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Late 12th century knight

STAR TREK: TOS “A Piece of the Action”

this year's theme is unpreparedness. i did Not find the vanilla extract. as a result i've decided to simmer in milk a vanilla bean we had lying around instead (i'm at Opti's house for this. his kitchen is substantially more established) (the other option was infusing the vanilla in vodka for months and i simply do not have that kind of time)

smells so Flippin good

anyway! baking:

some previous years for chocolate chips i tried faffing around with popping bars in a blender which turned out awful and gunky. this time (we're doing classic dark/milk/white) i am simply chopping them with a little knife for lovely results. what was i thinking honestly

i want you

continuing with our unpreparedness theme the kitchen scale was nowhere to be found so i am entirely eyeballing the 30g each lump of dough is supposed to be. not that a little unevenness matters but inequality no matter how small is how man tears at the throat of man

test batch! these turned out thinner and less photogenic than previous years; i was worried the milk may have upset the ingredient balance but i think i just need to chill the dough longer so that's staying in the fridge overnight and i'll be pumping out giant plates of (hopefully nicer-looking) cookies tomorrow. on the plus side these cooled down really fast and also they were delicious. the vanilla milk gambit really worked out i'm very pleased

these guys helped:

having been talking and thinking about Actual Play podcasts for a few days, I think it's worth noting that the idea of the always-prepared always-witty DM who comes up with these things on the fly is as much a performance as the dragon he's voicing; these are professional products, generally with a team of people to help write scenarios, a lot of off-screen discussion with the players, and also EDITING so when something flops or they play through a scene and it doesn't work out, they can fix it.