In which I get ready for Dawi to return to The Old World...
With The Old World bringing back two of my white whales from my childhood in the form of Bretonnians and Dwarfs I’ve had a lot of fun projects this year. I wanted to do a slightly different Dwarf scheme than the old green and gold I remember seeing in White Dwarf as a kid and settled on the old Zhufbar livery of white and light blue. It makes for a striking force on the table top and is relatively speedy to paint up as detailed below!
In which I finally start delivering on the promised painting guides...
I have been sat on a fully constructed Battle of Pelennor Fields box for just about a year after purchasing it as a Christmas present to myself at the tail end of 2021. Having signed up to a few "slay the grey" style challenges in the New Year I thought it was time to start with a nice easy paint job.
In which I modify an old family recipe to be vegan friendly...
After successfully turning my hand to vegan Christmas cake I thought it was high time I adapted my old Christmas pudding recipe to be vegan too.
In which I discuss getting the dominant colour from an image quickly...
I have recently made a Discord bot that searches for online versions of board games to help people find games to play remotely. This link will add it to your server.
Discord embeds have a colour bar down the side that can be manually set. I thought it would be cool to have this display the 'average' (i.e. dominant) colour of the board game box and decided to investigate the best way to do it.
In which I plan my holiday tasks…
So it may just be because it is 2020 or perhaps I'm just a bit lazy but I’ve found that I often start holiday breaks with a list of things I’d like to do and by the end of the trip* I’ve not achieved most of them. Whether it’s odd jobs or relaxing activities I wanted to get through I just accidental sit around and don’t do them. This holiday season I decided I needed a to do list and though I’d try out the new Todoist Boards feature.
*Or, let’s be real this year: sitting on the sofa at home.
In which I try my hand at a Austrian cake recipe...
So following a straw poll of Network as to a difficult cake to finish off my term of CAOS cakes I settled on Sachertorte. A traditional Austrian cake recipe invented in 1832 by Franz Sacher.
Those puddings in full...
Enjoy the glorious pudding party pictures!
See my earlier post for the recipe for Bruce Bogtrotter's Cake :)
Tom Out!
Happy Weekend! Here's a cake recipe!
This is my adaptation of a chocolate torte recipe to make it even yummier (just add ginger).*
Ingredients:
250 g Dark chocolate
2 tbsp golden syrup
568 ml (pint) double cream
a handful of glacé ginger
as much ground cinnamon as you can handle :p
coca powder (for dusting)
How-to:
Break the chocolate into a bain-marie along with the golden syrup and about a third of the cream.
Heat over a low heat until melted (~15 mins).
Wait for the chocolate to cool to 'just warm' (I forgot to do this so it didn't work out as well as hoped).
While the chocolate cools put the remaining cream, the cinnamon and ginger in a bowl and whisk until the cream takes a few seconds to lose its shape.
Fold the chocolate mixture into the cream.
Pour the mixture into a cake tin and allow to set in the fridge (I had to use the freezer because I messed up the earlier step).
Dust with cocoa.
Serve :)
Tom out!
*Apologies to people who don't like ginger - you won't find this tasty.
P.S. The original recipe: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1357/decadent-chocolate-truffle-torte
