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June 07, 2019

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GBBO Technical Challenge, Season 15 Episode 6: Sticky Vegan Parkin

Sticky Vegan Parkin Week 6 was "Autumn" week which seemed to be an attempt to get people to make spiced desserts, my favorite. Overall I think I succeed quite well at this except for cutting it. That was problematic due to the stickiness so it ended up uneven and raggedy edges. Another larger problem was my ginger didn't really crystallize, unclear what the failure here was but I think it might have been not cooking them enough during the early phase. The parkin did they taste great, with a heavy amount of spice. The initial Ginger boil, this is the step I think I need to go longer on. This dough had all of the sugars, Black treacle (very similar to Molasses), Dark muscovado sugar, golden syrup and caster sugar. Mixing up the batter. I might have ended up a little over baked, Paul probably would have called it burnt, it was hard to see the browning on such dark batter. The icing was fun to do, I had to use way more syrup ...

Barbados

I went with Megan to Barbados for a science conference, which was generally 3 hours of talks a day that, for the most part, I could follow the overall ideas but the details were a wash of terms I didn't know. But the afternoons were ~5-6 hours of wander around and get photos or swim/snorkel which was quite fun. And this shot is going to go into that pile of damn awesome photos I keep. Green Throated Carib Hummingbirb A variety of other bird photos made me pretty happy but I suspect most other people won't care so really quickly some more birbs. Sanderling Zenaida Dove Grey Kingbird Before dinner, there was a mandatory get together on the shore to enjoy a beverage and watch the sunset. This lead to some fierce competition around sunset photos. I did try a variety of shots and styles. These are from a 100mm lens and long exposures. The ones taking during the actual setting of the sun are sadly not particularly interesting but after the sun set I ...

GBBO Technical Challenge, Season 15 Episode 5: SPANAKOPITA!

Spanakopita Spanikopita! Apparently Spanikopita is a fillo dough stuffed with spinach and feta. And not a holiday celebrated in Greece: As a recipe, finally Paul served up something without any mistakes that I found. Also this recipe is Fun! I've already made it again mixing up the fillings with some vegetables I had on hand. When feeding the dough through the pasta machine if you resist a little this will help pull it out longer and make it easier to get the full length to get the nice big spiral you want to have. Only one ingredient discovery issue, the instructions have "tzatziki seasoning," I couldn't find that but I found something that worked great: One accidental tweak was I apparently didn't buy enough spinach (900grams of spinach is a surprisingly large amount, like 4 of the "standard" bundles sold around here) so I bulked it up with some collard greens we had in the fridge. I love how large a...

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