{"@context":{"rdf":"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#","rdfs":"http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#","owl":"http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#","foaf":"http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/","dc":"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/","dct":"http://purl.org/dc/terms/","sioc":"http://rdfs.org/sioc/types#","blog":"http://vocab.amy.so/blog#","as":"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#","mf2":"http://microformats.org/profile/","ldp":"http://www.w3.org/ns/ldp#","solid":"http://www.w3.org/ns/solid#","view":"https://terms.rhiaro.co.uk/view#","asext":"https://terms.rhiaro.co.uk/as#","dbp":"http://dbpedia.org/property/","geo":"http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#","doap":"http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#","time":"http://www.w3.org/2006/time#"},"@graph":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/01/morrissquirrel","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8807024950496235735","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"
As a farewell present to Beth, who\r\nwas vacating sunny Scotland for the harsh and unforgiving shores of the US, I\r\nmade a squirrel. But not just any squirrel.
\r\nA Morrissquirrel.
\r\nThat's Morrissey-squirrel. Don't question it.
\r\nI largely followed this pattern for the normal squirrel parts, then improvised to Moz it\r\nup.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","as:name":"Morrissquirrel (crochet)","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-01-09T16:15:00.000Z"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/amigurumi"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/crochet"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/squirrel"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/wool"}],"as:updated":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-04-13T20:35:31.812Z"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/02/large-handwarmers","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1911880712985871370","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"One of the first useful things I crocheted were these extremely masculine\r\nhandwarmers.
\r\n\r\nThe extremely soft and fuzzy wool was from Age Scotland I believe.
\r\n\r\nI used no pattern and had never made handwarmers before, so they came out far\r\ntoo big. Not to worry, at least you can fit a Tigo in them!
\r\n\r\nI just repeated dc ch1 around, dc-ing in the gap left by the chain each\r\ntime. I reduced a bit around the wrist area to shape it, but it wasn't\r\nparticularly effective. I chained about four, instead of carrying on, to make\r\nthe gap for the thumb, then continued as normal. One of them is shorter than\r\nthe other, because I didn't count anything.
\r\nThey serve their purpose though, and the lucky owner has even gone so far as\r\nto wear them in public in the chilly heights of Appleton Tower.
","as:name":"Large handwarmers (crochet)","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-02-28T20:38:00.000Z"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/crochet"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/handwarmers"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"}],"as:updated":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-04-13T20:47:44.654Z"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/03/tigo-tablet-cover","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5534111577713409746","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"Lovingly crocheted over a couple of days. No pattern, all approximated, with\r\nscraps of wool of the appropriate colours I just happened to have.
\r\nI started with a chain the length of the width (shortest side) of my Nexus 7,\r\nand single crocheted in each stitch down both sides, and carried on round; so\r\nI did the very bottom first and worked my way up in a flat rectangular spiral.\r\nI dunno if that makes sense, but it immediately begins to take shape.
\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen I got to the right height, I carried on across the back, then just\r\nchained across the front, and continued as before, to make the opening.
\r\n\r\nThough it may look deliberate that the 'tail' sticks out a bit at each side, I\r\nactually made it too wide. So I had to decide whether to carry on making it\r\ntoo big and pad it on the inside, or tuck the ends in and make it tighter with\r\nthe green. I chose the latter and it worked far better than I anticipated.
\r\n\r\nMost of it is just double crochet for no particular reason, but his fuzzy lil'\r\nchest is a pattern of alternating front-post triple crochet and back-post\r\ntriple crochet (triple to compensate so it stays level with the 'normal'\r\ndouble crochet around the triangle, as front- and back-post double crochet are\r\nslightly shorter than regular double crochet).
\r\n\r\nHis feet and wings are just chains; his eyes made just the way you'd make\r\nsmall circles, but skewed a bit to be ovals (I can't remember, I probably\r\nchained three, then [sc, hdc, hdc, tc, hdc, hdc, sc]x2, then sc in each stich\r\naround. Don't hold me to that though). The black centres are literally just\r\nthreaded through and through until they looked right, and the loose ends used\r\nto attach. I shaped the beak by periodically crocheting two together. I'm\r\nsurprised it's as remotely symmetrical as it is, because I didn't count\r\nanything.
\r\n\r\n\r\nThe resemblance is uncanny!
","as:name":"Tigo tablet cover (crochet)","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-03-08T20:12:00.000Z"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/tigo"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/crochet"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/nexus+7+case"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/parrot"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/Tigo"}],"as:updated":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-04-13T20:35:09.647Z"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/04/first-bread","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7888699099214661676","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"Could have been better.
\r\nI based it on this bread recipe, but amended according to my mother's\r\nadvice.
\r\nThus, I made a batter with 1/3 of the flour (strong white bread flour; 6oz),\r\nall of the yeast (one 7g packet) and all of the water (415ml) and the oil\r\n(30ml), and left that covered in the airing cupboard for an hour where it\r\nbubbled away merrily.
\r\nNext I mixed in the rest of the flour (12oz) and some salt and a handful of\r\nsunflour seeds, poppyseeds and pumpkin seeds. Contrary to what my mother\r\npromised, it was very sticky. I stirred vigorously and kept adding flour\r\nuntil I could cope with it, and kneading began. I kneaded for fifteen\r\nminutes, having discovered that sometimes punching instead of regular\r\nkneading is much more enjoyable.
\r\n\r\nI turned it into six balls and one long bit, and arranged them on a tray and\r\nin an ad-hoc loaf tin, and they went back in the airing cupboard for about two\r\nand a half hours (I went out). I covered them, as instructed, and that was\r\nwhere things started to go wrong..
\r\n\r\n\r\nThe bits that didn't get stuck to the tinfoil rose great. But the bits that\r\nstuck pretty much didn't get to rise. They rose outwards loads, but upwards\r\nwas constrained. Rubbish.
\r\nI baked them anyway (30 minutes, 220 degress celcius).
\r\n\r\nTastes great, textures is okay, appearance is disappointing. Next time I\r\nwon't cover them quite so securely while they're rising. Far more holey than\r\nI was anticipating too; I'm not sure if under- or over-kneading causes this.
","as:name":"My First Bread","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-04-13T18:47:00.001Z"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/bread"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/food+diary"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/food+for+jenny"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/food"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/jenny"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mum"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/procrastabaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/recipe"}],"as:updated":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-04-13T18:47:12.596Z"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/06/day-twenty-four-melbourne","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8619980812376691566","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"Friday: Arrived. Slept.
\r\nSaturday: Shoe shopping. Got distracted by something. Posh meal and casino.
\r\nSunday: Botanic gardens, but nothing open. After Earth. Fort. Wrath of Khan.
\r\nMonday: Sleeping in Fort. Gardens, souvenirs. The Purge. Took fort down.
","as:name":"Day twenty four to twenty seven: Quests and silliness (Melbourne)","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-06-24T21:34:00.000Z"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/after+earth"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/australia"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/blanket+fort"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/botanic+gardens"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cupcakes"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/fort"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/irn+bru+cupcakes"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/quest"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/sleep"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/thornley+family"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/travel"}],"as:updated":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-07-04T21:34:35.232Z"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/04/1429934445","@type":"as:Note","sioc:has_reply":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/llog/1431356854"},"as:actor":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/about#me"},"as:content":"Making parrot toys out of cardboard, twine, and... mostly parts of old, dismantled parrot toys.
","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-04-25T05:00:45+0100"},"as:summary":"Amy wrote about http://vocab.amy.so/blog#Doing, http://vocab.amy.so/blog#Doing, mbaking, parrot, & Tigo","as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/tigo"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/doing"},{"@id":"blog:Doing"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/parrot"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/Tigo"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/08/honeycomb-apple","@type":"as:Article","sioc:has_reply":{"@id":"https://brid-gy.appspot.com/like/twitter/rhiaro/628962562953080834/18191576"},"blog:tmpcontent":"# Honeycomb apple cakes\r\n\r\nI made honeycomb! Strictly bee-exploitation free, of course. It was way easier than I expected, and didn't result in my entire kitchen becoming sticky. Just most of it.\r\n\r\n* 100g caster sugar\r\n* 4 tablespoons refined sugar [golden] syrup\r\n* 1.5 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda\r\n\r\nMix the sugar and sugar syrup together and heat until bubbling and golden brown. Lots of people seem to have trouble with this (burning it etc), but I never have when making caramel in the past and didn't this time. Just gotta not take your eyes of it. It doesn't take long. The fun part is removing it from the heat and quickly mixing in the bicarb, when it bubbled up spectacularly. Poured into a lined tin to cool:\r\n\r\n![bubbly boiled sugar](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/1508honeycomb/fizz.jpg)\r\n\r\nI have to deal with this later..\r\n\r\n![bubbly boiled sugar](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/1508honeycomb/pan.jpg)\r\n\r\nIt took about 20 minutes to cool fully:\r\n\r\n![bubbly boiled sugar](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/1508honeycomb/top.jpg)\r\n\r\nAnd was amazing. Pretty much like the inside of a Cadbury's Crunchy:\r\n\r\n![bubbly boiled sugar](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/1508honeycomb/edge.jpg)\r\n\r\nI crunched some up and added it to vegan apple cupcake mix:\r\n\r\n* 130g caster sugar + 100g dairy-free margarine\r\n* plus Three small apples very finely chopped\r\n* plus 190g self raising flour + teaspoon baking powder\r\n* plus ~140ml caramel rooibos, which I had brewed earlier (any liquid will do until cake batter consistency reached..)\r\n* plus...\r\n\r\n![bubbly boiled sugar](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/1508honeycomb/mix.jpg)\r\n\r\nEquals:\r\n\r\n![bubbly boiled sugar](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/1508honeycomb/cakes.jpg)\r\n\r\n(Icing was icing sugar, chopped apple and margarine).\r\n\r\nThe exposed honeycomb in the cakes burnt though, so watch out for that. The icing is a coverup. Nobody will know.","as:content":"I made honeycomb! Strictly bee-exploitation free, of course. It was way easier than I expected, and didn't result in my entire kitchen becoming sticky. Just most of it.
\r\nMix the sugar and sugar syrup together and heat until bubbling and golden brown. Lots of people seem to have trouble with this (burning it etc), but I never have when making caramel in the past and didn't this time. Just gotta not take your eyes of it. It doesn't take long. The fun part is removing it from the heat and quickly mixing in the bicarb, when it bubbled up spectacularly. Poured into a lined tin to cool:
\r\n\r\nI have to deal with this later..
\r\n\r\nIt took about 20 minutes to cool fully:
\r\n\r\nAnd was amazing. Pretty much like the inside of a Cadbury's Crunchy:
\r\n\r\nI crunched some up and added it to vegan apple cupcake mix:
\r\nEquals:
\r\n\r\n(Icing was icing sugar, chopped apple and margarine).
\r\nThe exposed honeycomb in the cakes burnt though, so watch out for that. The icing is a coverup. Nobody will know.
","as:name":"Honeycomb apple cakes","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-08-05T17:09:00+0100"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/apple"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cake"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/honeycomb"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/recipe"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/sugar"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/vegan"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/09/should","@type":"as:Note","blog:tmpcontent":"I should be packing.\r\n\r\n![](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/150929_choc1.jpg)\r\n\r\n![](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/150929_choc2.jpg)\r\n\r\n![](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/150929_choc3.jpg)","as:actor":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/about#me"},"as:content":"I should be packing.
\r\n\r\n\r\n","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-09-29T14:45:09+0100"},"as:summary":"Amy wrote about vegan, chocolate, mbaking, & procrastabaking","as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/chocolate"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/procrastabaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/vegan"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/11/coconut-chocolate","@type":"as:Article","sioc:has_reply":[{"@id":"https://brid-gy.appspot.com/like/twitter/rhiaro/667166148006453250/14365878"},{"@id":"https://brid-gy.appspot.com/like/twitter/rhiaro/667166148006453250/19330885"},{"@id":"https://brid-gy.appspot.com/like/twitter/rhiaro/667166148006453250/561207668"}],"blog:tmpcontent":"# Coconut chocolate cake\r\n\r\nI think CHI submission reviews coming in tipped me over the TODOs edge, I developed a powerful cake craving, but didn't want to leave my apartment/pyjamas so the natural outcome is... procrastabaking!\r\n\r\nThis was improvised, and I don't normally have much success with full-size cakes, but lack of other baking dishes left me with little choice. It turned out great! Maybe using US units of measurements is the secret after all.\r\n\r\n![cake](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/151118_cake4.jpg)\r\n\r\nAll measurements approximate:\r\n\r\n* 1 1/4 cups wholewheat flour\r\n* handful of cocoa powder\r\n* handful of coconut sugar (I have small hands and not a sweet tooth, you might want more)\r\n* handful of coconut flakes\r\n* teaspoon baking soda\r\n* 1/2 cup vegetable oil (I would have used melted coconut oil but I didn't have enough)\r\n* juice of one small lime\r\n* enough warm water to bring to cake consistency, about 1/2 cup I guess\r\n\r\nCombined dry and wet ingredients separately, then mixed together. Baked for 40 minutes (with poking breaks at 20 and 30) at 350F.\r\n\r\nFor the chocolate coating:\r\n\r\n* 1/2 cup melted coconut oil\r\n* whatever drizzle of soy milk I had left.. uh 1/4 cup?\r\n* half a handful of cocoa powder\r\n* half a handful of coconut sugar\r\n\r\nStir vigorously over a very low heat to make it foamy and wonderful. When it cools it separates, so as soon as the cake is cooled, pour it over and immediately refrigerate. Still separated a bit, but tastes great.\r\n\r\n![cake](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/151118_cake2.jpg)\r\n\r\n![cake](https://rhiaro.co.uk/photos/151118_cake3.jpg)","as:actor":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/about#me"},"as:content":"I think CHI submission reviews coming in tipped me over the TODOs edge, I developed a powerful cake craving, but didn't want to leave my apartment/pyjamas so the natural outcome is... procrastabaking!
\r\nThis was improvised, and I don't normally have much success with full-size cakes, but lack of other baking dishes left me with little choice. It turned out great! Maybe using US units of measurements is the secret after all.
\r\n\r\nAll measurements approximate:
\r\nCombined dry and wet ingredients separately, then mixed together. Baked for 40 minutes (with poking breaks at 20 and 30) at 350F.
\r\nFor the chocolate coating:
\r\nStir vigorously over a very low heat to make it foamy and wonderful. When it cools it separates, so as soon as the cake is cooled, pour it over and immediately refrigerate. Still separated a bit, but tastes great.
\r\n\r\n","as:name":"Coconut chocolate cake","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-11-19T02:17:25+0000"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cake"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/chocolate"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/coconut"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/procrastabaking"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/raspberry"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/recipe"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/vegan"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking","@type":"as:Collection","as:totalItems":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#nonNegativeInteger","@value":"25"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking?before=https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/11/coconut-chocolate&limit=16","@type":"as:CollectionPage","as:items":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/11/coconut-chocolate"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/09/should"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/08/honeycomb-apple"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/04/1429934445"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/06/day-twenty-four-melbourne"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/04/first-bread"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/03/tigo-tablet-cover"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/02/large-handwarmers"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/01/morrissquirrel"}],"as:name":"mbaking","as:next":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking?before=https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/06/why&limit=16"},"as:partOf":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/mbaking"}}]}