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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Recipe: Cheese scones

Modified from my mother's recipe, this is from the second experimental batch. These freeze well, this makes about seven normal scones and Mondo, Giant of The Scone People. Ingredients: * 8oz flour (you can mix wheat, rye, einkorn, and other flours) * 2tsp baking powder * 1/2 tsp salt * 1/

Now, May 2024

Inputs Charles Duhigg, "Supercommunicators" Shane Parrish, "Clear Thinking” Maryville University classes in: • Data Visualization • Experimental design W.i.S.H. is a new India pop girl band who have released two singles, Lazeez (Delicious) and Galti (Mistake), I love both of them! The lyrics blend Hindi and

Un-serious gender-neutral group forms of address

Trying to get "foolish mortals" accepted as a good gender-neutral group form of address. "Hello foolish mortals, thank you for coming to my meeting." Posted on Mastodon Lots of people had opinions for alternatives: Foolish mortals Dearest citizens Mortals and Immortals, Animals, Minerals, and Flora, lend

Masala Chai!

I've been making my own masala chai (spiced tea, मसाला चाय) from this Nik Sharma recipe, using his chai masala (tea spice) recipe with a few modifications. Spice blend: * 1 tsp ground ginger (or minced ginger) * 6 green cardamom pods or 1 quarter tsp cardamom seeds

Now, end of 2023 edition

Inputs Reading John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series, on the third book now and enjoying the world he’s created. Book 2 made me care for a character far more than I expected to from the first few chapters, book 3 is shaping up to be interesting too.

All-human posts, no AI-generated content

(Image from Clive Thompson, image license CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International)

Cat speeds (observed)

Speed: Zero Asleep. Eyes closed, no response to touch or sound. A rare stillness. Speed: Stalk Prey sighted, in stealthy pursuit. Slow, measured tread with frequent stops to freeze in place. Speed: Jaunty trot Tail up, bouncy step, cat is happy. Speed: Full sprint Flat-out run, maximum speed, no cornering

FP Inks that change colour when you don't want them to

I started keeping a fountain pen ink journal a few months ago, and one thing I started doing on the index page, which is in the back, is putting the name of the ink, a tiny swatch, and a second tiny swatch if the ink colour changes while it is

Scone recipe, no sourdough

Feral, the sourdough starter, has gone mouldy. Feral is no more. Feral-Two will be created at some point, but in the mean time, I needed a non-sourdough scone recipe and King Arthur provided one. Since I'm unable to bake a recipe as written, I made a few tweaks:

Sewing lessons learned

I am learning my sewing machine by making lots of dinner napkins from fat quarters of quilting cotton, and making more zipper bags. My machine is a Baby Lock Presto II and I have already learned several important lessons: Ironing is a thing. Lots and lots of ironing. Despite what

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