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... and for the others, there will at least be food porn.

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So because of all the biscuit talk yesterday, I had to make some for breakfast today~ ^^



The recipe I stole from my mom:



My substitutions: As always, I use half all-purpose flour, half whole wheat pastry. I use salted butter for everything, so I omitted half of the salt. My cutter is of a somewhat larger diameter than whatever was used for this recipe, so I only came up with 7 biscuits. Technically I feel like I should have probably used a bit more milk than what I used, and maybe rolled them out less thinly (maybe 3/4"?)

But they were still tasty.

Is that scrambled eggs I see with the bacon~

Yop. ^^

Yes. So excited.

I'm going to love this thread.



YEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Baking seems so challenging for absolute noobs, I may try some microwave stuff before moving to the real deal

I guess technically I could bake but I don't really have the patience for precise measurements/bake time.

I much prefer cooking because I tend to do the "this looks like the right amount" kind of baking.

I don't cook. I assemble food. For example, a sandwich or a tuna salad

I baked cookies from scratch once, and the dough was about to be thrown around the room while I was mixing it with a mixer. Yeah, I don't like the mixer. The cookies turned out fine though.

I only cook really easy things, like stir-frying meat and vegetable or scrambled eggs. Of course there are frozen food that I can bake/microwave/steam and boxed curry, but that doesn't count. I can make chawanmushi in a microwave though, and that one I only sort of count because I keep having to experiment with the microwave power and time, and I used to have a recipe clipped to the fridge but someone threw it away. Boiling noodles and pasta is also doable.

Basically, I don't do things with special names like lasagna or Thai food. I can follow recipes to make new things, but I don't have the patience for that most days.

I don't consider myself a good cook at all, but I can follow a recipe. When it comes to the "wing it, just throw in what looks right"--that's when it all falls apart.

Once I tried making curry from scratch, and it was disgusting because I ended up tasting the version of it without ANY salt/soy sauce before I realized I had to put some.