- 180 g butter softened to room temperature - 220 g (1 cup) caster sugar - 1 egg -300 g (2 cups) plain/all-purpose flour - ½ teaspoon baking powder Yield: 32-40 Cookies 1. Preheat Oven to 170C (340F) 2. Cream the Butter and Sugar to light and fluffy 3. Add Egg and mix thoroughly 4. Sift in the flour and baking powder, then mix until it starts to come together as a dough (you're looking for tablespoon size chunks. Over mixing will make them come out flat) 4.1 Optional - kneed in chocolate chips if you want, otherwise skip this step 5. Roll out 2 teaspoon size balls of the dough onto a greased/lined baking tray If making chocolate chip cookies, you can bake them straight away, for about 10-15 minutes, until browning around the edges. Rack them to cool. For jam/peanut butter drops, press your fingertip into the top of each, to about 1/2 depth. Spoon in your choice of peanut butter or jam. *IMPORTANT* Put the tray in the fridge for about 30 minutes, otherwise the filling will cook too quickly and burn. Then into the oven. Watch for the jam to start bubbling after about 15 minutes, then pull them out to cool. They will look more pale than the chocolate chip version due to being colder to start with, but they're still cooked through. The dough is an excellent base for simple cookies. Sprinkle with sugar; roll flat, can even be blind-baked as a pie crust if you need. If you don't have caster sugar, you can use a blender on standard white sugar. Finer grains just help smooth fluffyify the final product, and help it stop being too crunchy. 😁

Thanks. Due to budgetary constraints, we have to make do with what we have in the cupboard, so I went on the hunt to find ingredients I can use to make their lives a little sweeter. 🤙

Making #cookies for my #family. #jamdrops for wifey, and #chocolatechip for kids school lunches. Let me know if you want the recipe - simple 5 ingredients, add chocolate chips; jam; peanut butter etc, to customise. #homesteading

I would like to guess that the picture is AI generated. I can see a shadow cast from the cloud at about 1 o'clock, that seems out of place. I've seen similar shadow casting before in real life, but that one shadow doesn't look right. Not a definitive measure of reality though. 😁👍

Thinking about getting a #woodfire #stove when we finally get out #homesteading. https://www.homewoodstoves.co.nz/stoves/homewood-matriarch/

If I could design a #laptop of my own, these are the specs I'd want. My #wishlist: - 17” AMOLED Ultrawide 32:9 120+ Hz Display - 4 slot Low Voltage #SODIMM, expandable to 256Gb or higher - 16+ Core #RISC-V CPU, with at least 4 cores over 2.4GHz - High Speed PCIe SSD - #Ollama/Llama.cpp compatible #NPU on par with Mac M3 Ultra or higher - Dedicated or Integrated Intel Arc GPU - Ruggedized billet aluminium Shell/Body, no rubberised finish that gets sticky as it degrades, and all round shock protection - Dust and Moisture ingress protection - USB-C Charging (Hardware toggeable Fast Charging to preserve battery longevity) - WiFi & Bluetooth - #LoRa Radio - #RaspberryPi Compatible #GPIO - Extra Large Battery, minimum of 12 hours of run time, removable/replaceable - #Libreboot, or some alternative OSS BIOS - Complete OSS firmware and driver stack - Quad Microphone Array for Voice to Text - 2 way, dual speakers - 2 USB-C with Displayport - 1 HDMI - 2 USB3 Type A - 2 USB2 Type A - 1 MicroSD/SDHC/SDXC Reader - 1 spare #PCIe port for future expansion (Support RAID 0/1) - Hardware buttons for media controls - Low Profile Mechanical #Keyboard including Numpad Still thinking... What would you want in a Laptop?

It was so cringe, but prophetic and stupid fun. 😁

Slowly rebuilding my #start9 server. Had to wipe completely, which is unfortunate. #selfhosting

Trialling giving up refined #sugar for a few weeks. I have a sneaking suspicion that I might be on the edge of being #diabetic. I'm extremely lethargic and when I drink or eat anything containing sugar, I get a kind of #arrhythmia, my body feels heavy, and I struggle to focus. If I have anything with sugar in it, I get extremely thirsty, and end up drinking so much that I feel bloated. And of course, what goes in, must come out... Another change I want to attempt is to exercise more. Because of the lethargy, it's hard to get motivated. I need to lose weight and build back up muscle I've lost over the years. As a side effect, getting out in the sun will help get the Vitamin D going again as well. Motivation and drive are in short supply these days - what I wouldn't give for a personal trainer and about 6 months of free time. 🤣