Hold on to that wagon and chew on an apple! You can do it! Apples are yum!
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Enjoying a snuggle in bed, beneath warm blankets and flopped on soft pillows. I lost consciousness earlier from blood loss, and I’m freezing, but I’m pretty happy about my bed being so soft and comfy and really happy that I picked up that heavier weight comforter a few years ago because it’s fantastic at trapping in the heat overtop my silkier snugglier blanket.
Currently propping myself up cautiously into a mostly still laying down position, just sat up enough to drink water without choking, and I’ve been working up towards sitting all the way up. I’ve had like two litres of water from my bedside and I’m still super thirsty and cold and light headed, but hopefully the blankets help me warm up soon. (Good on past me for leaving the water in reach!)
Taking it slow. Didn’t expect this on my Sunday, but seeing as when I tried to stand up earlier my vision went all gray and cut out and I collapsed in a heap not unlike a bug swimming around in the leaf litter, taking it easy doesn’t sound all that bad right now. I’m lucky that I fell in such a way I fainted back onto the bed and didn’t slam my head into the floor, chair, or shelving unit, and I line the edge of my bed with pillows so it was a nice and fluffy landing.
I’m thinking probably I’ll sit down and slowly move down the stairs while still sitting / scooting and get some oatmeal or something easy like that in a bit. And today is a wonderful day to stay swaddled up in a blanket cape when I do leave my bed.
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Some friends of mine have been very sweet after hearing the bad news. One searched up a cute little cat swaddled up in a blanket to share my way, (something they don’t normally do, which makes it more endearing to imagine them thinking about precisely what key terms to use to find just the right kitty picture), and some of the comeows sent over some pictures from the Garctic phone game I missed that included a very snazzy kitty in sunglasses with their well wishes. I love how on brand cute kitties are for me.
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Some oatmeal with cinnamon and banana sounds amazing…
But bananas present an issue not present with most other produce: their flavor changes drastically with how fresh/ripe they are, and I am rather picky that my bananas be on the fresher end of the spectrum(ideally, I want them mostly yellow, but with obvious green highlights and no brown spots, the peel silky smooth to the touch, the flesh firm, but not crunchy) and I am dependant on grocery delivery and so have no means of picking the freshest bunch in the pile or skipping the bananas altogether if none are sufficiently fresh(though admitedly, blindness makes inspecting the fruit harder since color is so important to determining a banana’s freshness/ripeness)… on a related note, I’m convinced the reason I don’t care for banana bread is most people make it with bananas I would evaluate as obviously rotten.
Do find myself wondering how a half cup of white baking chips to 2 cups rolled oats would do… and find myself wishing I could remember the recipe for no bake oatmeal cookies I made in a cooking class at my state’s rehab center for the blind about 6 years ago.
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While not the recipe from back then, your post did remind me that an old friend of mine had shared a no bake recipe a few summers ago in his attempt to deal with the roaring heat and his sweet tooth. I dug out the recipe to share with you. This one doesn’t require the use of a stovetop or double broiler, as many no bake recipes do, but it will require refrigeration or freezing to set and store them.
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients:
- Half cup of peanut butter
- Half cup of milk (can be plant-based or dairy)
- Quarter cup butter
- Half teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Two thirds cup of white granulated sugar
Dry Ingredients:
- 2 cups of quick oats
- Quarter cup of hot chocolate mix (or sweetened cocoa powder)
- Half teaspoon of salt
- Cup of chocolate chips (or broken up chocolate bar chunks)
Instructions
The butter was left on the counter to bring it up to room temperature to soften. Then, all of the wet ingredients were mixed together first. The dry ingredients were all folded in once homogenous.
The mix was put into the fridge until it set up enough to scoop portions with a spoon, plopped onto a bit of wax or parchment paper inside of Tupperware, and fridged again until it set fully to the touch.
Anything leftover could be put into the fridge or the freezer for storage.
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My memory’s shot- I totally forgot that I had already made a cup of coffee and left it on my desk. On the bright side, I did just find out where the second mug had gone, and yay, two cups of coffee to stave off the migraines.
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Didn’t have time! But we loved the city so much we’ll be back…
Today’s positive: so much alcohol-free mulled loveliness at the Christmas markets. You don’t get those options so often in the UK.
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Especially Red Delicious. Everyday as they say…
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I added Pentiment to my Steam wishlist a couple days ago after seeing the conversation about it here, and a friend just generously gifted it to me out of the blue. Excited to play it!
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helped another person in spanish on the train! I’m really happy that all my study is working to some degree, even tho I feel like I stumble through actually talking aloud. communication’s the most important thing tho and I succeeded at that!
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I finally have a week off of classes, which will hopefully let me catch up on grading, thesis work, and the various bureaucratic tasks I’ve fallen behind on.
But for the last couple days I’ve spent it working exclusively on IF stuff, and I’ve really missed being able to just throw myself into a problem and work until it’s solved. And today I wrote a complete work in less than a day, which is a new thing!
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Spent the afternoon helping my friend’s mother in her massive christmas cookie operation. Like, a MASSIVE operation. Hundreds if not thousands of cookies will be made over the coming week. Every year I go and make lemon crescent cookies for six hours, thereby cementing my place as a cookie recipient.
Also, the fox that has been coming around every day came up onto the porch and looked in through the glass door. He is breathtakingly beautiful and likes to eat the seeds that spill from the bird feeders, so he’s here chowing on that every day. He’s like a perfect cross between a cat and a dog, with a red chest and a silver back and a little kink in his tail. Tom explained that we have to haze him now by making noise because it’s bad for him to think people are his friends. A lot of people in this neighborhood would shoot him if he got that bold at their houses-- people around here keep chickens and I’ve no doubt he’s hell on chickens. But I already named him Slinky and I wish we didn’t have to shout at him. I want to pet him.
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You know, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a wild fox. Which is probably why I love the idea of them so much, since I don’t have to worry about them causing problems or screaming at 4am. They’re just so cute!
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The one thing I do remember about those no bake cookies from the RBC other than oatmeal being the grain used was that they were cold set like the recipe above… clearly, the peanut butter is used as the chief flavoring aside from the chocolate, but I wonder how much the peanut butter also serves as a binder and whether the cookies would set if one omitted the PB altogether.
Though, now I have a craving to buy a small jar of extra crunchy peanut butter, take a spoon, and just shovel it directly into my mouth.
As for apples, I’m more of a Granny smith person than a red delicious person.
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A quick search through showed that apparently sometimes people will swap out the peanut butter for coconut oil. From muddling around with chocolate in the kitchen though, I think this might be problematic if you wanted the chocolate to set- often, a little bit of coconut fat can be used to prevent chocolate from setting up/tempering but lend shine in the use case of dipping fruits into it or if you want to make that chocolate shell coating on icecream. So probably your cookies would be sticky if you did that…
Peanut butter seems to be the most commonly used binding agent, though. I ran across a couple of health food blogs that seemed to just use quick oats, a mix in (like, most people might use chocolate chips instead of their nuts/raisins/carob nibs…), and a syrup that seemed to be the binding agent instead of peanut butter (I most commonly saw them suggest honey, maple syrup, or agave syrup), though those recipes seemed like they might end up being a bit dry? One suggested using some ground flax re-hydrated like a ‘vegan egg,’ but that’s not super practical for most people. Most alternative ratios seemed to use 2:1 for quick oats to the binding agent.
For what it’s worth, the recipe my friend made always did use the peanut butter: he’s fond of the flavour. I think it worked both for his preference and as a binding agent.
Also, I’m lucky enough to live in Ontario, where they grow some damn good apples. My favourite apples from the store are those big pink Fuji apples- super sweet, crisp, they last forever, and they’re always huge. But a Honeycrisp is nice (though a bit tart), Ambrosia apples are soft and sweet without any sting, Cortlands are best for fruit salad cause they don’t get all icky when cut, and a McIntosh is fantastic in pies- they get better (sweeter) the older they are. If I’m gonna be eating an apple in hand, it’s usually Fuji or Ambrosia. We have a bag of Cortlands from the farmer’s market in the fridge at the moment, though.
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My cat’s name is Slinky!!
One time I was reciting riddles I wrote, because I was planning on playing a trickster fox spirit in a game, while walking along a trail with my husband. We turned the corner and saw a wild fox staring at us intently. I couldn’t help but think it was that fox spirit.
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After 98 hrs… completed Dragon Age IV !
Now I have >5 hrs/day more time for IF work & messing !!
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Had a bit of a difficult travel time yesterday and today but feel much more relaxed after a nice evening catching up with TV.
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Got to eat some crab today, yum. Had a bite of oyster just to try it out, but I am not a fan at all, which is mildly disappointing, since I do enjoy seafood. Still, good to know now. Also ate bits of a rotisserie chicken with my hands like an animal, and surprise Krispy Kreme donuts were plunked down and offered as a treat, so I liked trying out one of those- the fried flavour is really prominent, but the honey-ish sugary glaze was nice. I’m still surprised that a family friend eats one of these for breakfast with his coffee, but they do pair nicely with a sturdy black coffee. Clean bed linens, fresh PJs- lovely cold night to snuggle up beneath the covers.
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Had dinner at my favorite Thai restaurant in town with two of my former coworkers. So good to see them and catch up.
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