Turn your favorite carrot cake into a delightful waffle that's perfect for breakfast or dessert. These carrot cake waffles are loaded with grated carrots, coconut, walnuts, and raisins, and they're a delightful twist on a classic dessert.
Ingredients: 1 cup grated carrots. 1/2 cup all-purpose flour. 1/2 cup grated coconut. 1/4 cup chopped walnuts. 1/4 cup raisins. 1/4 cup brown sugar. 1/2 tsp baking powder. 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon. 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg. 1/4 tsp salt. 1/4 cup milk. 1/4 cup vegetable oil. 1 egg. 1/2 tsp vanilla extract. Cooking spray.
Instructions: Follow the directions that came with your waffle iron to get it hot. Grate the carrots, add the all-purpose flour, grated coconut, chopped walnuts, raisins, brown sugar, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, and salt to a bowl. Mix the milk, vegetable oil, egg, and vanilla extract in a different bowl using a whisk. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and mix them together until everything is well mixed. Use a little cooking spray to grease the waffle iron. Place the carrot cake batter on a waffle iron that has already been heated. Follow the waffle iron's directions for cooking until the waffle is golden brown and fully cooked. Take the waffle with the carrot cake off the iron and let it cool down a bit before you serve it. No need to: You can put powdered sugar, cream cheese frosting, or maple syrup on top. Have fun with your tasty carrot cake waffle!
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Belgian waffles are a great treat for breakfast or brunch because they are light and fluffy. The outside of these waffles is crunchy, and the inside is soft.
Instructions: Preheat your waffle iron according to the manufacturer's instructions. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, beat the eggs, then add the milk, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Mix well. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Be careful not to overmix; some lumps are okay. Pour the batter onto the preheated waffle iron and cook until the waffles are golden brown and crisp. Serve the Belgian waffles hot with your favorite toppings, such as syrup, fresh berries, whipped cream, or powdered sugar.
That moment when a side character gets the perfect opportunity for a reappearance in a ficā¦ and then it turns into something that could tie into a whole-ass sequel to that WIP, and it slots together so well andā¦ ugh!
At the same time Iām stuck on a transition scene explaining the mindset of a character who accidentally keeps his marriage secret.
Itās driving me (and probably the friend I vent to though she hasnāt read it, isnāt even a Trekkie) insane.
- TNG: the one where Q changes Picardās life and he ends up not taking risks
- VOY: probably the one where Janeway has to go through a spiritual trial to save Kes
- DIS: Lethe
- SNW: The Sehlat who ate its tail
Bonus: The Voyage Home and Undiscovered Country
3. My favourite Character
Bear with my neurodivergent brain, because there is no straight-forward answer:
Bones - to relate to and pamper and fawn over; classic comfort character
(Technically all of the TOS ensemble, but yeahā¦)
Janeway - one of the few reasons I still call myself pan: this woman could do things to me and Iād do things for herā¦ unf
Bonus: I have very specific feels about Sarek and I will fight over people misrepresenting him (imho) as a wilfully crappy parent and the source of all evil in TOS.
5. Dream Job on the Enterprise
Medical Officer. Probably not CMO, althoughā¦ maybe I could be in life sciences doing science stuff? Research? Training people in emergency protocols?
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Heās an incredibly well-developed character. Yes, in āJourney to Babelā heās unlikeable because heās brash and we donāt understand what our little baby dreamboat Spock could have ever done so wrong to deserve the silent treatment, especially when Sarek is right here, on a Starfleet vessel. His (factual) comments that he taught Spock everything about computers and that if Spock can explain it best he probably doesnāt need explaining, the fact that he asks for a different tour guide because things are awkward, are biting, but not illogical. His comment that itās illogical to thank Spock for what he did is mirror at least once between Spock and McCoy. It is never said he doesnāt love Amanda, unlike in AOS where he comes up with some bullshit about understanding humans. In JtB he says āit was logicalā and marrying someone because you love them is highly logical.
Then the movies come along and Sarek is fighting tooth and nail and logic to get Spockās katra back. Only that Spockās body is also alive and so he finds this old ritual where a body severed from the katra is reunited and he tells the Highpriestess of Gol, arguable the spiritual leader of Vulcan, that his logic is uncertain where his son is concerned. That is sling-shot-around-the-sun levels of desperation, only not for the survival of a whole planet, just for the sake of his son.
From the way Sarek and Spock talk at the end of TVH itās implied that āfriendsā isnāt something Vulcans have, Spock pointing it out almost defiantly, and Sarek accepts it.
āThey are my friends.ā
āOf course.ā
Tell me that isnāt a āDad, Iām gayā - āWill you bring your boyfriend for Christmas?ā exchange.
And Iām really ambivalent about DIS in many parts, but I love the āSarek just has a bunch of kids nobody ever talked aboutā part. I love the conflict heās in when having to chose who gets to go to the VSA and choosing Spock, not even because itās an equal choice: Michael is there, in the moment, absolutely showing the ability to do it. Spockās is only a potential.
And so he takes Michael to Starfleet because that surely is the best option for her, a child between worlds, broken because her dream, her ambition has been destroyed, and then Spock unwittingly has that sacrifice mean nothing by declining to go to the VSA and instead joining Starfleet as well.
The idea that Sarek has to live with the idea that he failed his child, that he cannot explain to Spock why itās so imperative to Sarek that Spock chooses the VSA, that he has to live with this, is a great story coming out of DIS, and a great characterisation.
It doesnāt hurt that Bryan Fuller apparently considered Richard Armitage for the part and no shade to James Frain, I love his portrayal, and in fact especially the scene of Sarek having to chose is so up Armitageās alley, and I have mentally recast AOS Sarek as RA now.
If you donāt have a favourite buoy, what are you even doing with your life?
And I guess the one from āThe Inner Lightā can count, but I mean IRL. Like, in a body of water. Just a lil fellow bouncing on the waves - or not, Iām not buoyancy shaming.
Iām late to the party and and maybe Iām just plain wrong, but I need a moment to go feral about āThe Sehlat who ate its Tailā.
Cut for spoilers and ramblings.
By god, this episode is PERFECT. I mean, you can dislike it, you can absolutely hate it, you can disagree with me, but it has all the hallmarks of incredible Star Trek.
Itās ridiculous. Thereās this space station sized, skull fronted, world devouring starship that suddenly rips a planet apart. Ridiculous. Over the top. Campy, even. āWhy does a ship from the depths of space look like the front of a āPirates of the Caribbeanā themed roller coaster?ā levels of ridiculous.
Itās character driven. AND those characters are not the James Kirk and Spock and Scotty who saved the universe and their own butts in episodes like āImmunity Syndromeā or āThat Which Survivesā or āThe Doomsday Machineā - the last being my original guess of where they were going with this for the split second, but I digress.
Itās character driven. It has a great, prophetic, introduction of Kirk being impatient, challenging his Captainās judgement (which is not a bad thing), chasingā¦ more. He knows the ropes, he knows Starfleet, he knows starship flying he knows regulations and science and everything. Except Jim Kirk. He has absolutely no idea who Jim Kirk is, at least not in the Captainās chair. He has the humility to stay out of it until he feels heās got it, until he thinks heās made a plan thatāll solve everything - which it absolutely doesnāt and everyone looking on from the outside knows that arriving at the planet before the Astrovore will solve nothing.
But itās something they, something he can do, itās action, it feels like progress because they are moving, and even though theyāre ahead and in the way they are somehow on the run.
Jim Kirk freezes and he realises he freezes when his plan falls apart. Itās so poignant and delicious and real, and handled so well. He realises it wasnāt a plan to begin with, it was a mix of needing to do something, even if itās running towards a problem, and his exhilaration to finally call the shots.
He learns heās got to call the shots, but he has to rely on others, on their feedback, and they can actually figure out a plan to at least free the Enterprise. He listens and he learns his Captain shooting down his ideas isnāt personal, itās because the fucking job to make decisions and decisions are hard.
And the crew learn that a Captainās authority isnāt innate, itās learned, itās earned, itās difficult. Theyāre used to Pike who has so much experience, and now they meet someone who should know it all but doesnāt because heās young and needs to find his footing. Heās a good guy and itās Uhura who points out that if they are being given chances as crew members, then maybe they need to give their temporary Captain a chance, too.
Itās a brilliant study of leadership dynamics and what happens when things arenāt going smoothly but youāve never had to figure that out before. Thereās also a pretty good hint of what would happen if a team refuses to be lead. Kirk does not have the intrinsic authority to lead Spock, Uhura, Scotty and Chapel, not at first.
Itās a fun look at cautious Scotty and Kirk pushing him - having to disregard Scottyās issues with overtaxing the engines and breaking the ship, and it gives a good idea of why Scotty always overestimates his repair times, and underpromises, because he experienced Kirk will take anything heāll offer and expect 20% more anyway. And, yeah, itās sometimes a Captainās decision to disregard safety and to risk breaking something, and thatās why itās the Captainās job.
Meanwhile Enterprise is functioning at that interpersonal level no questions asked, because they are a great team. The only thing Pike needs to decide is who goes get the baryon particles - and sends Laāan because being Captain has some perks.
And then the reveal? The moment we see red blood on the walls, the visuals mirroring both the villain stalking prey as well as a protagonist finding their hurt/dead friend/lover at the end of that trail? The moment you get a look at the space suit and go āhang on the fuck, what?ā and meanwhile fam is on the bridge(s) ecstatic that they won, that theyāre no longer in danger, that they took down a predator from ādeep spaceā. Until Kirk asks to scan for lifesigns, almost an afterthought. The end of the checklist. Because thatās what good Captains do.
And there are 7000 of them. Dying.
He considers beaming them aboard, probably aware that it is rhetoric at best. Because they just gave that fight their all.
And there are 7000 humans. Dying.
And they donāt know how, and they donāt know why, and not only is it humans, thereās a ship at the heart of all this destruction, one with Stars and Stripes painted on it. After all this time.
It is mind-boggling.
They donāt understand how the best and brightest and most hopeful of humans were sent to space and turned into that. How they went into space and began exploiting everything, without regard for life. Whole worlds they could have settled on, destroyed for the sake of 7000. Not even attempting anymore to rebuild humanity or even just turning back to where they came from, just consuming. Did they start with debris from space battles? Was their āfirst contactā abandoned ships from the Vulcan-Andorian conflicts? Answers nobody will ever know (and they are probably best left to speculation anyway, for the sake of it), and they still eat at Kirk.
He was so eager for command and power and willing to disregard advice and desperate - could he have become part of Astrovore?
And then Pike! Pike treats him as an equal, as the Captain of the Farragut, observing etiquette and asking permission before taking a seat and giving him a good heart-to-heart. At that moment, by virtue of their position, they arenāt experienced-Captain-knowing-when-his-life-as-he-knows-it-will-end and talented-Commander-who-might-just-know-doubt-his-desire-for-command, they are equals as commanding officers. Thereās no chastising or coddling Kirk. He was Captain. He made decisions. Yes, those decisions had consequences and they are his to make sense of. Pike doesnāt treat it as a lesson for Kirk, either. He offers advice and his own perspective, but he does in a way thatād be plausible with any other Captain (in rank and position).
Itās a remarkable story about leadership, and flaws, and decisions, and empathy.
Itās blatantly anti-capitalist and how even the best intentions are bastardised by greed. And itās so deliciously in-your-face about the present. Iām not from the US but seeing that flag still gave me a visceral reaction - more so than any United Earth or vague symbol could have. Not just for recognition, but because we are all aware that Star Trek is still a US-centric universe. Holding up a mirror and saying āYes, we all can be the seed of something so horrible we assume itās otherworldly. But the call is coming from the inside of the house and you better start listeningā.
Yes, itās not as bright - in colour or themes - as TOS episodes dealing with similar themes, but itās got the heart of it.
If it made you uncomfortable and you donāt know why? Good.
It made you feel nothing? Please check your pulse.
