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Cartel en el shuttle que nos llevaba de manera gratuita desde el hotel hasta la estación de Metro más cercana. Washington DC, Estados Unidos.
A line of wagons waits patiently to take away large quantities of excavated earth from a construction site at Hardman Boulevard in Manchester, 01/12/2014.
Cookie on Left - I used Wilton Decorating Tip 2. It was too big.
Cookie on Right - I used Wilton Decorating Tip 1S. A little better.
Here is what I did to create these Star Wars cookies...
I used Wilton gel colors for frosting - leaf green and black.
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I used silver dragees for Yoda's eyes.
I also used Williams Sonoma's Star Wars Cookie Cutters.
Here's the recipe I used (from my coworker Jen Fritzler)...
Sugar Cookies
(NOTE: This recipe doesn’t make many cookies, so I made two batches of this recipe.)
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
¾ cup sugar
1 stick of butter
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
* Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
* Mix flour, salt and baking powder in one mixing bowl and put aside.
* Soften butter
* Mix butter with the sugar in another mixing bowl. Then mix in egg and vanilla until everything is thoroughly mixed.
* Slowly mix in the flour mixture into the butter/sugar/egg mixture.
*Wrap the dough in cling wrap and put it in the freezer for an half hour or so. Bake the cookies the same day you make the dough or else the dough gets dried out and it is difficult to roll out if you are cutting out shapes. You want the dough chilled so the cookies retain their shapes.
* Roll the cookies out to about 1/3 inch. Make sure you don’t overly flour the dough as you are rolling it out, or it becomes more difficult to reroll again.
* The recipe says the cookies should be in the oven for 10 minutes (on an ungreased baking pan - I use a silpat), but make sure you start checking on the cookies about 6-7 minutes in. You know the cookies are ready if you start seeing the bottom edges of the cookies start to slightly turn a light tan (if it is darker than a light tan, they are burning).
* Move the freshly baked cookies off of the baking pan as soon as it comes out of the oven, or else it will stick to the pan (unless you're using a silpat).
Royal Icing
Ingredients:
(NOTE - you must sterilize all of our equipment and materials when making Royal Icing. If there is a speck of grease or fat on anything, your icing will fail and not set)
4 cups of powdered sugar
3 tablespoons of meringue powder (you can get this at Meijer’s and Michael’s in the cake decorating section. This is what hardens and makes the icing shiny)
~6 tablespoons of warm water
1 plastic “ketchup” bottle (you can also get this at Meijer and Michael’s in the cake decorating section. It costs less than a dollar.)
Dye (if you want the icing to have a color)
* Use an electric mixer and mix powdered sugar, meringue powder and warm water together. Make sure you don’t over mix…you don’t want the icing to be “whipped.” Mixing it for about 1 minute is perfect.
* Check the consistency. (Use the 10 second rule! Read here.)
* When you think you have a good consistency, add the dye and mix for another 20 seconds. For Yoda I used Wilton's leaf green gel color with a little bit of black.
* Now it's time to frost the main color of each cookie. Take the plastic ketchup bottle and cut the very edge of the tip off (so that you have about ¼ inch diameter of an opening on the tip). Open the bottle and start spooning the icing into the bottle. (You might not want to fill the bottle in case you discover the icing is not the correct consistency.) Make sure that you put a damp paper towel over the remaining icing in the mixing bowl, or else it will dry up.
* Take a cookie and squeeze the icing bottle and trace around the perimeter of the cookie. If the icing is oozing off of the cookie, it means that you have too much water in the icing. You will need to dump the icing back into the mixing bowl and add more powdered sugar.
* After you have outlined the perimeter of the cookie, go back and “flood” in the rest of the cookie. If you are finding that the icing isn’t really flooding around the perimeter well (even when you try to help it along), it means you have too much baking powder. You need to dump the icing back into the mixing bowl and add a little more water.
* After you have iced the cookies with their main color (yoda = green, darth vader = black, storm trooper = white), you need to lay the cookies out overnight to dry and adding the final details.
* After the base color is dry, it's time to add the facial details. I used Wilton round decorating tip 1L or 1S. I found round 2 decorating tip to be too big.
* You can lightly lay wax paper or paper towel over the cookies as long as the top layers of the frosting is relatively dry. If you completely cover the cookies so that they don’t have access to air, the frosting won’t dry and the frosting tends to “wrinkle,” thus, ruining the cookies.
May the force be om nom nom no
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While watching a friend’s bad playing al fresco at a pub, I kept waiting for the right opportunity to photograph their tip jar. After their second set, I grabbed the shot. I especially liked how the lighting on the patio really added a layer of interest to the scene—much better than the pre-sunset light.
This is a JPG straight from the camera. I shot with my Fujifilm X100F, using the RAW+JPG setting, but in this case the camera’s JPG rendering was a beautiful representation of how I aw the scene.
Gear: Fujifilm X100F, 23mm fixed lens (35mm equivalent on full frame).
Exposure: 1/30 at f/2, ISO 5000, ambient light
These pictures all represent the journey taken to purchase a new hat (the trilby). Naturally, I needed to dress up for this occasion, including one of my already-burgeoning collection (the homburg).
All were taken upon arrival home, since we were running a bit late and the store was soon to be closing.
Note: I know the shirt's sleeves are too long, although I didn't realise how much (or at least how distracting it was) until the pictures. And no, I'm not wearing a belt - a suit I'd bought arrived with buttons for braces today, and I was rebelling against the notion of trousers without them. Also, I forgot.
Porsche 914
Date of first registration 01 May 2014
Year of manufacture 1973
Cylinder capacity (cc) 1971cc
Imported from Arizona #
Supplying Dealer : Santa Ana Porsche
Friday Photos 2012 [Week 7: Reading]
Courtesy Compass Dude dot com
Hold the compass level - if the compass is tilted, the needle will touch the clear lid and not move correctly.
Read the correct end of the needle.
Use common sense, such as knowing that if you are in North America, Europe, or Asia and heading anywhere towards the sun, you can't be heading north, northwest, or northeast. If you are south of the equator and heading towards the sun, it's just the opposite and you are heading in a northerly direction. (If you are in the tropics, between the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees North of the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5 degrees South of the equator, then this tip should not be used. The sun can be either north or south of you, depending on the time of year.)
RED IN THE SHED!
Keep the compass away from metal objects - even a knife, flashlight, or key chain can cause a false reading if too close to the compass.