[-] Soku@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

"Taking a tongue" means taking an enemy prisoner to interrogate about their numbers and locations.

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

Those cats on the street are not meowing, they are yowling. That's a holler to intimidate or to fight, over a territory or hot ladies. That's not a meow for a human to fill the food bowl or give scritches or something else tame and domestic.

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I for one am very happy to have a daily Kitty in my feed. Please don't stop

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

The style is wood filigree if you want to find a non-Amazon seller.

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

You guys make dutch babies in US, don't you? Similar thing, only Yorkshire pudding batter doesn't have sugar in it.

Originally Yorkshire pudding was cooked in one big tray under the spit roast to catch all the drippings and served before the main meal so you'd fill up with bread and eat less meat. Nowadays it's usually individual puddings, cooked on a special tray with wide shallow holes or on a regular muffin tray. You want the tray piping hot before pouring in the batter so get the oiled tray in the oven warming up at least 15 minutes before. Use caution, don't burn yourself. You can use oil or animal fat of your choice. 350-390°F, if I converted right. (180-200°C). When you fill the divets, the batter should sizzle and when returned to the oven, should start rising high from the edges. Try not to open the oven at least 15 min in the beginning as it can sink the yorkies. Check after 25 min or so, the yorkies should look like golden cups, the hole Iin the middle set and yellow, the edges and the bottom browned. Depending on the temperature and the oven, it can take up to 45 min.

As for the batter, ignore all the recipes and follow a simple formula: even amounts of egg, milk and flour, pinch of salt. Roughly half an egg per nase so mix with 2 eggs should serve 4. Measure with a small cup or a measuring cup and tip it all in the bowl. Two schools about it: mix just lumps out or beat the hell out of it. I go to town with a stick blender until the mix is frothy.

Serve it with something with a lot of gravy. Roasted joint (beef, ham, chicken) and veggies is the most common way. Also good for snacking, rip pieces and dip in gravy, delish!

Sorry, got a bit carried away but I've cooked yorkies for living for over a decade now so...

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Just the good news please!

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Cats are liquid. You think you put an orange ON a cat, but it ends up IN a cat. Just the state of matter

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

The lockdowns were 2020, based on other comments the cicadas were on 2021 and the year of the tiger was 2022 so we are not reading the screenshot from last week here. Still humorous tho, albeit on the darker side. Poor little sod, resigned to the life of continuous catastrophes

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago

Doc Martens got sold and moved the production to Asia. The dip in quality is very noticeable.

The people who used to produce Doc Martens now work for the company called Solovair. I haven't tried their stuff butt apparently they're as good as Doc Martens used to be.

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.

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Bobble paws (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by Soku@lemmy.world to c/knitting@lemmy.world

I made these a good few years back. A friend commissioned these for a present for her friend, and they were highly appreciated, for what I heard.

The pattern for the ruffles came from Pinterest, the bobble pattern I charted out on a piece of paper. Forethought thumbs, no gusset. The bows are made of lingerie lace, that's stretchy. Buttons and beads were chosen from my neverending stash and sewing them on took several hours.

For bobbles like this I learned to knit backwards without flipping the work. It's slower for me and I do like 8 stitches max but still felt more efficient than flipping the work after every 5-8 stitches.

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