Up and down and up and down
Jul. 30th, 2011 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoUP DOWN UP DOWN UP DOWN. That would be LJ lately. It's why I haven't responded to PMs from some people yet - sorry! Hell, I've been managing to get into my roleplay account all right, but half the time I haven't been able to get onto this one. xD I will be happy when things are more stable.
Anyway. Recently got back into contact with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mattyroh, after a long time. This makes me so happy. And, oddly enough, the same thing has been happening with a lot of people lately. nunu_p, among others. It seems people who have dropped off the face of LJ have returned to me, and it brings me endless joy.
Not much going on. Jobsearching is driving me crazy. I've had a few interviews recently, and got told "We will call you back no matter if you get the job or not" -- and then they don't call back. RUDE. Makes me angry. 8| But alas, I need to keep trying. There is a strong possibility I'll be travelling in early autumn - I don't want to say I will be doing it, because there is always the possibility that it will fall through, but it certainly seems like I'll be able to do it. So, even though I have enough money to do it, I want to be able to put more away. I mean, aside from needing to work in general. It's the travelling that's making me extra antsy about it.
Anyway! The other day I made a fruit crumble aaaand I will put up the recipe here because I tend to lose it, and even though it's so simple that even a monkey could make it, I can never just plain remember how to do it. I used fresh saskatoon berries from our garden for it, most excellent <3
Fruit Crumble:
Prepared fruit of any kind, enough to cover the pan
1 cup butter [250ml]
1 cup brown sugar [250ml]
1 1/2 cup flour [375ml]
1/2 tsp cinnamon [2.5ml]
1/2 tsp cloves [2.5ml]
*metric measurements were grabbed by eyeballing the US/Metric measuring cup we have. These aren't the numbers that conversion sites will give, but... these're the numbers I use. So.
Cover bottom of a long, shallow pan with a layer of cleaned, prepared fruit - not to the top; give a centimetre or two of space. No need to add sugar to the fruit unless it's something uncommonly sour or tart, like rhubarb. In a large-ish bowl, cream butter. Add brown sugar, flour, and spices. Then mix to a crumbly consistency. Crumble topping over fruit and bake at 350F [176C]. 40 to 45 minutes or until fruit is done.
The pan should be filled like this, with some space at the top for the crumble:
The texture of the crumble should look like as follows - do not mix the sugar into the butter before adding the flour; mix after adding the flour and everything. The texture will turn out like cookie dough if one mixes the sugar in first, and while it will taste the same and still be usable, it won't look as nice.
Then add it to the fruit by spoonfulls until everything is covered:
Anyway. Recently got back into contact with
mattyroh, after a long time. This makes me so happy. And, oddly enough, the same thing has been happening with a lot of people lately. nunu_p, among others. It seems people who have dropped off the face of LJ have returned to me, and it brings me endless joy.Not much going on. Jobsearching is driving me crazy. I've had a few interviews recently, and got told "We will call you back no matter if you get the job or not" -- and then they don't call back. RUDE. Makes me angry. 8| But alas, I need to keep trying. There is a strong possibility I'll be travelling in early autumn - I don't want to say I will be doing it, because there is always the possibility that it will fall through, but it certainly seems like I'll be able to do it. So, even though I have enough money to do it, I want to be able to put more away. I mean, aside from needing to work in general. It's the travelling that's making me extra antsy about it.
Anyway! The other day I made a fruit crumble aaaand I will put up the recipe here because I tend to lose it, and even though it's so simple that even a monkey could make it, I can never just plain remember how to do it. I used fresh saskatoon berries from our garden for it, most excellent <3
Fruit Crumble:
Prepared fruit of any kind, enough to cover the pan
1 cup butter [250ml]
1 cup brown sugar [250ml]
1 1/2 cup flour [375ml]
1/2 tsp cinnamon [2.5ml]
1/2 tsp cloves [2.5ml]
*metric measurements were grabbed by eyeballing the US/Metric measuring cup we have. These aren't the numbers that conversion sites will give, but... these're the numbers I use. So.
Cover bottom of a long, shallow pan with a layer of cleaned, prepared fruit - not to the top; give a centimetre or two of space. No need to add sugar to the fruit unless it's something uncommonly sour or tart, like rhubarb. In a large-ish bowl, cream butter. Add brown sugar, flour, and spices. Then mix to a crumbly consistency. Crumble topping over fruit and bake at 350F [176C]. 40 to 45 minutes or until fruit is done.
The pan should be filled like this, with some space at the top for the crumble:
The texture of the crumble should look like as follows - do not mix the sugar into the butter before adding the flour; mix after adding the flour and everything. The texture will turn out like cookie dough if one mixes the sugar in first, and while it will taste the same and still be usable, it won't look as nice.
Then add it to the fruit by spoonfulls until everything is covered:
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2011-07-31 04:33 am (UTC)AT WORK
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Date: 2011-07-31 04:44 am (UTC)You are the silliest.
Ilu. <3
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Date: 2011-07-31 04:55 am (UTC)cause i could like
invite you
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Date: 2011-07-31 04:56 am (UTC)I'll think about it!
But what is it? Some kind of social networking thing? Like... Facebookish or what?
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Date: 2011-07-31 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-31 05:01 am (UTC)I DUNNO. I bet if I got one I wouldn't even use it xD
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:02 am (UTC)also I just got a camera so you would be looking at all the pictures that I will post once I buy a battery for the camera!
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:04 am (UTC)We can post photos at each other. THough I still don't know how to use my camera well.
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:04 am (UTC)if you give me your e-mail i can invite you ♥
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:19 am (UTC)really like what
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:22 am (UTC)well
okay
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Date: 2011-07-31 05:11 am (UTC)*o* It looks awesome. Do you have any pics of the finished product?
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Date: 2011-08-01 08:02 pm (UTC)And best of luck finding work. I don't know the first thing about job-searching etiquette, but maybe you could try calling them instead?
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Date: 2011-08-02 02:51 am (UTC)I certainly do want to tag along though. When Sea suggested it to me it just sounded so lovely. ;3; So, I'll be needing to know some dates. [/ruffles] But I suppose we can talk about that later.
Re: work, calling is definitely not the Done Thing in this area, so I'm SOL. Just gotta' keep trying, I guess.
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Date: 2011-08-02 05:34 am (UTC)And we haven't discussed any dates yet, so we'll all have to talk about it together sometime. All we've really done is decide whether to take a bus or train to Riga. (We chose the bus.) And some touristy links for Tallinn were tossed around. But we can catch you up on all of that later.
Anyway, I'll pass your gmail along so they know add you. It might be a few weeks before any real planning takes place though. And hopefully everything will work out. /o/