Monday, September 2, 2024

Revisiting Lemon Poppyseed Mini-cupcakes

 

My first batch of lemon poppyseed mini-cupcakes was in June 2012. Coincidentally, I used the same lemon cake brand and poppyseeds. This time, I tried using silicone pans with square wells. I also enriched the recipe with an extra egg and used milk instead of water. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Betty Crocker Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cookies, MImicking La Moderna Marianita Cookies


It'd been awhile since I'd baked cookies using cake mix. Betty Crocker caught my eye with the Butter Pecan cake flavor. The sale price of $1 was compelling. I tried to duplicate La Moderna Marianita pecan flavor cookies, cheap at about 68 cents for a roll of 28 cookies (6.5 ounces). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Get the Most Out of Shampoo/Lotion Bottles, Etc.


Got frugality inclinations? How about extracting the last of shampoos and lotions near the bottom of their bottles? How about some ideas and suggestions? Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Sunday, May 26, 2024

See Dere Cedar Stumps, Plus One, Sizing Up

 

This topic is a followup to March's "See Dere Cedar Stumps" (article, video). ... During a recent backyard weed-pull session, I saw that I overlooked yet another cedar stump. I took a new set of pix. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

April 8 2024 Total Solar Eclipse (44-sec capture)

Why only 44 seconds instead of reported totality of 2 minutes and 35 seconds? Clouds interfered with and distorted the capture, eventually totally obscuring the corona after ~43 seconds. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Sunday, March 31, 2024

See Dere Cedar Stumps

 

While recently pulling out spring weeds, I noticed some of the cedar stumps didn't have round, smooth perimeters as I'd expect. Turns out that all nine stumps looked different from typical cylindrical tree trunks of live oak and Spanish oaks. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Cruisin' with Cartoons

I thought about a dozen cartoons that have aired on "Toon In With Me" in the last few years. They are entertaining for having themes from even before WWII. Viewing them across generations provides different perspectives of childhood, parent-agehood, and oldsterhood. Read the entire article and comment there, please.