wallow in their beds till mid morning and most clubs stop so our lives are considerably less regimented.

Still hating the weather, I had outfits planned for days out and I've had to wear extra layers. All my lovely summer dresses are just hanging about waiting for their moment.

Happy Sunday evening all, if you're watching the football, good luck!

Frostandfrogs · 14/07/2024 20:12

Hello everyone! Enjoying reading about dungeons and dragons. My son in law plays, but I always assumed it was an online game. The others all play X Box, and I love that they can play games together even when there are countries between them.
I always say I'll try the recipes you lovely lot post, but I still haven't 😳 Maybe this is the week.
We've had a very noisy day with everyone in their gardens. It's suddenly gone very quiet. I shall rely on the cheers and boos to know what's going on. Sounds like the little lad next door has been allowed to stay up.

Shame about the weather for some of you. In typically English fashion, we've had sun while plenty of England's been rained on by the sound of it.

I need to do something about my freezer. I would love a big chest freezer but there isn't anywhere to put one. Currently still no room for leftovers in there, despite my attempt to eat out of it for a week. Didn't happen.

Happy last week of term, and for people with older offspring, I hope you are enjoying having them home 💕 It sounds all go with the babies @Mumtobabyhavoc and I love that you use the littlest as an excuse for pie and cake 😂

Aria999 · 14/07/2024 20:49

@CountingCrones we are in Pittsburgh now

CountingCrones · 14/07/2024 21:04

@Frostandfrogs - I’m one of the oldest D&D players as I started as a 12yo in about 1981 with my brother and our best friends every weekend for years. I’m practically a museum piece. We only knew it as our friends were visiting family in Wisconsin where it was created and they brought a basic set home with them.

It was very much a game of strangely shaped dice and archaic vocabulary, plus many, many reference books.

Baldur’s Gate is a D&D video game but people across the world still play it with their imagination and creative adventures of their own devising.

I love my chest freezer. A system is essential, but it’s a great thing

Mumtobabyhavoc · 14/07/2024 21:54

Tears in England about now.

Peridot1 · 15/07/2024 11:45

Morning all.

I didn’t do any baking yesterday @CountingCrones. It’s something I really have to be in the mood for. But I will bear in mind your tip about freezing scones!

@Mumtobabyhavoc - yes I’d say there were lots of tears. We watched it but I gave up at half time and went to bed. It was a pretty boring first half in my view.

We sat outside before hand after dinner and it was so quiet. We are fairly rural but can usually still hear some traffic noise. Nothing other than planes last night.

@RunningKatie - I hear you about the weather! Ugh! It’s just started raining again here.

So yesterday I stripped my bed including mattress and pillow protectors and managed to get it all mostly dry outside. Just had to air it overnight.

And I then sat outside and did a brain dump list. Which is pretty long. Now need to start tackling it.

Today -

  • kitchen/dishwasher etc. - done
  • vacuum
  • shirt wash - done
  • general wash - in
  • fold yesterday’s washing
  • ironing
  • move drinks table before it gets knocked over which would make a big (expensive) mess. It was moved to enable work to be done where it was but it can go back now for a few weeks

If I do anything else it will be a bonus.

SpiritOfEdna · 15/07/2024 12:57

Morning! Love all the scone talk. I had given up on baking them as they would turn out hard as bullets, or the size of a 10p piece (giving Mary Berry the side eye here!) Might just have another go. It's my Niece's 40th today and am trying to co-ordinate cake and flowers at a distance 😄 Flowers delivered and sibling will go and pick up the cake, in fact he should be on his way now

Today

  • video call tonight to sing happy birthday
  • I have made bunting for another birthday bbq this Saturday, I need to sew (and maybe stuff) the happy birthday part, and then work out what the overall layout is going to look like. I might have had a glass of wine when I ordered a pinata last night
  • bedroom is an absolute tip, dusty furniture - I may get one corner perfectly clear and work my way clockwise around the room (I read that tip on one of these threads 😄) I can start by stripping bed and doing a wash
  • need to find out where I can by Limoncello without having to resort to an online purchase
  • get dress to dry cleaners
  • make a decision re exercise bike aka clothes hanger.

That's all for now, have a good day all, SoE

SpiritOfEdna · 15/07/2024 13:04

buy

CountingCrones · 15/07/2024 13:15

I drank lots of wine last night after quite a long gap and I am useless today. Let that be a lesson for me.

RunningKatie · 15/07/2024 20:25

Oh @CountingCrones - many sympathies, two wines is my absolute limit these days, and even then I have to have lots of food with them.

Today I've returned clothes - one dress that fits but looks shocking on, accentuates all the wrong areas, and a pair of trousers that were lovely and lightweight but not what I actually needed.
Anyway, done some quick birthday present shopping for dh this evening, I say quick, the laptop took ages to load up. At some point I really need to give it a stern talking to and sort out.
Another sports day done, costume for Y6 show gone into school, I'm getting the right people and stuff to the right places so far. Long may it last!

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