Speaking of baking, can I ask a dumb question about a scone?
I've had scones that you buy at somewhere like Starbucks. They are tasty but pretty dry. Last weekend I had a scone from a specialty coffee shop when I was on a weekend trip out of town, and it was not what I expected at all - in a good way. I like dry scones, but this one was moist, pillowy, and absolutely delicious. I am still thinking about it a week later. Additionally, it was made with apple and gouda which is just perfection. It was probably more the consistency of the inside of a biscuit.
What is a "normal" scone that someone makes at home? I'm probably going to try to replicate it but I will be really sad if it ends up dry and hard like scones I've had elsewhere. I like dry scones fine but that's usually only something I get when nothing else sounds better, not something I would intentionally seek out or bake.
I think traditionally scones are on the dry side. However, I think scones that are made more like muffins or biscuits taste better lol There is a place on the Jersey Shore called The Scone Pony that has the best scones and they are more biscuity.
I think if you want to make them at home any recipe with fresh fruit or fruit juice makes a lighter, moister scone than a plain one or one with dried fruit. A glaze helps too. Also using super cold butter.
Scone Pony is the best! I love their pork roll and cheese scones. Really everything they make is delicious.
Post by 1confused1 on Sept 1, 2023 15:35:41 GMT -5
I had to do a drug test for my new job, the due date was Tuesday. The closest place that had any available appointments was an hour drive each way, the appointment took less than 15 minutes. At least the drive was pretty.
I think traditionally scones are on the dry side. However, I think scones that are made more like muffins or biscuits taste better lol There is a place on the Jersey Shore called The Scone Pony that has the best scones and they are more biscuity.
I think if you want to make them at home any recipe with fresh fruit or fruit juice makes a lighter, moister scone than a plain one or one with dried fruit. A glaze helps too. Also using super cold butter.
Scone Pony is the best! I love their pork roll and cheese scones. Really everything they make is delicious.
They are so good! I am not ashamed to admit I have arranged my trips to the shore to coincide with the days they are open. I had a mimosa scone there that almost made me cry.
OMG. Do you guys remember the talk about the unsightly Texas mums the girls wear on the day of the Homecoming game? There's a teacher at our local school high school that is working on making the world's largest mum. I just cannot fucking even.
Last night we heard this weird scritching sound, and we were super confused because our cat was hanging out in my H's lap, so it wasn't her. I muted the TV and it kept happening, and we eventually realized it was coming from outside on our front porch. Then we realized it was something BIG flapping around our porch light and hitting the sidelight next to the door, except our sidelight has this kind of frosty, watery pattern for privacy, so we couldn't actually see out the window enough to see what it was, just its size.
It was acting exactly like a moth banging into a light at night, but whatever it was seemed to be about the size of a hummingbird. I opened the door to try to get a glimpse of it, but the act of opening the door scared it off.
We don't really have mothra sized flying insects here, so I'm really curious about what it was.
I have been sick for almost 10 days. Five days ago I went to an urgent care where the doctor told me to take off my mask because it isn’t 2020. I was literally there to test for Covid! He didn’t even look in my ears, which I told him had been hurting a lot, and barely glanced at anything else. Today I had to go back to another urgent care because I am even more miserable than I was then and, surprise, surprise, I have an ear infection and a sinus infection that could have been solved five days ago if he hasn’t been on a political power trip. Rage.
We canceled our Labor Day trip because I feel so gross, so now we officially have zero plans for three days. It’s a miracle! I have a giant stack of TBR books and can’t wait to dive in. I am going to let my kids watch oodles of YouTube this weekend so I can completely rest and recover, and I don’t feel guilty about it. They are exhausted after the first week of school!
OMG. Do you guys remember the talk about the unsightly Texas mums the girls wear on the day of the Homecoming game? There's a teacher at our local school high school that is working on making the world's largest mum. I just cannot fucking even.
Speaking of baking, can I ask a dumb question about a scone?
I've had scones that you buy at somewhere like Starbucks. They are tasty but pretty dry. Last weekend I had a scone from a specialty coffee shop when I was on a weekend trip out of town, and it was not what I expected at all - in a good way. I like dry scones, but this one was moist, pillowy, and absolutely delicious. I am still thinking about it a week later. Additionally, it was made with apple and gouda which is just perfection. It was probably more the consistency of the inside of a biscuit.
What is a "normal" scone that someone makes at home? I'm probably going to try to replicate it but I will be really sad if it ends up dry and hard like scones I've had elsewhere. I like dry scones fine but that's usually only something I get when nothing else sounds better, not something I would intentionally seek out or bake.
I think traditionally scones are on the dry side. However, I think scones that are made more like muffins or biscuits taste better lol There is a place on the Jersey Shore called The Scone Pony that has the best scones and they are more biscuity.
I think if you want to make them at home any recipe with fresh fruit or fruit juice makes a lighter, moister scone than a plain one or one with dried fruit. A glaze helps too. Also using super cold butter.
I think traditionally scones are on the dry side. However, I think scones that are made more like muffins or biscuits taste better lol There is a place on the Jersey Shore called The Scone Pony that has the best scones and they are more biscuity.
I think if you want to make them at home any recipe with fresh fruit or fruit juice makes a lighter, moister scone than a plain one or one with dried fruit. A glaze helps too. Also using super cold butter.
No way, that is an amazing business name haha!
I feel like I'm missing a pun because that seems like a dumb business name to me. All I can guess is stone pony but that doesn't seem like a thing to me?
I feel like I'm missing a pun because that seems like a dumb business name to me. All I can guess is stone pony but that doesn't seem like a thing to me?
The Stone Pony is a music venue in NJ where Bruce Springsteen and I think Bon Jovi got their start.
I feel like I'm missing a pun because that seems like a dumb business name to me. All I can guess is stone pony but that doesn't seem like a thing to me?
I feel like I'm missing a pun because that seems like a dumb business name to me. All I can guess is stone pony but that doesn't seem like a thing to me?
The Stone Pony is venue in nearby Asbury Park. Springsteen made it famous by playing there throughout his career .
I think traditionally scones are on the dry side. However, I think scones that are made more like muffins or biscuits taste better lol There is a place on the Jersey Shore called The Scone Pony that has the best scones and they are more biscuity.
I think if you want to make them at home any recipe with fresh fruit or fruit juice makes a lighter, moister scone than a plain one or one with dried fruit. A glaze helps too. Also using super cold butter.
No way, that is an amazing business name haha!
The name is why I went in the first place but the scones have me coming back.
I feel like I'm missing a pun because that seems like a dumb business name to me. All I can guess is stone pony but that doesn't seem like a thing to me?
The Stone Pony is a legendary music venue in Asbury Park, NJ where like Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi got their start.
It’s been a good Friday. I have today off and a busy weekend ahead but have been down and melancholy for a few days with lots of big feelings about some stuff going on.
So I took myself to a lovely breakfast, took a yin yoga class with my favorite yin and mediation teacher, enjoyed some time at the park by the lake, and am now getting a pedicure. It’s raised my spirits some. 😊
I had to bring my outside furniture in because of Hurricane Idalia. It’s been gone since Wednesday afternoon and here I still sit with a living room full of outside furniture. I was going to clean the patio and put it back out after the gym but I’m just too fucking tired. Like in my bones tired.
I had to bring my outside furniture in because of Hurricane Idalia. It’s been gone since Wednesday afternoon and here I still sit with a living room full of outside furniture. I was going to clean the patio and put it back out after the gym but I’m just too fucking tired. Like in my bones tired.
This sounds exactly like something I would do. and then only after tripping over it a chair or stubbing my toe for the 10th time would I even consider making an effort to move it back outside.
I had to bring my outside furniture in because of Hurricane Idalia. It’s been gone since Wednesday afternoon and here I still sit with a living room full of outside furniture. I was going to clean the patio and put it back out after the gym but I’m just too fucking tired. Like in my bones tired.
This sounds exactly like something I would do. and then only after tripping over it a chair or stubbing my toe for the 10th time would I even consider making an effort to move it back outside.
I’m determined to get I back out there this weekend. The thing is the patio and sliding glass doors need to be cleaned and it’s just easier to do that with the patio empty. So it’s not just moving everything but cleaning first. ReLly not that huge an effort but I just cannnot.
I want to go out and see if I can pick a few blackberries so I can make blackberry basil margarita, but I need the owner of the company staining our decks to leave so that I can draft my H into this endeavor. I think the neighbors have picked all the easily accessible ones, and I need my H's extra height for this project.
Last night we heard this weird scritching sound, and we were super confused because our cat was hanging out in my H's lap, so it wasn't her. I muted the TV and it kept happening, and we eventually realized it was coming from outside on our front porch. Then we realized it was something BIG flapping around our porch light and hitting the sidelight next to the door, except our sidelight has this kind of frosty, watery pattern for privacy, so we couldn't actually see out the window enough to see what it was, just its size.
It was acting exactly like a moth banging into a light at night, but whatever it was seemed to be about the size of a hummingbird. I opened the door to try to get a glimpse of it, but the act of opening the door scared it off.
We don't really have mothra sized flying insects here, so I'm really curious about what it was.
Post by lilypad1126 on Sept 1, 2023 19:22:53 GMT -5
H and I went out for appetizers and margaritas tonight. It was exactly what I needed after this crazy week. We then went to target and bought a new coffee pot. I’m so lame, but I am super excited for a coffee pot that brews coffee in less than an hour and doesn’t make weird, loud gurgling noises. Lol
Last night we heard this weird scritching sound, and we were super confused because our cat was hanging out in my H's lap, so it wasn't her. I muted the TV and it kept happening, and we eventually realized it was coming from outside on our front porch. Then we realized it was something BIG flapping around our porch light and hitting the sidelight next to the door, except our sidelight has this kind of frosty, watery pattern for privacy, so we couldn't actually see out the window enough to see what it was, just its size.
It was acting exactly like a moth banging into a light at night, but whatever it was seemed to be about the size of a hummingbird. I opened the door to try to get a glimpse of it, but the act of opening the door scared it off.
We don't really have mothra sized flying insects here, so I'm really curious about what it was.
Sounds like a bat.
We thought that at first too, but do bats got after lights like that? We've lived here for 20 years and have never had bats around our lights before. I also feel like the wingspan was too small for a bat, but I guess I'm not entirely sure the sizes of bats around here (the size wasn't quite right for bats I'm familiar with from camping in Oregon).
OMG. Do you guys remember the talk about the unsightly Texas mums the girls wear on the day of the Homecoming game? There's a teacher at our local school high school that is working on making the world's largest mum. I just cannot fucking even.
Hush, you. Texas homecoming mums (and all of the pageantry around homecoming that literally no other state I've lived/taught in comes close to matching) are a thing of horrific beauty and I miss them with my whole heart every September/October. Purely by chance today I was talking to my instructional specialist, and she brought up how she learned about mums from a book club friend. I told her how I used to clear a whole table in the back of my classroom just for the giant mums girls would show up with on homecoming day, and that our pep rallies were amazing spectacles that easily cost tens of thousands of dollars when you added everything up. Especially now that I'm a school librarian I don't miss being a Texas educator at all, but homecoming season just feels wrong without all of the Texas pomp and ridiculousness.
Speaking of baking, can I ask a dumb question about a scone?
I've had scones that you buy at somewhere like Starbucks. They are tasty but pretty dry. Last weekend I had a scone from a specialty coffee shop when I was on a weekend trip out of town, and it was not what I expected at all - in a good way. I like dry scones, but this one was moist, pillowy, and absolutely delicious. I am still thinking about it a week later. Additionally, it was made with apple and gouda which is just perfection. It was probably more the consistency of the inside of a biscuit.
What is a "normal" scone that someone makes at home? I'm probably going to try to replicate it but I will be really sad if it ends up dry and hard like scones I've had elsewhere. I like dry scones fine but that's usually only something I get when nothing else sounds better, not something I would intentionally seek out or bake.
These are my favorite scones to make. Well to be fair this is the first recipe I tried and we all fell in love with them. They are not dry at all, so soft! Probably not even "real" scones but whatever.
ETA: Well initially I forgot the link but then I see I'm the 3rd or 4th person to recommend the recipe lol. Definitely freeze the butter before grating and I stick the bowl in the freezer for a bit before I get started.
My friend is coming this weekend, and I'm excited, but now I'm in a rush to clean the house. Funny enough friend asked if anyone else was coming as we often have 1 - 2 weekends a year at my house with friends from college. This time I didn't want to invite a lot of people as this friend wasn't sure if they were coming. Again thankfully this friend is easy, so we should have fun without having to make a huge itinerary.
Also, my (cheapo) under the desk pedal exerciser display broke. Anyone have a recommendation of one you like? I'm thinking of upgrading to something that holds your whole foot, maybe a bigger range. Are they worth $100+? I plan to use the one I have now without monitoring the mileage, just had been thinking of upgrading since I've been using it so much anyway. Have a soft goal of up to 15 miles a week/3 miles a day if I can.
This is what I have under my desk, a little pricey but I like it.