What made you smile/frown/mad/sad/cry today-thread for all your emotional needs! V4

yeah try bigger ones

if you're really being careful there's no reason for them to be thin, mine turn out like the picture

awec

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awec

awec wrote: »

Cookies stay whatever thickness you put them on the tray do they not?

they flatten out, especially if there are higher amount of sugar in the recipe

you are supposed to place the lace cookies i make sometimes sort of ball-like on the tray, then they flatten out into thin cookies

jane for the other cookies you are talking about, you are balling them up on the tray, right?
they're not supposed to "rise", they're supposed to go round->flat

maybe if you make them again take a picture so i can see whats going on

this was my first batch using the recipe

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/blueywolf/DSC00319.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/blueywolf/DSC00318.jpg

Kiera

Jane_LS_88 wrote: »

But they're like really flat.. They don't seem to be rising even a little bit. Maybe I need a different recipes. They're just not what I thought they should be but that could be my fault.

Edit: Yeah that's what I mean Dolorous. Recipe says a quarter of a cup per cookie and that's what I used. I'll try bigger next time and see what happens. They're turning out not even a centimetre thick. In my head cookies should be kinda big. I could be just being picky though.

Just admit it, you’re trying to make my choc chip Rusks aren’t you :P

Acoshla

Different styles of cookies turn out differently, some are meant to be thin and crispy, some are meant to be big fat monsters, adjust them to whatever way you like them, it's flexible enough on most recipes. The more sugar the more chewy the cookie, crispier cookies have less sugar.

I went for an hour long walk in the sunshine with the dog, undoing all that hard work now with some of the yummy semifreddo

i thought thinner ones had more sugar since the sugar thins them?

well, we're using a monster recipe anyway
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Best-Big-Fat-Chewy-Chocolate-Chip-Cookie/Detail.aspx

Acoshla

bluewolf wrote: »

i thought thinner ones had more sugar since the sugar thins them?

Sorry I wasn't really talking about how thick or thin they are, just using sugar to show how recipes differ, and the more sugar in a cookie the chewier it is, that's why the best ones are the worst for you

Honey-ec

Ooh, the Leinster team for tomorrow is giving me the motions. Going to be a cracking game.

awec

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rainbow kirby

Return of BOD tomorrow against Ospreys

Honey-ec

awec wrote: »

Who yous got?

We're away to Treviso on saturday, should win that.

I'm sure Munster said the same thing about Aironi two weeks ago, ha ha!

BOD back, Leo back, Thorn starting. God I love rugby.

Acoshla

Honey-ec wrote: »

I'm sure Munster said the same thing about Aironi two weeks ago, ha ha!

BOD back, Leo back, Thorn starting. God I love rugby.

It's amazing to read a post and have no clue what any of it means.

Kiera

Acoshla wrote: »

It's amazing to read a post and have no clue what any of it means.

Haha was just thinking the same

Have you decided where you're going for brunch and tapas yet?

Acoshla

Kiera wrote: »

Haha was just thinking the same

Have you decided where you're going for brunch and tapas yet?

Nope, probably Herbstreet for brunch because it will suit our friends really well, undecided about tapas, will probably decide when we are bored off our faces on the bus to Dublin

Kiera

Acoshla wrote: »

Nope, probably Herbstreet for brunch because it will suit our friends really well, undecided about tapas, will probably decide when we are bored off our faces on the bus to Dublin

I think Maple said the Port House for tapas. I heard its fab in there. We need more tapas places in Dublin!

Are you up here for wedding stuff?

awec

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Acoshla

Kiera wrote: »

I think Maple said the Port House for tapas. I heard its fab in there. We need more tapas places in Dublin!

Are you up here for wedding stuff?

Going to Coronas gig, won tickets few weeks ago Going trying on dresses Monday purely because I might as well do it while I'm in Dublin instead of making a trip up especially. Going to one dress shop then off to Ikea with my friend and her giant jeep, woohoo!

Kiera

Acoshla wrote: »

Going to Coronas gig, won tickets few weeks ago Going trying on dresses Monday purely because I might as well do it while I'm in Dublin instead of making a trip up especially. Going to one dress shop then off to Ikea with my friend and her giant jeep, woohoo!

Oh nice one. One of the girls in work just bought a lilac wedding dress

Honey-ec

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite, I've just remembered I'm on the block for our baking morning in work tomorrow.

So not in the humour of baking tonight :mad:

Acoshla

Kiera wrote: »

Oh nice one. One of the girls in work just bought a lilac wedding dress

Oh....lovely (lilac should be eradicated as colour IMO)

Acoshla

Honey-ec wrote: »

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite, I've just remembered I'm on the block for our baking morning in work tomorrow.

So not in the humour of baking tonight :mad:

Make chocolate biscuit cake, dead easy...does it count as baking?

Edit: I just put a collar on the kitten, she doesn't like it...

cynder

Acoshla wrote: »

Edit: I just put a collar on the kitten, she doesn't like it...

She will get used to it. Funny watching them trying to get it off.

Honey-ec

Acoshla wrote: »

Make chocolate biscuit cake, dead easy...does it count as baking?

Edit: I just put a collar on the kitten, she doesn't like it...

I made that the last time I was on duty. Correction, chocolate ginger nut cake. Makes alllllll the difference!

I'm going to do banana & peanut butter muffins and a caramelised onion quiche, cause I like savoury things!

Acoshla

grindelwald wrote: »

She will get used to it. Funny watching them trying to get it off.

I know, the older cat has had a million collars, this is her first one and the bell is driving her cracked, she doesn't know whether to play with it or kill it. She broke the bell off the older cat's collar, so now she has her own one!!

Acoshla

Honey-ec wrote: »

I made that the last time I was on duty. Correction, chocolate ginger nut cake. Makes alllllll the difference!

I'm going to do banana & peanut butter muffins and a caramelised onion quiche, cause I like savoury things!

Oh that sounds good, gimme.

RacoonQueen

awec wrote: »

Sounds like you might have a slow puncture in there. You tried replacing the tube?

Yeah changed it twice and it repunctured a mile later, twice...

Think I'll get someone else to do it, must be missing something in the tyre.

Honey-ec

Acoshla wrote: »

Oh that sounds good, gimme.

http://www.ruminationsrugbyruination.blogspot.com/search/label/quiche

Acoshla

I meant make it for me but I suppose the recipe will have to do :rolleyes::p Thanks!

Kiera

Acoshla wrote: »

Oh....lovely (lilac should be eradicated as colour IMO)

Yeah she’s a little “out there”. She’s also having a silent disco for 2 hours instead of a dj.

LenaClaire

Kiera wrote: »

Yeah she’s a little “out there”. She’s also having a silent disco for 2 hours instead of a dj.

Is she actually going to get a full silent disco gig or is she just telling everyone to bring their own ipod?

Sar_Bear

So my mam said she'd be round to pick me up at 3pm, and there I was running around like a crazy person trying to be ready on time, and she's still not here!!

I absolutely hate having to wait around to go somewhere when I'm ready to go, drives me nuts!!

Kiera

jujibee wrote: »

Is she actually going to get a full silent disco gig or is she just telling everyone to bring their own ipod?

She's getting the full gig. She's not telling anyone about it until the night.

cdaly_

Kiera wrote: »

Yeah she’s a little “out there”. She’s also having a silent disco for 2 hours instead of a dj.

Silent disco sounds the biz. That way all the old fogies can actually hear* each other rambling on.










* I might even be able to hear people myself that way...

pampootie

A silent disco would actually be the business. Wonder would it be weird to have no background music though for everyone else?
In other news, everyone at work is very stupid and I would like to smack several of them.

Scarinae

Kiera wrote: »

Yeah she’s a little “out there”. She’s also having a silent disco for 2 hours instead of a dj.

That could actually be really good if it’s done properly! And I don’t think I’d mind a lilac dress, though I tend to go for deeper colours. I always said when I was younger that I’d get married in purple (I’m one of those purple people)

My editor is walking across hot coals this evening to fundraise for a charity... It’s certainly more inventive than doing a 10k run! I think she’s a bit nervous that she won’t make it into work tomorrow because of burnt feet

Acoshla

I'm bored and lonely, humph. Why is it when I'm on my own for the night there's no good tv on??!

krudler

10 days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV3RflsNxak

LenaClaire

Fishie wrote: »

My editor is walking across hot coals this evening to fundraise for a charity... It’s certainly more inventive than doing a 10k run! I think she’s a bit nervous that she won’t make it into work tomorrow because of burnt feet

Ha, I tried to do that as a kid. I had seen it done on TV but I decided to walk on charcoal from a BBQ we had just had. And instead of moving quickly across it, I stomped around on it for a while.

Got a lovely set of blisters on my feet in return for my brilliance :rolleyes:

Caraville

Just when I thought work was going really well, today was really crappy and it's all cos of one person who I thought was one of the last people who would let me down. That's the worst part, not even that she is annoyed with me, but that she hasn't even said it to my face but went through other people

Don't know why I bother, you get about as much thanks for doing things as you do for sitting on your arse sometimes. Roll on summer.

Orla K

My family have a strange way of doing things, this is how I got invited to cousins wedding. My aunt had already asked her brothers and sisters this was a few weeks ago now, I went over to nannys today and she was talking about the wedding saying I was invited(first I heard) and asked me did I want to go, I said ye it'd be nice(haven't been to that part of the country) but it was up to my father if he wanted me to go or not(cos he'd be the one bringing me) so if I wasn't going to go I wasn't pushed(broke anyway) I went home and a while later my father rings and asks me would I sort out a few things for him online and invites me to the wedding. I think Nanny rang Da and told him I would go so then he invited me. I don't know, nanny seems to be the middleman that's meant to find out the answer to a question nobodies asked yet and let the asker know the answer before they ask.

Regardless, I have to find a dress, I've lost weight so I don't even know what dress size I am, I was always awkward with dresses few fit me right.

Das Kitty

My husband's on the radio right now. Hee hee.

Kiera

Das Kitty wrote: »

My husband's on the radio right now. Hee hee.

For what?

Das Kitty

Kiera wrote: »

For what?

On a quiz on Claremorris Community Radio.

Kiera

Das Kitty wrote: »

Kiera wrote: »

For what?

On a quiz on Claremorris Community Radio.

Cool. Does he win a prize?

Das Kitty

Kiera wrote: »

Cool. Does he win a prize?

I doubt it, a favour is being called in by a friend of his which saw him driving up to Mayo at rush hour.

Acoshla

27 years and countless competitions later, I always come in a very close second, why is that? Why not fall to the bottom of the competitors (in almost every comp ever), why do I have to embarrassingly come so close to winning and then not??!! No fair.

Das Kitty

Acoshla wrote: »

27 years and countless competitions later, I always come in a very close second, why is that? Why not fall to the bottom of the competitors (in almost every comp ever), why do I have to embarrassingly come so close to winning and then not??!! No fair.

There's 20 minutes left isn't there

*switches on VPN

Lucyfur

Acoshla, can you post the link here?

Kiera

Just voted. Stupid laptop is bunched so can't vote twice

Stereomaniac

Link?