Lara's words

Just stuff about my life

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Lemon Curd Experiment

Made some lemon curd in small jars, but the base grew too much in them. It tasted good anyway. I have to try again ...

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Space Invader

I made this for a friend using modelling clay

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Lasagna

Ingredients:

1/2 Kg Meat

4 Carrots

2 Onions

2 Celery sticks

A bottle of good red wine

Lasagna pasta

Directions:

1. Clean and cut all ingredients

2. Put all of then into wine

3. Cut everything into small chunks (you can use a knife for the vegetables and a grinder for the meat)

4. Put the carrot, celery and onion into a pot

5. Cook then for some time until the onion begins to change color, then add some of the wine, the tomato sauce and the meat

7. Add salt and pepper 8. Cook (stir every time in a while) for one and a half hours or until it looks like this:

9. Take some of it and form a layer in the bottom of a square recipient

10. Put a layer of lasagna pasta (I used the ones that only require to be put in warm water for some minutes) on top

11. Repeat 9 and 10 until the recipient  is full 12. Add some cheese on top (try to avoid putting cheese over the edges, it will get burnt), put it in oven for about 15 minutes at 180ºC

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Easy cupcake frosting

Ingredients:

150ml of milk

4 tablespoons of flour

6 tablespoons of sugar

6 tablespoons of strawberry nesquik (or cocoa, ...)

a pinch of salt

100 gr butter at room temperature

Directions:

1. Begin heating the milk in a cooking pot (very slowly) and mix the flour (sift it first) and then the sugar, the nesquik and the salt.

2. Use the low-medium setting of your stove and continue stirring the mix (be aware that it can be burnt very easy).

3. Once it has taken some thickness take it out of the stove put it in a bowl. It will look like this:

4. Wait until is cold, you can beat the butter meanwhile.

5. Once the mix is cold, you can add the butter (once whipped) to it:

6. Use an electric beater to mix it:

7. Put it in a pastry bag and decorate your cupcakes.

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Stuffed cupcakes

There are a lot of ways of making stuffed cupcakes. This is the one I use when the stuffing can lose the flavour if put in the oven ... it also makes me feel like Indiana Jones in The Temple of Doom (taking out the heart of the cupcakes ;o)).

Ingredients:

The cupcakes

Something to use as stuffing (I used quince)

Directions:

1. Use a core remover like this one:

2. Strongly and carefully, vertically stab the top of the cupcake with the core remover. Do not push it to the cupcake bottom or it will surely break. 3. Rotate the core remover and take it out. This procedure is quite easy.

4. Push the device’s button and discard the core.

5. Once you have removed the core of all cupcakes. Put the stuffing in a syringe or another device (I use decopen) that can be heated in the microwave (and heat it a little bit). You can also pre-heat the stuffing before putting in the syringe.

6. Fill the cupcake core using the device of your choosing.

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Basic cupcake recipe

Ingredients:

2 + 1/2 cups of flour

2 teaspoons of baking powder

3/4 cups of sugar

a pinch of salt

1 cup of milk

2/3 cups of vegetable oil

1 egg

vanilla flavoured sugar (or anis, ...)

you can add: bits of chocolate, fruits, ...

Directions:

1. Mix the flour and the baking powder in a bowl (I always sift the flour before mixing anything). Then add the sugar and mix and the vanilla flavoured sugar  here (if you choose some kind of flavoured liquid, is better to mix it in the following step with the rest of the liquid ingredients).

2. In another bowl mix the milk, the vegetable oil, the salt and the beat egg.

3. Make a hole in the flour and pour the liquid ingredients that you just mixed.

4. Mix thoroughly until smooth. It should look like:

5. You can add now chocolate/fruit bits.

6. Put the mix in a pitcher and prepare the baking tray.

7. Pour the mix into the capsules until they are filled up to 3/4 (approx).

8. Insert the tray in the preheated oven at 180C and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 160C and bake for another 10 minutes.

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This has been on my work door for the last 17 years ... now I have to move it to my new door :D

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The planet is under attack from space invaders!! But don't worry I will defeat them!! I will eat every one of them!!

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Happy Valantine's Day!!!

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My Star Trek PC Games Part 2

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My Start Trek PC Games Part 1 ...

A final unity: The BEST Star Trek Game EVER!!

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Bica amantecada

This is the recipe for my favourite galician dessert. One of the two recipes that are made in my village in Ourense.

Ingredients:

Bread dough:

200 gr. bread flour

115 ml. warm water.

5 grams Fresh baker's yeast

The final thing:

The result of the above mix

250 gr. flour (best pastry)

Pinch of salt.

6 eggs

400 gr. + 60 (for the coverage) gr sugar.

Cinnamon

Zest of half a lemon

250 gr. cow butter

Direcctions:

Bread dough: 

1. Dissolve the yeast into the watter and add the flour mixing with your hand. The result should be like this:

2. Cover the boul with transparent film and put the mix in the fridge over night. The result should be like this:

3. Take the bread dough out of the fridge and let it warm.

4. Cover a square mold with baking paper.

5. Melt the butter slowly using the microwave.

6. Mix the melted butter with the sugar.

7. Now we can mix the eggs, one at a time. Do not add the next egg until the previous one is completely mixed.

8. Add the lemon zest. The mis should look like this by now:

9. And now the most difficult thing: add the bread dough in small chunks and mix. The mixture has to be completely homogeneous (if the bread dough is too cold it won’t mix easily)

10. Pour the mix into the mold. If it doesn't expand to the edges of the mould use a silicone spatula.

11. Mix the remaining sugar and a teaspoon of cinnamon:

11. Cover the dought with it, it should look like this:

12. Bake it in a preheated oven at 180º for 45 minutes.

Try not to eat the whole thing!!

[pr1nceshawn]

Don’t let go…

[laraswords]

the thing that terrifies me the most is that I would probably be the pilot of that last bomber

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Life size Zelda Shield work in progress... for the last 2 years

[jakthebomb]

A Long Story

Hi Guys, I am still alive… I am kinda lucky to be.  I attempted Suicide on December 31st 2015.  I overdosed on Sleeping Pills and was talking to Trevor (LGBT Suicide Hotline) while doing so.  After 24 Pills 1,300mg of diphenhydramine, I went into a panic attack and immediately regretted what I had just done.  I had 128 Sleeping Pills, 6,400mg of diphenhydramine, ready to take.  I would have died if I took it all.

I was starting to feel the effects and began to worry.  I told the Trevor guy my address and he sent emergency team.  After 20 minutes the police came and extracted me from my home and sent me to the nearest hospital.  I have very little memory of my first day in the hospital.

I found out from Erika that the police had left my door unlocked and I was robbed because of that.

- Sony Vaio Laptop

- Sony Vaio Duo 11 Ultra-Book

- Canon Rebel T5 Camera and all lenses

- Galaxy Tab 10.5

- Galaxy Note Edge

- iPhone 6 Plus (64GB)

- XBOX One Console

- 2 XBOX One Controllers

- Rise of the Tomb Raider (Which was in the XBOX)

- Citezen Eco Drive Watch

- Beats Pill

- Dooney & Bourke Nylon Crossbody Purse (Had my Car Keys inside it and my Birth Certificate)

I am worried about everything, I was released today from a Mental Facility and now have to suffer losing so much.

[laraswords]

I am very sorry that you had to go through all of that. Do you have a PayPal account? (Is easier for me to contribute using paypal, in case you don't have one I'll try to contribute using other platform) If I can do anything else (for you or anyone else in the community) do not hesitate to contact me.

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Chestnut cream Ingredients: -400 gr peeled chestnuts -400 gr milk -180 gr sugar -4 gr vanilla-flavoured sugar -Salt Directions:-If not peeled, peel the chestnuts-Put everything in a cooking pot and apply medium heat-Stir de pot until the chestnuts are tender-Blend

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I have built a (not very good) replica of the crown from frozen... you can see the process using cernit