Self-care Links:
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runpunkrun: Three LGBT romance novels from Riptide Publishing
Because everyone deserves comfort reads.
Fromlilysea: How To Get Through This: Tips From A Lifelong Depressive
(Lots of self-care and self-checks in here, cw for talking about depression)
From SBS:
Living with mental health issues? There's an app for that
Advice on evaluating apps for anxiety or depression to determine if they're good mental health and wellbeing tools. I haven't tried the apps it suggests but I'm planning to check them out.
And onto recipes! (I haven't done this in a while!)
Something I cooked recently:
Dorie Greenspan's Custardy Apple Squares
Aaaah, so good! It's very sliceable, and would probably freeze well. The custard isn't a runny kind of custard, it's more like a glue holding all the apple slices together.
I peeled and cored the apples then sliced them on the mandolin, and completely did not slice off a digit. (I am very frightened of the mandolin.) We cooked it in a glass dish rather than a cake tin, and it worked fine.
A+++ would bake again. (Have, in fact, baked again. A double recipe.)
Jaffa cakes ala Bake-off
For me, it was too many bits and pieces, and I'm not fussy enough a baker to bother. But I do know a British expat who suffers from a lack of Jaffa cakes in Australia and loved the recipe. They tasted okay? But not so great that I'm craving them again.
C+ Would not bother again - too fiddly for something I don't have a nostalgic connection to.
Something I have concrete plans to cook soon:
Jam and Coconut Slice
This is a lunch box classic for our house. It's basically coconut fluff over raspberry jam on a biscuit base, and it's tasty and reliable.
Something I'm idly planning to cook in the future:
Monkey Face Biscuits *content warning: creepy puppet*
I'm transcribing this because the recipe at the site is baked by a scary puppet and I can't look at it. I have made these biscuits and the recipe works really well but that puppet is a big nope.
( Monkey Face Biscuits )
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runpunkrun: Three LGBT romance novels from Riptide Publishing Because everyone deserves comfort reads.
From
lilysea: How To Get Through This: Tips From A Lifelong Depressive (Lots of self-care and self-checks in here, cw for talking about depression)
From SBS:
Living with mental health issues? There's an app for that
Advice on evaluating apps for anxiety or depression to determine if they're good mental health and wellbeing tools. I haven't tried the apps it suggests but I'm planning to check them out.
And onto recipes! (I haven't done this in a while!)
Something I cooked recently:
Dorie Greenspan's Custardy Apple Squares
Aaaah, so good! It's very sliceable, and would probably freeze well. The custard isn't a runny kind of custard, it's more like a glue holding all the apple slices together.
I peeled and cored the apples then sliced them on the mandolin, and completely did not slice off a digit. (I am very frightened of the mandolin.) We cooked it in a glass dish rather than a cake tin, and it worked fine.
A+++ would bake again. (Have, in fact, baked again. A double recipe.)
Jaffa cakes ala Bake-off
For me, it was too many bits and pieces, and I'm not fussy enough a baker to bother. But I do know a British expat who suffers from a lack of Jaffa cakes in Australia and loved the recipe. They tasted okay? But not so great that I'm craving them again.
C+ Would not bother again - too fiddly for something I don't have a nostalgic connection to.
Something I have concrete plans to cook soon:
Jam and Coconut Slice
This is a lunch box classic for our house. It's basically coconut fluff over raspberry jam on a biscuit base, and it's tasty and reliable.
Something I'm idly planning to cook in the future:
Monkey Face Biscuits *content warning: creepy puppet*
I'm transcribing this because the recipe at the site is baked by a scary puppet and I can't look at it. I have made these biscuits and the recipe works really well but that puppet is a big nope.
( Monkey Face Biscuits )
