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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-12-01 05:49 pm

LOADING...

Welcome back, users. Looks like we were able to bring you back online and tracked again...here's hoping the layers are settled now, but the readings are off the chart. We're doing our best to stabilize the city for December while we track some of the magical sources we're picking up. It may take us some time though, so please bear with us!

We may be working through the holidays, too, if this keeps up. But it's okay. You opened the doors and new routes for us to check.

Stay positive, users. December is a special time of the year. What's your favorite holiday tradition? You'd be surprised how thoughts shape things here.

Please take care.

Joanne Wiseman
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strawberrypunch: ([Smile] you gave me in)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
My grandma used to make these amazing strawberry pies for us

Does anyone else have favorites?
interlucere: (oo8.)

un: lucille

[personal profile] interlucere 2018-12-02 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
linzer cookies! they're really cute and really tasty!!

I've never heard of strawberry pie. I guess you can really make a pie out of anything huh
strawberrypunch: ([Smile] only faintly audible)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
What are linzer cookies like?

Yeah my favorite food was strawberry so she came up with all kinds of recipes for strawberry things

Still have them somewhere
fiddlestick: (elliot147)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-12-02 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, strawberry pies sound delicious!

If we're talking desserts, my favorites are always fruit things like parfaits and fruit cake. Though I'm pretty good at custard pudding too!
strawberrypunch: ([Smile] things that)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
If I knew how to bake I'd show you

Her recipe's really good

Pudding sounds good. What kind of fruit for the fruit cake?
fiddlestick: (elliot096)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-12-02 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, that's okay.
Do you have the recipe with you? Maybe I can figure it out.

Any dried fruit works well, honestly. Though strawberries don't do well dried- so they get a different kind of cake.
strawberrypunch: ([Smile] I'm thanking)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-04 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yea I can send it hang on

[And he will! It's not a super complex one, but it definitely requires someone to know their way around a kitchen.]

Strawberries are the best though

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thesettingsun: smile blush (my strongest suit)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2018-12-02 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I have a weakness for gingerbread.
strawberrypunch: ([Smile] I'm thanking)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Do you ever make houses from them?

[He did that one last year!]
thesettingsun: smile (underwear)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2018-12-02 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course! I'm not good enough to do it without the kits, though.
strawberrypunch: ([Strain] and every tomorrow...)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-04 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I did last year

It was for the app

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also thread wrapup

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[personal profile] jurai 2018-12-02 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Strawberry pies, huh? That's a unique one

My grandpa and I always tried to bake something as a tradition and I think we almost got to 'not entirely oozing' before I left for college
strawberrypunch: ([Smile] 'Good Bye')

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Strawberry's my favorite food so she came up with lots of recipes that use it

Not entirely oozing.... that's good?


[Just how Dire are their baking skills...]
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[personal profile] jurai 2018-12-02 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good favourite to have. You pick up any of those skills?

[As for his own situation...]

Yeah..Pops and I can cook pretty decently but once you give us a dessert it was like our skills just plummeted

I'll have to try my hand at cookies again this year to keep the tradition going

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[personal profile] motiv8 2018-12-02 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
My mother made these wonderful little shortbread cookies with the cookie press... spritzes, I think they're called? Those and peanut butter blossoms mean it's the holidays for me.

Strawberry pie sounds wonderful, though
strawberrypunch: ([Strain] But in such)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Those sound good

I haven't had peanut butter blossoms I don't think

Strawberry pie was our tradition so I'm not sure what to do this year

I'm not good at baking
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[personal profile] motiv8 2018-12-04 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
They're little soft peanut butter cookies that you press Hershey's kisses down into while they're still warm! Delicious, buuuut probably pretty terrible for you haha

I'm not the greatest at baking, either, unless you put a recipe in front of me. Then I can usually manage, at least. But dorms mean no oven, so I'm kind of useless as far as helping you out.

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[personal profile] cardcaptured 2018-12-02 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
It's more of a New Year's dessert, but tong yuen is pretty good. The traditional gingerbread and almond cookies are nice, too.

I don't think I've tried a strawberry pie, though.
strawberrypunch: ([Smile] 'Good Bye')

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's good

I have the recipe but I'm no good at baking or else I'd show you

Tong yuen?
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[personal profile] cardcaptured 2018-12-03 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, um-- tong yuen is sort of like... mochi? [More people know what mochi is, right--] It's smaller, though, and served warm, in a sweet soup. It's usually filled with ground peanuts or sesame paste, but I've had it with chocolate, too.

I wouldn't mind seeing the recipe, though? I'm alright with baking, and there's someone I know who likes strawberries a lot, so I wouldn't mind trying it out.

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[personal profile] maskreant 2018-12-02 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
curry.

though that's something from my memories, really. my own family here weren't that festive or tradition-keeping.
strawberrypunch: ([Surprise] So search in each)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
You remembered liking curry?
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[personal profile] maskreant 2018-12-03 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
i like curry now, but it was more important to be in my memories.

if that makes sense.

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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2018-12-03 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
I always loved this one mince pie recipe of my grandmothers.

Not to toot my own horn
strawberrypunch: ([Surprise] So search in each)

[personal profile] strawberrypunch 2018-12-04 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Do you make it too?